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Prom wear, vomiting Keurigs, Brutalist 'art', and the questionable artistic judgement of the Supreme Court
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00:20 - In sync and slacking!
02:40 - Local suit maker place saves the day!
03:35 - Graduate, and graduate again
05:45 - Prepping for Yellowstone
06:05 - Bathroom beat goes on
07:00 - cannabis and basil plants equally doomed under Catherine's care
10:05 - Brutalist art find in backyard barn
11:30 - Milk glass and Phoenix Lamps
12:04 - Brutalist "art" is a stretch
13:55 - Possibly Marcello Fantoni?
14:35 - Brass, bronze, steel, who knows
17:08 - Just clobber me with basic form
19:20 - Brutalist pieces will survive!
21:15 - Keurig catastrophe
23:00 - Feeling guarana
24:45 - Non sentient AI: Tool or threat?
25:45 - Warhol not transformative!
27:55 - Should judges "judge" art?
30:20 - A derivative slippery slope
31:10 - Siding with Warhol in a "bathtub full of bland"
32:20 - Just use Midjourney
34:14 - It's all derivative
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Even with no f***s to give, James and Catherine fill 38 minutes with movies and mummies before pondering humanity's precipice and agreeing that most art (other than "Jaws" props) is disposable.
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James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art
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00:30 - Hope and bikes on the ceiling
02:30 - Ghosted by a chihuahua
04:15 - It's gonna take years!
05:00 - Normal American hoarder?
07:00 - No boxes from Temu!
08:40 - James debunks a dog harness
10:20 - Instagram algorithm whiners
12:45 - More whining about Lichtenstein 'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein
13:54 - Seeing the "Ben-Day" dots
15:00 - Disposable illustration, pop-art
16:00 - "It's called stealing", said Hy Eisman, but James has a different take!
18:00 - Appropriation vs plagiarism
20:29 - Seeing "BLAM"!
21:25 - American Art Industrial Complex squashes comic collage
23:18 - Isn't art disposable?
26:15 - Chinese website snatched James' image and used it for a logo!
29:21 - "WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein And The Art Of Appropriation" documentary
31:10 - AI similarities?
32:21 - Intellectually interesting, but not analogous
33:27 - Lichtenstein IS pop-art, Warhol isn't
34:16 - Not a transformative soup can, but good enough to steal!
35:24 - "Come play with us forever"
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SubRant touches on 3-D printers and lauds Chewy before breaking down the rise of Chinese apps, fear of a marble penis, and "loving them some Google".
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00:01 - "Zoom hates me"
01:13 - Multiple states of disarray
02:45 - Metal mushrooms & 3-D printers
03:00 - Better call Chewy !
03:10 - Dara Starr Tucker feeds cats
05:29 - Buying a 3-D printer tips!
08:00 - Hooked on Chinese apps
08:29 - Temu "haul"
10:00 - More socks and dog harnesses!
11:05 - James ruins Catherine's day
12:07 - American tech dulling us down?
13:15 - TikTok attack!
14:55 - Stupid folks saying hateful things
15:25 - Everyone hates JK Rowling?
17:05 - Mainstreaming vitriol
17:25 - Contemplating Tennessee
18:40 - "John McCain Party" is dead
19:30 - More bad news from Florida: Italian art experts astonished by David statue uproar in Florida
20:50 - Defining pornography, duh!
21:25 - "David" takeaways
22:40 - Deconstructing the ding-dong
23:37 - "Tyranny of the minority"
24:30 - Section-off the "wacky", please!
26:40 - Good luck re-investing in a loser!
27:04 - "I wish you well" , Gwyneth Paltrow
27:59 - Gen Z loves them some Google
29:30 - NASA or Disney more interesting!
31:00 - Follow up on "Fake-squiat"
33:10 - Insta-spam!
35:00 - Cleo, unleashed!
35:55 - Riding on the Metro!
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SubRant discusses aliens, Valley Metro Lite Rail, public art and real estate with realtor Andrew Richwine
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00:07 - "We do aliens"
00:30 - Welcome Andrew Richwine , Realtor, The Tribe - Keller Williams
01:45 - Andrew's story
03:40 - Green energy AND Lite Rail can move 1500 people every 3 minutes!
06:30 - Valley Metro App
09:22 - Lite Rail expansion projects and memories of Metro Center
13:45 - Biking from Phoenix to Tempe!
15:10 - Bad "flips" and "Where B&B?"
19:25 - Worst client? We don't do those.
23:00 - Preparing for a listing
26:05 - Photographing your old house
31:00 - Tribe Takeover and gimbal gaff!
32:40 - SubRant Podcast is persistent
37:22 - Lite Rail art installations
43:00 - Rail connections = community connections
45:05 - Keeping community businesses afloat
47:55 - Comic book stores, sewing machines, enlightenment, and sleep
52:00 - Lite Rail "honor system"
54:10 - First Friday is still happening?
55:40 - Songbird Coffee House
56:50 - Favorite art spaces 1 & 2
57:50 - Buying houses near the lite rail
01:01:36 - Photo vampire needed
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SubRant co-hosts get no credit for coining AI job title, so they defined "sweeping the floor" while reveling in the shards of a Balloon Dog.
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00:20 - SubRant (kinda) said it first
00:40 - Groot sucks
02:30 - Prompt Engineer?
04:17 - A totally unbiased review of Microsoft certifications
05:30 - Dissecting a "high-leverage skill"
06:15 - Is this the job of the future?
07:15 - SubRant abandons all hope?
09:40 - Prompts available!
10:30 - James has sci-fi panel rant
12:00 - Human to human, AI is AI
13:08 - Return to NFT
14:14 - Startup + day trading + NFTs = 🤮
15:05 - "Sweeping the floor" defined
16:51 - TLDR: Avoid NFTs
17:15 - Jeff Koons: Visitor Breaks Iconic Balloon Dog "Sculpture" in Miami
17:45 - Touch it, don't touch it!
19:18 - Puppy down
20:35 - Just buy it at Neiman Macros
21:15 - Isn't all performance art an accident?
21:35 - Stupid shard story!
23:10 - Million-plus dollar rabbit
24:15 - Kinkade the crap out of it
24:55 - James is the star
26:45 - Nod to "Shitty Craft Club"
27:02 - "Don't Groot me!"
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This week on SubRant we question copyright law, search for Banksy's missing freezer, and go to war over a Super Bowl ad.
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00:15 - Catherine gets "topic ambushed"!
00:35 - Hypothetical: Copyright "all or nothing"
06:01 - Voting for a shorter copyright timeframe!
07:00 - Can't remake "Babylon 5 ", so watch "The Expanse "
07:30 - "Great ideas just go off and die because big corporations hold the copyright."
07:50 - Chihuahua update: 10 pounds!
08:45 - "Valentines Day Mascara "
09:30 - Banksy website image
10:00 - The freezer was removed ! Twice!
11:15 - Leave street art and Valentines Day alone!
13:15 - Cats, dogs, and "Velcro"
14:05 - Super Bowl depression
15:35 - James cinched win for Chiefs!
15:58 - The divisive Jesus commercial
16:40 - Catherine prefers beer commercials
17:30 - Responding to confrontational imagery
17:42 - "Human" (Rag n Bone Man )
18:03 - "Jesus loves the people you hate"
19:15 - Both sides of the aisle lost their minds!
20:43 - "He Gets Us" has an agenda !
23:30 - James defines fascism
24:40 - Two fascist households
26:00 - No time for the twisted
27:35 - Just take a nice message at "face value "
29:00 - A "bad take" or calling out a "slippery slope"?
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James and Catherine reconvene to ponder Twitter, fawn over vintage Legos, and marvel at 3-D printers while saving the planet using freeze dried coffee.
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00:20 - Plaything formerly known as Twitter
00:50 - Hello Mastodon!
01:45 - Algorithms are (21st century) life
02:30 - Lego redux and 3-D printers
03:35 - Fancy hot glue gun (AKA 3-D printer )
07:25 - Paraglider drops in, smashes house
10:50 - Coffee is ruining the earth
12:28 - Lifecycle of a coffee bean
15:40 - Landfills are for sequestering
17:55 - "Dose" is key and freeze-dried wins!
19:20 - James saves the environment, one cup of Keurig at a time!
21:55 - How about just drinking less coffee?
22:28 - Gas stoves fuel culture war
24:00 - Most of Florida passes (on) gas
25:05 - Induction is magic!
25:45 - The Nigerian AI artist reimagining a stylish old age
26:30 - "Fashion Show For Seniors" via AI
27:30 - Finally, the fingers look like fingers!
28:25 - AI comes through (again) as creative tool!
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Twitter's "Meltdown" sets a festive mood as our SubRant co-hosts continue their AI deep-dive via ArtStation protests and opt-out image training before going to war over Christmas!
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00:05 - Moods and (tile) meltdowns
01:15 - The "bots" have spoken!
02:15 - "Are we having free speech yet?"
02:45 - Dear Elon, links are the web...
03:15- Just dial "1-900-Twitter"
04:35 - A CEO fall-guy?
06:10 - Tesla, SpaceEx, Star Link
07:18 - NFT's are flying off the shelves!
08:45 - It's only a head-shot!
10:45 - Real tough guys wear Aviator glasses
12:15 - Drive-by Vegan burger
12:50 - Artists Protest After ArtStation Features AI-Generated Images
13:45 - "Explore" the flood-plain
14:05 - Artstation Website
14:55 - Your lane is over there!
15:10 - Art station makes it worse?
16:05 - Opt-out, opt-in?
16:30 - Issues, issues, issues
18:17 - Was it doxing?
20:18 - "We're all re-compilers!"
21:12 - What's your definition of free speech?
22:43 - Christmas soap opera
22:59 - Riffusion's AI generates music from text using visual sonograms
24:26 - Six prompts yield similar results, all bad
25:04 - "Gayatri Mantra" AI-style
25:57 - "One Minute After New Year's Eve"
26:22 - Battlestar Galactica finale disconnect
27:31 - Costco membership woes?
28:30 - Christmas every 4 years? NOPE
29:00 - Blame SubRant!
29:50 - Durable Medical Equipment Festivities
30:00 - Wrapping dog presents!
