Has making art ceased to be special? And might that be a consequence of external and internal forces? Any time spent making is better than time wasted not. Victoria Will is out Photographer of the Week.

Jill Greenberg on John McCain

Wes Anderson – Grand Budapest Hotel BTS

PosterLad

OTP #43 – Artistic Monkshood

Sylvester Stallone on screenwriting

Barry Manilow “This One’s for You”

Victoria Will

Bill got back from summer vacation and doesn’t feel restored. So he and Jeffery spend some time discussing how to switch off. Skater and artist Ed Templeton is our photographer of the week.

The Shark is Broken

Daniel Milnor – Shifter: Question and Answer 54

Matthew Lesko

Ed Templeton

How do we distinguish between things we make for us and things we make for money? That, submarines references, and a fairly deep dive into Bill's old Drabbles project are discussed.

Squaring the Circle documentary

Andy Warhol’s Factory of Truth on Cautionary Tales podcast

Proto Drabble of Heather by Bill Wadman

https://www.lucasstoffel.com/art

Mines on the first day of the Somme in WWI

What’s Jeffery working on lately? If not, why not? Also, does everyone think they’re a fraud deep down and just keep it to themselves? Christian Witkin is our Photographer of the Week.

Jeffery Saddoris Substack

Chemtrail Conspiracy Theory

Christian Witkin Portfolio

Christian Witkin Instagram Post

Movies, PSH, fan theories, and oh yeah, only the dialectic pull of simultaneously not wanting to undersell or oversell yourself. We also get into the reasons for making art and how how all these AI LLM are kind of missing the point. Steve Schapiro is our Photographer of the Week.

Tommy Westphall Universe Theory.

CJ Hendry Illustrations on Instagram

Painter Cecily Brown

Jean Claude Van Damme in Breakin’

Speaking of Seeing with Sandi Robertson and Bill Wadman

AI Girl with the Pearl Earring

Steve Schapiro

Jeffery and Bill dive deep on the idea of community and new perspectives on old things. Including the Canon 5D from 2005 that Bill bought recently on a whim. Victor Skrebneski is the photographer of the week.

Van Wilder

Soft White Underbelly Poorest Region of America – What It Really Looks Like

Gauntlet (Video Game)

Walnut Grove – Then & Now

Canon 5D

Victor Skrebneski

Victor Skrebneski on Wikipedia

What starts with a conversation about Bill’s new skateboard, and righting the sins of childhood leads us to discuss overcoming fear and mental paralysis. We also get a bit into the Adobe license news, the portraits of the King Charles, and Jeffery’s ideal trail bike.

King Charles Official Portraits

The Girl skateboard deck Bill bought

Adobe tells users they can’t use old versions of Creative Cloud they paid for

In this episode, we talk about why simpler is often the more attractive solution and how not spending your creative life trying to do something new is okay. Plus, is having goals too goal oriented?

Rudolf Schwarzkogler Aktion #2

John Singer Sargent A Capriote at the Boston MFA

Fuji GFX 100s 14 bit vs 16 bit

On Taking Pictures Ep. 177 recorded during a walk on the Washington DC Mall

The Price of Everything Documentary

John Keatley

We start with Bill going back to his roots in audio, first as a equipment repairman and then in due course a mix engineer. Which leads he and Jeffery into a discussion about getting turned around and losing your bearings. How do you know which direction to go? What if you've achieved your original goals and need to find new ones?

Elly Smallwood on Instagram

“Time Stops” Song by Bill Wadman – HQ file

Adcom GFP-750 PreAmp review in Stereophile magazine from 1999

Inside of the Adcom GFP-750 from Bill’s twitter feed

Jeffery starts right out of the gate with a deep dive on how we're supposed to feel about how we're supposed to feel, which gets us to being overwhelmed while making things, which gets us to tethering to CaptureOne on the iPad and using diffusion filters to get the look we're after in camera if we can. Less options later, but perhaps that's what we're should be going for.