Athletic Aesthetic Podcast

Welcome to The Athletic Aesthetic Podcast, where art & sports connect through conversation.

The world of athletics has an aesthetic. No matter the sport, the impact of art & design is essential to every aspect of the game. The Athletic Aesthetic Podcast brings together the sports fanatics, artists, & athletes, providing an outlet for creative inspiration.

On this episode, my guest is the one and only  @Jake polino ... you know, the guy who yells at everyone through TikTok while he dyes shoes in the most random variety of liquids imaginable. This episode was so much fun to record and I hope you enjoy it.

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Welcome to The Athletic Aesthetic Podcast, where art & sports connect through conversation.

The world of athletics has an aesthetic. No matter the sport, the impact of art & design is essential to every aspect of the game. The Athletic Aesthetic Podcast brings together the sports fanatics, artists, & athletes, providing an outlet for creative inspiration.

On this episode, my guest is Zack Kroll or as you may know him on social media as @itsbaldboy. Zack is a "custom fashion and mixed media artist who uses urban motifs and natural dichotomies to marry cultures and demographics." I don't personally know what any of that means, but he makes some pretty incredible shoes and that's how I was introduced to Zack last year. He is also local to Pittsburgh and is definitely someone you want to give a follow to on social media because he is really doing something different in the fashion/custom sneaker industry.

Also, please subscribe to the VC2art YouTube channel to stay up to date when new episodes drop!

Welcome to The Athletic Aesthetic Podcast, where art & sports connect through conversation.

The world of athletics has an aesthetic. No matter the sport, the impact of art & design is essential to every aspect of the game. The Athletic Aesthetic Podcast brings together the sports fanatics, artists, & athletes, providing an outlet for creative inspiration.

On this episode, my guest is Khalil Smith. Khalil and I met in the Summer of 2021 when his father reached out to me to make some custom Air Max 97's for his son Khalil. Since then, I have had the pleasure of getting to know Khalil and his story. Khalil is a college football player at West Virginia Wesleyan College and shortly after the freshman season he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2020. He has been in a fight for his life ever since, but trust me, Khalil isn't going anywhere anytime soon... On the day this episode was recorded, Khalil was receiving the last of his 24 rounds of Chemo, so it made for a really fun conversation.

Don't forget to follow Khalil @polo__lil or listen to his podcast called the "What's The Deal" Podcast on Anchor.

Welcome to the very first episode of the Athletic Aesthetic Podcast.

On this episode, my guest is Cody Sabol from @codysabolart. Cody and I share a studio space in downtown Pittsburgh where we have been working side by side since July 2021.

Cody is well known for his speed paintings and his custom shoes. During this episode, I was able to talk to him about some of the awesome projects he has recently worked on and much more!

Don't forget to follow Cody @codysabolart

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Welcome to the Athletic Aesthetic Podcast!

I’m your host, Vinnie Candelore but you may know me as VC2art. In this intro episode, I just want to introduce myself and let you know why I even want to do this podcast.You might think this is just about customizing shoes or talking about football uniforms or whatever you know me for, but this series on conversations is more than that. 

You see there’s three main categories of people who follow my work. There’s people who love sports, there’s people who love sneakers, and then there is this third group of weirdos like me who also make art for the first two groups of people I mentioned.My sports followers want me to create uniform concepts, my sneaker followers want to see custom shoes, and my art friends want to just talk about paint brands and complain about instagrams algorithm together

If you fit all three of those categories, this podcast is not only for you, but I’ll probably reach out to have you on as a guest at some point. 

My goal with this podcast is to bring these three communities together to look at all the things that creatively bring the world of sports to life and create this culture that we all love so much.