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- Episode #84: Not So S3XY
SHOW THEMES
Muddy Hippies, the true origin of "Prompt Engineer", and ridiculous rich white men
SHOW NOTES
- X - the most powerful letter...
- Burning Man
- What should a modern Hippie drive?
- "Nordstrom was in my soul"
- "Where does the water come from?"
- "Goodwill for bikes"
- Offer-Up sucks
- Fakesquiat t-shirts
- The Lexus of fakes
- Scion xB
- Trump mug shot = Zoolander
- Trump took the cookies
- X is useless
- "Twatter"
- "You need better notes"
- Elon Musk = Howard Hughes
- S3XY
- He's bad at jokes
- Prompt Engineer
- Large Language Model explained
- Reddit explained
- Adversarial prompting
- SubRant gets spiritual
- Anyway...
37 min - Episode #83: The Orlando Museum of Fake Art
SHOW THEMES
Catherine and James put Florida art museums and wannabe politicians in time-out
SHOW NOTES
- Vivek Ramaswamy is an asshole
- Orlando Museum of Art is on probation
- Aaron De Groft
- Dinosaurs aren't real
- Mitch McConnell freeze
- Age limits?
- Lock em up! (Catherine's chihuahuas)
- Fakesquiat with BTS
- "You're a puddle"
- Elle Cordova
- "So much stupid online"
- Catherine has a negative attitude towards negative people
- Drennon Davis and his cats
- "Can't trust the art world"
- Catherine is addicted to Pumpkin Spice Latte...
- Vegan pancakes at The Coronado
- Toast
30 min - Episode #82: Klimt Goes to Yellowstone
SHOW THEMES
SubRant disembowels an article about an unfinished Klimt and James goes on vacation
SHOW NOTES
- Catherine's bathroom woes continue
- "Post mid-century design aesthetic"?
- James explains art pricing
- Cabin fever in Phoenix
- James was attacked by the idea of being attacked by a bear and it ruined his vacation
- "Tourons" - moronic tourists blocking traffic to look at the ugly bison
- Bison are, in fact, mangy mutated cows (and I don't like cows)
- A short story of James being the responsible one
- Glacier National Park is best
- Klimt's "Lady with a fan" sells for stupid amount
- What actual Klimt paintings look like: WikiArt and ArtViewer
- The Japanese influence on Post Impressionism
- Chance the dog begins to cough because Catherine is painting (nail polish) in the house and poisoning everyone
- "Stylized elsewhere"
- Let's sell some Faquiats
- Martin Mull's renegade art show
- Nail polish removal process is too much for James
32 min - Episode #81: Recycling Economies and Dead Artists
SHOW THEMES
A new show for a dead artist, art vandals go to Vatican jail, and Apple reinvents Virtual Reality. Oh, and circular economies.
SHOW NOTES
- Catherine is excited about a NEW Basquiat show, but James is not
- More Fakesquiats
- "A myth building exercise"
- James identifies that he is, in fact, an asshole
- Art hooligans / environmental activists go to Vatican jail
- James breaks down the Apple Vision Pro (definitely not a VR headset)
- Catherine is desperate to be part of the circular economy, but James keeps her straight
- "Circularity is the hottest topic in the fashion industry right now"
- iPhones are already circular, they never go to the landfill
- Catherine's mother doesn't do recycled bricks
- Recycling news is what we do
30 min - Episode #80: The Art Judges
SHOW THEME
Prom wear, vomiting Keurigs, Brutalist 'art', and the questionable artistic judgement of the Supreme Court
SHOW NOTES
- 00:20 - In sync and slacking!
- 02:40 - Local suit maker saves the day!
- 03:35 - Graduate, and graduate again
- 05:45 - Prepping for Yellowstone
- 06:05 - Bathroom beat goes on
- 07:00 - cannabis and basil plants equally doomed under Catherine's care
- 10:05 - Brutalist art find in backyard barn
- 11:30 - Milk glass and Phoenix Lamps
- 12:04 - Brutalist "art" is a stretch
- 13:55 - Possibly Marcello Fantoni?
- 14:35 - Brass, bronze, steel, who knows
- 17:08 - Just clobber me with basic form
- 19:20 - Brutalist pieces will survive!
- 21:15 - Keurig catastrophe
- 23:00 - Feeling guarana
- 24:45 - Non sentient AI: Tool or threat?
- 25:45 - Warhol not transformative!
- 27:55 - Should judges "judge" art?
- 30:20 - A derivative slippery slope
- 31:10 - Siding with Warhol in a "bathtub full of bland"
- 32:20 - Just use Midjourney
- 34:14 - It's all derivative
35 min - Episode #79: Ancient Artifacts: Anthropology or Morbid Fascination?
SHOW THEME
Even with no f***s to give, James and Catherine fill 38 minutes with movies and mummies before pondering humanity's precipice and agreeing that most art (other than "Jaws" props) is disposable.
SHOW NOTES
- 00:12 - Catherine is finally on mic
- 00:48 - Good sleep yields not giving a f***
- 01:45 - Know your puppy limitations
- 03:25 - Sinking the coffee cup
- 04:35 - Have we got Ancient Egypt's mummies all wrong? (No)
- 05:30 - The perfect movie!
- 07:15 - Skimming the sarcophagus
- 08:30 - Fayium (portrait) vs faience (glaze technique)
- 10:10 - Remnants of a Roman Egypt
- 11:06 - Difference is... mummies are real
- 12:32 - Unwrapping colonial entitlement
- 15:00 - Art, anthropology, or morbid fascination?
- 16:25 - Humanity's eve of destruction? The Precipice: existential risk and the future of humanity - Toby Ord
- 21:35 - Ancient alien afterlife destruction?
- 22:40 - Ancient Egyptian Instagram Influencers
- 24:15 - Inherent Vice: What to do with Decaying Masterpiece?
- 25:00 - Miami Vice fashion rant
- 28:28 - Naum Gabo: "If it's gone it's gone"
- 29:30 - Artwork will eventually fail, so throw it out!
- 31:00 - Use of dead animals, chocolate and lard is not super edgy but is dumb and or, gross
- 32:25 - Recalling ASU's "Vague Art Show" and ditching painting at RISD
- 35:44 - Hirst "props" can't touch "Jaws"
- 37:00 - "Jaws" the musical
- 38:05 - Back to the garbage heap!
39 min - Episode #78: Good Enough to Steal?
SHOW THEME
James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art
SHOW NOTES
- 00:30 - Hope and bikes on the ceiling
- 02:30 - Ghosted by a chihuahua
- 04:15 - It's gonna take years!
- 05:00 - Normal American hoarder?
- 07:00 - No boxes from Temu!
- 08:40 - James debunks a dog harness
- 10:20 - Instagram algorithm whiners
- 12:45 - More whining about Lichtenstein 'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein
- 13:54 - Seeing the "Ben-Day" dots
- 15:00 - Disposable illustration, pop-art
- 16:00 - "It's called stealing", said Hy Eisman, but James has a different take!
- 18:00 - Appropriation vs plagiarism
- 20:29 - Seeing "BLAM"!
- 21:25 - American Art Industrial Complex squashes comic collage
- 23:18 - Isn't art disposable?
- 26:15 - Chinese website snatched James' image and used it for a logo!
- 29:21 - "WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein And The Art Of Appropriation" documentary
- 31:10 - AI similarities?
- 32:21 - Intellectually interesting, but not analogous
- 33:27 - Lichtenstein IS pop-art, Warhol isn't
- 34:16 - Not a transformative soup can, but good enough to steal!
- 35:24 - "Come play with us forever"
37 min - Episode #77: David vs Florida
Show Theme
SubRant touches on 3-D printers and lauds Chewy before breaking down the rise of Chinese apps, fear of a marble penis and “loving them some Google”.
Show Notes
- 00:01 - “Zoom hates me”
- 01:13 - Multiple states of disarray
- 02:45 - Metal mushrooms & 3-D printers
- 03:00 - Better call Chewy! https://www.chewy.com
- 03:10 - Dara Starr Tucker feeds cats https://www.tiktok.com/@darastarrtucker/video/7215400337438543146
- 05:29 - Buying a 3-D printer tips!
- 08:00 - Hooked on Chinese apps https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/americans-hooked-on-chinese-apps
- 08:29 - Temu “haul” https://www.temu.com
- 10:00 - More socks and dog harnesses!
- 11:05 - James ruins Catherine’s day
- 12:07 - American tech dulling us down?
- 13:15 - TikTok attack!
- 14:55 - Stupid folks saying hateful things
- 15:25 - Everyone hates JK Rowling?
- 17:05 - Mainstreaming vitriol
- 17:25 - Contemplating Tennessee
- 18:40 - “John McCain Party” is dead
- 19:30 - More bad news from Florida: Italian art experts astonished by David statue uproar in Florida https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65087218
- 20:50 - Defining pornography, duh!
- 21:25 - “David” takeaways
- 22:40 - Deconstructing the ding-dong
- 23:37 - “Tyranny of the minority”
- 24:30 - Section-off the “wacky”, please!
- 26:40 - Good luck re-investing in a loser!
- 27:04 - “I wish you well”, Gwyneth Paltrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov-FGOPxqcY
- 27:59 - Gen Z loves them some Google https://www.axios.com/2023/04/04/gen-z-jobs-employers-google-tesla-patagonia
- 29:30 - NASA or Disney more interesting!
- 31:00 - Follow up on “Fake-squiat”
- 33:10 - Insta-spam!
- 35:00 - Cleo, unleashed!
- 35:55 - Riding on the Metro!
37 min - Episode #76: Memories of Metro Center
SHOW THEME
SubRant discusses aliens, Valley Metro Lite Rail, public art and real estate with realtor Andrew Richwine
- 00:07 - "We do aliens"
- 00:30 - Welcome Andrew Richwine, Realtor, The Tribe - Keller Williams
- 01:45 - Andrew's story
- 03:40 - Green energy AND Lite Rail can move 1500 people every 3 minutes!
- 06:30 - Valley Metro App
- 09:22 - Lite Rail expansion projects and memories of Metro Center
- 13:45 - Biking from Phoenix to Tempe!
- 15:10 - Bad "flips" and "Where B&B?"
- 19:25 - Worst client? We don't do those.
- 23:00 - Preparing for a listing
- 26:05 - Photographing your old house
- 31:00 - Tribe Takeover and gimbal gaff!
- 32:40 - SubRant Podcast is persistent
- 37:22 - Lite Rail art installations
- 43:00 - Rail connections = community connections
- 45:05 - Keeping community businesses afloat
- 47:55 - Comic book stores, sewing machines, enlightenment, and sleep
- 52:00 - Lite Rail "honor system"
- 54:10 - First Friday is still happening?
- 55:40 - Songbird Coffee House
- 56:50 - Favorite art spaces 1 & 2
- 57:50 - Buying houses near the lite rail
- 01:01:36 - Photo vampire needed
1 hr 3 min - Episode #74: Puppy Down!
SHOW THEME
SubRant co-hosts get no credit for coining AI job title, so they defined "sweeping the floor" while reveling in the shards of a Balloon Dog.
SHOW NOTES
- 00:20 - SubRant (kinda) said it first
- 00:40 - Groot sucks
- 02:30 - Prompt Engineer?
- 04:17 - A totally unbiased review of Microsoft certifications
- 05:30 - Dissecting a "high-leverage skill"
- 06:15 - Is this the job of the future?
- 07:15 - SubRant abandons all hope?
- 09:40 - Prompts available!
- 10:30 - James has sci-fi panel rant
- 12:00 - Human to human, AI is AI
- 13:08 - Return to NFT
- 14:14 - Startup + day trading + NFTs = 🤮
- 15:05 - "Sweeping the floor" defined
- 16:51 - TLDR: Avoid NFTs
- 17:15 - Jeff Koons: Visitor Breaks Iconic Balloon Dog "Sculpture" in Miami
- 17:45 - Touch it, don't touch it!
- 19:18 - Puppy down
- 20:35 - Just buy it at Neiman Macros
- 21:15 - Isn't all performance art an accident?
- 21:35 - Stupid shard story!
- 23:10 - Million-plus dollar rabbit
- 24:15 - Kinkade the crap out of it
- 24:55 - James is the star
- 26:45 - Nod to "Shitty Craft Club"
- 27:02 - "Don't Groot me!"
28 min
About SubRant
From the publisher's feed
SubRant: a podcast wherein Catherine and James, two wildly (mildly) creative and cosmopolitan (provincial) Parisians (Phoenicians), wander in and out of conversations about art and other stuff that annoys them.
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