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SubRant cohosts touch on eyeballs and pie while drafting their own conspiracy theories and pondering the place of AI in art history.
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00:15 - Cream pie and a left eye
01:15 - No turkey, no salmon!
02:30 - Sweet words at Thanksgiving
03:25 - Uncles and conspiracies
05:05 - Crazy takes a "right"?
06:18 - Twitter chugs along
06:55 - Swastikas are not in vogue
08:00 - James unveils a conspiracy theory!
08:45 - How Is AI Changing Art History?
09:55 - Up in arms about detachment
11:00 - Directing AI or minions, what's the difference?
13:15 - Circuitous discourse on historical bias
14:00 - Modern Dream: How Refik Anadol Is Using Machine Learning and NFTs to Interpret MoMA's Collection
15:08 - Hold the hallucinations!
16:05 - Are we all just machines?
18:50 - "I see cubism"
19:50 - No talk of the show disappoints
21:30 - All ones and zeroes are the same
22:30 - Digital vs Physical
24:00 - The art of James
26:00 - Connection without nostalgia
27:45 - Mash-ups create new ideas
28:30 - AI is part of art history
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The "Second Annual Thanksgiving Show" where James and Catherine exude more delight for a Western image of China than for the holiday while pondering the benefits of video games.
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00:20 - We are Thanksgiving-holes!
01:35 - Costco unhinged over missing turkeys
02:30 - No chickens, eggs, or parking rant!
05:10 - Anything important already happened
05:55 - Missing Oreos
06:55 - Drop-bars, drop-bars everywhere
07:35 - FIFA shit show, Twitter meltdown
08:00 - It's also a gaming franchise!
08:40 - "If you want to play soccer, just go outside!"
09:00 - Gaming friendships
10:45 - Guy talk: weddings and kids?
12:00 - They came to his wedding!
12:50 - "Bit of stick" explained
14:10 - The begging billionaire list
16:00 - Smart but not so savvy?
17:30 - The "Twitter tone"
18:20 - Polling cop-out, still no landslide!
19:35 - Burning down the wealth
21:00 - Jung Kook at World Cup
21:30 - Playing lots of video games may benefit kids' brains
22:15 - Surgeons who game get good results
23:10 - Jen hides from the aliens!
22:20 - More research needed
25:00 - Strife, violence, and Marvel
25:30 - Finally some art to ponder!
27:00 - "This isn't China", it's how we see China
28:10 - Dior calligraphy
29:00 - "Fashion is art"
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James and Catherine view a Christie's art auction and the banning of E-bikes through the lens of classism, while questioning the goals of AI
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02:10 - James and the GIANT bike!
03:00 - Finally, a good Oreo cookie?
04:55 - Update: Christie's auction
07:00 - "They were all bangers"
07:30 - Thought we banned "art-speak"
07:55 - Through the lens of classism
09:00 - Swollen lithium batteries = havoc
11:20 - Bent iPhone battery ignites!
12:52 - "Lithium likes to burn a lot"
13:34 - Lovingly roasting Samsung
15:45 - James solves E-bike storage issue
16:50 - PSA: Risky in-app browsers
18:20 - inappbrowser.com
18:50 - Just stop clicking on ad links
20:45 - Crypto setback, so wait 5 years
21:55 - What's the AI goal?
23:00 - Triggered by ultrasound AI
23:45 - Judy Schweibert won & AZ midterm update
26:30 - Where are the visionaries?
27:05 - AI steamrolls, but who sets standards?
29:00 - James predicts break-through tech
29:55 - Runway re-run (next episode)
31:00 - Blown away (in a good way)
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James and Catherine unload on new phones, hyperlink irritants, and copyright restrictions before uncovering a tsunami of AI image generator talent
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00:03 - Late (again) for Halloween
00:35 - Old people get new phones
01:40 - Hell is in the link
03:10 - "Free your Apple news"
04:20 - Chihuahua eats AI "homework"
05:55 - James dabbles and hits gold !
07:30 - AI vs. living artists
09:15 - Copyright doesn't protect your vibe
10:08 - "Always room for robots!"
12:20 - Are they coming for all of our jobs?
12:58 - Copyright primer
14:45 - Is there protection for AI art?
16:00 - Legal vs. moral, plus trademark
17:40 - AI advancement moving fast!
18:20 - Removing references to living artists makes it harder (but not really)
19:50 - The value of knowing
21:45 - How Much "Art" Can There Be In Artificial Intelligence?
22:52 - Second place winner speaks out
24:24 - Who really owns the creative output?
25:40 - Save time, just draw it!
26:05 - AI selfie filter fail
26:50 - "Draw Anyone" (with three arms?)
28:15 - Backwards AI gets snarky!
28:42 - Selfie roast
30:55 - Spicing up a "too nice" internet?
31:27 - James appeals to human kindness, then recants
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Catherine and James riff on Cezanne, plead for curatorial intelligence, and dismiss "Process Art"
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00:10 - No disarray here!
01:05 - "Kay-enne" got too hot for Adidas
02:20 - Flat Earth AI Zombies push a button
04:24 - James is a bit of a troll
05:24 - "Wait! We get a lot of hate?"
06:35 - SubRant t-shirts not disappointing
08:00 - We see, therefore, Cezanne
10:05 - Static, roving, is it that deep?
11:00 - Teardown of the stare-down
12:41 - Impressionism interrupted
14:00 - Plea for curatorial common sense
15:30 - From Impressionism to Midwifery
16:10 - Addressing Western-centrism
18:00 - Distortion and evisceration gone wild
18:35 - "Cezanne, I'm glad he did it!"
19:40 - Imagining Cezanne's process-timeline
20:40 - Process + end product = art?
22:00 - Thinking of Da Vinci
23:05 - "The work is the art. and everything else is a prelude"
24:00 - If the "process" is also art, how does this apply to AI generated images?
24:30 - Stay tuned for more AI
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Catherine and James laud a MET facade, but trash "art speak", selling dead people's collections, cold soup, and burning 'art'.
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James and Catherine "nerd rant" about tech platforms, Minotaur teeth, and the curious trend of whole house doodling.
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00:05 - "Old people don"t need new phones"
00:20 - "Prey" panoramic followup
02:00 - 300 year evolution of "The Predator"
03:05 - Hollywood butchers technology
04:20 - James repos quote, shoves Plato off cliff
05:05 - Google nerd-rant - Stadia: DONE
07:00 - Treading water with Search and Mail
09:30 - Hey YouTube, remember Flickr?
10:27 - Silly Google, Docs is for kids!
11:00 - Lame VR and the developers who won't use it
12:00 - Instagram hack!
13:07 - Secure your passwords and don"t use Facebook log-in
14:35 - "Mr. Doodle does" wall drawings!
15:18 - Gettin a superficial Haring vibe
16:45 - Buys house and doodles it!
17:13 - "Graffiti Spaghetti" for lunch?
18:15 - Do doodles need color?
19:30 - Mr. Doodle freestyle
20:22 - Revisiting Polina Rayko , self-taught Ukrainian artist
22:36 - James is a doodler
23:10 - Ron's House : Minotaur Head And Lion Is Discovered In Rented Birkenhead Flat
24:45 - Nerds contemplate minotaur teeth and other points of fiction
26:25 - Put some effort into your art!
29:40 - "They always go for the ceilings"
30:50 - Doodle camouflage
31:13 - Halloween t-shirt plug!
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Catherine and James waffle on selling their cars while dissecting potential changes to S. Korean net neutrality and crowning RM as the best art critic!
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00:05 - Selling our cars?
02:35 - Forget new tires, just buy a new car!
04:10 - Hybrid Maverick: The "exciting" choice
07:10 - The biggest issue of the week! (Or not)
07:35 - James explains net neutrality and data access fees
08:55 - No more "Baby Shark or BTS" scares Catherine
09:30 - S. Korean ISPs want to charge more, James breaks it down!
12:12 - Just don't interrupt Catherine's Korean content!
14:00 - James calls out a "dick move" and rights a "slippery slope"
15:35 - "The world is coming to an end and we're all going to be isolated"
16:45 - A usage fee bill from Argentina?
18:00 - SubRant saves the Internet!
18:58 - Appeal to S. Korean legislators to not mess with success!
19:50 - Temporarily annoyed with "art critic" RM?
21:45 - "RM is the Liz Cheney of the art world!"
22:45 - James implements a usage fee to deliver thoughts to your head
23:30 - Bad analogies, free speech, and TV
25:15 - The expensive neighborhood road
26:34 - A soothing perspective
28:10 - Territorial women's wear (for a new Arizona reality)
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Catherine and James eviscerate flat earth theory and the zombified appetite for "alternate realities" while predicting the future of AI "art".
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00:10 - Honey Bear's rescue story!
01:30 - James describes a real dog
02:10 - New format flop
02:30 - TikTok Flat Earth hilarity
03:45 - She gotta be trolling!
05:10 - Reason begone, here comes the wacky!
05:45 - Ignorance or boredom? Who cares!
06:15 - Stupidity rises like cream on social media
07:05 - Does the appetite for "alternate realities" affect how we see art?
07:45 - Colorado State Fair vs. AI generated art
08:05 - AI image generator: Midjourney
10:00 - "Hand of the artist" is now "your mind"!
11:20 - Riffing from Hudson River , but did anyone know (or care?)
14:30 - Questions remain re: digital image sourcing and "sampling"
17:49 - Image synthesis via latent diffusion
18:25 - Search yourself (and your art) LAION-5B
21:10 - Robots are coming for your creativity!
22:40 - Put me in your database and re-use my work!
23:20 - Severed head Phoestivus
26:33 - Interest equals value!
27:50 - "Watching the death of artistry..."
28:20 - Art communities ban AI generated images
29:43 - James looks into an AI crystal ball
31:20 - At last, James is correct!
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Catherine and James discuss the "greatest conspiracy in ancient art" while summarily dismissing Minimalism, Architecture, and Modern Design.
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00:10 - Cohost identifies as chromophobic, but not really?
00:48 - The Greatest Conspiracy In Ancient Art
01:05 - Breaking news: Ancient monochromatic statues are just faded
02:14 - Natural weathering takes a toll
02:43 - The "art historian elites" object!
03:40 - Restoration erases patina and the passage of time
05:05 - Refurbish recoil and "The Archer"
06:10 - Nobody paints Baby in a corner!
07:15 - "Ancient ancient" color gap
11:07 - Going mad with color!
12:37 - Clean away the goth (and forget Plato)!
13:24 - High Renaissance ghostly minimalism
14:05 - Michelangelo was the first Western abstract artist!
15:09 - "Hard no" on "nipple tattoo"
16:04 - Black, white, and grey = garbage palette
18:15 - James has a purple door (but it's actually red)
20:25 - "Visual stillness" vs design degradation
21:05 - Architectural stasis
23:05 - Arcosanti
24:38 - "Modern humans are just boring"
25:40 - Arcosanti bell loses a dangle
26:15 - Christopher shows up and ends the show
