Hello Folks and Funky Peeps! On today's podcast I sit down with philosopher Tam Hunt to talk about Panpsychism, a school of thought that tries to collect science and spirituality together and find a common ground. When Tam's book "Eco, Ero, Eros"...

Good day to you all, Funkee Homosapiens! Dug Uyesaka has been making art in Santa Barbara since the '70s and trained under an impressive roster of instructors during his time at UCSB. A really swell guy to talk to, I've seen Dug out and about in SB...

Welcome back, Funky people!Derek Harrison is a painter in the John Singer Sargent school of realism, but painting 21st century women. Starting late (in his 20s), he got into art through tattooing and, trying to really polish his craft, got into oil...

Welcome back funkmeisters!Sue Van Horsen wanted to make art all her life, but career and family came first until her 40s when she turned to graphic design after decades in youth counseling. After that second career, a few years ago she went into her...

Welcome back funky peeps! In this episode I sit down with the enigmatic (and very tall) Skye Gwilliam and we talk about street art, gallery art, and whether there’s really any difference.Skye owns a gallery in the FunkZone called Gone Gallery...

Welcome back Funk Zonerz! This episode we sit down with beer and brewery columnist Sean Lewis, who not only writes a weekly column for the Santa Barbara News-Press, but has just released a book on microbreweries in America and the people behind the...

Welcome back Funketeers! It's hard enough in Santa Barbara to run one restaurant but restauranteur Alvarado Rojas ran up until recently three of Santa Barbara's funnest restaurants: Alcazar on the Mesa, Milk & Honey downtown, and the Bourbon Room...

Howdy, FunkZone Podcast listeners! I'm really excited about this third episode because I got to have a sit down with the wild man of Santa Barbara art, Wallace Piatt. (Pronounced like Hyatt Hotels with a P). As you'll hear, Wallace came in to art at...

Lindsey Ross began exploring old and alternative methods of photography at Brooks Institute and since then has gone on to focus of the wet collodion process. At the moment she is rockin' the FunkZone at La Chambre Photographique, where she creates...

Hi folks!In this inaugural broadcast of the Funk Zone Podcast I sat down with fine artist and resin-master (resin-ator?) R. Nelson Parrish in his Boat Yard studios and talked about his life, career, influences, and life in Santa Barbara by way of...