SubRant

SubRant

By Catherine Lynn & James FryerArtsVisual Arts
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SubRant episodes

  • Episode #23: Thanksgiving Special

     - 00:14 - James controls knobs

     - 00:40 - Reminder: James attended RISD

     - 01:12 - Phoenix looks rode hard and half closed

     - 01:40 - Easley's Magic Shop and John Fitzsimmons

     - 04:25 - Catherine is the boss and James makes terrible coffee

     - 05:15 - Keurig regifting

     - 06:30 - Coffee grinders, burrs, and chunks

     - 08:00 - Old plumbing hates coffee grounds?

     - 08:24 - Garbage disposals are barbaric

     - 10:34 - Detritus in library books

     - 10:57 - Best ArtNews article ever!

     - 12:45 - Book time capsules left behind

     - 13:30 - Someone discarded James's piles

     - 14:30 - Books are tactile and personal

     - 15:31 - A second-hand Bhagavad Gita

     - 17:01 - Do Kindle books have titles?

     - 18:34 - "Archaeological work of sentimentality"

     - 20:45 - Bead Museum library collection

     - 23:17 - No discussing K drama!

     - 24:10 - Catherine isn't listening

     - 27:17 - Thrift store film missed opportunity

     - 29:03 - James eyes "The Matrix"

     - 29:56 - Listeners Gratitude Moment(s)!

     - 30:07 - Ing's words from Malaysia

     - 31:38 - Thoughts from Kim in Colorado

     - 32:18 - Cheryl wrote in from Phoenix!

     - 32:28 - Heather's comments from Chandler

     - 32:58 - Susan's gratitude

     - 33:31 - Is Tucson international or 'sub-local'?

     - 34:04 - Jim retires!

     - 34:45 - Chris starts his career

     - 34:57 - Jess crashes into Harry Styles concert

     - 35:40 - Ing will sew in 2022

     - 36:10 - James appreciates Malinda

     - 36:45 - Catherine is grateful for pizza crust and wrote a poem

     - 38:17 - Podcast gratitude, thanks to guests!

     - 39:15 - Dim sum, Cracker Barrel, no turkey

     - 40:47 - Keurig cup 3-D art thing rambling

     - 41:37 - Thanks for listening!

    42 min
  • Episode #22: Interview with DJ Leary

     - 00:02 - Welcome writer and poet DJ Leary

     - 00:45 - James "don't" do words well

     - 01:06 - How DJ met Catherine

     - 02:00 - DJ inspired at Shakespeare's Globe

     - 04:00 - Street performance typewriter

     - 04:37 - The "COVID Project 7-year novel"

     - 05:24 - Creating characters is complicated!

     - 06:00 - Post English degree creativity

     - 07:17 - Schools fall short for creative endeavors

     - 08:29 - Lack of critical thinking

     - 09:02 - Nobody can teach the artistic process

     - 09:50 - "New Slam In Town", Ghost Poetry Show

     - 10:57 - Kaiti Pritchett Slam Poet

     - 12:18 - Academic poetry turns off a generation

     - 13:50 - Console vs PC gaming

     - 14:50 - Catherine nods off during gaming convo

     - 15:33 - iPhone gaming and cruise ship quotas

     - 17:43 - James dates himself with "Doom"

     - 18:57 - The "gamer history eye roll"

     - 19:22 - Film Bar is back, same location!

     - 19:58 - Club Dwntwn hosts "Poetic Soul"

     - 20:30 - DJ's sci-fi novel

     - 21:09 - Just wear your phone on your face

     - 22:15 - We are the Brave New World Borg

     - 22:42 - Consumption, overstimulation, distraction

     - 24:00 - My phone is my universe, and is boring

     - 27:00 - DJ's busy life and social media

     - 31:04 - Instagram and visual art

     - 31:40 - Twitter is a writer's resume

     - 33:30 - Unplugged anonymity is a luxury

     - 34:00 - Analog nostalgia vs digital complexity

     - 40:30 - Moving beyond a flash of brilliance

     - 43:20 - "Train I Ride", Paul Mosier

     - 44:13 - Middle ground on Myers-Briggs I/O scale

     - 45:57 - DJ's Poet Pick: T.S. Eliot

     - 49:00 - Cutting the Arts won't save a failed educational system

     - 51:07 - DJ and James fix global climate change

     - 52:05 - Pro Pigeon Party

     - 56:45 - DJ reads "Scarecrow, Road-trip, Clay"

    58 min
  • Episode #21: Squid Game & Artists Gifts

     - 00:10 - New intro music is a tone

     - 01:00 - It's after Halloween and jeans are stupid

     - 02:04 - Science is not a "man thing"

     - 02:24 - James labels Catherine

     - 02:55 - Talking "Squid Game" spoilers

     - 03:47 - James's disbelief not suspended

     - 04:30 - Catherine watched "Squid Game" twice

     - 04:43 - Kang Sae-byeok (067) (HoYeon Jung) is favorite character

     - 05:37 - Catherine's Korean sucks

     - 06:34 - "In-your-face" odd visual experience

     - 07:00 - James prefers aesthetics of "Foundation"

     - 07:54 - Squid Game is rigged game?

     - 08:41 - "001" absolute POS

     - 11:04 - Stupid BBC article title - "No Squid Game Halloween costumes, New York schools say"

     - 13:25 - "Office Jason" horrified Catherine

     - 15:27 - "Tiananmen Tank Guy"

     - 16:48 - "Squid Game" uplifting message

     - 20:00 -  Hunger Games v Squid v high school

     - 24:00 - Artist Christmas gift ideas and duds (mostly duds)

     - 27:28 - MasterClass.com

     - 29:20 -  Don't give books to artists

     - 30:30 - Aprons and Bob Ross cups

     - 33:45 - Moving on from oyster shells

     - 36:57 - Just get the Apple pencil

     - 38:19 - Creative people need paper

     - 41:15 - Don't frame bad art

     - 42:30 - Screen printing kit is James's best idea!

     - 43:40 - Scratch board helps with shadows

    47 min
  • Episode #20: Seoul Fashion Week with Ing Yeen

     - 00:20 - Welcome Ing Yeen!

     - 01:20 - Hardcore gamers, inner farmers

     - O2:20 - James on fashion

     - 03:04 - Photojournalist and fashion dreams

     - 03:15 - Ing "went for it" 2013 Seoul Fashion Week

     - 04:10 - Don't wait to do anything!

     - 06:00 - Ing breaks down Fashion Week

     - 07:00 - Ing is a one-man show

     - 09:00 - Newbies & K-pop fans get in the way

     - 10:57 - After party: food and random celebrities

     - 12:30 - "Fashion blur" (after 30 shows)

     - 13:43 - Celebrity-centric K-pop designs

     - 14:44 - Will James be a mistaken superstar?

     - 16:36 - James and the foreign front row face

     - 19:40 - Rude people photo bomb Ing's interviews (and must die)

     - 21:10 - James suggests a taser, Ing likes idea!

     - 23:00 - Katherine tasing a defenseless watermelon

     - 25:30 - Sewing machine vs table saw

     - 27:36 - Tropic Escape helps us escape

     - 28:30 - James prefers shooting games

     - 29:32 - Squid Game in 5 minutes

     - 33:23 - Ing cried writing gameshow subtitles!

     - 34:24 - James gets his cat

     - 34:49 - American language cringe moment

     - 35:09 - Ing was raised on American TV

     - 36:38 - "I Dream Of Jeannie" 70's flat

     - 40:30 - Ing is owed retroactive goodie bags!

     - 41:50 - Ing makes the world a better place!

     - 42:48 - Ing is our International Tea Spiller!

    43 min
  • Episode #19: William Merritt Chase

     - 00:29 - Art barn body parts

     - 02:37 - Crockpot and 2AM zucchini

     - 05:05 - Alive artists of the week

     - 05:33 - Shredded Banksy revisited

     - 09:17 - Pile of painted strips

     - 10:05 - A moment for the Curators

     - 13:00 - Hire 160 painters for greater ROI

     - 13:59 - Shatner goes full space groundhog

     - 15:10 - Las Vegas Stratosphere Big Shot

     - 16:25 - James's fantasy Captain Kirk

     - 17:59 - "Evil Uhura" exposed midriff

     - 19:05 - OG Star Trek could be painful

     - 21:45 - Who's your captain?

     - 22:55 - "Deep Space 9" IS a TV show

     - 23:10 - Well deserved co-hosts

     - 23:50 - William Merritt Chase

     - 24:00 - "White Rose" AKA "Miss Jesup"

     - 25:04 - James went to RISD but still has room in his heart to love Parsons too

     - 26:58 - Hollywood implodes the Rose

     - 27:20 - Gessoed torso found

     - 28:03 - American Impressionism

     - 28:24 - "Bessie Potter" portrait

     - 29:20 - Masterful capturing of light

     - 31:10 - History of Parsons

     - 32:32 - James and the over sexed paragraph

     - 34:00 - We all need a Making Space

     - 39:00 - ASU has a Maker Lab

     - 39:20 - COVID is still a thing

     - 40:30 - Just get vaccinated

     - 42:00 - Good art, bad art, COVID bashing, done

    43 min
  • Episode #18: Goya's Little Painting of Horror

     - 01:20 - ARTnews

     - O2:10 - Securitizing artwork is a stupid idea

     - 04:40 - 'Art' = infinite con-game

     - 05:24 - Santa Fe "Rembrandt plates"

     - 06:28 - James vs extradition

     - 08:48 - Scum sucking vampires

     - 09:17 - Art, baseball cards, whatever

     - 10:13 - Three threads of a Picasso

     - 10:35 - Full-on Ferengi Fantasy

     - 10:47 - Barely a Trekie

     - 12:02 - Star Trek is social commentary

     - 13:26 - Catherine goes to a compost pile

     - 14:03 - Was it a grub?

     - 14:56 - La Brea Tar Pits in an alley

     - 15:30 - Next time go to Costco

     - 16:25 - Pills vs horse paste vs science

     - 18:24 - Scariest stuff is real life

     - 19:44 - "Do our own research"

     - 21:15 - Spain is open!

     - 22:28 - Why flip a coin? Get vaccinated!

     - 22:35 - Artist of the Week - Cinta Vidal

     - 23:42 - MC Escher with humanity https://mcescher.com

     - 24:40 - Want to live inside her painting

     - 25:30 - James channels Tina Fey

     - 27:00 - "Escher-esque", not derivative

     - 28:28 - No camping in compost

     - 30:00 - Internet lacks horror, Goya delivers

     - 30:24 - "Saturn Devouring His Son", Goya

     - 31:00 - Mythology is confusing

     - 33:48 - This is horror in painting

     - 35:17 - "The Third of May 1808", Goya

     - 36:10 - Back to Cinta, end on high note

     - 37:23 - Duc Vuong, MD on YouTube

     - 38:42 - Skewed risk perception

     - 39:32 - Dr. Kat Epidemiologist on TikTok

     - 40:42 - Staying in our bubbles

    41 min
  • Episode #17: Spooky Art

     - 00:10 - James goes to the doctor and gets sick

     - 02:18 - "Crap-tacular"

     - 02:28 - Happy October!

     - 03:00 - Chloe takes the sofa

     - 04:38 - Catherine's jumping chihuahua!

     - 06:28 - Cats and murder

     - 07:25 - Veterinarians are the best!

     - 08:17 - James is the wrong species

     - 09:42 - An appointment next year

     - 10:32 - Who does a doctor work for?

     - 12:42 - The laundry goes on and on

     - 13:43 - Marie Kondo who?

     - 14:28 - The "zero joy" sponge

     - 15:00 - "Capsule wardrobe" is the term

     - 17:27 - Everyone wants to smash Catherine's phone

     - 19:24 - Buried paintings and books

     - 19:44 - Subtle Heatstroke Podcast plug!

     - 19:48 - Taliban Twitter?

     - 21:10 - 1980's England "Crying Child" paintings

     - 21:43 - Well written "spooky" article

     - 22:48 - LED eyes

     - 24:52 - How do we make a spooky painting?

     - 26:10 - We are brains in vats

     - 26:36 - Algorithms and faces everywhere

     - 27:33 - People love spooky stuff

     - 28:14 - Danish museum wants its money back

     - 28:56 - 3000 Euros for "Kabul" time!

     - 30:06 - "Take The Money And Run"

     - 32:40 - Put your money where your clock is

     - 33:15 - Cleo barks

     - 33:32 - Cleo's walk of shame

    35 min
  • Episode #16: Buying Art Online

     - 00:14 - Life of a podcaster, always dull never off

     - 00:20 - Catherine had a container

     - 00:56 - Why are you looking at your phone?

     - 01:32 - Let's talk about the art!

     - 01:37 - Deconstructing the Arts Insider article

     - 01:45 - Finding the art online

     - 02:12 - Is invisible art hard art? Or just hard to understand?

     - 02:29 - Conning someone into buying your work?

     - 02:34 - This is worth $100. No $10,000!

     - 02:52 - $30k is so accessible

     - 03:15 - Prius is too small for Catherine's needs

     - 03:45 - Fred Flintstone and the Mustang

     - 03:49 - A Prius is definitely not a Mustang

     - 04:10 - Disintegrating Mustang, welcome to Ford

     - 04:24 - 2020 art market down, online buying up

     - 04:45 - No more galleries for James

     - 05:00 - Important to see the work in person

     - 05:25 - Jessica Silverman's "Hayal Pozanti"

     - 06:24 - Art interaction and energetic field

     - 08:40 - Art on Instagram

     - 09:10 - Revisiting "Virtual Phoestivus 2020"

     - 10:09 - Can't compete against Netflix!

     - 10:45 - Acceleration of pandemic trends

     - 12:36 - James is on Pixels.com

     - 14:42 - TikTok delivery experience

     - 15:05 - Pins are a big thing these days

     - 15:27 - Deconstructing the "unboxing thing"

     - 18:48 - NFTs and how collecting is different

     - 20:00 - Circling back to garbage "Art-ivists"

     - 22:15 - Tan Zi Xi's "Plastic Ocean"

     - 22:29 - "Disney-ification" of a message?

     - 24:17 - Recycled items are a medium vs activism

     - 26:00 - 40 year old copper pipe bracelets

     - 28:38 - Don't cancel James for this bad ideas

     - 28:56 - Soylent Green is people

     - 29:27 - Robert Bradford plastic sculpture

     - 31:27 - James is a "thing person"

     - 32:07 - Garbage vs collectible

     - 33:05 - Switchboard shelving unit

     - 34:30 - House flipping lessons learned

     - 35:18 - Salvaging old growth teak boxes

    37 min
  • Episode #15: Louise Nevelson
    WORKS

     - On paper

     - Awful print

     - Outdoor

     - Sky Cathedral

     - Column

    SHOW NOTES

     - 00:12 - Bacon forgeries

     - 01:18 - Is Colbert listening to SubRant?

     - 01:28 - Catherine eats 'fake' bacon

     - 02:30 - The "googling" of Rick Steves

     - 04:05 - Inspiration from garbage

     - 04:35 - Clothing landfills in Africa

     - 05:44 - Recycled clothing into art

     - 06:24 - Let's just talk about Louise Nevelson

     - 07:20 - Repeatedly pronouncing "assemblage"

     - 08:37 - Everyone is credited with influencing Abstract Expressionism

     - 08:46 - Deconstructing "The Scream" - A "really off" Van Gogh

     - 09:24 - Do you have an Xbox?

     - 10:25 - Honing endoscopy skills via Halo?

     - 10:45 - James's wife hides from the aliens

     - 11:05 - Catherine borders on nihilistic

     - 12:03 - Compelling monochromatic boxy work

     - 13:02 - Inspiration: Mannequins from garbage

     - 16:40 - Scale is everything

     - 17:30 - Protective patina of COR-TEN steel

     - 18:15 - Nevelson created her world

     - 19:48 - Vertical pieces, rhythm, "Seventh Decade Garden 9 & 10"

     - 20:21 - Master of Composition

     - 20:40 - Between interior design and fine art

     - 21:02 - The environment and rectilinear border

     - 21:22 - Can you really do this?

     - 21:37 - Some recycled "art" looks like garbage

     - 22:20 - Would take years to level up

     - 23:07 - New York was her palette

     - 23:20 - Art stores are overwhelming & sterile

     - 23:56 - James is drawn to found items

     - 24:30 - From the ground of Vegas parking lot

     - 25:10 - Boxes of stuff with no purpose

     - 25:21 - TikTok found object artist/geologist

     - 26:23 - James just wants to cut up graham cracker boxes

     - 26:40 - Saving Lays potato chip bags

     - 27:30 - Non-recyclable flexible plastic/metal food packaging

     - 29:00 - Palm tree torsos?

     - 29:55 - You need to get dirty for your art!

     - 30:24 - Rewinding to Nevelson

     - 30:40 - Comparing Nevelson to Rothko

     - 33:03 - Roots in Cubism

     - 33:27 - Diego Rivera, pre-Columbian influence

     - 34:07 - Representative of their time

     - 34:34 - Does gender-bias exist in art?

     - 35:15 - Art critic legends in our own minds

     - 35:27 - Thank you for listening!

     - 35:49 - "Assemblage" one more time

    37 min
  • Episode #14: Forgeries

     - 01:29- "Joining Plastic, Glass, and Metal On the Recycle List: Fake Art" (NY Times paywall)

     - 01:35 - It's not about recycling

     - 01:50 - Commas trigger James

     - 02:15 - Pretentious words trigger James

     - 03:25 - Art world vs elites vs the masses

     - 03:36 - Language as a weapon?

     - 03:45 - Catherine sums article up in seconds, but they will talk about it for 20 minutes

     - 04:00 - Most of the fake art is not destroyed

     - 04:10 - The only recycling is that fake pieces keep showing up for sale and authentication

     - 04:15 - If everyone is upset about forgeries, just destroy them!

     - 04:30 - Catalogues of fakes as teaching tools

     - 04:45 - If a piece has merits, does the author really matter?

     - 04:56 - "Tyranny of authorship"

     - 05:40 - Celebrate the work, not the author

     - 06:28 - Forged pieces are stamped, retained, and potentially resurface in art world

     - 07:58 - Deconstructing authentication

     - 08:54 - The case of the "thrift store Pollack"

     - 09:44 - It's a sleazy market

     - 10:00 - Once a forgery, always a forgery?

     - 10:55 - Bad stamp

     - 11:30 - James holds back re: Damien Hirst

     - 12:23 - Digression about makers' marks

     - 13:54 - The found piece will not be destroyed

     - 14:20 - Catherine has a knack!

     - 15:12 - Unanswered questions

     - 15:55 - Who authenticates the authenticator?

     - 17:00 - James proposes a "forgery registry", Catherine suggests putting a notch in it!

     - 19:12 - James approves NY Times web design

     - 20:10 - What bikinis?

     - 21:50 - Both Chagall's in article are forgeries

     - 23:05 - Just didn't get any vibes

     - 23:45 - Catherine proposes recycling ideas

     - 25:00 - Authenticator's opposing specialties: Egon Schiele vs Grandma Moses

     - 26:17 - Deconstructing the term "Folk Art"

     - 27:00 - The genius of Grandma Moses

     - 28:27 - Villeroy & Boch "Naif" pattern

     - 29:00 - The term Folk Art is purely marketing

     - 30:00 - Again, the work must stand on its own

     - 30:12 - Training does not beget great work

     - 31:50 - "Craft" is legit

     - 32:25 - Catherine "paints" with fibers

     - 32:43 - Affirmation is great

     - 33:45 - Was this an angry podcast?

     - 34:05 - Next week, Louise Nevelson and a discussion of "recycling" in art

    35 min

About SubRant

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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.