Pattern Recognition

Eric Hu is an art director & designer from New York whose genre-defining work and images have inspired visual culture across fashion, music, tech, and more over the last decade-plus. We have a wide-ranging conversation about forming new creative habits in the age of AI & web3, the challenging year that 2023 has been for so many artists, the up-and-down dissonance between being an employee and a freelancer, lessons he learned from his successful 'Monarchs' NFT project, and how vulnerable he's willing to be when it comes to sharing how he creates his work.

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music & production by Yuri Rybak & Josh Chin.

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

Taylor Lorenz is a technology & internet culture journalist and author whose new book 'Extremely Online' comes out October 3, 2023 on Simon & Schuster. The book covers the birth of the 'influencer' and is the most thorough history-telling of social media and its stars from the early 00s to the present day.  We talk about the wild amount of research that went into writing this book, her creative process and work-life balance during the course of working on it, the tortured process of book cover design, and more.

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music & production by Yuri Rybak & Josh Chin.

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

Isaac Wright, aka Drift, is a photographer based in Jersey City, where he recorded this interview at his beautiful new studio space. We catch up about life for Drift after his infamous and much-documented wrongful incarceration experience from hell as well as his brother's recent passing, talk about his exciting new studio space, working on a photo book, memoir, and documentary all at once, the importance of contextualizing his photography with writing, navigating moves into the traditional fine art  world, and he tells the story about getting his dream  Porsche.

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music & production by Yuri Rybak & Josh Chin.

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

Jesse Draxler is a mixed media and multidisciplinary artist who creates beautifully menacing, brutal, and romantic artwork, mostly in black-and-white, that has translated brilliantly over the years from physical to digital and back again. We discuss his journey from blue-collar midwestern Wisconsin to Los Angeles, learning HTML and Dreamweaver in the late 90's, navigating "The Algorithm" as a visual artist on social media, accepting crypto as payment for his work before NFTs existed, building a generative NFT project on the foundations of his physical collage work, and we talk about how Gen Z'ers are officially on the corporate inside and we're starting to see the effects.

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music & production by Yuri Rybak & Josh Chin.

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

pplpleasr, aka Emily Yang, is a director and 3D artist influenced by anime, video games, underground music, and traditional Asian art. We talk about her nomadic living situation, the impact of her environment on her work, bypassing traditional paths and a career spent finding backdoors, coming of age in the public eye of the NFT boom, forming her studio Shibuya with one of her favorite artists Maciej Kuciara to help change the way films are made, working with Bruce Lee's daughter, and her penchant for manifesting.

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music & production by Yuri Rybak & Josh Chin.

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

A conversation with Sean Walton aka Osean, an artist, musician, and the creator of OseanWorld. We chat about how different generations have harnessed the internet to learn, not sleeping for days to work on projects with friends, touring the country with friends, and turning a love of drawing and anime into a full-fledged career.

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music & production by Yuri Rybak & Josh Chin.

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

A conversation with designer, artist, and creator of VisualizeValue, Jack Butcher. We talk about how a growing family impacts creative habits, what led to Jack’s love of design as a teenager, corporate decks as ironic inspiration, launching a project like Checks just as his daughter was born, scaling and evolving that project, and how the internet has shaped his writing and relationships.

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music & production by Yuri Rybak & Josh Chin.

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

A conversation with Lindsay Howard and Eileen Isagon Skyers of Gemma, an artist-led fund that perpetuates creativity. We chat about when they knew it was time to begin their own endeavor, how being called founders for the first time made them realize untapped potential, and their approach to curating and supporting artists in their creative processes.

Artwork for this episode by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Music & production by Yuri Rybak.

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

A conversation with the legend Jen Stark. We talk about her life's journey in creativity and arriving at her signature style, the evolution of her work through physical and digital mediums, navigating the NFT space, and we play a game of "Guess what you answered when Chuck last interviewed you in 2007."

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music Yuri Rybak. Production by

Created in partnership with ZORA. 

A conversation with John Palmer & Danny Aranda, co-founders of PartyDAO. We discuss the concept of multi-player crypto, the unfulfilled promise of social coordination with Ethereum, and what kinds of creative new efforts they're seeing get built with Party.

Episode artwork by Chuck Anderson/NoPattern Studio. Episode music Yuri Rybak. Production by

Created in partnership with ZORA.