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Show Topics
- Two show announcements!
- Storage Whores
- We see dead people
Show Notes
- 00:10 - Merchandise but no Anniversary Show
- 01:10 - James and Catherine are aliens
- 01:25 - New SubRant TikTok!
- 01:45 - Online video editing software
- 02:30 - Fake til proven Basquiat?
- 03:05 - "Chain of Custody" and "Players"
- Basquiat - (deceased) Artist
- Larry Gagosian - Art dealer
- Thad Mumford - (deceased) Screenwriter, 1st owner
- Storage Unit -Unpaid x30 years
- William Force - Art/antiquities dealer, 2nd owner
- Lee Mangan - Retired salesman, 2nd owner
- Pierce O'Donnell - Lawyer, purchased interest in 6/25 pieces
- "Mumford's Poem" - Taped on dot-matrix printer paper
- Lindon Leader - Brand expert, FedEx logo designer
- Diego Cortez - (deceased) Basquiat Estate Authentication Committee (deceased - disbanded 2012) member
- Jordanna Moore Saggese - Author "Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art".
- Aaron De Groft - Director & CEO, Orlando Museum of Art
- Cynthia Brumback - Board Chair, Orlando Museum of Art
- 06:50 - Trying hard for that "place in time"
- 07:30 - "One Last Heist" coming soon to a theatre near you! Or, "Ocean's Fail"
- 09:05 - Chasing the antiquity dragon
- 10:30 - Perusing the "Cardboard Collection" (video)
- 11:30 - Provenance (and asking questions) is "off-limits" in Orlando
- 12:34 - "Sometimes, you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"
- 13:30 - Orlando, unhinged!
- 14:15 - Traumatically trapped in Orlando elevator!
- 14:52 - "Heroes and Monsters" - John Michel Basquiat
- 15:40 - A "stooge" for with good intentions, or just a stooge?
- 16:45 - James has a list of critiques
- 18:02 - Just say "these works may or may not be authentic"
- 18:21 - Having fun? Spending money? Who cares if it's real or not!
- 19:00 - Back to the "in-the-style-adjacent" artwork
- 20:30 - Achieving layering within a "visual collage"
- 21:00 - Deconstructing Basquiat, again!
- 23:03 - It's ghoulish to use dead people to authenticate your fakes
- 24:55 - The Mystery of the 1994 FedEx Logo
- 27:05 - "Handwriting analysis and poems don't authenticate artworks"
- 28:20 - Back to Banksy's Instagram archive and end
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- The science of boredom. So bad we had to do it twice.
Show Notes
- 00:10 - Take 2
- 00:45 - Less you know & clueless Joe
- 01:05 - Spotify, if you're listening!
- 01:52 - "Blinded me with (bad) science (journalism)"
- 03:15 - Warning: No "Life Coach" On Duty
- 03:45 - Scientific fluff piece?
- 04:20 - Let's get into it!
- 05:07 - Emotional hyperbole
- 06:17 - Boredom seems correctable
- 07:03 - Please define!
- 08:47 - Categorizing boring
- 09:27 - Catherine's studies cemented crazy!
- 09:48 - Opinion about assumption isn't science
- 11:06 - James has a sleep hobby
- 12:27 - Buzzing outta boredom
- 13:47 - "Excruciating" not proven
- 14:32 - "It's all hypothetical"
- 15:27 - Hypothetically, artists are interesting?
- 16:02 - "Who feels more deeply than the artist?"
- 17:05 - The simple wisdom of Von Tilburg!
- 17:42 - Let them talk!
- 19:01 - Reframe the lie?
- 20:26 - Shameless SubRant sticker plug
- 20:37 - Spotify, are you listening yet?
- 21:17 - How to be left alone at a party!
- 22:50 - James is bored and out!
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- Leaving Facebook, again!
- Warhol stole our colors
- Drought is real
- "The Sugar Shack", Ernie Barns
- Barns, Wyeth, Rockwell, Holyfield
- Sugar Shack vs The Mona Lisa
- Doesn't matter what is real
- Stupid or boring, both!
Show Notes
- 00:07 - Cookies and podcasts don't mix
- 00:55 - 72hrs of Facebook is enough!
- 02:05 - "Faking" a breach for a phone number?
- 03:30 - James plays "chicken" with Instagram, and wins!
- 04:05 - Panic de-activation
- 04:55 - They know what you did last summer
- 06:02 - Black and white and mostly people I don't know
- 08:30 - Artist name correction: "One Beach Plastic", Richard and Judith Lang
- 09:25 - Ozzie Osborn is alive, but James remain unconvinced (or maybe just doesn't care)
- 09:50 - Our opinions are not legal advice AND neither of us are lawyers!
- 10:15 - Warhol' and SubRant's common-color-ground
- 10:55 - Just get a real camera!
- 11:57 - What is a "Super Market Star"? Catherine is.
- 12:45 - Drought of content about a drought
- 13:55 - Calabasas Koi
- 14:45 - Wealth and the American "Porpoise"
- 16:45 - Symbiotic relationship between rich people and big goldfish explained
- 17:11 - "Let them eat koi!"
- 17:50 - Good Times! Another art auction, another $15,000,000!
- 18:20 - "The Sugar Shack", by Ernie Barns
- 19:07 - He fills the canvas with movement!
- 19:46 - "Country Ride" 1982 reminiscent but not derivative of Wyeth
- 21:35 - Barnes: "abstraction not exaggeration"
- 22:20 - Similar to Rockwell, in that they are both illustrators of ideas
- 24:21 - John Holyfield
- 25:03 - Back to Warhol, it's just a t-shirt
- 25:30 - "The Sugar Shack" vs. "Mona Lisa"
- 26:30 - We're not meat bags, we're a simulation
- 28:37 - Do you prefer stupid or boring?
- 29:26 - Twitter poll fail
- 30:15 - Go wash your car
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- Anniversary Interrupted
- No Fun With Migraines
- Zooming In Pajamas
- Everything Is Garbage
- Micro-plastic in the blood
- Pink Ball, Blue Ball
- Trashing Art
Show Notes
- 00:20 - "Spot on" co-host forgets SubRant anniversary
- 01:30 - Other co-host forgets about Leap Year
- 02:10 - James crushes migraine for sake of podcast
- 05:00 - Airport pajama fashion
- 05:47 - Reviving Facebook
- 06:35 - "Zero-sum" upgrade or princess fantasy?
- 08:57 - "You got a window, open it"
- 10:15 - Plastic garbage obsession
- 11:00 - Misinterpreting micro-plastics
- 12:00 - Forgoing a Lego blood clot
- 12:45 - Vegetarian siting on dead cow worries about plastic toothpaste
- 13:40 - Just waiting to be discovered!
- 14:04 - 'Blue Balls' destroy humanity
- 15:17 - "One word: plastics" (The Graduate, 1967)
- 16:20 - Plastic saturation limit
- 16:45 - Catherine's savage mercury moment
- 17:41 - Talking strangers at the grocery strangers and palpating tomatoes
- 18:45 - Take-out plastic overwhelms studio space
- 19:58 - Plastic pollution art
- 21:30 - Don't divert, use real trash! "Bristol Whales" by Sue Lipscombe
- 22:25 - My bags have been a tapestry "Bridge" and "Ocean of Plastic" by Dianna Cohen
- 22:50 - Consuming chips for art
- 23:32 - Colorful bottle top rainbow trash "One Beach Plastic" by Richard and Judith Lang
- 24:22 - Infinitely sustainable materials?
- 25:02 - Compressing into nature "Plastic Planet" by Calder Kamin
- 26:07 - Introducing "Tik-Toad"
- 26:34 - James has a favorite!
- 27:02 - The Great Lakes palette
- 28:48 - Podcast of imperfection
- 29:02 - "What is art? Listen and you still won't know!"
- 30:12 - "I good think too"!
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Show Topics
- Conspiracies are for the birds
- Wearable art?
- If I made a TikTok
- (Over) Selling Warhol
- Gratuitous BTS reference
- Tricycles can hurt you
Show Notes
- 00:30 - Pivot followup: Shadowcat is a trail bike
- 02:00 - $7700 of fun
- 02:30 - Instagram followup: James is a hypocrite
- 03:15 - Black and white and square and mostly cat
- 04:00 - Podcast birds (aren't real)
- 05:00 - No birds in the hood?
- 06:00 - "Hit piece" gets tarred and feathered
- 06:40 - All conspiracies should be this much fun!
- 08:00 - Catherine gets concerned
- 08:35 - "Are you referring to bird drone surveillance?"
- 09:25 - The internet raised him good
- 10:15 - Listener provides content! Thanks Jay!
- 11:00 - Old Masters and altered sleeves
- 12:08 - Who called her an old lady?
- 13:00 - If the jacket fits
- 13:35 - The real crime is calling it "art"
- 14:35 - Bed under a "Starry Night"
- 15:00 - Spitballing a TikTok series
- 15:44 - (Over) Selling a Warhol
- 16:35 - James drops his Warhol cringe, just this once
- 17:30 - Marilyn v. Andy AKA "Iconic v. Iconic"
- 19:15 - "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" captures the 1960's
- 20:35 - Shoutout to Phoenix Art Museum
- 21:20 - Is it OK to film art and them post it?
- 21:55 - BTS adjacent "Rkive art vibe"
- 23:45 - Second tricycle childhood?
- 27:25 - Turning, tipping, crashing, and freaking out. Thanks Trike!
- 27:50 - Ozzie Osborne is alive!
- 29:00 - PSA: Slow your 3-wheel roll
- 29:45 - James was wrong
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- Writer DJ Leary discusses art, poetry, prose, and next steps on his creative journey.
Show Notes
- 00:12 - DJ "SubRants" again!
- 02:00 - Pandemic apartment good for writing
- 02:50 - Laundry basket anxiety attack
- 04:00 - Poems, stories, Pivot Cycles commercial
- 04:20 - DJ's Pivot Shadowcat Ad
- 08:20 - "4 Minutes Later" (James bike-nerds out)
- 09:50 - No more training wheels, ever!
- 11:15 - Listen to the neighborhood ambiance
- 12:00 - "DC Rat Mob" (actual rodents, not politicians)
- 14:08 - Bethesda v. Scottsdale and a tattoo artist's floor
- 16:20 - Bird loudly joins podcast
- 17:00 - What DJ will and won't miss about Phoenix
- 19:20 - Phoenix expensive, friends moving on
- 20:30 - One rodeo is enough for a lifetime
- 21:00 - Surprise, DC is political!
- 22:30 - Poems for "Tuckle"
- 23:13 - Cocaine free coffee beans
- 24:15 - No "swerving right" for easy money?
- 26:00 - Writers needed (in Thailand?)
- 27:15 - Fiverr and the "gig economy"
- 29:15 - Motivated through authentic interaction
- 32:18 - Instagram as "poetry archive"
- 33:30 - DJ is a tattoo!
- 35:30 - Being an artist is hard work
- 38:40 - Screaming into the Twitter void
- 41:04 - Instagram pay dirt
- 43:20 - Next steps for prose over poetry
- 44:50 - Think you're good at what you do? You're not!
- 47:45 - Catchy, but played out
- 49:00 - Practice makes better
- 50:25 - DJ and a typewriter
- 52:00 - San Diego and DC give "great busk"
- 53:03 - Shout out to The Smithsonian
- 54:05 - DJ recites a poem
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Show Topics
- Forgetful U.S. healthcare system
- Tattooing Phoenix
- Discoveries in weird places
- SubRant social media
- (Too) Hot Phoenix real estate
- Art intersection
- Gentrification is disorienting (for Catherine)
Show Notes
- 00:05 - SubRant is hostile, but it's not work
- 01:45 - James is unrecognizable
- 02:45 - Curious canine cat food caper!
- 04:50 - Tattoos, but where (to get one)?
- 05:26 - Forehead or nowhere!
- 06:20 - Will Catherine really get tattoos?
- 08:00 - James and "left breast Jimin"
- 09:03 - Moving on...
- 09:10 - Digging Anat, the "Goddess of Everything"
- 09:50 - Destination: Gaza, but back away from my head!
- 11:15 - Hidden basements and the boxes therein
- 13:15 - Attention (13 listeners): SubRant SubReddit coming!
- 14:36 - James is "way serious"
- 14:50 - Better late than never! SubRant social media!
- 15:10 - Messing with realtors!
- 15:50 - "Housing Fodder and Unaffordable Phoenix"
- 16:38 - All James needs is weather, trails, Costco
- 17:21 - Redefining "exponential" and exerting male privilege
- 18:50 - Compelling content as Catherine files her nails
- 20:20 - More money than sense, but not climate refugees
- 21:55 - Least sustainable city? Let's move there!
- 22:45 - Intersection Art
- 24:28 - Too much ado about Trompe-l'oeil
- 25:20 - Phoenix murals, the 80 seconds of art this week
- 26:00 - Disorientation in the Arts District
- 27:43 - Shipping containers and hip hop
- 29:53 - Lovin' the urban chic vibe
- 31:15 - Putting a pin in "Art on the Street"
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Show Topics
- Creativity
- Pop art and other space junk
- Douchebag of the week
- Library books and censorship
- Netflix
Show Notes
- 00:10 - James got news, but show must go on!
- 00:45 - 100 Days of Creativity Project
- 02:15 - Instagram accounts - paintings & cats?
- 02:55 - "To the moon, Jeff Koons!"
- 03:42 - Space, the final frontier for the rich and egoic (which is a word)
- 05:00 - If this were only a joke
- 07:20 - Got space junk? Hire the banana guy!
- 08:31 - Writer award goes to...
- 09:22 - James critiques "Death Becomes Her" because he is a zombie
- 09:45 - Catherine gets triggered by book reviewer
- 10:48 - Let librarians library!
- 11:30 - No common sense, people suck, let's stay home
- 13:00 - Can someone else's preferences define our discomfort?
- 14:48 - Hyperbole for hyperbole
- 15:58 - We're already on that slippery slope
- 17:15 - Netflix, just chill
- 19:24 - Prices up, content down, Star Trek gone
- 21:50 - Nobody wants advertising!
- 22:25 - James reminisces, DVDs to streaming
- 23:54 - Breaking down the niches
- 25:37 - Catherine just wants to watch everything!
- 27:30 - High prices for crap?
- 28:59 - SubRant fever dreams get cancelled
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Show Topics
- UNESCO makes a holiday
- "Professional" artist?
- Billionaires and philanthropy (or the lack there of)
- Trashing Amazon
- Artistic activism
- Wearing Rembrandt
- Math-nerd moment
Show Notes
- 00:15 - "World Art Day" is every day
- 01:20 - What is a profession really?
- 02:07 - Artists just don't get paid!
- 02:58 - Show note refund / RISD with an extra "E"
- 04:20 - MacKenzie Scott is a generous "22%-er"
- 05:10 - Critiquing a billionaire short list
- 06:54 - "...and the douche-bag is..."
- 07:50 - Turned off by Amazon
- 09:30 - Dumpster diving proves a point
- 10:30 - A new take on "sticker shock", but is it art?
- 12:00 - Alexandra Skochilenko "awaiting trial" for creative protest
- 12:36 - Seems like yarn graffiti
- 14:15 - Representative Cori Bush is a "positivist"?
- 16:30 - Creativity, courage and blank signs!
- 17:45 - Now that's "wearable art"!
- 19:14 - Hands down, it's a an interesting bracelet!
- 20:00 - Cooper Hewitt snags original, but there were 10!
- 21:40 - "Golden Ratio" is not just for nerds
- 22:05 - Fibonacci sequence obsession
- 24:00 - Random quote not previously covered
- 24:28 - "Mini-Madoff" and out!
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- Must leave home
- Mushrooms are everywhere
- Shoutout to Arizona LD 2 Democrats!
- Bedazzling garbage
- Don't feed the birds
- Shoulda Dropped Out of RISD
Show Notes
- 00:05 - Time for Catherine to leave the house
- 01:50 - No camping for James
- 02:39 - Fungus objection
- 03:20 - Human brain: art project on mushrooms!
- 04:55 - Portobello prose?
- 06:12 - "Annoyingly pretentiously tedious"
- 08:00 - Organic molded work
- 09:20 - Abandon crypto for mushrooms
- 11:00 - "Inter-species" collaboration in a Phoenix art space
- 12:00 - After our first podcast it was all downhill
- 12:55 - Links for Arizona LD 2 Democrats running for state legislature
- Rep. Judy Schwiebert: Twitter, Facebook, website, and newsletter
- Jeanne Casteen for LD2 State Senate: website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
- LD2 Dems: website, newsletter, monthly meeting, Facebook, and Twitter
- 13:05 - Weekly Events to support AZ LD 2
- 14:10 - Cheetos and crystals
- 17:00 - "Swarovski-lying" garbage for consumerism
- 18:00 - Everyone, play with your food!
- 19:17 - Ignore Catherine and her fever dreams
- 20:25 - James uncovers the geodesic mystery
- 21:30 - Hemp "legos" for houses
- 23:15 - Cheeto-sphere vs. peanut butter pinecone
- 24:07 - "Sam, have you seen Americans?"
- 25:50 - James sounds like a hippie
- 26:31 - Sam (and James) went to RISD
- 27:27 - Do a "real power move", drop out!
- 28:24 - This is the worst podcast on the planet