For our third installment with Sunny, we discuss his take on the use of Ai in art, how he has begun to utilize Ai tools to streamline and enhance his creative process, talk about some of the art he has done, where you can find his art featured, how you can hire him, teaching art, and his feature in the Rastafari Heart Vol. 1 book series.

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For our second installment of Ep. 2 with Sunny we talk about his spiritual side, and explore how world history, social struggle, people, and music all influence who he is and how that expression of himself translates through to his art.

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For epsiode 2 of Origin Stories we sit down with Sunny Johnson-Lemieux, a dynamic, thoughtful, creative talent: fine artist, graphic designer, yoga teacher, and art history teacher. In this installment we dive in to his early, formative years in Ann Arbor and Detroit, MI, exploring how familial influences, 80s and 90s hip-hop, 90s reggae and dancehall music, rasta culture, spiritualality, and social injustice influenced his art.

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Part III of episode 1, we delve into Jacinto's hip hop group I Am Drugs, and expore their writing and recording process, we jump to back in the day freestyling and cyphers, offer our takes on the current state of hip hop, and I show my age and state of uncoolness not knowing and wondering what's up with the current underground hip hop scene like in Detroit. Word.

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Part II of episode 1, we continue our conversation talking about our take and experience with social media, music and artistic inspirations, and of course Bob Ross...

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In this, our very first episode we sit down with multi-talented artist Jacinto and explore the origins and inspirations of his artistic roots and talents. Part I of a III part installment.

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