Dan, Paul, Ed Thompson catch up in an inpromtude episode of The Idle Hands Society Podcast. Sorry about the audio blowing out in a few spots; we recorded this gem unplanned using some very basic gear. As we’re getting into the slower months for our work, you’ll see us picking up the pace a little with the podcast.

We catch up after a little break to discuss the end of Dan’s first year at university, our collaborative project Adult Youth Club, the last art of maintaining friendships, and the Homeless World Cup.

Dan waxes lyrical about “LU cinnamon biscuits”, his new website, and his upcoming first exhibition at the Copeland Gallery. We discuss if it’s possible to make pictures about how we feel rather than what we see. Paul also discusses the imminent release of his first zine, Not so far.

Merry Christmas, Idle Handers! I hope you’re all having a good one. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Idle Hands Society Podcast. I’d love anybody reading this to take a moment to jump over to Instagram and leave us a comment on our latest post to let us know you read the show notes. The reason I’m asking is I spend a lot of time pulling all this together, I worry that I’m wasting my time researching and linking if no one is looking at them. Big love, Dan & Paul.

We have a chat about our future guest Alex Prior, we talk about Not So Far going to the printers, Tom Collins input into Paul’s new venture ‘Southerndown Press’, another moan about social media, the importance of personal work in effective marketing, Magnum Photos, Bieke Depoorter’s incredible collaboration with Agata.

Dan and Paul talk about Paul’s current project, Not So Far. Strap yourself in for a looser than usual chat. You can see the photographs he’s made for this project on his Instagram @paulbenceuk.