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- 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!
- Tim Sprague - Real Estate Developer - Phoenix, AZ
- 00:10 - Welcome Tim Sprague!
- 01:00 - Tim's story: "I got thrown into the deep end of the pool!"
- 03:00 - Prime interest rate comparison provides perspective
- 04:19 - Crazier than the 1980's!
- 04:27 - COVID, world economy, supply chain issues, Ukraine
- 05:15 - Tim is "pro-Phoenix", but it took awhile
- 05:45 - Waiting for cold tap water...
- 08:00 - Desert biome sunsets are the best!
- 10:43 - Courage, school of hard knocks, transforming community
- 11:40 - Applying lessons from bigger urban centers
- 12:15 - Cultivating arts, culture, and design into buildings
- 12:30 - Oasis on Grand - Affordable Housing for Artists
- 15:00 - Funding affordable living and political challenges
- 15:55 - Stratified Economic Housing
- 17:20 - Greenfield development vs in-fill projects
- 18:30 - Urban sprawl taxes community infrastructure
- 20:00 - Walkable communities, neighbors, being known
- 22:00 - Good design beats fashion
- 23:40 - Found:Re - Hotel and Gallery
- 27:01 - Arizona "Art Boutique Hotel" for all facets of art
- 28:35 - Not pretentious, not fussy, just beautiful art
- 29:08 - "Industrial Chic" and good lighting!
- 31:10 - "Cracking the egg" on in-fill development
- 32:38 - Roosevelt Action Association in response to 1-10 expansion
- 33:35 - Margaret T. Hance Park, the most invisible park in the country
- 34:12 - "The Golden Spike" joins East and West freeways
- 35:48 - Tim listens (and repeats!)
- 36:35 - "Creativity means generating ideas, good design pays for itself"
- 37:35 - "Everything we really care about is based on a story"
- 38:10 - Tim tells a story about his grandfather
- 39:10 - Tim will return in "Drought Talk"
Themes
- Deep dig into Minecraft
- Plumber shout out!
- Multiple follow-ups
- MET does good website!
- People and art students suck
- Betty Rubble
Notes
- 00:18 - Catherine chooses coffee over Bedrock
- 01:00 - Microsoft emails James
- 01:30 - History of Minecraft, the original blocky world
- 03:15 - Scripting, cross-platform, running native? What?
- 03:55 - SubRant embraces “tech geek world”
- 04:30 - Everything leads to “The Flintstones”
- 05:20 - Plumber shout out! https://georgebrazilplumbingelectrical.com
- 06:20 - Expansion tank saves the day!
- 06:44 - Nicholas is also a “Grocery Store Superstar”!
- 07:55 - Fake bird surveillance joke follow up https://youtu.be/l30_APBNPXg
- 09:25 - We’re not art lawyers, but Catherine will test the waters
- 10:00 - We’re not scientists either, so below are alternate sources
- - 1 - Kat Epidemiologist https://www.epidemiologistkat.com
- - 2 - Very Bad Wizards https://www.verybadwizards.com
- - 3 - Andy Does Healthy https://www.tiktok.com/@andydoeshealthy
- 11:25 - James is a ruthless self-promoter (not)
- 12:05 - Now here’s a really good museum website! https://www.metmuseum.org
- 12:26 - Fly-through videos! https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/met-360-project
- 13:00 - “Fake” follow-up about curator responsibility
- 14:45 - Mona Lisa eats cake https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/mona-lisa-attacked-at-louvre-museum-by-vandal-with-patisserie
- 16:40 - Breaking News: “People suck”
- 17:12 - James makes a case for cannibalism
- 17:50 - Groceries going MIA
- 18:58 - Forget Durango, just camp in San Francisco
- 21:15 - Details are important (and interesting)
- 22:10 - Marks of the mono print
- 23:26 - Intaglio embarrassment: Catherine gets mocked in art class
- 25:17 - Garbage torso painting is difficult because it’s garbage!
- 26:20 - Education theory according to James
- 26:55 - Betty Rubble
- 27:25 - At least the plumbers are listening!
- The science of boredom. So bad we had to do it twice.
- 00:10 - Take 2
- 00:45 - Less you know & clueless Joe
- 01:05 - Spotify, if you're listening!
- 01:52 - "Blinded me with (bad) science (journalism)"
- 03:15 - Warning: No "Life Coach" On Duty
- 03:45 - Scientific fluff piece?
- 04:20 - Let's get into it!
- 05:07 - Emotional hyperbole
- 06:17 - Boredom seems correctable
- 07:03 - Please define!
- 08:47 - Categorizing boring
- 09:27 - Catherine's studies cemented crazy!
- 09:48 - Opinion about assumption isn't science
- 11:06 - James has a sleep hobby
- 12:27 - Buzzing outta boredom
- 13:47 - "Excruciating" not proven
- 14:32 - "It's all hypothetical"
- 15:27 - Hypothetically, artists are interesting?
- 16:02 - "Who feels more deeply than the artist?"
- 17:05 - The simple wisdom of Von Tilburg!
- 17:42 - Let them talk!
- 19:01 - Reframe the lie?
- 20:26 - Shameless SubRant sticker plug
- 20:37 - Spotify, are you listening yet?
- 21:17 - How to be left alone at a party!
- 22:50 - James is bored and out!
- Leaving Facebook, again!
- Warhol stole our colors
- Drought is real
- "The Sugar Shack", Ernie Barns
- Barns, Wyeth, Rockwell, Holyfield
- Sugar Shack vs The Mona Lisa
- Doesn't matter what is real
- Stupid or boring, both!
- 00:07 - Cookies and podcasts don't mix
- 00:55 - 72hrs of Facebook is enough!
- 02:05 - "Faking" a breach for a phone number?
- 03:30 - James plays "chicken" with Instagram, and wins!
- 04:05 - Panic de-activation
- 04:55 - They know what you did last summer
- 06:02 - Black and white and mostly people I don't know
- 08:30 - Artist name correction: "One Beach Plastic", Richard and Judith Lang
- 09:25 - Ozzie Osborn is alive, but James remain unconvinced (or maybe just doesn't care)
- 09:50 - Our opinions are not legal advice AND neither of us are lawyers!
- 10:15 - Warhol' and SubRant's common-color-ground
- 10:55 - Just get a real camera!
- 11:57 - What is a "Super Market Star"? Catherine is.
- 12:45 - Drought of content about a drought
- 13:55 - Calabasas Koi
- 14:45 - Wealth and the American "Porpoise"
- 16:45 - Symbiotic relationship between rich people and big goldfish explained
- 17:11 - "Let them eat koi!"
- 17:50 - Good Times! Another art auction, another $15,000,000!
- 18:20 - "The Sugar Shack", by Ernie Barns
- 19:07 - He fills the canvas with movement!
- 19:46 - "Country Ride" 1982 reminiscent but not derivative of Wyeth
- 21:35 - Barnes: "abstraction not exaggeration"
- 22:20 - Similar to Rockwell, in that they are both illustrators of ideas
- 24:21 - John Holyfield
- 25:03 - Back to Warhol, it's just a t-shirt
- 25:30 - "The Sugar Shack" vs. "Mona Lisa"
- 26:30 - We're not meat bags, we're a simulation
- 28:37 - Do you prefer stupid or boring?
- 29:26 - Twitter poll fail
- 30:15 - Go wash your car
- Anniversary Interrupted
- No Fun With Migraines
- Zooming In Pajamas
- Everything Is Garbage
- Micro-plastic in the blood
- Pink Ball, Blue Ball
- Trashing Art
- 00:20 - "Spot on" co-host forgets SubRant anniversary
- 01:30 - Other co-host forgets about Leap Year
- 02:10 - James crushes migraine for sake of podcast
- 05:00 - Airport pajama fashion
- 05:47 - Reviving Facebook
- 06:35 - "Zero-sum" upgrade or princess fantasy?
- 08:57 - "You got a window, open it"
- 10:15 - Plastic garbage obsession
- 11:00 - Misinterpreting micro-plastics
- 12:00 - Forgoing a Lego blood clot
- 12:45 - Vegetarian siting on dead cow worries about plastic toothpaste
- 13:40 - Just waiting to be discovered!
- 14:04 - 'Blue Balls' destroy humanity
- 15:17 - "One word: plastics" (The Graduate, 1967)
- 16:20 - Plastic saturation limit
- 16:45 - Catherine's savage mercury moment
- 17:41 - Talking strangers at the grocery strangers and palpating tomatoes
- 18:45 - Take-out plastic overwhelms studio space
- 19:58 - Plastic pollution art
- 21:30 - Don't divert, use real trash! "Bristol Whales" by Sue Lipscombe
- 22:25 - My bags have been a tapestry "Bridge" and "Ocean of Plastic" by Dianna Cohen
- 22:50 - Consuming chips for art
- 23:32 - Colorful bottle top rainbow trash "One Beach Plastic" by Richard and Judith Lang
- 24:22 - Infinitely sustainable materials?
- 25:02 - Compressing into nature "Plastic Planet" by Calder Kamin
- 26:07 - Introducing "Tik-Toad"
- 26:34 - James has a favorite!
- 27:02 - The Great Lakes palette
- 28:48 - Podcast of imperfection
- 29:02 - "What is art? Listen and you still won't know!"
- 30:12 - "I good think too"!
- Conspiracies are for the birds
- Wearable art?
- If I made a TikTok
- (Over) Selling Warhol
- Gratuitous BTS reference
- Tricycles can hurt you
- 00:30 - Pivot followup: Shadowcat is a trail bike
- 02:00 - $7700 of fun
- 02:30 - Instagram followup: James is a hypocrite
- 03:15 - Black and white and square and mostly cat
- 04:00 - Podcast birds (aren't real)
- 05:00 - No birds in the hood?
- 06:00 - "Hit piece" gets tarred and feathered
- 06:40 - All conspiracies should be this much fun!
- 08:00 - Catherine gets concerned
- 08:35 - "Are you referring to bird drone surveillance?"
- 09:25 - The internet raised him good
- 10:15 - Listener provides content! Thanks Jay!
- 11:00 - Old Masters and altered sleeves
- 12:08 - Who called her an old lady?
- 13:00 - If the jacket fits
- 13:35 - The real crime is calling it "art"
- 14:35 - Bed under a "Starry Night"
- 15:00 - Spitballing a TikTok series
- 15:44 - (Over) Selling a Warhol
- 16:35 - James drops his Warhol cringe, just this once
- 17:30 - Marilyn v. Andy AKA "Iconic v. Iconic"
- 19:15 - "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" captures the 1960's
- 20:35 - Shoutout to Phoenix Art Museum
- 21:20 - Is it OK to film art and them post it?
- 21:55 - BTS adjacent "Rkive art vibe"
- 23:45 - Second tricycle childhood?
- 27:25 - Turning, tipping, crashing, and freaking out. Thanks Trike!
- 27:50 - Ozzie Osborne is alive!
- 29:00 - PSA: Slow your 3-wheel roll
- 29:45 - James was wrong
- Writer DJ Leary discusses art, poetry, prose, and next steps on his creative journey.
- 00:12 - DJ "SubRants" again!
- 02:00 - Pandemic apartment good for writing
- 02:50 - Laundry basket anxiety attack
- 04:00 - Poems, stories, Pivot Cycles commercial
- 04:20 - DJ's Pivot Shadowcat Ad
- 08:20 - "4 Minutes Later" (James bike-nerds out)
- 09:50 - No more training wheels, ever!
- 11:15 - Listen to the neighborhood ambiance
- 12:00 - "DC Rat Mob" (actual rodents, not politicians)
- 14:08 - Bethesda v. Scottsdale and a tattoo artist's floor
- 16:20 - Bird loudly joins podcast
- 17:00 - What DJ will and won't miss about Phoenix
- 19:20 - Phoenix expensive, friends moving on
- 20:30 - One rodeo is enough for a lifetime
- 21:00 - Surprise, DC is political!
- 22:30 - Poems for "Tuckle"
- 23:13 - Cocaine free coffee beans
- 24:15 - No "swerving right" for easy money?
- 26:00 - Writers needed (in Thailand?)
- 27:15 - Fiverr and the "gig economy"
- 29:15 - Motivated through authentic interaction
- 32:18 - Instagram as "poetry archive"
- 33:30 - DJ is a tattoo!
- 35:30 - Being an artist is hard work
- 38:40 - Screaming into the Twitter void
- 41:04 - Instagram pay dirt
- 43:20 - Next steps for prose over poetry
- 44:50 - Think you're good at what you do? You're not!
- 47:45 - Catchy, but played out
- 49:00 - Practice makes better
- 50:25 - DJ and a typewriter
- 52:00 - San Diego and DC give "great busk"
- 53:03 - Shout out to The Smithsonian
- 54:05 - DJ recites a poem
- Forgetful U.S. healthcare system
- Tattooing Phoenix
- Discoveries in weird places
- SubRant social media
- (Too) Hot Phoenix real estate
- Art intersection
- Gentrification is disorienting (for Catherine)
- 00:05 - SubRant is hostile, but it's not work
- 01:45 - James is unrecognizable
- 02:45 - Curious canine cat food caper!
- 04:50 - Tattoos, but where (to get one)?
- 05:26 - Forehead or nowhere!
- 06:20 - Will Catherine really get tattoos?
- 08:00 - James and "left breast Jimin"
- 09:03 - Moving on...
- 09:10 - Digging Anat, the "Goddess of Everything"
- 09:50 - Destination: Gaza, but back away from my head!
- 11:15 - Hidden basements and the boxes therein
- 13:15 - Attention (13 listeners): SubRant SubReddit coming!
- 14:36 - James is "way serious"
- 14:50 - Better late than never! SubRant social media!
- - Instagram: SubRant Podcast
- - Twitter: @SubRantPodcast
- 15:10 - Messing with realtors!
- 15:50 - "Housing Fodder and Unaffordable Phoenix"
- 16:38 - All James needs is weather, trails, Costco
- 17:21 - Redefining "exponential" and exerting male privilege
- 18:50 - Compelling content as Catherine files her nails
- 20:20 - More money than sense, but not climate refugees
- 21:55 - Least sustainable city? Let's move there!
- 22:45 - Intersection Art
- 24:28 - Too much ado about Trompe-l'oeil
- 25:20 - Phoenix murals, the 80 seconds of art this week
- 26:00 - Disorientation in the Arts District
- 27:43 - Shipping containers and hip hop
- 29:53 - Lovin' the urban chic vibe
- 31:15 - Putting a pin in "Art on the Street"
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