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An Interview with Cyberella

Myrto Simic (@cyberella) is a UX and UI designer, illustrator and a painter in her spare time. She is from Greece. And she makes monsters. Interviewer Alexi Ueltzen (@alexi) is Ello’s Community Evangelist. If she’s not at the office, she’s probably swimming, getting muddy with her dogs or baking cookies. Seriously. The best cookies. Alexi: How did you get interested in digital art and making crazy monsters? Myrto: It all started when in the early years of Greece’s economic crisis, a bunch of friends formed a mobile apps development and design collective called “Tarentola.” We designed mainly educational games for children but it seemed that adults also loved playing our games. At the time I was designing a bunch of minimalistic 3D Takashi Murakami-like birds for a mobile game called “Make 24” and you know what happens when you start creating, right? You cannot stop. So I used those birdies along with other animals to create a series of illustrations where they interact in a 3D world, much like humans do. It all ended in a published form of a free illustrated e-book. So I started experimenting further with 3D modelling in order to create a comic series involving creatures's stories. Those creatures turned out to be bunny-like and octopus-like cute, chubby monsters. Alexi: Your monsters are often part of a very normal street scene or activity. How do you decide the setting for each piece? Myrto: First of all, the general concept was to place a creature in photos I took during my visits to friends and family abroad. The notion behind this was that those monsters are trying to rule the world. They are everywhere, in Paris, Britain, Greece, etc., but they fail miserably because they became quiet cozy with this world. So they visit museums even though they look creepy and eerie, they enjoy long walks and going on summer vacations - much like humans do - whilst sometimes their world integrates rather than merges with our own. The content of the photo lead to the story behind the illustration. Nowadays I simply take an urban or landscape photo just because I know that a great story with monsters will spring from this image. Alexi: Along with making wonderful 3D creatures, you work on web and mobile design (and wallpapers, and fonts, and…) Do you plan to stick with digital art or are there other mediums you want to try? Myrto: Let’s face it, digital art is ephemeral. It involves all an artist’s virtues like creativity and inspiration, but it doesn’t display the artist’s soul because the medium gives infallible and almost realistic results. A computer software, from a photo manipulation to a 3D program, cannot bring a soul to a plastic/3D-ish object or character. The soul is defined by the flaws and accidents of human interaction with the acrylics or temperas, the canvas or the marble. Analogue art, like painting, sculpting, et cetera, bring that “fire” forward and that is possibly the reason why those arts are timeless. I used to paint with egg-temperas and aquarelles right after I graduated from art college here in Athens - which was like 20 years ago - and in the last couple of months I started painting again, learning more techniques. I became a student again and it almost feels that I will probably be a "student" all my life. Alexi: What inspires you, or where do you go for inspiration? Myrto: There are so many creators that inspire me. From Takashi Murakami, to Mr. Kat, to Aaron Martinez, to Teodoru Badiu, to ChocoToy and Juan Carlos Paz. But I reckon the source of inspiration is not from browsing some web galleries but actually everyday life. From visiting museums and galleries, to a walk in the park, from a bicycle ride with my husband, to an unexpected afternoon near the sea watching the sunrise. Very simple and everyday moments can inspire unique stories. Alexi: What are your favorite design tools or software to work with? Myrto: I use mainly 3D programs like Vue and C4D to model, render and create ecosystems. I also use photo manipulation software like Photoshop to give the illusion of realism in the photo frame and integrate the digital creature in it. Alexi: Do you have a favorite piece? Myrto: Yeap, it is an old illustration I made during anti-austerity manifestations in Athens in which I participated as a citizen-journo activist. Those days were very intense in the centre of the city, riot police was everywhere, police brutality also everywhere in every march, even in the peaceful ones. I was taking a photo of the riot police squad from behind while walking towards Propylaea into an area where later on clashes occurred. And there was the perfect space to add a monster to depict the panic attack that hits you right after you inhale teargas. This illustration is really not a reminder of those times of continuous manifestations, it depicts my inner feelings during that season of non-ending teargassing and relentless unreasonable police violence. Alexi: What are your thoughts on social media, and how it helps or hurts artists today? Specifically, can you share some thoughts on Ello? Myrto: Social media I suppose, are multi-tools much like a Swiss army knife. They can either be a medium to promote your work, or a microblogging platform, or a cyber activism social tool, a way to exchange and share ideas publicly, and most definitely a way to spread the news seconds after the events. But - of course there is a “but” - it is the people that give character to the medium. So if - in my honest opinion - a creator thinks that Twitter, or Facebook sucks, it is probably not the tool’s fault, but how people use it. It is like 2001 Space Odyssey, where HAL is going bonkers, while it is not HAL’s fault. It is the human’s fault. HAL is a tool, that's programmed to perform a job, but humans never tested HAL in space, never saw how an AI entity will perform in space - and you know the rest of the story. As an artist I reckon that social media can become a window of inspiration. Artists usually interpret emotions, stronger and differently from the rest of the world, so if the refugee crisis that’s happening in Greece, or David Bowie’s death, or even Donald Trump’s absurd rising, from political, to social, to everyday life inspire you to create, social media are pretty fine tools to get to that source of inspiration. Alexi: What’s something about you that would surprise our readers? Myrto: Well, I am still unemployed for more than 8 months now. Do you know many unemployed with more than 18 years experience, one BA and two MA degrees? Well, here in Greece lots of us are like that, labeled as “over qualified” because companies prefer to hire a junior designer and pay him/her 400€ per month - sometimes less - to getting a senior designer who’s much more expensive. I also went - like many friends and acquaintances - into a depressed stage. Thankfully that didn’t last long and currently I am living for the moment because, seriously guys, there is no second life. This is it! Follow Myrto on Ello, Twitter, Tumblr, Dribbble and her Monsters website.

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Muhammad Ali -interview

Muhammad Ali appeared on Michael Parkinson's chat show four times.

In 1974, Ali was at the peak of his career and spoke to Parkinson about "fighting for a cause"=see video

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Ronnie Corbett interview

You say in the programme that you got your break relatively late - in your late 30s. Did you always have an ambition to be a comedian and if so, when were you first aware of it and what do you think sparked the desire in you to make people laugh?

I had a desire for comedy sparked by a youth club pantomime I did in Edinburgh. I played the wicked aunt and I was suddenly in an atmosphere that I found very comfortable. From that day on I was determined to have a go at it.

A lot of things happened in between because I did my national service in the air force for two years and worked for the civil service, but in the back of my mind there was always a desire to perhaps one day be a professional performer/entertainer/comedian.

You've had a long and successful career that has spanned a number of decades. What have been the highlights of your career?

It's very difficult to select highlights but obviously The Two Ronnies was a major part of British television during our lives. The Saturday night shows at that length, with their breadth of skills, design, writing and music was a major television show by any standards, so I would say my relationship with Ronnie Barker is the highlight of my career, and my spell with Danny La Rue is also very important. If you're talking about television though, it's definitely The Two Ronnies, Sorry!, No - That's Me Over Here!and various sitcoms along the way, but mainly The Two Ronnies.

Of course my extremely happy marriage is the spine of the whole thing. I have a happy, contended life with two lovely daughters, so that makes it all rather special.READ MORE=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/corbetts_comedy_britain/interview/ronnie_corbett/

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Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee interview: 'We don’t mind when people make jokes about us'

On 17 March 2017, Paul Daniels died after a battle with terminal cancer. This interview with Daniels and his wife Debbie McGee was first published in October 2014.

Paul Daniels and the Lovely Debbie McGee are showing me a magic trick involving a pack of playing cards that, entre nous, I think will be a bit boring-snoring. I was hoping for a little legerdemain with the three white rabbits dozing in penthouse cages against the sitting-room wall. Or perhaps spooky hocus-pocus with the medical skeleton, lounging incongruously on one of the sumptuous cream sofas. 

But within moments I am laughing with delight at the cleverness and the verve and the showmanship; these guys are good. Better than good. It’s just we’ve forgotten. We’ve forgotten because they’re not cool.  They are cheesy and spangly. They are frilly-shirted and bow-tied up with a very different era of cosy Saturday night light entertainment, which began in 1979 and ceased abruptly in 1994 when The Paul Daniels Magic Show was axed by the BBC. 

“Years ago, I played a month in Vegas,” says Paul, thoughtfully. “They offered me a 10-year contract. I turned it down. I was asked to sign up for a year on Broadway. I turned that down, too. I’m a family guy, my =read more =http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/actors/paul-daniels-and-debbie-mcgee-interview-we-dont-mind-when-people/

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'Spike Milligan

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Spike's multi-faceted career spanned over 50 years. He was the driving force behind the ground breaking radio series 'The Goon Show', went on to make numerous TV series for the BBC, was an accomplished jazz musician, and he was also a prolific writer - publishing work across a wide range of genres.
Never one to shy away from airing his opinions, Spike would poke fun at the most sacred subjects and regularly campaigned to raise awareness for causes he was passionate about.
Respected far beyond the world of comedy, Spike was without doubt one of the greatest - and most eccentric - performers this country has ever seen=.http://gold.uktv.co.uk/shows/interviews/

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Contributions come from the stars of the 19th film in the series, Carry On Up the Jungle, including Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw and Joan Sims. Highlights from previous Carry On films include Carry On Up The Khyber, Carry on Camping and Carry On Doctor. (1970

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