Graphic Designer Leslie Xia sits down with us to talk about her experience at MICA, teen magazine aesthetic and her childhood. 

:50 This is the Vice Mice Podcast 
4:30 Leslie and Grant went to school together!
5:00 Leslie was a child spy
7:00 I THINK they're talking about GOYA
8:30 Cooper Union has a stressful application process 
11:30 Stop motion animation wunderkind
15:15 "Use the grid and you’ll figure it out"
16:00 J14 is unapologetic 
19:45 Entering the SPD student design competition
21:00 Leslie skateboards into VICE everyday ;) 
24:00 Working towards the Cooper Union Typography Intensive 
27:00 Look out for Xia Tea (hehehehe) 
28:15 Grant is reading a lot of Steven King 
31:00 Say Their Name!! >> http://bit.ly/2peJvoV

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Interview - Leslie Xia

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Filmmaker, musician, and actress Lisa Hammer spoke to us about her awesome life. From her very early films made possible by editing video for an s&m company to her career as a medieval shoegaze singer and so much more! 

1:00 "That kids going places” - how Lisa feels about Grant
4:30 Lisa went to Emerson College
9:30 Lisa loves silent and exploitation films 
12:30 Bizarre Video - editing s&m 
15:20 "On God’s Day he would write porno descriptions”
16:00 Pus Bucket
18:30 Lisa got prison mail! 
24:30 Pox
25:30 Lisa moved to LA and worked at THX
27:00 Star Wars inside gossip 
32:20 Lisa falls in love! 
36:30 Requiem in White
37:55 Metallica dug it
41:50 We listen to Lisa’s new track!
43:10 Maybe Sunshine
46:30 Fuck cancer
51:00 Wilson Arts Diversified 
54:30 Cleaning human feces and needles

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Interview - Lisa Hammer

This is a backlog episode that we decided to release in conjunction with the Duchamp episode released recently. 

Beatrice Wood was a muse and collaborator of Marcel Duchamp and Henri-Pierre Roche. This episode is primarily about her relationship with the Avant Garde movement, specifically Dada.  And honestly what it was like being a fun and cool woman in the early 1900s.

1:30 Who is Beatrice Wood? 
3:00 She trembled at Manet...
6:50 Edgard Varese (the man with the broken leg)
8:30 Blind Man Magazine
9:00 Roche’s entrance
13:25 Un Peu D'eau dans du savon
15:15 Roche's exit 
16:30 Vaudeville
17:20 The man who falls off tables 
18:20 If I am killed, Paul has done it 
18:50 Reginald Pole
20:50 Have you ever had a one night stand where you brushed a stranger’s teeth? 
22:40 Byron fell out of love when he saw the woman he loves eating
25:00 Beatrice talks about her pottery
27:00 I Shock Myself 
28:00 Rose DeWitt

Beatrice Wood

The Dropout Gang discusses the entire lifework of Marcel Duchamp in only 10 minutes.

0:20 Welcome Suerynn!
3:00 Duckboat is a good band name 
5:20 Marcel Duchamp was, YES, a well known chess player
6:45 Marcel Duchamp was a shy guy
7:30 Nude Descending a Staircase
8:10 Retinal art // bad
10:30 Marcel Duchamp the bad boy of the art world 
11:15 Dada 
12:20 The Readymades 
13:30 "The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even” or as Suerynn likes to call it “Face Torture” 
14:30 “Imma play chess” - Marcel Duchamp
15:15 Étant donnés

Interview - Leslie Xia

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