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Show Themes
- All kinds of drought
- PC Gaming
- Show note PSA
- Instagram hate
- Mannequin Madness
- Prey follow-up
- Huge conspiracy next episode!
Show Notes
- 00:20 - Cohost identifies as the "Lake Mead" of emotional support
- 01:00 - Abbreviated Southern California cringe
- 01:46 - So many Kardashians, so little water
- 02:15 - Stallone (and 1599 others) exceed water usage
- 02:20 - "Let Them Eat Koi" revisited!
- 05:20 - Thirty years of creeping water shortages
- 06:30 - "Can you spell privilege?"
- 07:50 - PlayStation sued in UK, but why?
- 08:45 - James puts gaming in perspective
- 10:00 - "What's the point? That was my point!" (Huh?)
- 10:30 - Console and platform subrant
- 13:30 - Listeners spared, contact James for more!
- 14:40 - Show notes PSA: Scroll, read, links, follow!
- 16:00 - I wear my (denim) sunglasses on Instagram!
- 18:23 - Idiot "feather ruffling" yields more idiocy
- 20:30 - Contemplating Plato (or not)
- 21:00 - Thank you "Mannequin Madness" for the "butts"!
- 22:20 - Triggered by a plastic belly button, please send help! (It wasn't the belly button)
- 22:36 - "Prey" follow-up
- 23:12 - "Predator was a better action movie, Prey was a better film" (Plato)
- 25:15 - Badass, not revisionist
- 27:20 - Muddying up the "mud scene"
- 29:00 - The "no subtitle" Predator-Prey thread
- 31:10 - Trying everything or barely trying?
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Show Themes
- Prey (2022) and Predator (1987)
- High tech litter boxes
- AI generated images vs editorial illustration
- Again with the dead cow head
Show Notes
- 00:18 - Let's both not talk about the movie you didn't see
- 00:58 - Newsflash: There is no "Prey 1"
- 02:00 - Catherine answers a citizenship question
- 03:00 - Streaming negates need for movie theaters
- 04:15 - James recommends "Prey" (2022), revisits "Predator" (1987)
- 07:18 - No spoilers here, just a Hollywood ending
- 09:35 - "Predator" is a better action film, "Prey" is a better movie
- 10:47 - Trolls in a twist
- 12:15 - No subtitles for "French Klingon"
- 13:40 - Cat poop in AI headlines
- 14:20 - Cat litter is incredibly exciting?
- 16:00 - Cats openly mock litter box technology
- 18:00 - Nothing about this is AI, so just look at you cat
- 20:35 - AI-generated digital art spurs debate about News illustrations
- 21:50 - James breaks down AI
- 24:25 - Comparing editorial illustration to AI generated images (DALL-E)
- 26:57 - Is this just image sampling or will it evolve creatively?
- 28:00 - The hubris of overcoming bias
- 29:20 - Is your bias really your perspective?
- 31:50 - Random connections generate new ideas
- 33:02 - James leaves, Catherine talks to herself
- 34:15 - We probably shouldn't ignore DALL-E!
- 35:05 - Plastic wins at our demise!
- 36:00 - In: AI all the way! Out: dead cow heads!
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Show Themes
- Netflix v Hulu
- Lalapalooza
- New mannequin
- De-globalization in the arts
- "Old Masters" on caring walls
- Milagros and street art
Show Notes
- 00:30 - Swapping Hulu for Netflix (for now)
- 01:10 - "HobiPalooza" soothed an aching soul!
- 01:45 - Shower, tea, phone off for J-Hope!
- 02:20 - James is an English teacher
- 03:07 - Better K-drama translation?
- 04:15 - Ghost stories more believable than the news?
- 05:00 - James makes Hulu recommendations
- 06:45 - Town of "Fish Kill" doesn't kill fish
- 07:50 - Mannequin mocking
- 10:10 - Who needs a head?
- 10:40 - Insane cyclists of Scotland
- 11:45 - De-globalization Hits the Art World (or does it?)
- 12:22 - Unwinding vs fracturing vs bullshit
- 14:25 - Art: Means to an end vs end in itself?
- 14:55 - Just say "Plato"
- 16:10 - Art blockbuster shows, niche museums, community focus
- 17:15 - Collection sell-off debate
- 21:45 - Deaccessioning? Just say "selling"!
- 22:30 - Catherine gets emotional about art preservation
- 23:15 - James subrants on the lies and lies of the artworld!
- 25:00 - 30-year China trend?
- 26:40 - "The 'China-nization' of Hong Kong"
- 27:00 - SF MOMA Mural, Healing and Milagros
- 27:12 - 100 Day Project Celebrating Essential Workers 100 Days Action's Art for Essential Workers
- 27:55 - Suenos Imports
- 29:27 - "Mural-ized" street art
- 30:15 - Hope comes full circle: Meaning of Milagros
- 31:17 - Must start with cats!
- 31:35 - I'm a dog person
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- Van Gogh "hidden" portrait
- Secret mirrors and Cracker Jack Buddhas
- AI image generators
Show Notes
- 00:38 - Van Gogh portrait found behind "Head of a Peasant Woman"
- 01:08 - James makes a case for "peasant-core"
- 01:35 - Random x-rays, but why?
- 02:02 - "I thought the painting was depressing"
- 02:25 - Breaking down curator boredom
- 03:12 - Impasto faux pas... Rembrandt not Van Gogh!
- 04:45 - It's simple - canvass is expensive.
- 06:12 - Van Gogh was "a broke ass painter"
- 06:30 - Buddha Buddha on the wall. How did you get there?
- 07:25 - "Mystery purchase" at Tucson Gem Show
- 08:12 - Cracker Jack enlightenment
- 10:45 - Are there more mysteries in plain sight? Probable not.
- 11:56 - All the kids are doing it? (AI image generators)
- 13:30 - Why AI? It's not art, it's a tool https://www.craiyon.com
- 14:20 - Joan of Arc eating ice cream
- 15:43 - Georgia O'Keefe painted cats?
- 18:10 - Cats in the "style" of Damien Hurst look like Laurel Burch https://www.laurelburch.com
- 19:08 - James is DALL-E wait-listed
- 21:00 - Unintended scarcity?
- 22:28 - Generating "fun spaghetti"
- 22:50 - "Nefarious" experimentation yielded freakish results!
- 24:00 - "Hack-a-thon" and curated image database
- 25:40 - Let's just leave it!
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Show Notes
- Grace Habib of Shop Refugee part of GoTen
- Grace started as an English teacher with GoTen
- Seamstress volunteers wanted to start Sewing class started 2021
- Grace shifted from English teaching to running Shop Refugee full time
- Stared by rebranded Shop Refugee
- Expanded classes and has its own workshop (20 person max)
- Loving Covers helped out with material donations in the beginning
- Sourcing material locally
- City Serve (Amazon, Walmart, and CostCo returns)
- Sheer fabric = Scrunchy
- Mesh netting = produce bags
- Environmentally friendly process
- 95% of sales goes to seamstress
- Business owners now coming to Shop Refugee for seamstresses
- Noggin Boss
- Seamstresses are contract working and can work at home at their pace
- Bead trade of Murano
- Welcome Cookie!
- Grace rents out her wedding arch and a mogul is born!
- Grace's marketing side hustle
- We need to support more refugees
- Parolees from Afganistan
- Refugee is a legal status
- Spread the world!
- The Rock as the model
- Requests welcome!
- Sewing machines are awesome
- Farmer's markets
- World Refugee Day Phoenix College
- Retail stores:
- Phoenix eats batteries and tires!
- Success stories from the class
- Rapha House
- Donations (fabric and thread)!
- Aug 18 - Meeting for volunteers
- Insha'Allah
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Show Notes
- 00:15 - Tired of "adulting"
- 00:45 - Disregard SubRant dating advice
- 01:40 - The Met is not MOMA!
- 02:00 - Catherine doesn't listen to James!
- 02:50 - SubRant stickers buy a Lamborghini
- 03:20 - Episode 55 is important (?)
- 03:59 - All politics are local
- 04:45 - Hospitals waste time and plastic (and lives)
- 06:10 - Pink plastic (from one room) fills the dump!
- 07:15 - James has a suggestion for hospital performance art
- 07:45 - What would happen if we stopped using plastic?
- 08:35 - Hypothetical plastic recycling
- 09:53 - Sequester plastic so it doesn't kill us
- 11:10 - Glass water bottles kind of suck
- 12:15 - Glass is no picnic either
- 14:05 - Conquering the world in just 70 years
- 14:34 - Hard pass on intelligence and sacrifice
- 15:45 - Can't grow your own in Phoenix
- 16:30 - James has faith in good engineering
- 17:35 - Fewer cows would be nice
- 18:40 - Thirteen uses to offset carbon footprint
- 19:30 - Baffled by K-pop and BTS
- 20:15 - Kim Nam Joon, art enthusiast
- 20:25 - RM fans flood art museum
- 22:10 - Is it just a passing fad?
- 24:17 - James gives it one shrug (WTF?)
- 26:45 - Who is on your list of favorite modern artists?
- 29:00 - Vicarious expansion via Instagram
- 30:00 - Contemplating "Namjooning"
- 30:40 - James wants a study, but is it necessary?
- Weverse
- 32:50 - Moving to Italy but visiting ROK
- 33:29 - Fingers crossed!
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Show Topics
- The disfunction in the Arizona legislature
- The problems Arizonians are actually facing
- Fighting the wave of extreme legislation from The American Legislative Exchange Council
- The distraction of the "Culture Wars"
- The trajectory of Womens Rights in America
- Let's do better
- The Arizona State Budget and the 5.3 billion dollar surplus
- School vouchers
- School Choice - we already have it!
- Super majority for voter initiative
- Ice cream vs cake
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Show Topics
- Earth vs. Mars
- Top 5, No Surprise!
- Trail Stories
- Instagram Artist Sells High
- Frode Bolhuis
Show Notes
- 00:15 - A better world or Mars
- 00:50 - Rovers with no soul
- 01:15 - Half of global art sales, but is the art interesting?
- 01:30 - L.A. makes "Top 5" art city list
- 02:15 - California, Mars, what's the difference?
- 02:50 - New York, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami
- 03:50 - "Bananas, duct tape, invisible art" in Miami
- 04:05 - Is the "creative center" really in Seoul?
- 05:00 - Has NY lost its "artsy" edge?
- 05:40 - "The Getty" ruined a biking trail
- 06:20 - James gets dumped (on the worst trail ini Phoenix)!
- 08:00 - A wash and a boulder
- 08:50 - Tom Thumb trashed toenails
- 09:30 - Underrepresenting women in art
- 11:00 - North Mountain in the dark
- 12:20 - Strava tracks your stuff?
- 14:31 - Social media intelligence test?
- 15:35 - "I Am Not a Robot" tests don't care if you're a robot
- 16:50 - Instagram artist makes good!
- 17:35 - Liking the still lifes and "Godzilla"
- 19:40 - Tiny figures make me happy! Frode Bolhuis
- 21:28 - Human form, human psyche
- 23:14 - Kinda like Pinocchio?
- 24:04 - Intuitive Alarm!
- 25:30 - It takes this village (to make interesting people)
- 26:05 - Daily creativity
- 27:35 - Actually discussed art!
- 28:02 - We're both done!
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Show Topics
- Tim Sprague - Real Estate Developer - Phoenix, AZ
Show Notes
- 00:10 - Welcome Tim Sprague!
- 01:00 - Tim's story: "I got thrown into the deep end of the pool!"
- 03:00 - Prime interest rate comparison provides perspective
- 04:19 - Crazier than the 1980's!
- 04:27 - COVID, world economy, supply chain issues, Ukraine
- 05:15 - Tim is "pro-Phoenix", but it took awhile
- 05:45 - Waiting for cold tap water...
- 08:00 - Desert biome sunsets are the best!
- 10:43 - Courage, school of hard knocks, transforming community
- 11:40 - Applying lessons from bigger urban centers
- 12:15 - Cultivating arts, culture, and design into buildings
- 12:30 - Oasis on Grand - Affordable Housing for Artists
- 15:00 - Funding affordable living and political challenges
- 15:55 - Stratified Economic Housing
- 17:20 - Greenfield development vs in-fill projects
- 18:30 - Urban sprawl taxes community infrastructure
- 20:00 - Walkable communities, neighbors, being known
- 22:00 - Good design beats fashion
- 23:40 - Found:Re - Hotel and Gallery
- 27:01 - Arizona "Art Boutique Hotel" for all facets of art
- 28:35 - Not pretentious, not fussy, just beautiful art
- 29:08 - "Industrial Chic" and good lighting!
- 31:10 - "Cracking the egg" on in-fill development
- 32:38 - Roosevelt Action Association in response to 1-10 expansion
- 33:35 - Margaret T. Hance Park, the most invisible park in the country
- 34:12 - "The Golden Spike" joins East and West freeways
- 35:48 - Tim listens (and repeats!)
- 36:35 - "Creativity means generating ideas, good design pays for itself"
- 37:35 - "Everything we really care about is based on a story"
- 38:10 - Tim tells a story about his grandfather
- 39:10 - Tim will return in "Drought Talk"
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Show Topics
- Deep dive into Minecraft
- Plumber shout out!
- Multiple follow-ups
- MET does good website!
- People and art students suck
- Betty Rubble
Show Notes
- 00:18 - Catherine chooses coffee over Bedrock
- 01:00 - Microsoft emails James
- 01:30 - History of Minecraft, the original blocky world
- 03:15 - Scripting, cross-platform, running native? What?
- 03:55 - SubRant embraces "tech geek world"
- 04:30 - Everything leads to "The Flintstones"
- 05:20 - Plumber shout out!
- 06:20 - Expansion tank saves the day!
- 06:44 - Nicholas is also a "Grocery Store Superstar"!
- 07:55 - Fake Bird surveillance joke follow up
- 09:25 - We're not art lawyers, but Catherine will test the waters
- 10:00 - We're not scientists either, so below are alternate sources
- 11:25 - James is a ruthless self-promoter (not)
- 12:05 - Now here's a really good museum website!
- 12:26 - MET Fly-through videos!
- 13:00 - "Fake" follow-up about curator responsibility
- 14:45 - Mona Lisa eats cake
- 16:40 - Breaking News: "People suck"
- 17:12 - James makes a case for cannibalism
- 17:50 - Groceries going MIA
- 18:58 - Forget Durango, just camp in San Francisco
- 21:15 - Details are important (and interesting)
- 22:10 - Marks of the mono print
- 23:26 - Intaglio embarrassment: Catherine gets mocked in art class
- 25:17 - Garbage torso painting is difficult because it's garbage!
- 26:20 - Education theory according to James
- 26:55 - Betty Rubble
- 27:25 - At least the plumbers are listening!
