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About Paul: Paul Cristina was born in Cleveland, OH in August of 1983. Cristina’s work focuses on combining disparate aesthetics through the experimentation of various styles and mediums, while using drawing as a primary foundation for his development. He currently lives and works in South Carolina.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- The importance of having wholesome and creative relationships
- Paul getting his footing as a creative without a support community
- Working hourly wage jobs that took away from art as a full time practice
- Cristina's original pursuit of music
- How being a paramedic taught Cristina to maintain a presence of confidence and composure in all aspects of life
- Cristina's evolution from drawing with pen in sketchbooks to mixed media on large scale canvases
- Robert Rauschenberg's early influence on Cristina
- Turning points in Cristina's life that pushed him towards art
- Drawing both from imagination and from a deliberate effort to get better at drawing
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AD Non-Weekly Round Up #6 with Yoshino and guest John Wentz
Topics Discussed:
- “The Plant” an artist collective and residency based in The Netherlands co-founded by artist Daniel Martin
- Pondering life lessons
- Trying to be more positive
- Unconditional Love
- Utilizing gratitude in your daily practice
- Using organizational apps such as Google Keep, Evernote, Notion, and Trello in your daily practice
- Books: Mastery of Self and The Four Agreements
- Films, Documentaries, TV Shows: Brightburn, The Great Hack, Rashomon, Luce, Swamp Thing, Hereditary, Rosemary’s Baby
- Philosophers: Jean Baudrillard and Jean-François Lyotard
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About Marie: Marie Tomanova, born in former Czechoslovakia, Tomanova grew up in a small border town in South Moravia. She received BFA in Studio Art from Masaryk University in 2007 and MFA in Painting from Faculty of Fine Arts at University of Technology, Czech Republic in 2010. After finishing her studies she left to United States and currently lives and works in NYC.
Since then her work has changed dramatically in approach, mediums, and themes. She has been dealing with issues of displacement, identity, inclusivity, gender, and sexuality through photography and video in her current two main projects: photo-based Self-portraits, in which she address the issue of displacement and finding place in the American landscape and Young American, which was released as a solo show at Czech Center New York (2018) and addresses issues of displacement, belonging and fitting into the American landscape in a social aspect.
Paradigm Publishing will publish her first monograph Young American, with introduction by Ryan McGinley, in Spring 2019. A documentary following Marie’s journey is in making by Academy Award (student) winning director Marie Dvořáková and will be released in 2020. Young American will be exhibited at Academia Film Olomouc in April 2019 (Czech) and Pragovka Gallery in Prague in October 2019 (Czech).
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- How Marie met and started working with, photographer, Ryan McGinley
- Her experiences living and growing up in Czechoslovakia
- Her first experiences in an American grocery store and eating corn dogs for the first time
- How Marie started studying painting in university before she found her love for photography years later
- Her book, “Young American”
- Photographer: Francesca Woodman
https://www.instagram.com/marietomanova/
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About Julius: Julius Onah was born on February 10, 1983 in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. He is a producer and director, known for The Girl Is In Trouble (2015) and Luce (2019).
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Onah’s feature film that just launched entitled, Luce.
- How he started working with writer and collaborative partner, J.C. Lee
- Creating in isolation
- Tapping into the sub-conscious state of mind through physical activities
- Clarity of vision and intentionality
- Creating and pitching the right amount of controlled chaos
- Movies and Documentaries discussed: The Matrix, The Great Hack, Social_Animals, Jawline
- Writers discussed: Marshall Mcluhan and Tennessee Williams
- Akira Kurosawa (Director)
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AD Non-Weekly Round Up #5 with Yoshino and Saman Kesh
- Yoshino tearing his meniscus
- A music video that Saman Kesh and Justin Daashuur Hopkins directed with musicians, Meg & Dia
- Kesh’s struggles and realizations with ADD
- Serial killers
- Gore, violence, visceral films
- Video games: Resident Evil 2 Remake
- Music: Gogo Penguin, The Bad Plus
- Films and TV Shows talked about: Audition (1999), Blue Ruin (2013), Botched Up Bodies, Friends, Irreversible (2002), Luce (2019), Midsommar (2019), Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019), Toy Story 4 (2019)
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