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About Cory: Cory Allen is an author, podcast host, meditation teacher, composer, and audio engineer. On his podcast The Astral Hustle, he finds ways for us to live with more wonder and less suffering by speaking with leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience, music, and philosophy. The Astral Hustle has been downloaded millions of times and was featured by the New York Times. Cory has taught thousands of people how to meditate with clear and concise methods in his online meditation course Release Into Now. He is also a distinguished music producer who has released more than a dozen albums and engineered hundreds of records for other artists. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Allen's reflection on his childhood and his relationship with his family
- How Allen strives to learn from the people he surrounds himself with
- Thoughts on how humans react to one another and the complexities of life
- A discussion on Allen's book, “Now is the Way: An Unconventional Approach to Modern Mindfulness”, including the writing process, the method of presenting both simple and complex ideas in a resource for all levels of mindfulness practice, and the experience of it in audio form
- His journey as a teen studying western and eastern philosophy, meditation, psychedelics, and neuroscience
- His feelings on abandoning structure, authority, and systems
- The importance of eating well, and maintaining good health in the mindfulness journey
- Creating balance between his writing practice and his home life
https://www.instagram.com/heycoryallen/
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About Adam: Recurring themes in the work of Adam Lee are the act of pilgrimage, shelter and an itinerant, nomadic sense of home. Transmitted through a community of hermits, shawl-shod women and regalia-laden gentlefolk traversing deserts, forests and valleys or reposing in tabernacles or dreamed abodes, Lee’s practice ties together narratives of memory, imagination and transcendence. Through his works on linen and paper, Lee builds worlds where allegory and atmosphere coalesce to suggest a highly personal outlook informed by collective folklore and legend. These interior histories find their physical manifestation in Lee’s varied but self-contained technique, which is characterised by mercurial landscapes and a contemporary tenebrism. His oils on linen are a resonant amalgam of sanded back layers of pigment, highly saturated sfumato and a sensitively deployed portraiture, with his watercolour ink works evincing a command of shaping ethereal blooms into impressions of externalised thoughts, sensations and calls to a higher being.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Processing his experience from the 2017 residency at Glasshouse (in the South of France) and the exhibition "Monolith" that followed.
- Balancing intuition in creativity with years of academic research.
- Unbiased honesty in the work of children.
- The positive and negatives aspects of the inundation of information as a contemporary artist.
- How his thought process and work is changing
- Taking a more specific and personal approach to work.
- Using art to process and understand life's difficult experiences.
- The unavoidable implications of the influence of commerce on art.
https://www.instagram.com/adamlee79/
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About Alex: Alex Kanevsky was born in Russia in 1963. He studied mathematics at Vilnius University in Lithuania before coming to the United States. After his arrival to Philadelphia in 1983 he worked as Russian translator, illustrator at the Psychiatric Nursing Magazine and drew pictures for the telephone book advertisements. After attending PAFA (1989-93) and winning a Pew Fellowship (1997) he devoted himself to painting full time. Alex Kanevsky lives and works in New Hampshire. He has exhibited his work in the United States, Canada, Italy, UK, France and Ireland. His work is represented by Hollis Taggart in New York and Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco.
Show Notes:
- 0:00:00 - Introduction
- 0:03:46 - Dividing Time Between Philadelphia and Rural New Hampshire
- 0:05:27 - Approach to Clarity Within His Work and Country Life
- 0:13:49 - Spending Time in Natural Environment vs "Curated" City Life
- 0:20:20 - Motive to Move Into The Countryside
- 0:26:20 - The Idea of Dying and Aging as an Artist
- 0:29:45 - Art Living on After Death and Trying to Give Up Perfection
- 0:32:10 - Open To Both Positive and Negative Influences
- 0:35:39 - Patrick Graham's Life-Altering Experience in Comparison to Kanevsky
- 0:43:42 - The Thrown Away Nature of Social Media and Hobbies
- 0:47:58 - Downtime and Mental Fortitude
- 0:51:39 - His Show Persephone and The Idea of Duality and Imperfection of Humanity
- 0:56:49 - His History of Painting and Uninterested in Technical Painting
- 1:07:34 - Story of Gerhard Richter and Cecily Brown as Painting as Product
- 1:14:22 - Advice to Artists
- 1:20:07 - Jonathan Glazer's film Under The Skin & Charlie Kaufman's film Synecdoche, New York
- 1:25:51 - Wrap Up
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About Joe: Joe Goddard is a British musician, songwriter, and DJ. He is best known as a member in the English synth-pop band Hot Chip, which he co-founded with Alexis Taylor. In 2007, he co-founded record label Greco-Roman, which has produced albums by artists such as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Disclosure. Goddard is also a member of electronica group The 2 Bears, and produced two solo albums, Harvest Festival (2009) and Electric Lines (2017).
https://www.instagram.com/hot.chip/