Matt Rippy

If you loved the Cold Tapes podcast please vote for us in the Listeners Choice category in this year’s British Podcast Awards. Voting closes 8th Sept. Or if you haven't listened yet, put on your detective hat and head over to Spotify and start your investigation! open.spotify.com/show/77CwkM5...

30.06.2025 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Parliament to debate ending casting directory fees Parliament to debate an amendment which, if passed, would prevent casting directories for creatives from charging upfront fees to work-seekers.

Can't find a single fault in this: "To all artists: good work. To all workers: good art. To all people: Equity." Thank you my union. Must read: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/pa...

28.04.2025 18:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

End the Tax on Hope Equity’s campaign on casting directories and legal action regarding Spotlight.

Sometimes bold statements do make sense: “By definition, those offering work have money, and those seeking work do not. That’s why the costs of casting should be borne by bosses, not workers.” Are you listening, Spotlight??? More @ www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-po...

28.04.2025 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘It’s soul-destroying’: actors’ fury over the rise of self-tape auditions Equity union says filming audition scenes at home amounts to unpaid labour and reinforces elitism

Guardian article (www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...) by Dalya Alberge about the burden of “self-taping” barely scratches the surface. The system favors those who have large living spaces, a partner to read with, money to buy studio equipment and time to spend editing.

04.04.2025 08:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A ginger Uncle Sam destroying a radio broadcast of V.O.A.

47th vs. V.O.A. (sigh...)

18.03.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two ants contemplating reality.

Turns out, we may live in a gigantic cosmic nesting doll.

16.03.2025 09:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And how they danced and sang.

14.03.2025 09:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Goodbye X. Hello BlueSky.

14.03.2025 00:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0