(click logo for a brief mp3 of the Rampant
Corgi signature audio).
John Frame
Post:
Email: johnvframe@yahoo.com
Phone: (+617) 3350 1562 or mobile 0409 501
561
Bookmarks in this page: Sadie Robinson’s life story
(audio); Jim
Hammill’s WW2 experiences in Tobruk (video); Brisbane PFLAG
Parents share their stories (audio); Woodstockdale
1986 (video); Paul Farrell’s 50th party (video); Statements of Support for Equal Age of Consent Reform in Queensland (video); article on CD and CD-R deterioration (text)
Rampant
Corgi is my personal working trademark for
any audio and video projects I work
on.
The Corgi
referred to was my dear friend Ralph, who had a heart of gold, was fiercely devoted to me. He also
had an earned reputation for being sporadically fierce in general. Ralph would
guard food aggressively and chase people from the room, and he could growl like a Rottweiller.
Ralph loved being in the car so much, that he would drag me by the trouser leg
as soon as I picked up my keys. He lived with me in various houses for eleven
of the best years of my life, and lives on in all of the work I present, with
pride, as a "Rampant Corgi Production".
My audio work:
I specialise in conducting relaxed and entertaining
interviews (see interviewee list), either as
oral histories or for radio broadcast, which are then tastefully and carefully
digitally edited, and stored on CD. I have a range of microphone systems
including a high quality Sennheiser reporting mic and
their “dummy head” true surround sound stereo system.
Many of the interviews I’ve conducted during ten years of
presenting community radio support program Queer
Radio are recorded on CD and may be reproduced on request.
Other projects
include live recordings of bands, “specials” for Queer Radio (such as reporting
on several Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parades) and “Cocky Tales” – a contract project for
the Queensland AIDS Council which
involved interviewing rural men who have sex with men and then editing and
producing 500 copies of a cassette tape resource in support of other similar
rural men who have sex with men.
Sadie
was 87 when we did this recording and she surprised everyone (especially my
mother) with her sharp memory and confident, honest storytelling. Her grandson
Luke Sippel contacted me from London a couple of
years ago to say how deeply he appreciated hearing his Grandmother saying how
much she loved and valued him – including intuiting that he was gay even as a
young child.
The
recording was made to a Sony MZR50 MiniDisc using
headset microphones (an AKG for Sadie and a Sennheiser for myself).
Sadie Robinson (left
ca 1950) |
The Hammill siblings united left to
right (ca 1983): Mary, Maureen, Marge, John, Sadie,
Jim and Vonnie |
Sarah
Robinson relates her life story November 1999 pt 1 of 2 (41 minutes) 96kps mono
30mb mp3 -
Topics: Introduction, father and WW1 / Scotland and memories of bitter winters
/ from Scotland to Australia / Mother, school, the Wilsons, father / starting
work / meeting her husband Joe Robinson / moving to Newman Road / music: “100
Years From Today” performed by Doris Day.
Sarah
Robinson relates her life story November 1999 pt 2 of 2 (50 minutes) 96kps mono
36mb mp3 –
Topics: Starting a family / minding the shop and the kids / the shop is sold /
son Terry and his family / daughter Colleen / grandson Michael / grandson Peter
/ grandson Paul / grandson Luke / brother John Hammill / granddaughter Monique
/ family support / the pressure cooker story / husband Joe’s big belly story /
music: “Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries” performed by Doris Day.
My video work:
Watch the complete one hour recording, in 7 parts, on YouTube. Each
part contains complete topics which are listed in the video's information box.
View the playlist at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=43B0CF666DA1F7F5
Watch the entire 2007 re-edit of Woodstockdale
2 (13th December 1986) (a total of approx 60 minutes) via the playlist at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F83CE0F6D3B1C2FF
Watch two of the best Fuller Banks performances on the day – “Where
Are The Boys?” and “Hate Your Guts” (both songs written by Kees
Steen’s friend Sue Parker) plus young Christie Farrell's accapella
rendition of They Might Be Giants' "Dr Worm" as a YouTube playlist (a
total of approx 12 minutes) at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5DCDA726C2140A13
(all in
binaural stereo)
Watch all six of the equal age of consent statements as a playlist
on YouTube, with a bonus video of my own opinion and also our delightful
(almost) award-winning original music video “ShitStickers”
(a total of approx 45 minutes) at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=60F48C3DA47DCD13
Re: serious
deterioration of manufactured CD’s through oxidisation & fungal attack:
I’ve
also been horrified by the escalating deterioration of the professionally
manufactured audio CD’s in my collection. Several have become unplayable and
many have damage sufficient to indicate they’re about to become unplayable – so
I’ve been doing back-up copies of those discs on good quality CDR’s.
This
deterioration problem has been identified as serious for several years – and is
especially notable in hot, humid climates around the world, but there is
suspiciously very little information on the internet to warn CD owners of the possibility or
existence of this deterioration. Certainly all of the recording companies seem
to be pretending that it’s not happening. You’re welcome to
read my detailed, but compact article on CD rotting – complete with links to
images of affected CD’s. An edited version of that article was published in
Australia and New Zealand in AudioTechnology Magazine issue 26 in June 2003.
I
welcome any enquiries regarding contract work opportunities.
John Frame
Post: 82 Main Avenue, Wavell
Heights 4012 (Queensland, Australia)
Email: johnvframe@yahoo.com
Phone: (+617) 3350 1562 or mobile
0409 501 561
(this
page last adjusted 19th May 2015)