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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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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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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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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