Craig Schuftan

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Production

Comedy sketches, radio serials, show imaging, promos and other interruptions, produced for Australia's national youth broadcaster in the triple j radiophonic workshop.

The Precise History of Things, with Sam Simmons 

An educational segment, written and performed by Sam Simmons, about where things come from and how they began. Wheat, hands, sport, girls, moths, sound – we take all these for granted, but their origins and true nature have always been shrouded in mystery – until now. 

The Blow Parade 

A five-part music documentary series created by Chris Taylor, Andrew Hansen and myself. Each half-hour episode tells the story of the making of a classic rock album – Lake Deuteronomy’s epic Spool in the Pits of Prometheus, The Fatcocks’ explosive punk masterpiece Corgi Scum, and legendary folk singer Egg Zagar’s tragically posthumous Whale Song.

triple j - we love music 

New station imaging for triple j. Created in the ABC studios with a band made up of Jamie and Jerry from Bluejuice (bass and keys) Mick from Kid Confucious (drums) and Lindsay ‘The Doctor’ McDougall (guitar). 

Hottest 100, 2009 

Stings, sounds and singing girls for the world's biggest music poll. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Hottest 100, 2010 

Aztec Beach Party. Brrrrap!

Coma FM 

Now playing the best of the 80s, 90s and mid-90s. Commercial radio interruptions written by Chris Taylor, originally broadcast on Today Today between 2004 and 2005.

Radio problems 

scratched CD, a badly timed studio tour, a medical advice segment gone terribly wrong. A few of the more awkward things to have happened on the radio in triple j’s recent history.

House Party 

The best night of your life in under thirty seconds

The Race Race 

A daily half-hour show presented by Chris Taylor and Craig Reucassel, covering the McCain v Obama battle for the White House. 

Hack

 Shoving the j into journalism! Stings and IDs created for Hack, triple j’s current affairs half-hour. 

Space Goat

Alone in deep space, with the planets and stars his only friends...

Battalion 666 

Salty adventures of satanic navy vessel, originally broadcast on Jay and The Doctor's breakfast show, 2006-2007.

Bonez MC that's me... 

Quiet guy in the office reveals secret life as 80s rap star.

Mornings with Linda Mottram 

Grown-up radio! IDs and imaging for ABC local radio, created with Ben Fletcher (Devoted Few, Sarah Blasko, Bluebottle Kiss, his own darn self)

 

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15.03.13

Resist Aggression

"We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do!"

1990 | 1991 | gulf war | wild angels | primal scream

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26.02.13

Like we're gonna die young

"Churches once held sacred are now but heaps of dust and ashes; and yet we have our minds set on the desire of gain. We live as though we were going to die tomorrow; yet we build as though we were going to live always in this world. Our walls shine with gold, our celings also... yet Christ dies before our doors naked and hungry in the person of his poor."

ke$ha

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24.02.13

A suitor for agreement

"Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure of beauty is curious. It aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds. Hence it tends toward a judgement of its own validity. And like every other rational judgement, this one makes implicit appeal to the community of rational beings. This is what Kant meant when he said that, in the judgement of taste, I am 'a suitor for agreement', expressing my judgement not as a private opinion but as a binding verdict that would be agreed upon by all."

roger scruton | immanuel kant | jack black | high fidelity

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22.02.13

Keep going

"Few people would fall in love had they never heard of love. Passion and expression are not really seperable. Passion comes to birth in that powerful impetus of the mind which also brings language into existence. So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends toward self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its being, or else simply in order to keep going.

pre-raphaelites | denis de rougement | love | passion | beata beatrix

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20.02.13

How You Became What You Are

"When I want to make a statue of a beautiful woman, I have a great number of them undress; all offer both beautiful parts and badly shaped parts; I take from each what is beautiful."

linder | diderot | d'alambert | the ideal

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09.11.12

Here is the news

'When faced with the myth, the questions to ask are not about women’s faces and bodies but about the power relations of the situation. Who is this serving? Who says? Who profits? What is the context?

naomi wolf