Catherine and James eviscerate flat earth theory and the zombified appetite for "alternate realities" while predicting the future of AI "art".

 - 00:10 - Honey Bear's rescue story!

 - 01:30 - James describes a real dog

 - 02:10 - New format flop

 - 02:30 - TikTok Flat Earth hilarity

 - 03:45 - She gotta be trolling!

 - 05:10 - Reason begone, here comes the wacky!

 - 05:45 - Ignorance or boredom? Who cares!

 - 06:15 - Stupidity rises like cream on social media

 - 07:05 - Does the appetite for "alternate realities" affect how we see art?

 - 07:45 - Colorado State Fair vs. AI generated art

 - 08:05 - AI image generator: Midjourney

 - 10:00 - "Hand of the artist" is now "your mind"!

 - 11:20 - Riffing from Hudson River, but did anyone know (or care?)

 - 14:30 - Questions remain re: digital image sourcing and "sampling"

 - 17:49 - Image synthesis via latent diffusion

 - 18:25 - Search yourself (and your art) LAION-5B

 - 21:10 - Robots are coming for your creativity!

 - 22:40 - Put me in your database and re-use my work!

 - 23:20 - Severed head Phoestivus

 - 26:33 - Interest equals value!

 - 27:50 - "Watching the death of artistry..."

 - 28:20 - Art communities ban AI generated images

 - 29:43 - James looks into an AI crystal ball

 - 31:20 - At last, James is correct!

Catherine and James discuss the "greatest conspiracy in ancient art" while  summarily dismissing Minimalism, Architecture, and Modern Design.

 - 00:10 - Cohost identifies as chromophobic, but not really?

 - 00:48 - The Greatest Conspiracy In Ancient Art

 - 01:05 - Breaking news: Ancient monochromatic statues are just faded

 - 02:14 - Natural weathering takes a toll

 - 02:43 - The "art historian elites" object!

 - 03:40 - Restoration erases patina and the passage of time

 - 05:05 - Refurbish recoil and "The Archer"

 - 06:10 - Nobody paints Baby in a corner!

 - 07:15 - "Ancient ancient" color gap

 - 11:07 - Going mad with color!

 - 12:37 - Clean away the goth (and forget Plato)!

 - 13:24 - High Renaissance ghostly minimalism

 - 14:05 - Michelangelo was the first Western abstract artist!

 - 15:09 - "Hard no" on "nipple tattoo"

 - 16:04 - Black, white, and grey = garbage palette

 - 18:15 - James has a purple door (but it's actually red)

 - 20:25 - "Visual stillness" vs design degradation

 - 21:05 - Architectural stasis

 - 23:05 - Arcosanti

 - 24:38 - "Modern humans are just boring"

 - 25:40 - Arcosanti bell loses a dangle

 - 26:15 - Christopher shows up and ends the show

Show Themes

 - All kinds of drought

 - PC Gaming

 - Show note PSA

 - Instagram hate

 - Mannequin Madness

 - Prey follow-up

 - Huge conspiracy next episode!

Show Notes

 - 00:20 - Cohost identifies as the “Lake Mead” of emotional support

 - 01:00 - Abbreviated Southern California cringe https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/california-drought-crisis-water-waste-celebrities

 - 01:46 - So many Kardashians, so little water

 - 02:15 - Stallone (and 1599 others) exceed water usage

 - 02:20 - “Let Them Eat Koi” revisited! https://www.subrantpodcast.com/episode_0048_eat-koi.html

 - 05:20 - Thirty years of creeping water shortages

 - 06:30 - “Can you spell privilege?”

 - 07:50 - PlayStation sued in UK, but why? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62631533

 - 08:45 - James puts gaming in perspective

 - 10:00 - “What’s the point? That was my point!” (Huh?)

 - 10:30 - Console and platform subrant

 - 13:30 - Listeners spared, contact James for more!

 - 14:40 - Show notes PSA: Scroll, read, links, follow!

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 - 16:00 - I wear my (denim) sunglasses on Instagram!

 - 18:23 - Idiot “feather ruffling” yields more idiocy

 - 20:30 - Contemplating Plato (or not)

 - 21:00 - Thank you “Mannequin Madness” for the “butts”! https://www.mannequinmadness.com

 - 22:20 - Triggered by a plastic belly button, please send help! (It wasn’t the belly button)

 - 22:36 - “Prey” follow-up

 - 23:12 - “Predator was a better action movie, Prey was a better film” (Plato)

 - 25:15 - Badass, not revisionist

 - 27:20 - Muddying up the “mud scene”

 - 29:00 - The “no subtitle” Predator-Prey thread

 - 31:10 - Trying everything or barely trying?

 - Prey (2022) and Predator (1987)

 - High tech litter boxes

 - AI generated images vs editorial illustration

 - Again with the dead cow head

 - 00:18 - Let's both not talk about the movie you didn't see

 - 00:58 - Newsflash: There is no "Prey 1"

 - 02:00 - Catherine answers a citizenship question

 - 03:00 - Streaming negates need for movie theaters

 - 04:15 - James recommends "Prey" (2022), revisits "Predator" (1987)

 - 07:18 - No spoilers here, just a Hollywood ending

 - 09:35 - "Predator" is a better action film, "Prey" is a better movie

 - 10:47 - Trolls in a twist

 - 12:15 - No subtitles for "French Klingon"

 - 13:40 - Cat poop in AI headlines

 - 14:20 - Cat litter is incredibly exciting?

 - 16:00 - Cats openly mock litter box technology

 - 18:00 - Nothing about this is AI, so just look at you cat

 - 20:35 - AI-generated digital art spurs debate about News illustrations

 - 21:50 - James breaks down AI

 - 24:25 - Comparing editorial illustration to AI generated images (DALL-E)

 - 26:57 - Is this just image sampling or will it evolve creatively?

 - 28:00 - The hubris of overcoming bias

 - 29:20 - Is your bias really your perspective?

 - 31:50 - Random connections generate new ideas

 - 33:02 - James leaves, Catherine talks to herself

 - 34:15 - We probably shouldn't ignore DALL-E!

 - 35:05 - Plastic wins at our demise!

 - 36:00 - In: AI all the way! Out: dead cow heads!

 - Netflix v Hulu

 - Lalapalooza

 - New mannequin

 - De-globalization in the arts

 - "Old Masters" on caring walls

 - Milagros and street art

 - 00:30 - Swapping Hulu for Netflix (for now)

 - 01:10 - "HobiPalooza" soothed an aching soul!

 - 01:45 - Shower, tea, phone off for J-Hope!

 - 02:20 - James is an English teacher

 - 03:07 - Better K-drama translation?

 - 04:15 - Ghost stories more believable than the news?

 - 05:00 - James makes Hulu recommendations

 -  - Save Yourselves

 -  - Love and Monsters

 -  - I Love Lucy

 -  - People of Earth

 - 06:45 - Town of "Fish Kill" doesn't  kill fish

 - 07:50 - Mannequin mocking

 - 10:10 - Who needs a head?

 - 10:40 - Insane cyclists of Scotland

 - 11:45 - De-globalization Hits the Art World (or does it?)

 - 12:22 - Unwinding vs fracturing vs bullshit

 - 14:25 - Art: Means to an end vs end in itself?

 - 14:55 - Just say "Plato"

 - 16:10 - Art blockbuster shows, niche museums, community focus

 - 17:15 - Collection sell-off debate

 - 21:45 - Deaccessioning? Just say "selling"!

 - 22:30 - Catherine gets emotional about art preservation

 - 23:15 - James subrants on the lies and lies of the artworld!

 - 25:00 - 30-year China trend?

 - 26:40 - "The 'China-nization' of Hong Kong"

 - 27:00 - SF MOMA Mural, Healing and Milagros

 - 27:12 - 100 Day Project Celebrating Essential Workers 100 Days Action's Art for Essential Workers

 - 27:55 - Suenos Imports

 - 29:27 - "Mural-ized" street art

 - 30:15 - Hope comes full circle: Meaning of Milagros

 - 31:17 - Must start with cats!

 - 31:35 - I'm a dog person

 - Van Gogh "hidden" portrait

 - Secret mirrors and Cracker Jack Buddhas

 - AI image generators

 - 00:38 - Van Gogh portrait found behind "Head of a Peasant Woman"

 - 01:08 - James makes a case for "peasant-core"

 - 01:35 - Random x-rays, but why?

 - 02:02 - "I thought the painting was depressing"

 - 02:25 - Breaking down curator boredom

 - 03:12 - Impasto faux pas... Rembrandt not Van Gogh!

 - 04:45 - It's simple - canvass is expensive.

 - 06:12 - Van Gogh was "a broke ass painter"

 - 06:30 - Buddha Buddha on the wall. How did you get there?

 - 07:25 - "Mystery purchase" at Tucson Gem Show

 - 08:12 - Cracker Jack enlightenment

 - 10:45 - Are there more mysteries in plain sight? Probable not.

 - 11:56 - All the kids are doing it? (AI image generators)

 - 13:30 - Why AI? It's not art, it's a tool https://www.craiyon.com

 - 14:20 - Joan of Arc eating ice cream

 - 15:43 - Georgia O'Keefe painted cats?

 - 18:10 - Cats in the "style" of Damien Hurst look like Laurel Burch https://www.laurelburch.com

 - 19:08 - James is DALL-E wait-listed

 - 21:00 - Unintended scarcity?

 - 22:28 - Generating "fun spaghetti"

 - 22:50 - "Nefarious" experimentation yielded freakish results!

 - 24:00 - "Hack-a-thon" and curated image database

 - 25:40 - Let's just leave it!

 - Grace Habib of Shop Refugee part of GoTen

 - Grace started as an English teacher with GoTen

 - Seamstress volunteers wanted to start Sewing class started 2021

 - Grace shifted from English teaching to running Shop Refugee full time

 - Stared by rebranded Shop Refugee

 - Expanded classes and has its own workshop (20 person max)

 - Loving Covers helped out with material donations in the beginning

 - Sourcing material locally

 - City Serve (Amazon, Walmart, and CostCo returns)

 - Sheer fabric = Scrunchy

 - Mesh netting = produce bags

 - Environmentally friendly process

 - 95% of sales goes to seamstress

 - Business owners now coming to Shop Refugee for seamstresses

 - Noggin Boss

 - Seamstresses are contract working and can work at home at their pace

 - Bead trade of Murano

 - Welcome Cookie!

 - Grace rents out her wedding arch and a mogul is born!

 - Grace's marketing side hustle

 - We need to support more refugees

 - Parolees from Afghanistan

 - Refugee is a legal status

 - Spread the world!

 - The Rock as the model

 - Requests welcome!

 - Sewing machines are awesome

 - Farmer's markets

 - World Refugee Day Phoenix College

 - Retail stores:

 - - Cultivate coffee

 - - Gather Phoenix

 - - SBC Book Store

 - Phoenix eats batteries and tires!

 - Success stories from the class

 - Rapha House

 - Donations (fabric and thread)!

 - Aug 18 - Meeting for volunteers

 - Insha'Allah

 - 00:15 - Tired of "adulting"

 - 00:45 - Disregard SubRant dating advice

 - 01:40 - The Met is not MOMA!

 - 02:00 - Catherine doesn't listen to James!

 - 02:50 - SubRant stickers buy a Lamborghini

 - 03:20 - Episode 55 is important (?)

 - 03:59 - All politics are local

 - 04:45 - Hospitals waste time and plastic (and lives)

 - 06:10 - Pink plastic (from one room) fills the dump!

 - 07:15 - James has a suggestion for hospital performance art

 - 07:45 - What would happen if we stopped using plastic?

 - 08:35 - Hypothetical plastic recycling

 - 09:53 - Sequester plastic so it doesn't kill us

 - 11:10 - Glass water bottles kind of suck

 - 12:15 - Glass is no picnic either

 - 14:05 - Conquering the world in just 70 years

 - 14:34 - Hard pass on intelligence and sacrifice

 - 15:45 - Can't grow your own in Phoenix

 - 16:30 - James has faith in good engineering

 - 17:35 - Fewer cows would be nice

 - 18:40 - Thirteen uses to offset carbon footprint

 - 19:30 - Baffled by K-pop and BTS

 - 20:15 - Kim Nam Joon, art enthusiast

 - 20:25 - RM fans flood art museum

 - 22:10 - Is it just a passing fad?

 - 24:17 - James gives it one shrug (WTF?)

 - 26:45 - Who is on your list of favorite modern artists?

 - 29:00 - Vicarious expansion via Instagram

 - 30:00 - Contemplating "Namjooning"

 - 30:40 - James wants a study, but is it necessary?

 - Weverse

 - 32:50 - Moving to Italy but visiting ROK

 - 33:29 - Fingers crossed!

 - Earth vs. Mars

 - Top 5, No Surprise!

 - Trail Stories

 - Instagram Artist Sells High

 - Frode Bolhuis

 - 00:15 - A better world or Mars

 - 00:50 - Rovers with no soul

 - 01:15 - Half of global art sales, but is the art interesting?

 - 01:30 - L.A. makes "Top 5" art city list

 - 02:15 - California, Mars, what's the difference?

 - 02:50 - New York, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami

 - 03:50 - "Bananas, duct tape, invisible art" in Miami

 - 04:05 - Is the "creative center" really in Seoul?

 - 05:00 - Has NY lost its "artsy" edge?

 - 05:40 - "The Getty" ruined a biking trail

 - 06:20 - James gets dumped (on the worst trail ini Phoenix)!

 - 08:00 - A wash and a boulder

 - 08:50 - Tom Thumb trashed toenails

 - 09:30 - Underrepresenting women in art

 - 11:00 - North Mountain in the dark

 - 12:20 - Strava tracks your stuff?

 - 14:31 - Social media intelligence test?

 - 15:35 - "I Am Not a Robot" tests don't care if you're a robot

 - 16:50 - Instagram artist makes good!

 - 17:35 - Liking the still lifes and "Godzilla"

 - 19:40 - Tiny figures make me happy! Frode Bolhuis

 - 21:28 - Human form, human psyche

 - 23:14 - Kinda like Pinocchio?

 - 24:04 - Intuitive Alarm!

 - 25:30 - It takes this village (to make interesting people)

 - 26:05 - Daily creativity

 - 27:35 - Actually discussed art!

 - 28:02 - We're both done!