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- 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!
- 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"
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- On paper
- Awful print
- Outdoor
- Sky Cathedral
- Column
- 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
- 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
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