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Artist Decoded by Yoshino

"I started this series as a means for exploration, an exploration of self, and an exploration of the perspectives of other artists. This series is an unabridged documentation of conversations between artists. It’s a series dedicated to breaking down the barriers we tend to set up in our own minds. I want to inspire future creatives to have the courage to explore and experiment. This is about making dreams a reality and not about letting our dreams fall to the wayside. My intention is to give my audience a sense of real human connection, something that feels rich and organic. When I was thinking of a title I thought of the word “movement”. In relation to the Renaissance period in art, my goal for this program is to signify a rebirth of consciousness towards the way we look at contemporary art." - Yoshino (@yoshinostudios)
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Sep 4, 2023

Internationally acclaimed, prominent contemporary artist and social media Influencer; Dan Lam is an artist based out of Texas, US. Lam’s sculptural work expresses and plays with sensational dichotomies by combining unconventional materials, organic forms, and bright colors. With contrasting themes verging on beauty and grotesqueness at once, Lam’s art provokes its viewers to ponder meaning and existence while inspiring feelings of familiarity and wonder. Curiosity, play, and fun are the foundation of where Lam’s work begins. Her experimentation results in beautiful sculptures created with various materials such as foams, polyurethanes, resins, acrylics, and polymers, which defines her style. She has exhibited worldwide, and celebrity clients include Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, The Game, and Lily Aldridge. Notable art collectors, such as the Tisch family, have acquired her work. In addition, Lam has collaborated with prominent companies, including Facebook and Virgin, and renowned art producers, Meow Wolf. Her pieces have been featured in Architectural Digest, Travel and Leisure, and Forbes, amongst many other international media outlets.

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Jun 23, 2023

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Yoshino’s short story “The Inner Symphony” can be read at Yoshino’s Diary on Substack.

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Jun 12, 2023

Christine Kuan is President & Executive Director of Creative Capital, a nonprofit grantmaking organization funding artists creating experimental and groundbreaking new work in the visual arts, performing arts, film, technology, literature, socially engaged, and multidisciplinary forms. Before joining Creative Capital, Kuan was CEO & Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and held roles as Chief Curator & Director of Strategic Partnerships at Artsy, Chief Curatorial Officer & VP for External Affairs at Artstor, and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Art Online/Grove Art Online at Oxford University Press. She has also worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught at the University of Iowa, Peking University, Rutgers University, and Stanford University Arts Leadership program. Kuan holds an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in Art History and English Literature from Rutgers University.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Intuition (0:09:49)
  • How Creative Capital fosters the careers of multi-disciplinary artists (00:13:43)
  • How Creative Capital supports diversity and equality within the arts (00:16:30)
  • How Creative Capital is often the first organization to fund artists (00:21:18)
  • The “Wild Futures” grant cycle (00:22:23)
  • Jordan Weber’s “4 MX” project (00:25:11)
  • Early funded projects including Lynn Hershman Leeson‘s “Women Art Revolution” (00:28:08)
  • Christine encourages people to pursue a career in the arts (00:33:24)
  • Creating harmony between the arts and institutions (00:36:18)
  • Focusing our attention towards quality time and experiences (00:40:11)
  • How artists are selected by Creative Capital (00:48:36)
  • Christine’s advice for artists and creatives (00:58:04)

Books Referenced:

  • “Deep Work” by Cal Newport
  • “The Kybalion” by The Three Initiates

People Mentioned:

  • James Baldwin
  • Angela Merkel
  • Spike Lee
  • Jibz Cameron
  • Titus Kaphar
  • Cassils
  • Jordan Weber
  • Jesse Krimes
  • Lynn Hershman Leeson
  • Samora Pinderhughes
  • Simone Leigh
  • Lorraine O'Grady

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Jun 5, 2023

Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. He is the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America, One Simple Idea, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, Uncertain Places, and the forthcoming Modern Occultism. Mitch hosted, co-wrote, and produced a feature documentary about the occult classic The Kybalion directed by Emmy-nominee Ronni Thomas and shot on location in Egypt. The movie premiered as the #3 documentary on iTunes. Mitch plays a newscaster in the forthcoming Paramount feature thriller My Animal directed by Jacqueline Castel, an official selection of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Mitch’s books have been translated into French, Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Portuguese. His work is censored in China.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Mitch’s currently unreleased book, “Modern Occultism” (00:04:33)
  • Mitch’s concept, “The Ten Day Miracle Challenge” (00:07:00)
  • Having an obsessive intellect (00:09:53)
  • Nurturing one’s intrinsic nature (00:11:19)
  • Positive lessons Mitch learned while working in publishing (00:13:41)
  • Learning from suffering (00:17:17)
  • Emotions informing memories (00:20:31)
  • Anton Lavey’s teachings (00:24:03)
  • Truth comes in the form of a lie - G. I. Gurdjieff (00:26:34)
  • Finding one’s personal truth (00:31:49)
  • The films of Ruben Östlund (00:35:19)
  • “The Wish Machine” in Andrei Tarkovsky‘s film Stalker (00:38:39)
  • The effects of technological information overload and Anton Lavey’s “The Augmentive Principle” (00:42:32)
  • Fear and a wish being one and the same (00:47:27)
  • Building character through difficult situations (00:54:23)
  • Mitch’s fascination with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff (00:57:09)
  • Separating the art from the artist (00:59:42)
  • Limiting judgments against others (01:06:38)

Books Referenced:

  • Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
  • Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
  • The Third Mind (Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs)

Films / TV Shows Referenced:

  • The Square
  • Force Majore
  • Stalker
  • Anti-Christ
  • The Last Ship
  • The Last of Us
  • Alone

People Mentioned:

  • Jacqueline Castel
  • Carlos Castaneda
  • Jack Parsons
  • Brion Gysin
  • William S. Burroughs
  • G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Vernon Howard
  • Ruben Östlund
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Anton Lavey
  • Emily St. John Mandel
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Napolean Hill
  • Grant Morrison
  • Alan Moore

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Apr 11, 2023

Cj Hendry (b. 1988) is a New York-based artist originally from Brisbane, Australia. Hendry transforms her fascination with contemporary material culture into large-scale, hyper-photorealistic drawings. Cj Hendry’s exhibits aren’t intended to be passively observed but, rather, actively experienced through engaging, fun, and thought-provoking exhibits. For her exhibit Monochrome, Hendry and her team built an entire multi-room “home” inside a warehouse with each room entirely monochrome-colored from floor to ceiling and everything in between. For Rorschach, guests jumped through a gigantic bouncy house maze in order to reach and finally view the impressive series. Each Cj Hendry exhibit, from Miami to Melbourne, draws massive crowds with attendees waiting in line for several hours - and, in the end, everyone leaves more enriched than when they arrived. With her celebrity clientele – and many works in private collections - Hendry’s waitlist is now well over 3,000 collectors with a wait time of up to five years to get their hands on a piece.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • CJ’s mindset shift after university (00:03:41)
  • The beginning of CJ’s art practice (00:06:35)
  • What led to CJ’s first sale (00:08:32)
  • The 10,000-hour rule (00:12:49)
  • Creating great concepts and ideas (00:10:46)
  • Success leading to complacency (00:13:59)
  • Her recent project “Cheese” (00:18:28)
  • Thoughts on losing fire and passion over time (00:20:37)
  • Sustaining a playful mentality (00:23:58)
  • Valuable lessons learned creating an art business (00:26:54)
  • CJ’s “Copyright Infringement” series (00:37:22)
  • CJ’s decision to not work with a manager (00:42:33)
  • AI art (00:46:38)
  • Her upcoming exhibition “Plaid” (00:52:27)

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Apr 7, 2023

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Yoshino’s short story “And Then Awoke The Butterfly” can be read at Yoshino’s Diary on Substack.

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Apr 6, 2023

Brett Amory’s multidisciplinary practice is based on the intersection of quotidian and habitual engagements with the everyday world. His works consider moments of visual perception that precede interpretation. Working primarily in painting and installation, he uses the ordinary as a vehicle for extending the familiar into the realms of the unfamiliar.

His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; and de Young Museum, San Francisco.

Brett Amory earned an MFA from Stanford University and a BFA from the Academy of Arts
University. He lives and works in Oakland California.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Introduction (00:00:00)
  • Brett’s introduction to art through skateboarding (00:11:42)
  • Using experiences to inform one’s creative process (00:21:45)
  • Honing into instincts (00:26:27)
  • Being challenged to draw better (00:30:22)
  • The combination of aesthetics and meaning (00:37:35)
  • The evolution of Brett’s work over the course of 25 years (00:41:33)
  • “The Waiting Series” (00:43:33)
  • Getting his MFA @ Stanford (00:48:31)
  • Conclusions Brett has come to after completing his MFA @ Stanford (00:51:23)
  • What the MFA application process is like @ Stanford (00:56:47)
  • Phenomenology (01:01:08)
  • Brett’s recent work regarding duality and technology (01:04:00)
  • Stoicism (01:09:40)
  • GANs / AI (01:12:27)

Artists / People Mentioned:

  • William Strobeck (Skateboard Film Director)
  • George Romero  (Director)
  • Marshall McLuhan (Writer)
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Philosopher)
  • Paul Cézanne (Painter)
  • René Descartes (Philosopher)
  • Martin Heidegger (Philospher)

Books Mentioned:

  • Techgnosis (Erik Davis)
  • The Singularity is Nearer (Ray Kurzweil)

Article Read In Episode Intro:
"What is Embodiment? Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of the Body" by Moses May-Hobbs

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Mar 27, 2023

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Yoshino’s essay “Wandering and Wondering” can be read at Yoshino’s Diary on Substack.

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Mar 17, 2023

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Topics Discussed:

  • Living with love and compassion (00:07:48)
  • The journey into understanding (00:11:56)
  • Making impactful decisions (00:15:27)
  • Yoshino’s creative life (00:19:41)
  • Manifesting future outcomes (00:25:35)
  • Napolean Hill’s concept, “The Definite Chief Aim” (00:27:51)
  • The psychology of money (00:32:02)
  • Yoshino’s life as a martial artist (00:36:07)
  • Breaking through a consensus trance (00:42:00)
  • Toxic productivity (00:50:53)
  • Seeking balance (00:53:21)
  • Yoshino’s recent revelations (00:59:06)

Artists / People Mentioned:

  1. Mac Miller (Rapper)
  2. Thundercat (Singer/Songwriter/Bassist)
  3. Michel Legrand (Composer)
  4. Mitch Horowitz (Writer)
  5. Phoebe Bridgers (Singer/Songwriter)
  6. Justin Daashuur Hopkins (Director/Artist)
  7. Erik Davis (Writer)
  8. Charles Bukowski (Writer)
  9. Jack Kerouac (Writer)
  10. William S Burroughs (Writer)
  11. Aldous Huxley (Writer)

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Mar 9, 2023

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Topics Discussed:

  • Dealing with negative thoughts and emotions
  • Yoshino’s perspective shifting while running
  • “Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu
  • Living in a productivity-focused world
  • Giving ourselves permission to step deeper into ourselves
  • Sufi mysticism
  • Thich Nhat Hanh

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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Feb 6, 2023

Raymond Lee stars as Dr. Ben Song on the new NBC drama “Quantum Leap.” Ben is a brilliant quantum physicist leaping through time to put right what once went wrong. Lee also stars in the AMC series “Kevin Can F*** Himself,” which begins its second season Aug. 22.

Previously, he was a series regular on Alan Ball’s HBO series “Here and Now.” Additional recurring roles include the HBO Max series “Made for Love,” Fox’s “Prodigal Son,” Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” and ABC’s “Scandal.” On the film side, he is currently appearing in the box office smash “Top Gun: Maverick.”

Theater credits include the world premiere productions of “Vietgone” at Manhattan Theater Club, for which he was awarded the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Debut; “Office Hour,” opposite Sandra Oh, and “Cambodian Rock Band” at the South Coast Repertory.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Raymond and Yoshino being Cal State Long Beach alums (00:06:31)
  • Raymond dropping out of high school and how that affected him psychologically while growing up (00:07:27)
  • Problems with the education system (00:010:05)
  • Finding a love for performance in his youth (00:13:07)
  • Discovering acting through theatre and deciding to become a professional actor while he was in college (00:14:49)
  • Raymond’s approach to acting (00:18:37)
  • The importance of having discipline and maintaining solid habits (00:22:53)
  • Embodying characters and manifesting roles (00:25:59)
  • Yoshino shares a personal story highlighting the impact art can have on its viewers (00:36:05)
  • The impact art has made on Raymond’s life (00:39:02)
  • The Kybalion and embracing polarities (00:43:56)
  • The Rashomon Effect (00:47:32)
  • Manifesting goals (00:51:18)
  • Honing into and practicing intuition (00:59:22)
  • Raymond and Yoshino speaking about acquiring skill sets (01:10:56)
  • Final words of advice from Raymond (01:22:11)

Artists / People Mentioned:

  • Sandra Oh (Actor)
  • Joseph Lee (Painter / Actor)
  • Akira Kurosawa (Film Director)
  • Rubens Charles Cobrinha (BJJ Practioner)

Books Mentioned:

  • The Kybalion

Films / TV Series Mentioned:

  • Dopesick (2021)
  • Rashomon (1950)

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Dec 17, 2022

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Topics Discussed:

  • Making good use of your observations
  • The cop-out of not feeling inspired
  • Observing people’s body language and the way they treat animals
  • Yoshino’s perspective on street photography
  • The artist’s duty
  • “Our hearts all beat for something.” - Yoshino
  • Following one’s own personal interests
  • Being honest with one’s self
  • The Daemon
  • Building one’s perspective

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Dec 13, 2022

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Topics Discussed:

  • Questioning illusions
  • Envying what others have
  • Finding a deeper understanding of ourselves
  • Brutal honesty with oneself
  • Dealing with trauma
  • Healing
  • Building your intuitive muscle
  • Being conscious of what we give our time to
  • Writing from a place of honesty
  • Embracing paradoxes

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Dec 7, 2022

Elly Smallwood is a figurative and portrait artist living in Canada. She works primarily in acrylics and oils.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Elly moving from Ottawa to the woods
  • The energetic differences she notices between living in a city versus being in the woods
  • Modern-day false prophets and gurus
  • The power of questioning dogmatic principles
  • Art capitalism
  • Trying to seek balance in the need to live a peaceful life, while simultaneously wanting to seek progression in one’s career
  • Elly’s experiences working with galleries
  • Growth through vulnerability
  • Her perspective of creating portraits of other people in contrast to creating portraits of herself
  • Model vs. muse
  • Elly’s bone collection
  • Tarot and its influence on Elly’s artwork
  • The Hermit and The Tower in the Major Arcana in Tarot
  • Elly training Muay Thai
  • Working through uncomfortable experiences

Artists / People Mentioned:

  • Nina Menkes (Film Director)

Books Mentioned:

  • The Richest Man In Babylon (George Samuel Clason)
  • The Kybalion (Three Initiates)
  • The Vegetarian (Han Kang)

Films / TV Series Mentioned:

  • Wild Wild Country
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Brainwashed: Sex, Camera, Power

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Nov 8, 2022

With the release of Black Magnet’s debut album ‘Hallucination Scene’ in 2020 a new Industrial Metal power emerged from the unlikely landscape of Oklahoma City. After anxiously waiting out the pandemic Black Magnet returned to the road in late 2021 and has now dropped ‘Body Prophecy’ the second full-length burst of machine-driven mayhem and electronic deviance.

On ‘Body Prophecy’ mastermind, James Hammontree welds the frenetic vitality of post-punk and metal energy with driving synthetic club beats, factory force physicality, and alluringly stark melodic pulses. Tracks like ‘Floating in Nothing’ and ‘Violent Mechanix’ feature both intensely catchy hooks and hammering brutal noise. ‘Sold Me Sad’ is a quietly deranged lullaby that takes an atmospheric turn. The throbbing drug-addled lurch of the Manson / Reznor-esque ‘Incubate’ is, at the end of the album, treated to a completely re-imagined and extended club-style remix by scene legend Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Zonal, etc).

For all its harsher, scraping atmospheres and pummeling aggression ‘Body Prophecy’ always remains an eminently tight, memorable album molded for the stage and constructed to keep bodies in motion and listeners transfixed.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • How The Kybalion impacted James’s life/creative practice
  • Hermeticism and the 7 Hermetic principles
  • Folklore behind “Ring Around The Rosie”
  • Draxler’s visual contribution to Black Magnet’s newest album “Body Prophecy”
  • Recording “Body Prophecy” during the early stages of the pandemic
  • James working with Justin K Broadrick
  • Suffering through challenging material to grow one’s creative perspective
  • Looking past genres to develop a deeper relationship with artworks
  • Tapping into your highest vibration, frequency, and energy
  • Creating art with absolute honesty
  • Embracing the paradox
  • Transforming negative outlooks into positive perspectives
  • “The Pregnant Void” in Taoism

Artists / People Mentioned:

  • Salvador Dalí (Surrealist Painter)
  • Francis Bacon (Painter)
  • Max Ernst (Surrealist Painter)
  • Mitch Horowitz (Author / Occult Historian)
  • Jay Cheel (Director)
  • Andrei Tarkovsky (Director)
  • Alejandro Jodorosky (Director)
  • David Lynch (Director)
  • Alan Watts (Writer)

Bands / Musicians Mentioned:

  • Justin K. Broadrick
  • Godflesh
  • Jesu
  • Vatican Shadow
  • Killing Joke
  • The Birthday Party
  • Big Black
  • Meshuggah
  • Blood Incantation
  • Greg Puciato

Books Mentioned:

  • The Kybalion
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • The Occult: A History
  • Man, Myth, and Magic Series
  • The Hellbound Heart
  • I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Films / TV Series Mentioned:

  • Midsommar
  • Cursed Films
  • Serpent and the Rainbow
  • Twilight Zone Movie
  • The Birds
  • The Exorcist
  • Poltergeist
  • Stalker
  • Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
  • Hereditary
  • The Witch
  • The Crow
  • The Wizard of OZ
  • Weeds
  • Hellraiser

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Oct 30, 2022

Oliver Johnson aka Dorian Concept will release his new album What We Do For Others on 28th October on Brainfeeder Records. It’s the third studio album by the Austrian producer and synthesizer savant, famed for his singular, beautifully detailed sonic tapestries and wild, utterly joyful live keyboard jam videos.

What We Do For Others is a relaxed, quietly confident and intimate record, founded on delightfully loose arrangements, feedbacked soundscapes and blessed with snatches of cryptic vocals that are presented more as additional instrumentation rather than lyrical phrases. All the elements and layers were recorded without interruptions and deliberately not edited. “I think that's why this record has something of a ‘band sound’” says Oliver. “It's me playing all kinds of different key- instruments, singing and using fx-units to create these freeform compositions.”

The title came to Oliver in a dream and stuck with him. “One thing I often find interesting about my creative process is that when I believe to be making something that others could like, it tends to not really connect with people,” he says. “Whereas when I get to that special place and just work from my gut – the music tends to often speak to the outside world naturally.”

Johnson says that he tried questioning his internal voice of self-judgment and temper his constant urge for improvement during the making of the album.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Dorian’s earliest memories of being introduced to music through film soundtracks such as Batman Returns (1992)
  • Sound synthesis
  • The earliest influences on Dorian
  • Dorian being influenced by Dj Spinna’s “Heavy Beats Vol. 2” in his youth
  • Experimenting and improvising with Micro Korgs
  • Dorian learning how to play the piano around the age of 6
  • Prepared piano
  • The importance of having teachers that can nurture one’s individual creativity
  • Connections between music and video games
  • 8 to 16-bit music used in early console games
  • Psychedelics
  • Set and setting
  • Questioning one’s perspective on using time
  • The intentionality of decisions made throughout one’s life
  • The compulsion for creating art
  • Dorian’s reasons for choosing to become a professional artist
  • His new album “What We Do For Others”
  • His track, Survival Instinct being the “heartpiece” of his album
  • Drawing parallels between creating a sculpture and creating music
  • Presenting complex points of view to a wider audience
  • Commercialization vs. arthouse creations
  • Breaking rules and questioning the process
  • Paradigm shifts in one’s own unique consciousness
  • Dorian creating lo-fi music videos for himself with the use of archival footage and processed through Blender

Artists Mentioned:

  • Dimlite (Musician)
  • Mike Slott (Musician)
  • Tupac (Rapper)
  • DJ Spinna (DJ)
  • John Coletrain (Saxophonist)
  • Edgard Varès (Composer)
  • Aphex Twin (Musician)
  • Little Snake (Musician)

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Oct 20, 2022

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Discrimination against women in the film industry
  • The Weinstein investigation
  • 94% of women working in the film industry experiencing sexual assault
  • How film objectifies women through the use of camera angles, camera movement, and lighting techniques
  • Updating the narrative point of view
  • Predatory perspectives within filmmaking
  • Portraying love and intimacy in film in more nuanced ways
  • Addressing the male gaze
  • The need for more government funding for the arts in the U.S.

Artists / People Mentioned:

  • Iyabo Kwayana (Cinematographer)
  • Jeffrey Martin Zacks (Psychologist)
  • Sandra De Castro Buffington (Producer)
  • Catherine Hardwicke (Filmmaker)
  • Laura Mulvey (Film Theorist)
  • Eliza Hittman (Filmmaker)
  • Werner Herzog (Director)
  • Claire Denis (Director)

Films Mentioned:

  • Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
  • Sleeping Beauty (1959)
  • Blonde (2022)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
  • Titane (2021)
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

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Oct 3, 2022

Louis Cole is a singer-songwriter and sickeningly talented multi-instrumentalist with a strong DIY aesthetic from Los Angeles, California. He is on a mission to create deep feelings through music and is the figurehead of an LA jazz-adjacent scene that includes Genevieve Artadi (with whom Cole co-founded the alt pop / electrofunk band KNOWER in 2009), Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes, Jacob Mann, Dennis Hamm, Pedro Martins and more. He will release his new album “Quality Over Opinion” on 14th October 2022 on Brainfeeder Records.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • What initially attracted Louis to wanting to become a musician
  • Olfactory memories
  • How Louis approaches creating music now
  • Louis’s love for harmony and chord progressions
  • Musical gifts from the universe
  • Louis’s daily routines
  • The multiple albums Louis has coming out including a collaboration with Metropole Orkest in Holland
  • Louis’s wide range of eclectic musical taste
  • His experiences going to USC for music school

Artists Mentioned:

  • Frédéric Chopin (Composer)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer)
  • Bill Evans (Pianist)
  • Gil Evans (Pianist)
  • James Brown (Singer / Performer)
  • Stevie Wonder (Singer-Songwriter)
  • Igor Stravinsky (Composer)
  • Genevieve Artadi (Jazz Musician)
  • Thundercat (Singer-Songwriter / Bassist)
  • Sam Gendel (Musician)
  • Blake Mills (Musician)
  • Pino Palladino (Musician)
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel (Jazz Guitarist)
  • Meshuggah (Band)
  • Gustav Mahler (Composer)
  • Skrillex (DJ)
  • Doug Mosher (Saxophonist)
  • Keith Jarrett (Composer / Pianist)

Video Games Mentioned:

  • Mario Kart
  • Starfox
  • Streets of Rage

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instagram.com/louiscolemusic

Aug 29, 2022

Joseph Lee is an actor & self-taught artist who studies faces and the emotions that inhabit them. Lee focuses on the parallels between external reality and the internal process by manipulating everyday faces and objects through segmented brush strokes, color choice, and volume, converging them into a complete and balanced whole.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Joseph Lee’s upcoming solo exhibit opening at GR Gallery in NYC on September 8, 2022
  • The importance of taking care of one’s own mental health
  • Examining the origin of pain and trauma
  • Joey moving to LA to pursue acting
  • The moment when he decided to become a painter
  • Potency in making decisive and guttural decisions
  • Spiritual connection through art
  • Having an insatiable curiosity of people
  • His currently unreleased Netflix show “Beef” (starring David Choe, Steven Yeun, Patti Yasutake, Ali Wong)
  • Utilizing gratitude prayers and journaling
  • Simplifying one’s life to help alleviate anxiety
  • Reconnecting and remembering our child self
  • Challenging our needs for external validations
  • Fighting against jadedness

Artists Mentioned:

  • Marie-Louise von Franz (Psychologist)
  • Martha Graham (Choreographer)

Books Mentioned:

  • The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi)

Podcasts Mentioned:

Films Mentioned:

  • The Godfather Trilogy
  • Paterson (2016)

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instagram.com/joeyunlee

Aug 22, 2022

The long arc of Joshua Hagler's oeuvre, with its focus on painting, could be traced by its slow, physical and conceptual disintegration - of it's imagery, politics, art historical underpinnings, and philosophical erudition - from its early pictorial messaging to a need, in more recent years, for direct physical experience of the numinous. Material layering is at the core of Hagler's work, combining a range of self-developed painting processes which force a loss of skilled control, making for radical pictorial transformation. The works situates itself in the paradox of absence and presence, the internal and external, and the sacred and profane.

Whatever research occurs with regard to issues such as mass shooting, wildfires, and religiosity in America, only demonstrates itself to the degree that it's relevant to the artist's own background and direct life experience. The personal is thus foregrounded and given preference over academic defenses, which are subverted at every opportunity. Hagler's distinct signature manages to span paintings both physically slight and vast, figurative and abstract. The work is intentional about avoiding redundancy common in an era of self-conscious branding, preferring endless evolution, while seeking to ground itself in deeper authenticity over time.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • The Tenets of Nihil
  • Exile & Absence (The Archaic Brother) - The first tenet of Nihil
  • The reasons why Josh moved from California to New Mexico in 2017
  • Paradoxes
  • Private vs. public conversations
  • Arvo Pärt’s compositional style, “tintinnabuli”
  • Josh’s observations in abandoned spaces throughout New Mexico
  • Believing in consciousness
  • Axis Mundi
  • Patterns emerging out of observations
  • The Archaic Brother
  • How being a father has given him a deeper meaning and appreciation for life
  • The role meditation has played in his life

Artists Mentioned:

  1. Ruben Östlund (Director)
  2. Arvo Pärt (Composer)
  3. Mark Rothko (Painter)
  4. Aja Daashuur (Medium)

Books Mentioned:

  1. The Daemon (Anthony Peake)
  2. The Seat of the Soul (Gary Zukav)

Films Mentioned:

  1. The Square (2017)
  2. Force Majeure (2014)

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joshuahagler.com
instagram.com/haglerjosh

Aug 17, 2022

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Topics Discussed:

  • Channeling the muse
  • Seeking the higher self
  • Questioning one’s own intentions and motivations
  • Journaling

Artists Mentioned:

  • Anthony Peake (Writer)
  • Gary Zukav (Writer)
  • Carl Jung (Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst)
  • Michael Pollan (Writer)
  • Margaret Atwood (Writer)

Books Mentioned:

  1. The Seat of the Soul (Gary Zukav)
  2. The Daemon (Anthony Peake)
  3. Caffeine (Michael Pollan)

Yoshino’s Links:
yoshinostudios.com
instagram.com/yoshinostudios
twitter.com/yoshinostudios

Aug 5, 2022

AJA, The Spirit Guide Coach, is a spiritual counselor who specializes in connecting you with the guidance and wisdom of your unique Spiritual team.

The advice from your Spirit Guides is incorporated into AJA’s intuitive coaching process in order to help you create a plan for breaking negative patterns, finding your path, and accepting the love and support that your Guides surround you with every single day.

As the bridge between you and your Guides, AJA considers this to be sacred work and is honored to help those who wish to deepen their connection with their higher self and learn to love themselves on a deeper level.

Spirit Guide Life Coaching is an incredibly intimate and rewarding process that allows you to hear the advice and support that your Guides wish to offer you.

AJA is a true believer in the innate power every person has to achieve radical expansion through self-love.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Aja’s experiences in mediumship and channeling spirits
  • Losing connection with ourselves
  • Children being closer to the source
  • Daily distractions of the modern era and the connection to feeling disconnected from oneself
  • What led Aja to her personal spiritual awakening
  • Her experiences speaking with her spirit guides
  • Connecting to our higher self
  • How people can connect with their guides through meditation
  • The importance of journaling
  • Tapping into one’s own psychic abilities
  • Creation and destruction
  • Making the right decisions for ourselves
  • The most rewarding things about being a medium
  • Embodying archetypes
  • Actions precipitating change
  • Not repeating negative patterns that can hold us back

Books Mentioned:

  1. The Body Keeps The Score (Bessel van der Kolk)
  2. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (Clarissa Pinkola Estés)

Films and TV Shows Mentioned:

  1. Ghosts (2021)
  2. Hereditary (2018)

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thespiritguidecoach.com
instagram.com/thespiritguidecoach

Jul 23, 2022

Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Topics Discussed:

  • Thinking about habits as a necessity, similar to breathing
  • The idea of the Daemon (or Daimon)
  • Being a vessel for creative energy to flow through you
  • Channeling ourselves to our intuition
  • “Everyone is a hero in their birth.” - Otto Rank

Artists Mentioned:

  • Marie-Louise von Franz (Psychologist)
  • Philip K. Dick (Author)
  • Otto Rank (Philosopher)

Books Mentioned:

  1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)
  2. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero (Otto Rank)

Yoshino’s Links:
yoshinostudios.com
instagram.com/yoshinostudios
twitter.com/yoshinostudios

Jul 20, 2022

Natalie Goldberg is the author of fifteen books, including Writing Down the Bones (Shambhala, 1986), which has sold over one million copies, has been translated into fourteen languages, and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Natalie’s first book, “Chicken and In Love” (1979)
  • Being afraid of both success and failure before her book, “Writing Down The Bones,” came out in 1986
  • Having thin values
  • “I shop therefore I am.” - Barbara Kruger
  • Consuming vs. finding meaning
  • Natalie writing two books while undergoing treatment for cancer
  • Accepting suffering
  • Thinking about one’s legacy
  • Zen Buddhism
  • “Writing closes the gap between who you think you are and who you are.” - Natalie Goldberg
  • What writing has revealed to Natalie
  • “Make this moment an occasion to live deeply, happily in peace.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Managing discursive thoughts
  • The pros and cons of the advent of the interview
  • The art of haiku writing

People Mentioned:

  1. Margaret Atwood (Writer)
  2. Amy Tan (Writer)
  3. Katagiri Roshi (Sōtō Zen Priest and Teacher)
  4. Lidia Yuknavitch (Writer)
  5. Barbara Kruger (Artist)
  6. Joan Didion (Writer)
  7. Viktor Frankl (Neurologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher, Writer)
  8. Carson McCullers (Writer)
  9. Thich Nhat Hanh (Monk)
  10. Masaoka Shiki (Poet)

Books Mentioned That Natalie Goldberg Wrote:

  1. Chicken and In Love
  2. Writing Down The Bones
  3. Let The Whole Thundering World Come Home
  4. The Great Spring
  5. The True Secret of Writing
  6. Three Simple Lines

Books Mentioned:

  1. The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
  2. Man’s Search For Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
  3. The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson McCullers)
  4. 2030 (Mauro F. Guillén)

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nataliegoldberg.com

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