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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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Apr 6, 2021

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Lorne Lanning is an American game designer, director, writer, and voice actor. He is co-founder and creator of Oddworld Inhabitants. He is best known for creating the Oddworld series including the games Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, and Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty. The next Oddworld game titled Oddworld: Soulstorm will be released on April 6, 2021.

Initially studying photo-realism and commercial illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Lanning soon attended the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he graduated with a BFA in Character Animation.

Working as a Technical Director at TRW, Lanning later moved to Rhythm & Hues Studios in Hollywood, where he would later meet producer Sherry McKenna, who helped co-found Oddworld Inhabitants.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Lorne’s journey from fine art into developing video games
  • The change of perception within art
  • Perceiving the value of art
  • Art as a form of commerce
  • “Fragility of the perishable”
  • The dark side of globalization
  • Lorne’s passion for environmentalism
  • The genesis of emerging technology in the late 80s
  • The power of visualization and how to sell big ideas
  • Making your own luck
  • Lorne working for a military defense company
  • Marketing yourself as an artist
  • Following an intuitive pursuit
  • Staying hungry within your craft
  • Understanding “what your audience is eating”
  • Being a talent vs. being a creator
  • Finding business opportunities
  • Video games
  • Artists’s unique perception and ability to express that
  • The symbiosis of engineering and art 
  • Compromising with a team while making a video game
  • Understanding various subjects and adjacent industries
  • Empathy within video games
  • Game speak
  • The impact of George Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” on Lorne’s storytelling process
  • “Lo-brow access points to high art.” 
  • Emulating the player interacting with real-world objects. 
  • Self-publishing
  • Oddworld’s latest release, “Soulstorm” 
  • The depth of character creation, controls, and tone of the story 
  • The new generation of gaming technology 
  • Systems of monetization within emerging technologies

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Mar 31, 2021

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Dr. Bruce Hoffman did not choose the Medical Arts as a vocation. Originally, he wanted to be a writer and poet. His interest in health and healing developed later in life, after a long and winding road of self-discovery, life experience, and learning. He only applied to medical school, so he could complete a residency in psychiatry and subsequently study Jungian analysis to understand the human condition and behavior. As life would have it, his destiny took him on a different journey. He never did formally pursue a psychiatry residency or Jungian Analytic Training, but his love for art, poetry, and psychology remain.

Dr. Hoffman was born and educated in South Africa and obtained his medical degree from the University of Cape Town. After two years of compulsory military training, his distaste for the local regime convinced him to emigrate to Canada in 1986 where he pursued family medical practice in rural Saskatchewan, Canada.

Once ensconced in the practice of family medicine, he quickly realized that his interests in medicine were broader than just drugs and surgery. The allopathic medical practice was limited to treating symptoms and illnesses but failed short in restoring the patient’s health entirely.

Bruce embarked on a journey to understand what constitutes the human experience, what are the triggers and mediators that perpetuate human suffering. He wanted to assist his patients not only to be free of disease but to realize their maximum potential.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Dr. Hoffman’s early interest in poetry and writing
  • Exposure to alternative lifestyles
  • Exploration of oneness
  • Properly diagnosing patients
  • The pitfalls of having a purely allopathic approach to treating patients
  • The “7-levels” diagnosis
  • The failures of Western medicine
  • Non-duality
  • Reframing negative events in life to reexamine them as positive experiences
  • Unconsciously placing ourselves in a type of purgatory
  • Practicing the  “medical arts”
  • Remaining intuitive throughout one’s entire life
  • Creating a new curriculum for “healers”
  • Beauty, truth, and meaning

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Mar 28, 2021

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Jesse Damiani is a writer, curator, and cultural producer living in Los Angeles, CA. He covers art, media, and technology on Forbes, and serves as  . Other writing appears in Billboard, Entrepreneur, Quartz, The Verge, and WIRED. He has consulted with Google, Oculus, and the Sundance Institute, and served as a mentor in the YouTube VR Creator Lab. He is also Founder and Series Editor of Best American Experimental Writing. He was the Curator/Producer for the XR art exhibition, Spatial Reality, at sp[a]ce gallery; Co-Curator of Virtual Futures with LACMA for LA Art Show; and Co-Curator of SIM-CINEMA with FLOAT and Wevr. He is Curatorial Advisor for CURRENTS New Media and founded the AWE Arts Initiative, where he curated and produced the Immersive Arts Symposium. He also curates The Tech Zone at DesignerCon and XR For Change, the XR summit at Games For Change.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • NFTs and the blockchain
  • The future of NFTs 
  • Artists managing the sale of their work 
  • VR exhibitions powered by NFTs and blockchains
  • Unlocking the potential of NFTs
  • The ecological impact of NFT transactions
  • How an artist can use NFTs to sell their artwork
  • Jesse’s entry point into emerging technologies
  • Human and A.I. collaborations
  • Translating high-level concepts into tangible and practical applications
  • Simulation Theory
  • Poetry as it relates to emerging tech

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Mar 7, 2021

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Nolwen is a first-generation Colombian-French photographer and director, working in Los Angeles. As a mixed-race queer woman, her identity plays an active role in the type of narratives she is drawn to.

Her interests lie in shifting social consciousness, breaking down gender norms, and representation. Exploring portraiture within the landscape of American culture, Nolwen’s photographs deal with vulnerability and gaze between both subject and viewer.

She has photographed a multitude of prolific figures and her client list includes The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Netflix, Dove, amongst others.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Nolwen’s career journey
  • Multihyphanate artistry
  • Importance of broadening your artistic toolbox
  • Financial management for artists
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Addiction
  • Nolwen’s spiritual experience before sobriety
  • Breaking free from trauma
  • Focusing on the present moment
  • Life being a puzzle
  • Feeling connected to a greater calling
  • Being intentional within your fearlessness
  • Keeping the process in mind rather than the outcome
  • Leading with honesty
  • Validation
  • Sexuality
  • Having a career within the arts

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Feb 25, 2021

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Brian Booth Craig (b. 1968; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American representational sculptor. Sculpting from life and imagination, Brian’s work translates traditional techniques into depictions of contemporary human presence, capturing moments of individual self-assertion. Through ambiguous actions, surprising talismans, and subtle gestures, Brian endeavors to reveal the subjectivity of narrative perspective.

Brian holds a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. For ten years he was the apprentice and studio assistant of the painter and sculptor Audrey Flack. Brian is represented by Louis K Meisel Gallery in New York City.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Brian’s start in sculpture
  • Intellectual pursuits
  • Economic fears of being an artist
  • The internal, external, and emotional narrative to art
  • Creating something unique vs. creating something that “fits” within a craft
  • Representing the body and human nature through sculpture
  • Philosophy and psychology in art
  • “Evidence is the means of making”
  • Materials not being neutral
  • Being addicted to the process
  • Childhood
  • New techniques being advancements
  • Agency of the subject and the male gaze
  • Plant medicine

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Feb 17, 2021

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Vanessa Prager (b. 1984) is an American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Known mainly for her large-scale, abstract oil paintings, Prager‘s main subject is the female figure. Thick, loose, heavily impastoed bodies melt in and out of their form, and what we consider beauty and identity is often a central theme to her work.

Prager has had solo shows at The Hole, New York; Richard Heller, Los Angeles; and Kristin Hjellegjerde, Berlin and London; and group shows in Los Angeles with Over The Influence; M+B; and Diane Rosenstein Gallery.

Vanessa’s latest solo show, “Static” shows at the Diane Rosenstein Gallery from February 20th to April 10th, 2021

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Emotions felt through the COVID-19 lockdown
  • Processing emotions
  • Painting what one sees
  • Understanding one’s reality
  • Motherhood
  • Vanessa’s upbringing
  • The depiction of woman within a patriarchal society
  • Breaking away from stigmas
  • Recognizing patterns in life

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Feb 10, 2021
Julian Doan is a second-generation Vietnamese American filmmaker. He enjoys exploring the uncomfortable corners of our existence through awkward, yet heartfelt comedy. His past projects include the sentient zombie digital series “Everyone I Love Is Dead”. He is currently working on the editorial team of HBO's “In Treatment”. He loves the great outdoors and looks forward to seeing a Vietnamese American film renaissance in his lifetime. He is thrilled to be premiering “Raspberry” at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and is beyond thankful for the stunning cast and crew who all brought this film to life.

Raymond Lee was a series regular in Alan Ball’s HBO series, “Here and Now” opposite Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter. He has recurring roles on “Prodigal Son”, “Mozart in the Jungle”, and Scandal. Theater credits include the world premiere productions of “Vietgone at Manhattan Theater Club”, which he was awarded the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Debut, “Office Hour” opposite Sandra Oh at South Coast Repertory, and “Cambodian Rock Band” also at South Coast Repertory. He will be next seen in the PARAMOUNT feature film “Top Gun: Maverick opposite Tom Cruise, Jon Hamm, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly and as a series regular in upcoming the AMC series “Kevin Can F*ck Himself”. Raymond resides in Los Angeles, CA.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • The subject and absurdity of death
  • Speaking openly about death
  • The origins of “Raspberry” 
  • Being emotionally available towards inspiration 
  • The creative process behind character creation 
  • Yoshino’s personal approach to photography and inspiration 
  • Processing death and dealing with loss 
  • Reactions to “Raspberry” 
  • The tone of the film
  • Subtle nuances of expression
  • The differences between Eastern and Western thoughts 
  • Julian and Raymond’s collaborative relationship 
  • Creatively pushing yourself and others 
  • Asian men within the arts and film
  • Advice to artists and creatives

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Jan 31, 2021

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Mark Wolynn is the director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. He is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma.

His book It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (published by Viking/Penguin) is the winner of the 2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award in psychology and has been translated into 19 languages.

His articles have appeared in Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, MariaShriver.com, Elephant Journal, and Psych Central, and his poetry has been published in The New Yorker.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Inherited family trauma - a detailed overview of trauma’s resonating effect
  • Our bodies reaction to trauma and how we can biologically pass those reactions to our offspring through our genes
  • Current research within the scientific field of trauma 
  • The potency of language
  • Mark’s “Core Language Approach” or otherwise known as trauma language, which is seen through the observation of verbal and non-verbal cues
  • Mark’s background and journey into healing 
  • Avoiding negative emotions
  • Our symptoms being our guides
  • Mindfulness and meditation practices

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Jan 29, 2021

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When a musical ensemble chooses to self-title an album mid-career, it usually signifies their conviction that they’ve struck upon the motherlode, hit the jackpot, stepped up, and generally arrived at a point they’ve always strived for but never quite attained. Coming from GoGo Penguin at this stage in the game, it’s quite a bold statement: the instrumental trio from Manchester, England have fielded plaudits and rave reviews for inspiration and originality at every turn since 2013, when they settled on their dream line-up of Chris Illingworth (piano), Rob Turner (drums), and Nick Blacka (bass). Fusing jazz, classical and electronic influences (amongst others) with a thirst for innovation, they’ve been garlanded as makers of one of the Mercury Prize album of the year (in ’14), and have enjoyed success on record and in the live arena matched by precious few vocal-free groups post-millennium.
 
After that prestigious Mercury nomination for 2014’s v2.0 album, Chris, Nick, and Rob worked hard, consolidating their musical bond across a further two albums, which were written and recorded while juggling hectic touring commitments. For GoGo Penguin – their fourth album together (and the third to be released by the legendary Blue Note label) – they decided to jump off the rollercoaster and devote the majority of their working time in 2019 to pushing at the limits of their music.
 
“In the past, we'd have to get in the studio and finish the album in what felt like three days. This time we had six months of writing, and two weeks of recording, so everyone had a lot more time to contribute to each track. There was more experimentation, trying things out and often throwing them away. As a result, the album is more sophisticated. We had quite simple lives in the past. We were younger, so there wasn't so much drama, and there hadn’t been so many important events in our lives that fed into the music. This time, there's a lot more facing the realities of becoming older, and mortality, and watching people that you care about being very close to death. At the same time, Chris became a dad. The longer you live, the more complicated your reality becomes, so we felt our music had to reflect that.”

- Rob Turner (GoGo Penguin)
 
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
  • Emotions while writing the newest GoGo Penguin album
  • Personality conveyed through music and art 
  • The positive and negative dualities of life 
  • Conflicting emotions 
  • Spirituality 
  • Personal Philosophies 
  • “The Overview Effect”
  • Empathy 
  • GoGo Penguin’s desire to be “genreless” 
  • Self-imposed limitations and creative limitations imposed by ourselves 
  • The state of music 
  • Breaking away from boundaries within your art 
  • Conformity and intentionality behind the composition 
  • Chris’s background as a classical musician
  • Finding inspiration 
  • Reverting back to one’s child-like state 
  • Driving force 
  • Examining one’s self, so that others are positively affected 
  • Being present-minded
  • Being the master of your own work

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Jan 8, 2021

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Shari Frilot is a filmmaker who has produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films, including Strange & Charmed, A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line?, and the feature documentary, Black Nations / Queer Nations? She is the recipient of multiple grants, including the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. She is presently working on a feature film project about the crisis in water supply with producer Effie Brown's production company, Duly Noted Inc.

In tandem with filmmaking, Shari also maintains a career in festival programming, occupying a distinguished position on the curatorial vanguard through her pioneering development of immersive cinematic environments. As the Festival Director of the MIX Festival in New York (1992-1996) she co-founded the first gay Latin American film festivals, MIX BRASIL and MIX MEXICO film festivals. As Co-Director of Programming for OUTFEST (1998-2001), she founded the Platinum section which introduced cinematic performance installation and performance to the festival. She is presently in her 22nd year as a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She is the curator and driving creative force behind New Frontier, an exhibition and commissioning initiative that focuses on cinematic work being created at the intersections of art, film, and new media technology.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Collective consciousness and being on the cusp of the new year 
  • Shifts within communities
  • Finding confluence within multiple subjects
  • Art and science working together 
  • Visualization 
  • Shari’s love of culture, and her work within curation and art 
  • Wave-particle dualities
  • Measuring the concept of love within our life 
  • The differences in seeing something versus feeling something 
  • Neuroplasticity 
  • Perceiving reality 
  • Storytelling 
  • Sundance Festival and New Frontier 2021, and the innovations that are taking place
  • Subjective and objective truths
  • Empathy
  • The lost art of listening 
  • Shari’s experiences with filmmaking and changing the framework of the industry itself
  • The complications within creating and presenting Sundance’s 2021 festival
  • Focusing on humanity 
  • Pushing into the new year with aspirations of inclusivity and connectedness 
  • Finding clarity within your vision

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Dec 31, 2020

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Mark Henick is an internationally recognized mental health strategist, advocate, speaker, podcaster, and media commentator. His TEDx talk is one of the most-watched in the world. He regularly speaks to diverse audiences about mental health, hope, and recovery.
 
Mark Henick’s TEDx talk about being saved from death by a stranger is one of the most-watched in the world and has been viewed millions of times. His search for “the man in the brown jacket” whose bravery and strong arms kept him from falling to his death went viral around the world (and was successful!). Henick has been on television and radio and has written many articles on mental health. He has hosted more than 60 intimate conversations about mental health with notable public figures and celebrities on his podcast, So-Called Normal, and has executive produced and hosted the Living Well podcast for Morneau Shepell. 

Henick has served on the board of directors for the Mental Health Commission of Canada and was the president of a provincial division of the Canadian Mental Health Association — the youngest person in either role. He has worked as a frontline clinician, a program manager, and the national director of strategic initiatives for CMHA. Mark is currently the CEO and principal strategist for Strategic Mental Health Consulting.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Destigmatizing mental illness
  • Mark’s personal story and TedX Talk
  • The search for the man in the light brown jacket 
  • Struggles and hardships being a source of strength
  • Self-actualizing and truth 
  • Commercial art
  • Compartmentalizing particular aspects of your life
  • Life being an artform 
  • Going all-in on your passion 
  • Building your passion 
  • Resilience and grit
  • Recovery 
  • Not knowing your full self yet
  • Toxic productivity
  • Toxic masculinity

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Dec 26, 2020

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Sean Cheetham was born in 1977 in San Francisco, studied at the College of San Mateo, in California, and earned a B.F.A. degree with honors from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California. His paintings have been included in numerous significant exhibitions internationally including the National Portrait Gallery in London. He has a devoted following of collectors and art students that are inspired by his work and distinctive technique. Primarily a figurative painter, Sean is known for his technical prowess in achieving accuracy and harmony in his alla prima paintings which he credits to a deep understanding of drawing and his own system of mixing colors which he uses adeptly to govern shadows, midtones and highlights. In addition to having an exceptional ability to understand, draw, and paint the human form, Cheetham’s selection of subjects typically in familiar urban scenes contributes a truthful and often raw spirit that makes his work distinctive and a contemporary testimony of our time.

Kate Zambrano is a self-taught fine artist who applies major influences and themes such as the systemic urge to understand human nature, behavior, and the beauty in the expressive nuances.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Kate and Sean’s relationship 
  • COVID’s effect on workflow 
  • Personal hobbies and the meditation behind them
  • Endless curiosities within relationships and art
  • Community and interaction in the midst of COVID 
  • Appreciating the mundane experiences of life
  • The origin of Kate and Sean’s art practice
  • Balance
  • Teaching and lessons learned from the experience 
  • Remaining flexible within your career 
  • Relying on other mediums to feed into your main passions
  • Refinement
  • Flipping your mentality 
  • Ego
  • Natural talent, and doing the hard thing 
  • Persistence

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Dec 22, 2020

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Laura Fried is a Los Angeles-based curator and is a Co-Founder and Director of Active Cultures, a nonprofit organization that explores the convergence of food and art in contemporary life. Through collaborative projects by cooks and artists, Active Cultures' programming takes a multitude of forms such as performances, workshops, meals, and education initiatives. Throughout her career, Fried has advocated for artists and institutions while pushing forward new models for engagement and exhibition-making. She recently served as founding Artistic Director of the Seattle Art Fair, for which she organized a comprehensive program of large-scale installations, performances, talks, and projects. Fried was previously on the curatorial staff of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, as well as a curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Fried received her MA in the History of Art from Williams College and the Clark Art Institute.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Laura’s journey in curation
  • Working within non-profit organizations
  • The convergence of food and art 
  • Collaboration 
  • Unique opportunities that are provided through the community
  • Laura’s work with her business partner 
  • Laura’s advocation for artists and institutions 
  • The innovation of the exhibition 
  • The interconnected nature of art and food 
  • The beginnings of “The MSG Club” 
  • Future endeavors of Active Cultures in the midst of COVID-19

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www.active-cultures.org

Dec 14, 2020

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Cliqua is a directing duo (Pasqual Gutierrez and RJ Sanchez) born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. They have directed music videos for J Balvin, Rosalia, Bad Bunny, and others. In the span of a year, the duo has amassed over 700 million Youtube plays. They have also worked with brands like Adidas, Nike, Amazon, and Tecate. Currently Cliqua is continuing to shoot music videos and commercials while developing a feature-length film and an episodic television show.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Pasqual and RJ forming Cliqua
  • Reflections on past commercial and music video work
  • Intentionality within Cliqua’s planning process
  • Going into the trenches within business and collaboration
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Shared business values
  • Examining the future, reevaluating work practices, and moving forward
  • Inspiration through others
  • Taking a step back from one’s work
  • Controlling one’s process
  • Being aware of faults
  • Workflow
  • Cliqua’s recent music video for The Weeknd’s track “Too Late”
  • Thematic filmmaking within music videos
  • Creating something that is bigger than you
  • The distillation of aesthetics and ideas

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Dec 7, 2020

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Densil McFarlane is the lead singer and guitarist of the Canadian rock trio, The OBGMs. 

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • The origin of The OBGM’s
  • Complications and stresses of the business of music
  • Densil’s honest self-reflection on why he creates music
  • Not caring too deeply about what others think of you
  • The new clarity and purpose found within Densil’s latest album.
  • Being in touch with how you are feeling
  • Success being a multi-dimensional phenomenon
  • Batteling the identifiers of success
  • Balancing your ego
  • Shifting negative energy into positive and productive motivation
  • The energy found within Densil’s latest album
  • The changes within the music industry
  • Staying innovative
  • Specific values that current listeners have
  • Incentivization within social media
  • Keeping musicianship alive throughout covid
  • Cultivating real friendships
  • Staying committed to your craft
  • Differences between Canada and America

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Nov 30, 2020

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About Adam Hall:

As a visual artist, Adam Hall began working mostly with charcoals and oils. Self-taught, he attempts to mix traditional style with contemporary. Using palette knives and layering techniques he creates a true richness and depth to his work. Adam believes every painting is his next opportunity in truly expressing his vision and vibe through landscape. “Art is such a powerful tool and I strive to use it in the most positive way I know how.”

While his passion for art began growing up in Wellsburg, West Virginia, his professional artistic career began nearly two decades ago in Nashville. When he was not on the road touring with bands all over the world, Adam slowly became involved with a local design firm whose clientele took great interest and demand for his art. Eventually, he started working full time with major record labels and recording artists in Nashville, all the while pursuing his dream to become a full-time artist.

Today, his work has been represented in galleries all over the United States and has been featured in such magazines as American Art Collector Magazine & Fine Art Connoisseur. Adam Hall proudly resides in Nashville, TN, with his wife Thais. Adam spends most of his time in his studio in Historic Franklin and continues to discover a fulfilling purpose through art.
 
Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • The benefits of technology during COVID
  • Adam’s early career in the music industry
  • Utilizing elements from outside fields of study and incorporating them into your artistic practice
  • Adding different experiences and tools to your “toolkit”
  • Adam’s changing perspectives on painting
  • The dynamic of a career vs. a hobby
  • Being disciplined and producing organic results
  • Healthy competition
  • Surrounding yourself with individuals who are greater than you
  • Humility
  • Faith and understanding how it relates to our experiences
  • Being in a constant state of questioning
  • The notion of personal truth(s)
  • Religion and ideologies
  • Inclusivity and exclusivity
  • Remaining open to other aspects of the world
  • Adam’s experiences traveling to Africa
  • Morality and ethics
  • Intentions behind our actions
  • The meaning behind Adam’s ocean paintings
  • The emotion that translates through a person’s artwork
  • Adam’s experiences as a father
  • Micro-decisions within our daily lives
  • Striving creatively through parenting
  • “Current Journeys”

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Nov 23, 2020

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Jeffrey Martin Zacks, American psychology educator, member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and the Cognitive Science Society. 

His book, Flicker: Your Brain on Movies, delves into the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens in your brain when you sit down in the theatre and the lights go out.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • How the brain helps us think perceive and aid us in solving problems
  • Mirror neurons
  • The impact that film has on it’s viewers
  • Mimicking attributes of the brain and how it specifically helps us in daily life
  • Film perception
  • Evoking and implementing cues for specific responses within films
  • “The willing suspension of belief”
  • Kids viewing violent films and how it affects them when they are adults
  • Mindset and engagement
  • Age and films
  • Neuroplasticity
  • The “nimble brain”
  • The brain’s development and how we can shift the way we think in order to retain a greater amount of plasticity
  • Movies and the brain’s correspondence with what we are visualizing
  • “Feeling” what we are viewing
  • Creating plots and narratives that affect your emotion
  • The power of non-analytical effects
  • The documentary “The Social Dilemma”, and Jeff’s views on the way technology is progressing
  • “What are you subscribing to?”
  • Children and social media
  • Reflecting on how we use social media and how it influences our brain and habits

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Nov 12, 2020

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Self-taught, David Uzochukwu (b. 1998, Austria) creates (self-)portraits that speak of both placelessness and belonging. His work sees bodies shifting through nature, performance, and digital reconfiguration. Uzochukwu’s photographs have been exhibited at Bozar, Photo Vogue Festival, and Unseen Amsterdam. He has collaborated with artists FKA twigs, Pharrell, and Iris Van Herpen, and received commissions by Dior and Hermès. Since 2019, he is a participant of CPH:DOX’s talent development program. British Journal of Photography named him One to Watch in 2020. He currently lives in Berlin, where he pursues his first degree in philosophy.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • David’s development and obsession with photography
  • Looking at other photographers work and being inspired
  • Distraction and aesthetic within David’s work
  • Emotions and the expression of an image
  • David’s photography process
  • Finding your signature approach
  • Navigating your youth, and standing your ground
  • Leaning into your intuition
  • Organic transition within artwork
  • Simplicity
  • Swallowing your feelings and fighting to have your needs met
  • Finding your artistic voice and rooting yourself within that
  • David’s interest in philosophy
  • Ethics and practical reasoning for the things that you do
  • Aesthetics being used as a “glazing” to your art
  • Masculinity and the roles of gender
  • Strength and vulnerability
  • Futurism
  • Getting to the point of reflecting your opinions within your art
  • Bias 
  • The future for Davids self-portraiture and photography

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Oct 26, 2020

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Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz are both directors and writers, known for Antebellum (2020), Rapture, and 17 Seventeen (2017).

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Required solitude
  • Shifting perspective within a paradigm
  • Truth
  • Bush and Renz’s collaboration and how that has evolved
  • Acceptance of failures and misfortunes
  • The process of working together within relationships
  • Discovery within the arts
  • Companionship within the process of creating
  • The process of trusting your art
  • Spiritualism
  • The collective consciousness
  • Inspiration and how an artist taps into it
  • Leaving behind a legacy
  • When to put on and shed your ego
  • Being afraid to feel something
  • The emotion felt while filming Antebellum
  • Social change
  • The foundations and future of America

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Oct 16, 2020

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About Justin: Justin Mortimer (b.1970) is a British artist whose paintings consistently invite us to question the relationship between subject matter and content, beauty and horror, and between figuration and abstraction. While the imagery is almost exclusively pitiless, the texturing of the paint, the play between light and shade, and the passages that lead from photo-realist definition to near-abstract formlessness are so sensitively handled as to make the work at least partially redemptive as well as to indicate a key philosophical dimension: the oblique relationship between evidence and interpretation.

In his recent solo show, his works create paradoxical beauty in the landscape of oppression and violence around the world. With the Covid-19 pandemic and the escalating racial conflict, Justin Mortimer's solo exhibition sets the stage for reflection on the 'tomorrow' of our society.

Show Notes:

  • 0:00:00 - Introduction
  • 0:04:52 - Paradoxical Psychological Truth in Work
  • 0:08:34 - Feeling Like An Outsider & Childhood Stories
  • 0:12:57 - Balloons as Proxy For The Body & Learning Figurative Painting
  • 0:17:06 - Painting Latex, Dysmorphia, and Masks
  • 0:20:22 - BP Portrait Award and Learning and Unlearning Portrait Painting
  • 0:24:25 - Digital Collaging The Overlooked Imagine
  • 0:29:23 - Not Knowing When Paintings Are Done
  • 0:32:54 - Empathy With People Diametrically Opposing Views
  • 0:37:19 - New Meanings of Paintings Included in Solo Show "Tomorrow"
  • 0:42:53 - COVID-19 Struggles
  • 0:46:40 - "The Social Dilemma" by Jeff Orlowski and No More Truth
  • 0:48:54 - Past Generations and "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" by Werner Herzog
  • 0:54:02 - Decoding The Everyday Object
  • 0:58:03 - Meanings Transform Over Time
  • 1:02:11 - Painting David Bowie and Expectations of Portrait Painting
  • 1:15:15 - Wrap Up

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Oct 11, 2020

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About Mike: Mike Lee is a world-ranked professional boxer who has fought in some of the world’s most iconic arenas like Madison Square Garden, Cowboys Stadium & The MGM Grand in front of millions of fans. In 2014 Mike was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis, that almost ended his career. In and out of hospitals for over two years he became tired of all the medications and treatments. Mike began searching for all-natural alternatives which lead him to discover CBD and all of its incredible physical and mental benefits! Using his background in finance and business, Mike felt that creating Soul CBD would be the perfect way to share his knowledge while helping others to defeat whatever battles with the pain they may be facing.

Columbia Tatone is an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer. Known for her dynamic cinematic action and relational, relevant storytelling, she often features unique elements of sci-fi in her work. Tatone studied Jazz at Berklee's College of Music in Boston and later received her Business degree at Vanguard University. As a commercial, music video, and narrative director, Columbia empowers her audience through eye-popping, thought-provoking action sequences. As a champion for women and the underrepresented, Tatone often uses her work to promote social justice while also taking us into different realities that highlight the emotional scar tissue of life.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Fight and flight mode
  • The state of flow
  • The fullness of living out your destiny
  • Mike’s early stages of boxing
  • Performing with gratitude and happiness
  • Mike’s autoimmune illness
  • Empathy and wellness
  • Grit
  • Eastern Medicine
  • Looking at pain as a gift
  • Mind over body
  • Reprogramming of your mind
  • How COVID has put everyone on an equal playing field
  • Identity
  • Mike’s work with his company “Soul CBD”

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Oct 10, 2020

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About Edon: Edon Guraziu specializes in Concept Design & Consultation. These various industries range from Entertainment, Industrial, Defense, Medical, Consumer Products, and more. Many years of collaboration have resulted in meaningful relationships with the following companies, some of which include: 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Microsoft, Netflix, NVIDIA, MPC, Method Studios, JBC Safety Plastic Inc., StrikerVR, TheVRCompany, Swiss Federal Railways, and more.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • Upbringing and immigrating 
  • Not allowing fear to inhibit productivity
  • Logic and emotion
  • Age and skills 
  • Movies and their influence
  • Mentors and relationships
  • Being present, here and now
  • Decision making and their ripple effect
  • Valuing yourself, your art, and your business 
  • Art and business
  • Stoicism & identity of work
  • Work, failure, and recontextualizing

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Sep 30, 2020

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About Jesse: Jesse Draxler was born in rural Wisconsin, studied in Minneapolis, MN, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. A formal mixed media & inter-disciplinary artist, Draxler has exhibited extensively both domestically and internationally. 

Draxler had solo exhibitions in New York at the Booth Gallery in 2017 and 2016, and has been in exhibitions across Europe at galleries in Munich, London, Paris, Hamburg, and Berlin. Draxler collaborates with brands including Hugo Boss, McQ Alexander McQueen, and Ferrari, with original artwork appearing in Elle, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among other publications. 

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • The path of friendship 
  • The intentionality behind social media 
  • Thinking about the motivations behind what you are doing 
  • Dedication within your craft 
  • Artists relation to sports 
  • Mental fortitude and willpower 
  • The meaning behind Jesse’s latest show, “Table of Losses” 
  • Letting artwork play itself out 
  • The payoff of patience 
  • The sense of urgency that comes with social media 
  • Having a sense of mental separation between yourself and your artistic practice 
  • Ego death 
  • Copying yourself and it equating to an artistic death 
  • Jesse continually re-inventing himself 
  • The emotional weight behind the artwork 
  • Taking criticism as an artist 
  • Modern and Post-Modern art 
  • Moral limits, and how art challenges your morals 
  • Finding inspirations within everyday life 
  • Jesse’s music project “Reigning Cement” 
  • Jesse’s “Love, hate” relationship with his environment 
  • Collaborative pieces of art being influenced by the environment 
  • The concept of a suffering artist 
  • Success and drive 
  • Understanding and creating from a place of purpose 
  • Setting goals within life

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Sep 29, 2020

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About Yasmine: Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity. Her recent work includes immersive installation, fiber etching, and mixed media collage using personal archives and found imagery.

Diaz has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Albuquerque Museum of Art, and the Torrance Art Museum. She is a recipient of the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (2019) with works included in the collections of LACMA, UCLA, and the Arab American National Museum. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • The background behind the title of Yazmine’s latest show “Soft Powers”
  • The concept of “code-switching”
  • Navigating different worlds within the world we live in
  • Cultural differences Yazmine has experienced and how it has personally developed in her work
  • Growing up within two different cultures and countries
  • A nuanced discussion on arranged marriage and forced arranged marriage and the hardship that came with it
  • Online dating and “matchmaking” and how it has affected our world
  • Yasmine’s journey to New Mexico
  • Poverty, capitalism, and the disbursement of power
  • Yazmine’s current work and why she chose the 90s as a timepiece
  • Engagement between the artist, the content, and the viewer
  • The business of art and the complications that come with selling art
  • “Social practice” of art
  • The complicated reality of morals and ethics within different career fields
  • The concept of death and knowing what you stand for
  • Being intentional of why you want power and resources
  • The dynamics between parents and children
  • Subminimally thinking about art 
  • Yazmine’s latest work
  • Transforming style over time
  • Authenticity

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Sep 24, 2020

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About Pádraig: Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian from Ireland whose poetry and prose have been published widely across Ireland, the US, and the UK. He presents Poetry Unbound with On Being, a hugely successful podcast where he explores a single poem. Short and unhurried; contemplative and energizing, this podcast had more than a million downloads of its first season. The second season starts on the 28th of September. Mondays and Fridays for twelve weeks.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • What Padraig’s poem means to him, reflecting back on it
  • Life being circular
  • Padraig’s writing process
  • The beauty in the confluence of various things coming together
  • Padraig’s roots within writing poetry
  • Embracing the flourishing of life 
  • Isolation within artists
  • The “peasant poet”
  • Cultural conflict
  • Shelter and the shadow
  • Leaning into self-discovery within our life
  • Considering things that have been ingrained within us and actively challenging their purpose within our live
  • Poetry being the unfolding of the unexpected
  • Finding beauty within the imperfections
  • Being interested in looking
  • Meditation within daily life

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