Yelling at concrete

This week I get to chat to an enigma. Comic artist of 'The other end comics' Neil Kohney has been popping up on my instagram feed for a while and no doubt you have seen his work! He create comic strips which subvert expectation and jump from extreme to extreme.

Wanting to know more about them and the man behind the rats. I reached out to talk, subversive art, the nineties styling in the work but also how to keep an audience engaged and guessing. So come join us on the creative journey and learn how to write comics, form working relationships and grow your own work!

Find Neil

https://www.instagram.com/neilkohney

https://www.patreon.com/TheOtherEnd

https://tinyview.com/the-other-end

https://www.reddit.com/user/neilkohney/

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This week I sit down to talk about you! Finding and audience for your work can be hard and everyone and their aunty is out there telling you how to build and grow your views and clicks. So this week I sit down to talk about the other side of it.

What about the fear of actually having one? Being held to account and needing to be kept in line because your audience begins dictating what you can and cannot make? I think this is something which stops artists and even myself promoting our work to the nth degree as we worry about losing that freedom to just make.

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This week i sit down with NY based musician, artist, creator and overall legend which is  @ItsKavi . Who I met a couple years back and has in the last few months become quickly someone I wanted to collaborate with and get to know more.

Kevin or Kavi as he's known is a ball of creation working in improvisational word play, music and visual art and really shares a lot of ethics when it comes to making art that I do which is great to find and why I wanted to catch up with him in the first place. So this week we sit down to talk art, how to progress, how to grow and how to stop stunting your own creations before your even begin.

You can check out his work here:

https://www.instagram.com/kavi.tv/

https://www.youtube.com/@ItsKavi

https://itskavi.com/

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This week we talk money and how the in reality these investments in art "art" are really short sighted financially. By alienating the creative user base companies are going to quickly find themselves in the process of needing unique ideas. Something AI cannot generate without theft.

There is also the question of financial return. If you invest a few thousand in an art art engine and then need people to maintain and manufacture within it you're going to quickly get replicated, packaged and need to work near constantly to stay ahead but what happens if you spend a couple grand on an individual? So make a one off? To make a unique piece you can profit on for hundreds of years?

Lets talk about that.

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This week i sit down with good friend of mine Emma Louhglin! Emma and I have known each other for a few years now and actually did the terrible dangerous thing of chatting via the internet first when i was streaming throughout the pandemic! Turns out we ended up living in the same area but she is in her own right a talented marketing manager working in New York within the music scene!

With a history in small music and big music we often chat about bands and the direction of labels and media so we thought we'd finally take a moment to sit and do a deep dive on it and ask what the kids think of art. How Gen Z are getting their beginnings with no managers, no publicists and no venues to play and how getting started with Art can sometimes be the biggest challenge!

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This week we focus on the big questions the non trivial internet answers. What happens when your mind is so focused on small arguments that you expunge your energy and thoughts into the simple idea of putting a fruit on a pie?

I tend not to get dragged into internet arguments, even in real life i avoid these kinds of asks because I have other things to focus on. Bigger questions I want answers too like Just where is Carmen Sandiego. So lets explore. Explore the energy you spend on the correct pronunciation of Scone, the idea of Pineapple on Pizza and who makes the best bagel and instead just say ok. Now lets move on.

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This week i sit down with the highly recommended Bob Cronin! Bob is a multimedia artist and creator which an in-depth knowledge of life and experience which is fascinating. The voice and host behind  @rocdocs  with Dennis Ball a talking tennis ball he's also a creator of mash up masterwork the Beastles back when he was under the title dj BC.

This was a great opportunity to talk about DIY culture and the ethics behind creation of homage as well as legal ramifications and how some projects are simply worth the passion. It's nice to get to chat to a like mind and through Bob we share alot of the same ideals when it comes to making and experiencing work!

If you want to check out Bobs work please do and also consider picking up a MUG which is designed by 12 year old artist Bowrie

- Subscribe to ROCK DOCS with Dennis Ball: https://www.youtube.com/@rocdocs

- Buy The Blueberry Mug Bob is drinking from

(designed by a 12 year old artist Bowrie)

https://bowries-shop.printify.me/product/6166920/blueberry-guy-mug

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During a very recent solo podcast I talking about how the internet had become gentrified and in a world of online subscriptions, ad block and internet gate keeping we were in a different age. And Along with that I had another thought.

Can you gentrify a human being? A mind? A thought? It's something I believe I've witnessed. Something where those who didn't have money no longer appreciate the simple idea of the free item or the low cost option because the price tag had made it worthless to them.

So lets pick that scab a little more and ask. Can you gentrify a mind?

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This week we break new ground with the most people I've ever had on an episode on an episode!

I'm hanging out with local New York based band  @PostageTramps . Comprised of members : Tristan, Julian, Sophia and Akshay they have been doing what artists do best and finding their sound and space within NYC. That's not an easy route to take especially in NY and with online spaces dominating new music. But I think they are talented and lovely people so figured we should talk to them.

So we sit down to talk, the industry, Live shows vs online, Billy Joel and where an new indie band finds themselves in an ever changing online space when they are just getting started. If you're in NY I suggest giving them a follow and checking them out they are often playing and if you're not give them a listen on the various platforms.

find more of them

https://postagetramps.neocities.org/

https://soundcloud.com/postagetramps

https://www.instagram.com/postagetramps/

https://www.youtube.com/@PostageTramps

https://www.youtube.com/@PostageTramps

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This week I get a little nostalgic. I get a little reminiscent and I get a little honest about how I was a few weeks back.

The older internet was a free place but not completely free. But it was just enough that you could find random spaces and hang out there with no need to buy anything or watch an advert or even pay attention because they couldn't even collect your details!

So lets sit down and talk about that and how slowly but surely they are gentrifying the internet.

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Spotify

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