Shelley Holcomb may be the best person to listen to if you're deciding what to do with your time. For her day job she helps run the SCI-Arc brand and public program, and spends the rest of her time curating a sex show (Whits n Giggles), creating her own art and experiences for places like MOCA, and running the definitive voice in event curation across Los Angeles (Curate LA). We talk to her about the challenges of running so much dope shit, and the merits of curation in general.

Show Notes, Shelley Holcomb Real Talk Podcast

Find Shelley and her various brands here:

http://instagram.com/shelleyhol

http://instagram.com/whitsngiggles

http://instagram.com/curate.la

http://curate.la

http://shelleyholcomb.com

3:00 – Intro to Shelley Holcomb

5:37 – What is Curate LA? Things that do not fit into Curate.LA platform

http://curate.la

6:23 – What is Whits n Giggles? Sex radio show on 1630 AM in Chinatown

http://instagram.com/whitsngiggles

9:36 – Take Me Home L.A. installations by Whits n Giggles and Think Tank Gallery

10:48 – Womb Regression Therapy

http://www.integrativehealinginc.com/womb-regression/

12:08 – Water drumming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ba1CNOLiI

13:00 – Aliens are actually our memory of doctors pulling us out of the womb, and abductions are our subconscious' attempt to return

http://www.curezone.org/forums/am.asp?i=1728521

14:27 – Whits n Giggles Radio, difference between episode 1 and episode 50

18:25 – Whits n Giggles highlights of KCHUNG Radio sex talk show

18:48 – Mistress Lucy, artist and dominatrix

http://curatela.tumblr.com/post/122444645411/studio-visit-the-force-that-is-kim-ye

19:35 – Whits n Giggles TV

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC744CtCVDvooIyRvWfEWjuQ

20:27 – The Handjob Show, a Wank Bank class on Whits n Giggles TV and sex coloring book

http://ruralranga.bigcartel.com/

22:30 – How to hide this shit from your family

22:48 – A mukbang show, Korean trend of eating food on camera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wjXJL6ZwLk

24:25 – Sneaker destruction and sex fetishes, traumatic experiences turning into fetishes

http://blog.thinktankgallery.org/post/86417452059/why-people-ejaculating-to-popping-air-bubbles-on

http://cumonsneakers.tumblr.com/

25:47 – ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

Page turning: https://youtu.be/mcyvK_SixME

http://discoverasmr.com/what-is-asmr/bob-ross-asmr/

28:15 – Various Small Fires ASMR soundscape

http://www.vsf.la/maybe-it-wants-what-it-wanted-inside-out/

29:10 – Submitting listings to Curate LA, Curate LA's growth, how it started

37:47 – Super sexy artists Shelby Sells and Thongria from Detroit

https://www.instagram.com/sweaterpuppiez/

https://www.instagram.com/thongria/

39:17 – The three platforms of Curate LA; website/map, app, and newsletter

43:20 – BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) video art show

http://woahis.us/portfolio/byob/

Rafaël Rozendaal: http://www.newrafael.com/

47:00 – Getting around to painting when we have time, comparing notebooks, the merits of an alter ego

49:00 – Argument about having a pseudonym or if one's work should speak for itself, digging up dirt on the internet, Patterson's YouTube career, artists should own their pasts, "just make dope art and people won't give a fuck about your past," showing off your own art in your own curation

56:40 – Shelley's art collection

http://www.harrisonfraley.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRPzdTyBufo

OJ Simpson 30 for 30: http://www.espn.com/30for30/ojsimpsonmadeinamerica/

1:03:24 – How to separate your different art ventures from one another

1:12:15 – What newsletters do you follow?

http://lacanvas.com/

http://getdowntown.la

http://curate.la

1:12:42 – Galleries and artists we pay attention to

http://bbqla.net/

http://pg4s.wtf/

http://www.sayregomez.com/

http://ghebaly.com/

https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/jpw3-the-alchemy-of-new-school-pop-art

http://nightgallery.ca/

http://www.devintroystrother.com/w/

http://www.richardhellergallery.com/

Ripping on Buff Monster: https://grammio.com/en/devintroy/_dQ-0vG0Dn/

http://www.pasunautre.com/journal/2016/7/12/devin-troy-strother-cotton-club-patrick-gomez-for-sheriff-in-los-angeles

1:19:03 – What is an artist-run space and what's happening to them in LA? Define DIY, how Think Tank Gallery was built, Larry Gagosian starting as DIY, commercial galleries that are also DIY, sweat equity, alternative arts spaces

http://bidoun.org/articles/larry-gagosian

http://www.thinktankgallery.org/our-story/

http://anatebgi.com/

http://www.honorfraser.com/

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/29/news/la-dd-simon-hammerstein-dba-nightclub-theater-shock-20131028

Podcast with Mark Schustrin: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a.r.t.-artists-real-talk/id1159607075?mt=2&i=375908128

1:27:05 – Real Talk Photoshop Challenge

https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Losers-Ed-Templeton/dp/B003BTJ5G2

1:28:55 – Mutant Salon at the Broad

http://mutantsalon.com/

http://commonwealthandcouncil.com/

http://www.narcissister.com/

1:31:16 – Pearly's Beauty Shop at Superchief Gallery

http://www.cartwheelart.com/2016/05/05/save-the-date-pearlys-beauty-shop-exhibitionfundraiser-curated-by-swoon-at-superchief-gallery-dtla-saturday-may-21st/

1:34:08 – Channeling a younger version of yourself, and giving that self some advice, should people go to college? Importance of travel, how to start your career in the arts in LA in your first two weeks here

http://instagram.com/shelleyhol

http://instagram.com/whitsngiggles

http://instagram.com/curate.la

http://curate.la

http://shelleyholcomb.com