Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Bradford

Trapping a moment of reality in time. Well, hey there. Welcome back. As someone who’s recorded over 300 of these episodes, I’ve become aware of something. And it might surprise you to know that I’ve listened to these, each one of them, probably at least twice. And no, it’s not because of some narcissistic need to hear my own lovely voice—why, thank you for saying that! It’s because I… I listen for errors, I listen for sound levels and things, and I listen for one other thing. And that’s the thing I’d like to talk about today. Trapping Moments of Reality in (Digital) Communication Like these short episodes, every time you send a text message or an email, you’re essentially trapping a moment of reality in time. You are suggesting or saying or conveying something that reflects who you are at that very moment. And the minutiae of that moment is magnified by the fact that everything is so fast and so instant. You can have a thought and then send off a text message in literally a second or two. And I’m sure you’ve read things about, you know, don’t send when you’re angry, reread something you’ve sent, if you have heightened emotions perhaps you should write it and then send it later, and so forth. And those are all related to the thing I’m conveying right now. Ink to Instant Messages In the olden days, and I mean the olden olden days, people would write on a piece of paper, and it would take some time to get to the subject. And by subject, I mean the recipient. Writing something in ink meant you were going to be really careful about it. In fact, you might say it out loud a few times before you put your pen to paper. If you’ve read Three Voices, it means you’re using your third voice, the one I’m using right now, to say things out loud so that your second voice isn’t talking directly to the paper. And that’s an interesting concept. Three Voices Concept and Unfiltered Social Media So let me branch off here for a second. So, in my book Three Voices, I say your first voice is your gut reaction, your knee-jerk reaction, your internal yes/no. It’s the part of you that always tries to answer correctly, and a lot of times we don’t listen to it. And I use the example of: “Should I have this cake?” Well, and your first voice is, “No, no.” And then you say, “But I’ve been good! It’s been a long time since I’ve had cake, even though I shouldn’t have it right now.” So, we tend to overrule our first voice sometimes, and that’s when we run into some problems. The second voice is the most complicated. It’s our inner monologue, but it’s also our inner dialogue. It’s the voices in our head. It’s the fight we had with our spouse. It’s the argument with a client. It’s an interaction with someone that was really distasteful that we play back over and over and over again in the shower. It’s the voice of a parent saying something that a parent should never say. It’s those kind of things. And when you let those voices speak directly to a piece of paper, it’s bad. It’s far, far worse when that voice communicates directly to an electronic medium. Ladies and gentlemen, I reveal to you: social media. Specifically, Twitter, things like that. When you’re sitting in front of a keyboard and you read something that immediately creates an emotional reaction out of you, and your second voice is in full effect, and it communicates directly with the keyboard, which communicates directly with the upstream reality of millions of people, you can see how that’s a bad thing. Timeless Content vs. Reacting to the Moment So putting all the negatives and warnings aside, let’s get back to the third reason of why I listen to my podcast. And that’s because I want to make sure the thing that I’m conveying is something that is beyond the moment. It’s not something that I say, “Hey, I was at the store today and someone stepped on my foot and here’s how I feel about that,” which is 80% of LinkedIn posts, sorry. I want it to be something useful. I want it to be something you can listen to a few years later. And to my positive surprise, I have found that pretty much for the most part, the things that I’ve recorded are things that I can actually recommend to people that are 5 years old. Why Every Text Message is a Historical Snapshot of Who You Are Can you say that for texts that you’ve sent? Can you say that for emails that you’ve sent? Can you say that for policies and decisions that you’ve sent? Well, you know, we are evolving people. We are people who do change, and hopefully we change our opinions based on new and exciting facts. I’d like to think that we don’t change our core beliefs, because those should be core. That… that’s our first voice. That’s our instinct, our morals, our ethics, things like that. But when we gather more data, we should be able to sort of alter our perspective on things. And in those cases, you may have text messages that don’t exactly reflect who you are. But my fascination in this particular episode is with the fact that regardless of what you’re saying, regardless of what you’re thinking, regardless of how much you’re micromanaging your emotions, every single time you hit send, it’s done. It’s gone. It’s trapped in time. You’ve trapped a snapshot of who you are in time. And that in and of itself is really fascinating, isn’t it? I mean, what other… what other way can we do that? Obviously, if you take video and whatever form of media you’re taking, you’re still trapping yourself in time—or at least who you were at that moment, what you believed at that moment, what you were trying to convey. Man, that’s a lot of weight on your shoulders when you just want to say, “Can you pick up some eggs?” Overcommunication, Digital Wisdom, and Evolving Your Message So what I’m saying is, I guess we… we have to consider that weight. We have to consider how amazing it is to be able to do that. If you’re someone who struggles with overcommunication—hello!—you struggle with sort of trying to predict what the other person is thinking. You try to predict what other questions they may have. Now, obviously that can work in your favor if you’re someone who, oh, I don’t know, has a podcast or writes books, because that way you get to address a lot of the things that you can’t because you’re not in a dynamic communication with someone. You’re actually in a, “Hey, listen to this,” and you don’t get a say in what I’m saying. But it also means you add extra information, or you adjust your information because you’re… you can… you can think to yourself, “Oh, wow, I phrased it that way because I didn’t want you to be upset. I phrased it that way because I really wanted to focus on this instead of the other thing, but now that I mentioned that, that’s all you’re focusing on.” And it’s not just for personal communication. Obviously, people who are good at marketing know this all too well. They know what to mention and what not to mention, they know how large a font should be because that’s the important part of it, etc., and so forth. When people look back on their communication, sometimes they’re amazed and sometimes they cringe. I mean, think about if you kept a diary or journal when you were younger, and now you read it right now. You may have said that, “Oh my God, I can’t believe I’m going to be 30 years old sometime, that’s old,” and now you’re… and now you’re twice that. Having a historical record like this is really interesting. I mean, granted, if as part of your job, if you look back at your historical record for 5 years, all you see is, “Here are the Ferguson files. Let me know if you have questions.” And it’s just that same email over and over again, not a lot to look at, not a lot to examine historically. But the way that you compose your proposal, the way that you address your clients, the way that you follow up, the documents you include, the wording on the document, those are all things that you probably evolve with. My suggestion to you is first of all, just think about the enormity of what happens when you send a text or an email or something, and you say, “Wow, this is a moment in time I’m trapping.” And then, think about your documentation. And finally, judging yourself based on what you know now is sometimes unfair. If you’ve written something, sent something, believed something, and you look back on yourself and go, “Wow, I was dumb.” No. You just didn’t experience the wisdom you have now. And hopefully, I just added to that wisdom. As always, thank you for listening. Take care. Thank you for listening as always. Go to markbradford.org to see all my author-related things. Go to Alchemy for Life to see coaching, speaking, writing, and this podcast. Alchemy for Life theme by Mark Bradford and Alchemy for Life. All background music is by Audionautix and Jason Shaw.

What Most People Get Wrong About Dopamine But you’d be wrong. Well, hey there. Welcome back. I hope you brought a considerable amount of dopamine, because you’re going to need it. You hear that word a lot, don’t you? And when you hear dopamine, you think of reward, right? You think, “Oh, I got a dopamine hit.” You think of gambling and shiny things and all the reward circuits that your brain has for things in your life. You think of exercising and all the positive, healthy things that you do for dopamine. And then you think of the negative things that you do: the overeating and the eating the bad stuff and the sweets, and the other behaviors that perhaps you shouldn’t be engaging in at all or as much. But you’d be wrong. Most people are wrong about dopamine. I’m one of those people until recently. See, I just basically took a broad brush and went, “Oh, you get a dopamine hit, your brain squirts dopamine, and you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s the stuff.'” But no, oh, that’s not the stuff at all. How Brain Neurochemicals Drive Seeking So let’s talk about the four neurochemicals that are involved. Technically, three of them are neurotransmitters while one is a neuropeptide, but let’s go with neurochemicals. So here’s what you might be misunderstanding and why it’s so hard to sort of break out of certain loops of things, like doomscrolling and so forth. See, you’re focused on thinking, “Well, I’m just going to scroll until I hit something. It’s that reward and then I stop or whatever.” But it’s the… it’s the journey, not the destination. That’s your problem. That’s the problem with this stuff. So, in other words, you are getting these little microbursts of dopamine. But here’s what dopamine does: It actually keeps you seeking. It says, “Keep looking.” We’re in a state of of almost anxiousness and seeking. And that’s really what its function is. We need a healthy amount of dopamine because that keeps… it can put us in the zone, and it can keep us looking when we shouldn’t be looking. And that’s what happens when you’re scrolling. You get little tiny microbursts of dopamine that says, “Keep looking, keep looking, it’s here, it’s here, keep looking, keep looking.” The norepinephrine gets released when you think you’ve found something. It provides the clarity and focus. When you do find the thing that you’re like, “Oh yeah, that’s the stuff,” that’s when you get the endorphins and the serotonin. The endorphins are the reward. They’re actually a a painkiller, but they make us feel like we’re relieved. And then the serotonin gives us that that feeling of everything’s okay, like, “This is good. This is the good stuff.” The Dopamine Cycle and the Empty Room The problem with that is when you continue to get microbursts for an extended period of time, your brain sort of messes with the receptors and says, “Well, we need to we need to back off from this. This is… we’re getting flooded here.” So then, you start feeling it less, so you start doing it more. Do you see how that might be a problem? It would be analogous to you being put in a completely empty room. The dopamine says, “There’s something here, there’s something here.” So you’re looking and looking in the room and you see that it’s empty, but you’re like, “Well, maybe I haven’t checked every corner.” And you keep looking and looking and looking. And then you see something. So the norepinephrine kicks in and goes, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s let’s focus on that. I think that’s the thing you wanted.” And you look at it and you’re like, “No, this isn’t… this is a ball of yarn! I don’t want this.” But now you’re really looking. So you keep looking and keep looking with your friend dopamine and epinephrine… And then you find it. You finally find the treasure in there. It’s that thing, that thing you really wanted. Look at it! Just go get it. You go and you pick it up, and that’s when you get the endorphin, and then the serotonin kicks in. Ah, I’m so rewarded and I have so much calmness and satisfaction that I found this thing. But wait! “Maybe there are more things in this room,” says dopamine. “We should keep looking!” And that is the cycle that you’re basically repeating, whether you are doing the doomscrolling on Instagram or you are putzing around with something that has no real end or purpose. Okay, I’ve raised your awareness, now what? Why Long-Term Effort Doesn’t Cause Neurochemical Burnout Well, you might say, “Well, these are just biochemicals in your brain. These are these are not like foreign substances, so there’s got to be a real purpose for these, right? So how does that work?” Well, let’s compare this to doing something constructive. So if you really like your job, and since there are a gazillion jobs, let’s… let’s say writing a book, right? You sit down and you write a book, those chemicals are involved as well. Well, why doesn’t that burn out your brain? This is something I wanted to know, because as soon as I found this, I thought, “Well, wait a second. I have been able to sit down and repeatedly focus for months at a time to complete a novel or a book or research or what have you.” And I’ve told people that when I look at The Sword and the Sunflower and I look at how big and thick it is, I think, “My God, if somebody handed that to me and said, ‘I need you to write one of these,’ I’d say, ‘No, no, you don’t. I’m not doing that. That’s impossible.'” So why didn’t my neurotransmitters go, “Whoa, hold your horses here, uh-uh, I’m I’m burnt out”? And the difference is speed. So while the dopamine kept me seeking, it was a slow burn of effort. So if I stop the effort, everything else stopped. When you’re scrolling, you’re just flicking your thumb going, “Nope, nope, nope, maybe, I don’t know, nope, nope, nope, maybe, I don’t know.” And in fact, it’s so low effort that you could be watching TV or talking to someone and scrolling at the same time, and you probably shouldn’t do that. But you really have to focus if you’re looking at plot and characters and overarching things and and looking at the story as a whole and the outline and all that other great stuff. Harnessing Dopamine and Focus for Healthy Productivity And again, you’re probably coming up with analogies of what you do for a living and think, “Well, yeah, I have a lot of long-term, hard-focused things I have to do. I get lost in my spreadsheet, I get lost in my database, I get lost in my software, I get lost in discussions with clients.” So the dopamine is keeping you in that seeking state of wanting to talk to them, of wanting to write, of wanting to do. The norepinephrine keeps you alert and says, “Yeah, this is the thing that we wanted to focus on. Yeah.” In my case, it’s, “Yeah, this is the character development. Oh my God, this is what this person would definitely say here. Yes!” When you make those connections on your spreadsheet, when you make those connections with people in real life, and they say the things that you would ideally want them to say because they’re getting what you’re saying and you’re making the sale, or you’re making the connection, or you’re teaching something, that’s when you’re getting your endorphins and your serotonin. And that’s when you go, “Wow, what a rewarding job. This is what I like to do. I helped someone. I made a whole bunch of money. I taught someone something. This is good. I like this.” Same four neurochemicals applied in a way that’s healthy. Earned Rewards vs. the Cheap Thrill of Doomscrolling So moving forward, I think the most important thing to learn here is that it’s not about getting squirted with endorphins, it’s the constant squirt of dopamine. Dopamine is the real thing that we have to worry about. If you complete a difficult level, and then at the very end you’re rewarded with some sort of reward screen, a a spinny coin, or or a total goes up, or it plays an animation, you go, “Oh, yeah.” But if all you had to do is hit a button on your keyboard and that exact thing would play, you’d say, “Well, well that’s no fun. There’s no challenge there. I didn’t earn it. I didn’t work for it.” So when you are writing a book and you look back on it, or you are completing your job, or focusing on a client and so on and so forth, you feel that effort. You look back on what you did. You played the level! You played the level and you risked your guy dying, and you only have two more quarters left. You risked possibly not making as large of a sale, or not getting the client, or not really getting through to the person with what you’re attempting to teach them. You risk all that, and then you get the reward, and you think, “I want to do that again. I want to go through that challenge with my buddy dopamine and norepinephrine when I’m really focused in on the target.” And that’s why when you are doomscrolling and you look at the clock and you go, “Oh, it’s an hour and a half later,” that’s when you feel like, “What have I done?” Because you don’t look back and feel the effort. There is no effort to feel because no effort was made. Practical Strategies to Stop Doomscrolling and Reclaim Focus Okay, then how do you break out of doomscrolling and things? Well, let’s… let’s take a step back. First of all, it’s perfectly fine to be doing activities that that don’t necessarily have an endpoint, right? It’s okay to twiddle your thumbs, or to doodle, or to watch some silly reel once in a while. There’s nothing wrong with having downtime. It’s when the downtime is hours and you are filled with delightful regret at the end. So one of the things you can do is set a time limit. “I’m just going to mess around for 10 minutes.” Like literally set an alarm. We have all these assistants around us, you… just with your voice, you can set a 10-minute alarm. Or, actually give yourself a legitimate reward. Say you’re going to do something in search of something. Then you’ve brought it forward. Then it moves from your first voice up to your third voice, in which you say, “Hey, I am drawing a line here and I am saying out loud, I’m going to do this.” Now, if that sounds really silly and a waste of time, boom, you just realized that you’re probably not going to do that. Do you have ways of breaking out of your doomscrolling? Do you have a schedule for doing nonsense? Ultimately, I think it’s just the balance you feel is really the balance you are. So, thank you again as always for listening. I will have links in the article to the definitions of these four neurochemicals so that you can look them up and study them yourself. Take care. Thank you for listening as always. Go to markbradford.org to see all my author-related things. Go to Alchemy for Life to see coaching, speaking, writing, and this podcast. Alchemy for Life theme by Mark Bradford and Alchemy for Life. All background music is by Audionautix and Jason Shaw. Links to authoritative sources: Dopamine: National Institutes of Health (NIH) – Dopamine in Health and Disease or Mental Health America / Mayo Clinic – What Is Dopamine? Norepinephrine: Harvard Health Publishing – Brain Chemicals and Communication Endorphins: National Institutes of Health (PubMed) – Neurotransmitters and Peptides Serotonin: Cleveland Clinic – Serotonin Function & Levels

We're talking collage! Jennifer Coates joins me in a quest to get to the heart of why collage is such a powerful generator in the studio. We also take a look at 2 artists who used collage in different ways: Lee Krasner and Jess. Krasner used collage at certain key moments to bridge bodies of work, and Jess used collage as his main ecstatic medium spanning more than 4 decades of his output. As Krasner teaches us: "Knife or scissors...no tear! "Works by Lee Krasner mentioned: Seated Figure 1938-9; Milkweed, Stretched Yellow, Desert Moon, Bird Talk, Blue Level (all 1955); Imperfect Indicative 1976 (Visit Kasmin Gallery for images)Works by Jess mentioned: Blasted Beauty 1954, The Translations series, Paste-Ups series, Assemblies series, Necrofacts series, Salvages series, Narkissos series 1976-1991, The Unentitled Graces 1978, Dyslecstasy 1991 (See all of his works at https://jesscollins.org/)Glue Tawk™: Jennifer prefers Matte Medium and Amy agrees but suggests using UHU stick for thin papersLinks to watch/listen:⁠James Kalm Report⁠ on the Outsider Art Fair⁠Recording Artists: Radical Women Podcast:⁠ "Deal With It" on Lee Krasner⁠Inside New York's Art World ⁠1978 interview by Barbara Lee Diamondstein Spielvogel with Lee KrasnerProto-collage and assemblage objects & installations: Opificio delle Pietre Dure - Florence, Limoges Casket/Reliquary 13th c, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Capuchin Crypt under Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome, Shell Grotto, Margate, Kent, Paper lace valentines of the Victorian era, Wishing Trees of CornwallArtists mentioned: Hannah Hoch, Lee Krasner, Jess, Artists of the DADA movement, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Wangechi Mutu, Mark Bradford, Chris Martin, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Henri Matisse, Hans Hoffman, Piet Mondrian, Illuminators of the Book of Kells, Anne Ryan, Paul Klee, Amy Sillman, Lari Pittman, Marcel Duchamp, Clyfford Still, Hieronymus Bosch, Joseph Cornell, Andrea Burgay, Max-o-matic, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell, Henri Matisse, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Grete SternWriters mentioned: Art Reporter and Critic: Stuart Preston; Poets: Robert Duncan and John Ashbery; Gail Levin; Charles Baudelaire; Edgar Allen PoeOur Book Nook (incl Collage Resources): Kolaj Magazine and online collage artist directoryThe Weird Show online survey of contemporary collageCut Me Up Magazine "Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled—FEMMAGE" Essay by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa MeyerLee Krasner: A Biography by Gail LevinJess: To and From the Printed Page by JessFragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage by Freya GowrleyCollage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists by Rebeka Elizegi and Blanca OrtigaCutting Edges: Contemporary Collage published by GestaltenCollage: Assembling Contemporary Art edited by Anthony DowneyRobert Motherwell: Early Collages by Robert Motherwell, Susan Davidson, Megan Fontanella, Brandon Taylor, Jeffrey WardaFind my guest, Jennifer Coates, online:See her recent exhibition "Aniline Sky" at 1053 GalleryHer instagram: @jennifercoates666Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Peps Listeners!All music by Soundstripe----------------------------Pep Talks on IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@peptalksforartists⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pep Talks Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.peptalksforartists.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amy, your beloved host, on IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@talluts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amy's website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amytalluto.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BuyMeACoffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donations always appreciated!

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Introduction: The Line Between Learning and Stealing Well, hey there. Welcome back. And I really mean that. I’m really glad you’re here. I’m really glad that you enjoy my vast library of information. In fact, I want you to do whatever you want with it. If you can accomplish something or understand something, in fact, there’s really no limit to what I would like you to do with the information. Except for one thing. And that one thing is steal it. What Actually Constitutes Stealing in the Age of AI? And you might say, well, Mark, it’s free. You’re already giving it away for a steal. Oh, I gotcha there. That was clever. Here’s the thing. If you use the information for yourself, that’s not stealing. If you use the information to improve something or to learn, or if it acts as a springboard in which you can say, hey, Mark mentioned that thing, I’m going to go look it up further and go do a, you know, go dive right into that, that’s not stealing. However, if you essentially cut and paste my information into AI and then post the result as your own, that’s stealing. The Unique Stamp of a Creator: Why Authenticity Matters Now you could say, well, look, lots of people come up with information relatively at the same time, right? So someone could come up with something around the same time someone else does, or there might be 20 people posting about the same time. Well, that’s fine, of course. If all 20 people did their research and due diligence, you’re going to see the flavor of that person on each post. I would like to think that each and every post that I make, each and every podcast episode, every book that I write has my stamp on it. It has my signature. You know that Mark Bradford wrote that. And for it to have that signature, there’s going to be good and bad, right? You may find that these episodes are rather dense and you would like someone to talk a little slower. You might also enjoy the fact that I have a format of sort of discover, raise awareness, and then kind of give you a tangible thing to take away. AI Generation vs. Iterative Creation: Putting Heart into the Work But it’s me. And I do this stuff from scratch. I mean, let’s talk about AI a little bit. Even when I generate some images, I spend way too much time on what is basically an image that people on Spotify and YouTube and iTunes probably aren’t going to see. And yet I still spend all of that time. And when I generate an image, I don’t just say, hey, give me an image of somebody doing this. No, I spend way too much time adjusting and iterating and iterating and iterating. And I did a podcast episode called Live Life Iteratively, and we talk about that there. The truth is I put my heart and soul into these things. Ultimately, I want you to benefit from it. I want you to be wiser and smarter. I want you to have a spark because of something I said. But when someone takes that, they take what you have written and they obviously put it through an AI slop machine only to repost it, that’s stealing. It’s a bunch of other things too. But it’s stealing. The Impact of AI on Non-Creative Professions If you’re not in the creative space, you may either doubt what I’m saying, or you might think, well, I can’t really relate to that. But you can. Even if you’re not in the creative space, and I typically argue that everyone’s in that space, there are still things that are uniquely you. And those aren’t things that only you find at home. Those are things that manifest themselves in your job. And if you’re successful at what you do, part of that success is probably because you do it your way. All of the fungible pursuits are still affected by this. Even if you’re in banking, or real estate, or dentistry, or sales, you’re still going to bring what is uniquely you to the table. It’s going to give you an advantage over other people, and it’s going to be something that people recognize you by. Experience Equals Wisdom: The True Cost of Duplication You may sell something that is in no way remotely interesting to people, but you make a good living at it. And you’ve figured out a way to sell that. You’ve figured out a way to connect to other people, to potential clients, in a way that gives you a lot of success. And it was probably done with blood, sweat, and tears. You probably had to figure this out after a while. And as I say, pain equals experience, and experience equals wisdom. So you have this wisdom that you painfully acquired. If someone comes by and copies that, you may say, well, it was eventually going to get out. But if somebody copies that and says, hey, I’m unique in this way because I do this thing… You would then say, well, no, you’re not unique. Now you’re a duplicate because you just stole the thing that I do. The Dirty Secret of AI Training Models and Piracy I’m not even talking about patents, trademarks, and copyrights. I’m talking about systems and things and ways of communicating, and ideas that people can come up with independently. The age of AI brings with it a lot of ups and downs. In my opinion, a lot more downs than ups. And when people adopt technology, technology tends to just magnify something that they’re already experiencing. How AI Amplifies Our Basic Instincts and Desires If someone’s a thrill seeker and they have a car, but they get a fast car, well, that’s going to amplify their seeking of that thrill in a way that’s pretty obvious. If someone’s desperately seeking status and attention, and AI comes along, well, it’s going to basically enable that. Like a drug dealer saying, hey, the drugs are now free, just click this button. You’ve seen it before. You’ve seen the memes about the flyers. How every flyer looks the same. And they call them the “boomer AI flyers” because they are. Typically older people who have adopted AI and just marvel and are thrilled at the fact that they can type a few things into it and get a flyer. But the flyers all look the same. The creative space has always been a difficult place to enforce ownership and rights. In fact, even when AI came along and was trained on books, do you think those books were paid for? A lot of them weren’t. The dirty secret of AI is that a lot of the books that main AIs were trained on were pirated. Generating Art vs. Imitating Artists: An Ethical Distinction Let me be introspective and objective. Now, as I’ve said, I use typically Midjourney and spend many hours, probably too many hours, generating and regenerating and adjusting images over and over and over again just so that I can get the proper image to invoke the proper emotion, at which time I then overlay all of my text and spend way too much time deciding on a stupid font, etc., etc. So I spend way too much work on that. But I’ve generated an image. And those images are drawn from the works of artists. I could say, show me an image of two people shaking hands as if Van Gogh painted it. And it would do it. It would do it in such a way that would be fairly believable. Now, Van Gogh would never paint that, but now you’ve created an image as if you’re that person. I don’t sell that image though. I don’t sell that image as if I created it. I generated it, but I didn’t create it. There’s a vast difference between using that as a background, as an icon for one of my podcast episodes, and finding someone online, perhaps someone I know, and taking a picture of their painting, feeding it through Midjourney, and saying, make a painting just like this one. And then me posting it as if I did that. Do you see the difference? Actionable Advice: How to Avoid Becoming “AI Slop” And again, I can feel in a lot of your brains that you’re going, well, look, this just doesn’t affect me. I don’t care. But it does affect you. And again, if you’re not in what you think is a creative space, there are still aspects of what you do, your productivity and your output, that are going to be affected by AI. And if someone then uses that as a proxy, you’re going to be in trouble. You’re going to be without a job, and you’re going to fight tooth and nail to hang on to what makes you you. I’m telling you, it doesn’t feel good when that happens. So this is the part in the episode where I tell you what to do, or I say what can we do, right? So what can you do? Well, we raised awareness of it, so be mindful of this. And if you’re mindful in a way that you weren’t before, you’re going to see in areas where people after a certain age post a lot of this, you’re going to see it. It’s all you’re going to see. All you’re going to see is this, as referred to as AI slop, over and over and over again. Personally, you should avoid anything that decides it wants to take the place of your frontal lobe. And I did a podcast episode on that, and there’s an MIT study in which people don’t think for themselves. They just went, oh, okay, I’ll just ask the AI for that. Give me a bullet list of five reasons why blah, blah, blah. And now I’ll post that and shove that in people’s faces. And if someone asks that person the next day, what was your post about? They’d have no idea. That’s not information. That’s not helping people. That’s static. That’s noise, and that’s garbage. And it’s not good for you. Protecting Your Work: Takedown Notices and Platform Stringency YouTube is very stringent about takedown notices. People can post a notice and say, hey, this is my stuff. And then YouTube will come to that person who is the creator and say, okay, we’ve taken this down or we’ve demonetized it. And in some cases, when people are accused of this, it’s frustrating because they’ll be getting tens of thousands of views and the money that should be going to them goes to somewhere else. But they take that stuff seriously. I have been tagged in both Spotify and YouTube about Alchemy. And it wasn’t hard to prove that I was here first and I and my specific kind of alchemy is different than what they were saying. They even have AI, here we go, they even have AI that randomly will spot stuff and say, hey, you’re infringing. So you also risk that. Conclusion: Focus on Your Unique Gift I know it makes your head spin when you just want to eat your pancakes and you just want to go do your job. But I’m warning you that if you are someone who creates or someone who has a special way of doing something, and that’s everyone, you can be in danger of this happening to you. If you’re someone who does this sort of thing, know that there are consequences for doing it. In a perfect world, I think each and every one of us has a gift. We have a gift and can bring something to other people, to groups, to civilization as a whole. We all have a gift. And focusing on that gift is what makes us happy and productive and who we are. Focusing on copying someone else’s gifts is just not a good idea. Thank you as always. I appreciate you, and I appreciate you listening. And take care.

Art-making isn't a vibe. It's a practice that can feel exhausting, confusing, and sometimes flat-out miserable, yet we still wake up wanting to go back. We sit with a blunt question that every working artist eventually faces: what is making art giving us even when it doesn't feel good?We start by de-romanticizing the work through Hugo Winder-Lind's reminder that painting doesn't always feel good, especially now that artists are expected to be multi-faceted creators. From there we get honest about envy, creative cycles, and the kindness we owe other artists when they're in the ditch. We also call out the social media highlight reel, the edited two minutes that hides the seven hours of staring, failing, quitting, and starting again.Then we move into what the studio actually gives back. Mark Bradford frames labor as a way to slow down until you can hear yourself think and reach the quieter voice with the better idea. Sheila Hicks adds the bigger frame: discovery is part of being alive, so hang in there because you never know what the next discovery might be. Along the way we talk logistics, perfectionism, routines that prime the pump, excluding distractions so actions match goals, and Noel W. Anderson shares why the studio nourishes us in ways we can't fully explain.If you've been stuck, burned out, or questioning why you keep doing this, hit play. Subscribe, share this with an artist friend, and leave a review, then tell us: what does your creative process give you when it's not giving you joy?Audio artist clips from:TimeStamps: https://www.instagram.com/time____stamp/Louisiana Channel: https://www.instagram.com/louisianachannel/Artists:Hugo Winder-Lind: https://www.instagram.com/hugowinderlind/Noel W. Anderson: https://www.instagram.com/nwa_studios/Sheila Hicks: https://www.instagram.com/hastingshicks/Mark Bradford: https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2838-mark-bradford/Send us a message - we would love to hear from you! Make sure to follow us on Instagram here:@justmakeartpodcast   @tynathanclark   @nathanterborgWatch the Video Episode on Youtube or Spotify,https://www.youtube.com/@JustMakeArtPodcast

Demetrius Wilson describes painting as a living exchange—where the canvas responds, shifts, and ultimately becomes something greater than he first imagined. In this episode, abstract painter Demetrius Wilson reflects on his second solo exhibition at Half Gallery and the evolution of a practice rooted in intuition, movement, and material dialogue. Working at the intersection of environment, memory, and abstraction, Wilson explores how color, scale, and gesture can evoke both personal and collective experience.But this conversation goes beyond painting.Here, Demetrius considers what it means to create in a rapidly changing world—tracing how a 1990s upbringing, spiritual inquiry, and a desire to expand visual language all shape his approach to art-making and meaning.In this episode Demetrius shares:His recent exhibition Light in a Dark Mirror and why it represents his strongest body of work to dateThe idea of painting as a “symbiotic” process—where the work responds and evolves in real timeGrowing up on the East Coast in the 1990s and how that era shapes his perspective and processHis approach to color—using heat, temperature, and contrast to evoke emotional intensityHis relationship to spirituality and how religious ideas subtly surface in his recent workKey artistic influences including Ed Clark, Jack Whitten, Mark Bradford, Cecily Brown, Francis Bacon, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. How scale shifts perception, from expansive canvases to intimate works on paperAt its core, this conversation is about movement—between control and release, past and present, clarity and ambiguity. Through Demetrius Wilson's reflections, painting emerges as both a physical act and a philosophical inquiry: a space where memory, environment, and emotion collide, and where abstraction becomes a language for navigating a world that is constantly in flux.Connect with Sade:  Subscribe to the Light Work newsletter Visit Sade's websiteVisit the Light Work websiteFollow Sade on Instagram  Follow Light Work on InstagramWatch the episodes on YouTubeReview us on Apple Podcasts---------------------------------Follow & Subscribe Subscribe on SubstackFollow Light Work on Instagram Follow Folasade Ologundudu on InstagramYouTube - Subscribe to the Light Work YouTube Channel 

On this episode of Walk Humbly, hear Bishop Burbidge share his thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's remarks to the youth of America attending the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) and to the people of Turkey and Lebanon on his first apostolic visit as Holy Father. In case you missed it: watch youth from our own diocese share their experience with ETWN.    How has the nation and our Church grown in awareness and support for persons with disabilities? Bishop weighs in. Be sure to check out the recent release of Indispensable: A Catholic Guide to Welcoming Persons with Intellectual and Development Disabilities, written by Mark Bradford with a foreword by Bishop Burbidge.    Watch the Virginia Trappist Monks (celebrating 75 years!) in action.    View the media gallery of the recent Prayer Service for Unity and Healing in the United States.    Become a member of the new Assembly of Catholic Professionals.     What's upcoming:   Novena for Couples Struggling with Infertility, Miscarriage & Infant Death begins December 4; Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Monday, December 8 (a holy day of obligation)    Finally, Bishop Burbidge answers the listener question: "Every Advent I tell myself that I will be more peaceful and more prayerful, but before I know it I am feeling anxiety and uncertainty about all things Christmas, what gifts to buy, the concerns and logistics of family at Christmas itself, the dinner, you name it. Can you please offer some practical advice on how I can just have a calm day and be at peace…"    Walk Humbly welcomes listener questions for Bishop Burbidge. Call or text (703) 778-9100 anytime with your question. Connect with Walk Humbly and Bishop Burbidge by texting WALKHUMBLY to 84576 for occasional alerts and updates. 

Originally Recorded October 28th, 2025About Mark Bradford: https://www.wordonfire.org/author/mark-bradford/Check out the book Indispensable: A Catholic Guide to Welcoming Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/indispensable?_gl=1*1n95kjg*_gcl_au*MTkyMDI5NDgyMi4xNzU4NTcyNzUz*_ga*OTUxNzgxMTk5LjE3NTA0OTU0OTI.*_ga_4081DYV3TL*czE3NjQ1Mzk1NjgkbzM2JGcwJHQxNzY0NTM5NTY4JGo2MCRsMCRoMA.. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit musicallyspeaking.substack.com

De phénomène viral à enfant star, Justin Bieber a conquis le monde avant même d'atteindre l'âge adulte. Mais à l'aube de sa majorité, une série de dérapages et de démêlés judiciaires menacent de mettre un terme à son succès. Après 2 années d'errance personnelle et d'auto sabotage, il revient en 2015 avec un nouvel album qui le propulse de la phase de « bad boy » à celle de « prince de la pop repentant ». Célébrons les 10 ans de cet album culte !Crédits de l'épisode :- Baby (Justin Bieber, Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Christopher Bridges, Christina Milian)- Baby Shark (Pinkfong)- Boyfriend (Mike Posner, Mason Levy, Matthieu Musto, Justin Bieber, MdL)- As long as you love me feat. Big Sean (Andre Lindal, Justin Bieber, Nasri Atweh, Rodney Jerkins, Sean Anderson)- Beauty and a beat feat. Nicky Minaj (Max Martin, Anton Zavlavski, Savan Kotecha, Onika Maraj, Zedd)- The most (Justin Bieber, Jason Boyd, Wallace Joseph, Jordan Ware, Karl Rubin)- Where are U now ? Feat. Skrillex & Diplo (Justin Bieber, Thomas Wesley Pentz, Sonny Moore, Jason Boyd, Karl Rubin Brutus, Jordan Ware)- Mark my words (Justin Bieber, Michael Tucker, Jason Boyd, Rodney Jerkins, James Abrahart, Fredrik Halland)- Life is worth living (Justin Bieber, Jason Boyd, Mark Jackson, The Mogul)- The feeling feat. Halsey (Justin Bieber, Ashley Frangipane, Sonny Moore, Ian Kirkpatrick, Sarah Hudson, Julia Michaels, Clarence Cofee Jr.)- What do you mean ? (Justin Bieber, Jason Boyd, Mason Levy)- Cheerleader – Felix Jaehn Remix (Ryan Dillon, Sly Dunbar, Clifton Dillon, Mark Bradford, Omar Samuel Pasley, Clifton Dillon, Darren Moran)- Sorry (Justin Bieber, Tucker, Michael Tucker, Sonny Moore, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels)- Sorry feat. J. Balvin – Latino Remix (Justin Bieber, Tucker, Michael Tucker, Sonny Moore, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels)- Love yourself (Justin Bieber, Benjamin Levin, Ed Sheeran, Benny Blanco)- All in it (Justin Bieber, Jason Boyd, Mark Johnson, Mark Jackson, Mason Levy, Josh Gudwin)- Company (Justin Bieber, Andreas Schuller, James Wong, Leroy Clampitt, James Abrahart, Thomas Troelsen, Gladius James, Big Taste, Poo Bear)- Let me love you feat. DJ Snake (DJ Snake, Justin Bieber, Louis Bell, Andrew Watt, Ali Tamposi, Carl Rosen, Steven Michael Marsden, Lumidee, Edwin Perez, Brian Lee)- Despacito feat. Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (Luis Fonsi, Justin Bieber, Erika Ender, Jason Boyd, Marty James, Ramon Luis Ayala Rodriguez, Andrés Torres, Mauricio Rengifo)- 2U feat. David Guetta (David Guetta, Justin Bieber, Giorgio Tuinfort, Jason Boyd, Cesqeaux, Daniel Tuparia- Yummy (Summer Walker, Justin Bieber, Ashley Boyd, Jason Boyd, Sasha Sirota, Daniel Hackett, Kid Culture)- That's what love is (Justin Bieber, Jason Boyd, Sasha Sirota, Courtney Sills)- Holy feat. Chance the Rapper (Jon Bellion, Chancelor Bennett, Justin Bieber, Tommy Brown, Jorgen Odegard, Anthony M. Jones, Steven Franks)- Off my face (Justin Bieber, Daniel James, Leah Haywood, Jake Torrey, Tia Scola, Dreamlab)- Peaches feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon (Justin Bieber, Andrew Watt, Ashton Simmonds, Giveon Evans, Luis Manuel Martinez Jr., Wotman, Louis Bell, Matthew Sean Leon, Felisha King-Harvey, Keavan Yazdani)- All I can take (Justin Bieber, Eddie Benjamin, Carter Lang, Dylan Wiggins, Daniel Chetrit, Tobias Jesso Jr., Jackson Morgan)- Real friends (Camilo Cabello, Brian Lee, Adam Feeney, Louis Bell, William Walsh, Frank Dukes- Frères d'armes (Robin Peret, Guillaume N'doume N'ze)- Longtemps (Assaf Tzrouya, Nazim Khaled, Tiery F)- Swap it out (Justin Bieber, Dominic Jordan, James Giannos, Jason Boyd)Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

It was an honor to sit down with Professor Mark Bradford from Legacy West Adams — a true mentor, teacher, and leader who has impacted so many of our students and black belts across Los Angeles and beyond.Professor Mark began training with me over 25 years ago in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and his story is one of courage, sacrifice, and passion. Many don't know that he worked for the government for years before cashing in his retirement to dedicate his life fully to Jiu-Jitsu — to teaching, training, and helping others grow.I'm truly grateful for his friendship, loyalty, and all he's done to help build Legacy into what it is today.

→ To dig deeper into the episode's references and receive little gems, notes, and musings that didn't make it into the episode, ⁠SIGN UP: https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/exhibitionistas→ For our third season, we're working with intern production assistants for the first time. Your donations will contribute to pay for their work: ⁠https://exhibitionistaspodcast.com/support-usART TRAVELOGUE is a new format, an audio/video journey with art as a destination. You'll find out about British artist Haroon Mirza's new commissioned piece (a performance and a sound installation) for Focal Point Gallery's exhibition In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation . By travelling with our host, curator Joana P. R. Neves, you hear about the people, the seascapes, the urban areas, histories of Essex's estuary, through the scope of Mirza's translation of electric sounds from an older piece into human voices. This journey will be told in Joana's voice but also through recordings of the artist, and the two curators of the exhibition, Inês Costa and Yates Norton. And finally, you'll arrive on site to experience the performance Adam, Eve, Others and a UFO for Choral Octet.With works from The David and Indrē Roberts Collection by: Horst Ademeit, Michael Armitage, Frank Auerbach, Charles Avery, Jonathan Baldock, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Neïl Beloufa, David Birkin, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Ulla von Brandenburg, Miriam Cahn, George Condo, Martyn Cross, Romany Eveleigh, Simon Fujiwara, Ellen Gallagher, Jim Goldberg, Pierre Huyghe, Anselm Kiefer, Haroon Mirza, Francesca Mollett, Nika Neelova, Antoni Tàpies, Danh Vo, Ai Weiwei.Focal Point Gallery is South Essex's only public contemporary art gallery, open to all. The David and Indrē Roberts Collection features nearly 2,500 works by over 900 artists, dating from the mid-20th century to today. Curated by Inês Costa (Focal Point Gallery) and Yates Norton (The Roberts Institute of Art).Instagram: @focalpointgallery @therobertsinstituteofart @To know more about Haroon Mirza: https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/haroon-mirzahttps://www.youtube.com/@outputs_avKey themes: Sound; light; sound art; translation; performance art; music and sound; the singing voice; translating sound to voice; knowledge; wisdom; contemporary art; new technologies; generative technologies; AI; Essex county, communication; shamanism; non-verba communication; understanding versus experiencing; anticipation and experience; the Genesis and science; theories of creation; language; art languages; orality; the written word; histories; history as myth; faith, myth and science.If you enjoyed the episode, you may enjoy Joana's essays on Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://joanaprneves.substack.com⁠⁠⁠If you appreciate my work, why not buy me a coffee? It's a nice way to show your appreciation without having to commit to a membership: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionistaFor behind the scenes clips, links to the artists and guests we cover, and visuals of the exhibitions we discuss follow us on Instagram: @exhibitionistas_podcastBluesky: @exhibitionistas.bsky.socialexhibitionistaspod@gmail.com#contemporaryart #immersive #artexhibitions #soundart #haroonmirza #exhibitionistas #exhibitionistaspodcast #joanaprneves #focalpointgallery #soundandlightart #performance #performanceart #choral #choirsinging #voice #translation #ai #aiandart #aiart #experimentalart Chapters00:00 Introducing Art Travelogue: The Journey From London to Southend Starts07:58 Discovering Essex,The Most Misunderstood County in the UK15:26 Mirza's 2013 piece Adam, Eve, Others and a UFO (Installation & Sound)19:22 Electricity, Music, Communication and Shamanism23:08 Communication and Translation Beyond Words30:10 The Difference Between Knowing and Interpreting37:12 The Performance: Canaan, The Choir, The AI, The Shaman 44:57 Myths of Creation: Gender, Language, Knowledge, Power40:52 The Power of Words and Language49:16 Outro

Had the pleasure of sitting down with Professor Lulu Liu — IBJJF Masters Black Belt World Champion in both Gi and No-Gi, and owner/partner of Legacy West Adams in Los Angeles. She's a true reference in the art, a powerful leader, and an amazing human being.If you're in the Los Angeles area, make sure to check out Legacy West Adams and train with Professors Lulu Liu and Mark Bradford.Legacy strong. Way of life.

Mark Bradford v. Ron Broomfield

Originally Recorded March 4th, 2025 About Mark Bradford:https://www.wordonfire.org/author/mark-bradford/ https://www.wordonfire.org/fellowship-for-persons-with-intellectual-developmental-disabilities/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit musicallyspeaking.substack.com

Join us for an exploration of art and materials in this interview Nathan Terborg, recorded at his solo exhibition at Galerie Benjamin Eck in Munich. Nathan skillfully transforms found objects into thought-provoking art pieces. Discover how his early experiences in his grandfather's woodshop influenced his artistic journey, leading him away from traditional painting towards an immersive sculptural practice. Nathan dives into the essence of experimentation, stressing how the relationship between artist and materials is foundational to creating meaningful work. Nathan's approach of curiosity and discovery emphasizes that artistic freedom resides in the acceptance of imperfection and the willingness to explore beyond the surface. The conversation also highlights the importance of communication through art, with Nathan referencing the impactful words of Louise Bourgeois. This insight showcases the intrinsic value of art as an unspoken language that connects both the creator and observer. By drawing from personal anecdotes and professional insights, Nathan inspires listeners to reconsider their interactions with materials and art forms. As he encourages audiences to engage with sculptures tactually, he elucidates the transformative potential hidden within the discarded. Dive into this rich dialogue on creativity and allow yourself to be inspired by the alchemy of art! Make sure to subscribe, share, and leave your thoughts in the comments! We love to hear how art resonates with you!Galerie Benjamin Eck: www.benjamin-eck.comChris Fay Media: www.chrisfay.deSend us a message - we would love to hear from you!Make sure to follow us on Instagram here:@justmakeartpodcast @tynathanclark @nathanterborg

Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back on the podcast! This time, instead of a book we are talking about an artist documentary. The film is called "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019 directed by Dennis Scholl. It's a juicy art bio tell-all with a crusty curmudgeon as its talented but embittered subject. Come along with us as we enter a turbulently Still world. Find the film on Amazon ($2.99 SD) or for free on KanopyFind Mandolyn online at: https://mandolynwilsonrosen.com and on IG at @mandolyn_rosenLinks to the writings we mentioned:Clyfford Still's "An Open Letter to an Art Critic" on Artforumhttps://www.artforum.com/features/an-open-letter-to-an-art-critic-212151/David Levi Strauss for Brooklyn Rail "From Metaphysics to Invective"https://brooklynrail.org/2012/05/art/from-metaphysics-to-invective-art-criticism-as-if-it-still-matters/Seph Rodney for Hyperallergic "Hoping is Not Enough"https://hyperallergic.com/983414/hoping-is-not-enough/Artists mentioned: Matthew Barney, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lois Dodd, Julian Schnabel, Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Michelle GrabnerWriters mentioned: Seph Rodney, Paul Valéry, John Ruskin, Guillaume Apollinaire, John Ruskin, David Levi Strauss, Dore Ashton, Jerry Saltz, Ken Johnson, Clement Greenberg, Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" Thank you, Mandy! Thank you, Listeners!Visit RuthAnn, a new artist-run gallery in Catskill, NY at @ruthanngallery and ruthanngallery.comAll music by Soundstripe----------------------------Pep Talks on IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@peptalksforartists⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pep Talks website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠peptalksforartists.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amy, your beloved host, on IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@talluts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amy's website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠amytalluto.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BuyMeACoffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donations always appreciated!

For the 34th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for The Washington Post and author of "Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism,” published by W. W. Norton.This fascinating conversation explores the violent political upheavals of 1870-71 Paris — the Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune — and how they influenced the Impressionist movement. Smee shares insights into the lives of the artists who survived these dramatic days, including Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, who were trapped in Paris; Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Frédéric Bazille, who joined regiments outside of the capital; and Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, who fled the country just in time.Through rigorous research into personal letters and historical documents, Smee illuminates the human context behind familiar masterpieces of light created during this dark period. He offers a fresh perspective on why the Impressionists, with their newfound sense of the fragility of life, turned toward transient subjects of modern life, leisure, fleeting moments and the impermanence of all things in the aftermath of such devastating events.ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sebastian Smee is an art critic for The Washington Post and winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His previous works include "The Art of Rivalry" and books on Mark Bradford and Lucian Freud. He was awarded the Rabkin Prize for art journalism in 2018 and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2021.PURCHASE THE BOOK https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324006954SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW AND HEAR INTERVIEWS:For more information, visit meganfoxkelly.com, hear our past interviews, and subscribe at the bottom of our Of Interest page for new posts.Follow us on Instagram: @meganfoxkelly"Reading the Art World" is a live interview and podcast series with leading art world authors hosted by art advisor Megan Fox Kelly. The conversations explore timely subjects in the world of art, design, architecture, artists and the art market, and are an opportunity to engage further with the minds behind these insightful new publications. Megan Fox Kelly is an art advisor and past President of the Association of Professional Art Advisors who works with collectors, estates and foundations.Music composed by Bob Golden

Best of “Catholic Connection” with Brad Wilcox, Mark Bradford and Matt Lamb.

Best of “Catholic Connection” with Brad Wilcox, Mark Bradford and Matt Lamb.

The choice between life and death recently appeared on the ballots of some of our states and, unfortunately, death won in the majority.” Mark Bradford joins us. (Originally aired December 16, 2024)

The choice between life and death recently appeared on the ballots of some of our states and, unfortunately, death won in the majority.” Mark Bradford joins us. (Originally aired December 16, 2024)

Sebastian Stone has just achieved a major milestone receiving his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt from Mark Bradford at Legacy West Adams! In this exclusive interview, Sebastian sits down with us to share his incredible journey in Jiu-Jitsu with us. From his early days of No-Gi training to transitioning into doing both Gi and No-Gi, he opens up about the lessons, challenges, and victories that shaped his path. Sponsored by TACFIT.com “The World's Smartest Workout” Açai Jungle Cafe “Your neighborhood Paradise” AcaiJungleCafe.com

Mark Bradford on resisting the growth of the culture of death. Ambassador Michele Bowe heads the Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation. Gail Buckley-Barringer has our weekly Bible verse.

Mark Bradford on resisting the growth of the culture of death. Ambassador Michele Bowe heads the Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation. Gail Buckley-Barringer has our weekly Bible verse.

Send us a textPrepare to be inspired as we welcome the brilliant author and entrepreneur Mark Bradford, who masterfully weaves together his experiences in both fiction and nonfiction writing. His unique career path, which spans roles as a podcast host, UAV pilot, and IT professional, unveils how diverse interests can enrich one's life journey. Mark shares how his personal experiences, including a transformative moment in a cemetery, have sparked creative inspiration and led him to develop a unique coaching system. Our conversation explores how life's unexpected events can fuel creativity and storytelling across various genres.Explore the fascinating intersection of fantasy and science fiction storytelling, and uncover how the dual-brained synergy of technology, art, and spirituality can lead to innovative creations. Mark and I chat about AI's emerging role in creative fields like music, our excitement tempered by a desire to maintain authentic human experiences. We examine the balance between creative and logical thinking through relatable anecdotes from technology and art, revealing how diverse skills can harmoniously blend to foster groundbreaking work.Dive into personal growth and mindfulness as Mark introduces his "Alchemy for Life" coaching system, focusing on balancing time, energy, and resources. We ponder technology's role in enhancing mindfulness and meditation while maintaining genuine experiences. Discussing the metaphor of personal dashboards, we explore how these can guide our decisions, enhancing self-awareness in relationships. As we launch the Revolutionary Authors membership, packed with actionable insights and resources, we invite you to embark on your author journey, embracing the fusion of creativity, technology, and personal transformation.Join Carissa Andrews for PLOTober and learn how to plan your next 4-book series in just 5 days! Using ChatGPT, you'll brainstorm, outline, and map out your series faster than ever before. Jead over to authorrevolution.org/plotober and use code PLOTOBER24 for 41% off—let's make this your most productive writing month yet! Are you an author at a crossroads, feeling stuck & unfulfilled in your author career? Do you know deep down it's time for a change, but you're unsure of the next step?The High Vibe Author is the only transformational membership designed specifically for authors like you—those who are ready to break free from limitations & step into the abundant life they deserve. Click here to learn more.Support the showThank you for tuning into the Author Revolution Podcast! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. For more insights and inspiration, visit Author Revolution. Don't forget to follow us on social media for updates and exclusive content: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Go forth and start your author revolution!

Sebastian Smee is an art critic for the Washington Post and the author of "Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism" (Norton) and “The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art” (Random House), which was translated into a dozen languages. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism while at the Boston Globe in 2011, after being runner up in 2008. Living in the UK between 2000 and 2004, he worked for the Daily Telegraph, The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The Financial Times, Prospect, and The Spectator. In Australia, he worked as the art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian. He was awarded the Rabkin Prize for art journalism in 2018 and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2021. He taught the Garis Seminar for Creative Non-fiction at Wellesley College between 2010 and 2022.  He has authored books on Mark Bradford and Lucian Freud and contributed essays to books on an array of other artists. He has been invited to speak at, among other places, Harvard University, Boston College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. 

In her new book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the historian and Harvard professor Sarah Lewis unpacks a major part of United States history that until now wasn't just brushed over, but was intentionally buried: how the ​​Caucasian War and the end of the Civil War were conflated by P.T. Barnum, former President Woodrow Wilson, and others to shape how we see race in America. Long overdue, The Unseen Truth is a watershed book about photography and visuality that calls to mind works by history-shaping authors such as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and bell hooks. Lewis is also the founder of the Vision & Justice initiative, which strives to educate the public about the importance of art and culture for equity and justice in the U.S., and is launching a new publishing venture with Aperture this fall.On the episode, she discusses the tension between pedagogy and propaganda; the deep influence of Frederick Douglass's 1861 “Pictures and Progress” lecture on her work; how a near-death car crash altered the course of her life and The Unseen Truth; and the special ability of certain photographs to stop time.Special thanks to our Season 10 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Sarah Lewis[04:01] The Unseen Truth[05:24] Woodrow Wilson[05:24] Frederick Douglass[05:24] P.T. Barnum[06:51] Toni Morrison[06:51] Angela Davis[06:51] Mathew Brady[51:14] Vision & Justice[11:35] Caucasus[14:02] Imam Shamil[17:38] Caucasian War[19:31] MFA Boston[19:31] The Metropolitan Museum[22:30] “Pictures and Progress”[28:41] “A Circassian”[28:41] “Slave Ship”[28:41] “The Gulf Stream”[35:13] Frances Benjamin Johnston[39:20] Jarvis Givens[39:20] Fugitive Pedagogy[44:05] The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search of Mastery[49:08] Montserrat[49:08] Under the Volcano[51:36] Aperture[52:26] Maurice Berger[52:26] Coreen Simpson[52:26] Doug Harris[52:26] Deborah Willis[52:26] Leigh Raiford[52:57] Hal Foster[56:01] Hank Willis Thomas[56:01] Theaster Gates[56:01] Mark Bradford[56:01] Amy Sherald[57:58] Wynton Marsalis[57:58] Charles Black, Jr.[57:58] Louis Armstrong[57:58] Brown v. Board of Education

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Dave returned (see Episode 257) to Relational Leadership thinker Mark Bradford to be with him in a virtual social space where designing thinking has plenty of room to bloom. And, for Dave, it did. 

Dave always looks for thinkers who can contribute a different perspective to leading and developing our leadership and collaborative design practices. Dave had to reach all the way out from Connecticut to New Zealand, but he found BeWeDo founder, Aikido-inspired Mark Bradford fits this bill and so much more. 

Marc Mitchell holds a M.F.A from Boston University. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University; University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Florida Atlantic University Galleries, Boca Raton; TOPS Gallery, Memphis, TN; GRIN Gallery, Providence, RI; Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA; and others. Mitchell has been featured in publications such as the Boston Globe, Burnaway, and Number Inc; and was selected for New American Paintings in 2014, 2017, 2018, and 2020. Mitchell has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Center for Arts & Creativity, Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Hambidge Center for the Arts, Jentel Foundation, and Tides Institute/StudioWorks. In 2021, Mitchell was a Fellow at The American Academy in Rome. In addition to his studio practice, Mitchell has curated exhibitions that feature artists such as Tauba Auerbach (Diagonal Press), Mel Bochner, Matt Bollinger, Mark Bradford, Tara Donovan, Chie Fueki, Daniel Gordon, Sara Greenberger-Rafferty, Philip Guston, Josephine Halvorson, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Mary Reid Kelley, Ellsworth Kelly, Arnold Kemp, Allan McCollum, Kay Rosen, Erin Shirreff, Lorna Simpson, Jered Sprecher, Jessica Stockholder, Jason Stopa, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Lawrence Weiner, Wendy White, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and many others. "I am influenced by many things—1980's guitars, VHS tapes, World War I battleships, sunrise/sunset gradients, moiré patterns, and more. Over the past 3 years, ‘notions of cycle' have played an increased role in the development of my paintings; and I'm curious how the avant-garde succeeds and fails within popular culture. Currently, I'm interested in how the landscape has been depicted throughout American culture. Whether it's Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt of the Hudson River School, Georgia O'Keeffe's monumental work at the Art Institute of Chicago, or an Instagram post of a sunset—each conveys a romanticized view of our world. The most recent paintings are an amalgamation of experiences that I've had within the American landscape; with each painting flowing freely between representation and abstraction." LINKS:  www.mmitchellpainting.net   www.instagram.com/methan18     Artist Shout Out:    UARK Drawing --- https://www.uarkdrawing.com/ and @uarkdrawing UARK Painting --- https://www.uarkpainting.com/ and @uarkpaintning   I Like Your Work Links: Check out our sponsor for this episode: The Sunlight Podcast: Hannah Cole, the artist/tax pro who sponsors I Like Your Work, has opened her program Money Bootcamp with a special discount for I Like Your Work listeners. Use the code LIKE  to receive $100 off your Money Bootcamp purchase by Sunlight Tax. Join Money Bootcamp now by clicking this link: https://www.sunlighttax.com/moneybootcampsales and use the code LIKE. Chautauqua Visual Arts: https://art.chq.org/school/about-the-program/two-week-artist-residency/ 2-week residency https://art.chq.org/school/about-the-program/ 6-week residency   Apply for Summer Open Call: Deadline May 15 Join the Works Membership ! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

It's been 100 years since Vladimir Lenin died. Paul Kengor takes a look at his life, and Chadd Garcia lets us know what financial stories were the most important of 2023. Martin Bennett tells the story of the Pearl Harbor pilot who became a Christian, and Mark Bradford introduces us to venerable Jerome Lejeune.

It's been 100 years since Vladimir Lenin died. Paul Kengor takes a look at his life, and Chadd Garcia lets us know what financial stories were the most important of 2023. Martin Bennett tells the story of the Pearl Harbor pilot who became a Christian, and Mark Bradford introduces us to venerable Jerome Lejeune.

We all know the story of the article of clothing that creates a specific sentient life form complete with limbs and memories and ears and eyes requiring only snow that occurs during a certain time of year in the shape of three spheres stacked on top of each other along with a vegetable and BBQ […] The post Snowman Lifeform first appeared on Mark Bradford.

Are you a helpful neighbor? Then you might love to go online and help your fellow neighbors. Listen to how helpful some neighbors can be. Warning – not sleepy energy but instead more awake energy, possibly a morning coffee episode rather than a sleepy sleepy ASMR beautiful episode like share subscribe great idea wonderful podcast, […] The post Lost Pets, Bad Restaurants and I Heard Something first appeared on Mark Bradford.

When was the last time you had marzipan, and why? Do you think fondant is a food or just a cheat for people who bake and don't care that you eat a non food? Or is it the sound a car makes when you park too close to a wall? What about alcohol with metal […] The post Marzipan, Salves and Pastes first appeared on Mark Bradford.

On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: New details have surfaced about the House Oversight Committee's investigation into the Biden family business and possible links to China. The GOP led committee, headed by Kentucky Congressman James Comer, has now released some of the financial evidence they have uncovered from the US Treasury Department. And with June 1st, 2023 moving in fast, President Joe Biden and top congressional leaders will meet in the coming days to try to forge an agreement on how to spend the nation's money moving forward. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood received more taxpayer money last year than any time in its history. President of Pro-Life Human Coalition, Jeff Bradford, joins to take us through this annual report from Planned Parenthood and what stood out the most. It is less than 3 months until World Youth Day, and Pope Francis says he hopes participants use the event as a chance to become more hopeful. EWTN News Vatican Correspondent, Colm Flynn, joins to tell us what he has been hearing from the people of Lisbon all week. Finally this evening, toy company Mattel recently revealed its first Barbie doll representing a person with down syndrome. The toy company worked with the National Down Syndrome Society. Lejeune Fellow at the Word on Fire Institute, Mark Bradford, joins to share what his reaction was when he first heard that Mattel planned to make the Barbie doll. Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn

On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: The Pentagon recently said it will use taxpayer dollars to help pay for current service members and their families to travel for abortions. With the current Labor Secretary Marty Walsh leaving his position for a new job, President Joe Biden spoke highly of his pick to fill the vacant position, that must first be confirmed by lawmakers. Meanwhile, a new study reveals masks used to prevent respiratory illnesses including COVID-19 made no difference whatsoever. Psychiatrist and author, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, joins to share his thoughts on these findings. And he is called "the father of modern genetics" and he's also on the path to sainthood; Catholic physician and scientist, Venerable Dr. Jerome Lejeune was the first to pinpoint the cause of down syndrome. Mark Bradford, this year's Jerome Lejeune Fellow for Word on Fire Institute, joins to talk more about Dr. Lejeune. The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas hosted a conference where experts focused on the challenges faced by Jews and Catholics since the end of Vatican II in the 1960s. Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Leo University in Florida, Dr. Matthew Tapie, joins to tell us a little more about the conference. Finally this evening, the Catholic app "Hallow" now hovers around the number 4 overall slot on Apple's "top free apps list." CEO and cofounder of Hallow, Alex Jones, joins to share what is behind the app's popularity. Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn

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Jessica Bell Brown is the Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Her recent exhibition projects include How Do We Know The World?, Thaddeus Mosley: Forest, Stephanie Syjuco: Vanishing Point (Overlay), and A Movement In Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration co-organized with the Mississippi Museum of Art. Prior to the BMA she was the Consulting Curator at Gracie Mansion Conservancy in New York, where she curated She Persists: A Century of Women Artists in New York, 1919-2019 with First Lady Chirlane McCray. Previously, she held roles at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Creative Time. Her writing has been featured in several artist monographs and catalogues, including Janiva Ellis, Thaddeus Mosley, Baldwin Lee, Lubaina Himid, Matthew Angelo Harrison, as well as Flash Art, Artforum, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail.Photo by Christopher MyersAbout A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great MigrationThe Great Migration (1915–1970) saw more than six million African Americans leave the South for destinations across the United States. This incredible dispersal of people across the country transformed nearly every aspect of Black life and culture. A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration explores the ways in which its impact reverberates today through newly commissioned works across media by 12 acclaimed Black artists, including Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford,  Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems.The exhibition is co-curated by Jessica Bell Brown, Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the BMA and Ryan N. Dennis, Chief Curator and Artistic Director of the Center for Art & Public Exchange (CAPE) at the Mississippi Museum of Art.The exhibition is co-organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art.This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation.Mentioned in this episode:A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great MigrationTo find more amazing stories from the artist and entrepreneurial scenes in & around Baltimore, check out my episode directory. Stay in TouchNewsletter sign-upSupport my podcastShareable link to episode ★ Support this podcast ★

[00:30] Drive-by Media Dishonesty (38 minutes)The establishment media is rejoicing (again) that “the walls are closing in” on Donald Trump, but the facts tell a different story. Just the News reported that Donald Trump completely cooperated with a grand jury subpoena for documents two months ago, allowing FBI agents and a DOJ lawyer to search his presidential records storage locker in Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Trump even added a stronger padlock to the locker after the FBI recommended it. Trump told them, “Look, whatever you need, let us know.” Meanwhile, FBI Director Christopher Wray sidestepped questions regarding the possibility of FBI agents planting evidence during the Mar-a-Lago raid. [38:45] Exposing Obama? (17 minutes)What were FBI agents really looking for in the Mar-a-Lago raid? Conservative Treehouse author Mark Bradford speculates that they were searching for declassified documents about Barack Obama's spying campaign against Trump, which the DOJ and FBI have kept from being released. Paul Sperry made the same point on Twitter earlier this week, which resulted in his account being suspended. The devil hates exposure and so do his agents! This situation has many parallels to the Philadelphia Church of God's court battle for Herbert W. Armstrong's books and booklets, when the Worldwide Church of God tried to prevent us from keeping documents that exposed them.

We are asking more questions these days, aren't we? As fractured as we all seem, as disjointed and uncertain the present and future may seem, we are beginning to have conversations about how we face ourselves, peers, family, society and our past. The pandemic reset many of our lives, but also put a new perspective on our identities and the existence of those around us. If this time didn't change you or cause you to reflect, you really weren't paying attention. Glenn Lutz is a writer and conceptual artist whose new book, There's Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity and Mental Well-being, is a result of years of conversations with fine artist and creatives in the Black community who are actively engaged in examining their mental health in the 21st century. In conversations with the likes of the late Virgil Abloh, Mark Bradford, Rashid Johnson, Steve McQueen and more, Lutz has become the conduit to an overlooked conversation in not only our society but the art world as well. In this episode of the Radio Juxtapoz podcast, we speak to Lutz about putting this new book together, how open his subjects allowed themselves to be, growing up in LA, his own mental heath battles, how religion played a role in his life and how a move to Hawaii has settled his mind. The Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by FIFTH WALL TV's Doug Gillen and Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 092 was recorded on July 29, 2022 in LA, Oahu and Margate. Follow us on @radiojuxtapoz

A father who raised two kids by himself, he found the meaning of balance, and founded a coaching system unlike any other. A full stack web developer, Mark sees things from a perspective most don't, and builds, creates and teaches from that. He's built a dating site from scratch, written four productivity books including one on how all humans connect (and all relationships work), spirituality, and what life is made of. He's just published an epic fiction duet of a coming of age father daughter story set 1,000 years in the future and won the audiobookreviewer's best new author 2020. As a guest he understand what makes an engaging show as he's also a host. www.markbradford.org

Author and multi-disciplinary artist Glenn Lutz joins the Studio Noize fam and has a deep discussion about his new book, There's Light: Artworks and Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity, and Mental Well-Being. Glenn interviewed a wide range of Black men and examines themes related to Black male identities, sexuality, masculinity, and mental health. There's Light is a collection of over sixty artworks from contemporary art legends and emerging talents, alongside more than thirty interviews from artists, activists, psychologists, community organizers, authors, musicians, filmmakers, athletes, and lawyers. Including contributions from the late Virgil Abloh, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Mark Bradford, Wyatt Cenac, Barkley Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Tyler Mitchell, Darnell L. Moore, Pope.L, and many more. Glenn and JB discuss the themes that thread through the interviews, how Black men deal with trauma, and using art as a tool for healing. This is an amazing project and Studio Noize is excited to giveaway one copy of the book There's Light. Tune in to the show for details. Listen, subscribe, and share!Episode 142 topics include:machoismvulnerability of Black menlove vs fearrunning from deathaccepting who you areusing art as a vehicle for healingpraise and worshipcreating a book projectGlenn Lutz is a contemporary artist with a multi-disciplinary practice. He released his first book with Simon & Schuster titled, Go F*ck, I Mean, Find Yourself in 2018. In addition to creating books, he works in performance, photography, sculpture, and hip-hop under the moniker Zenn Lu. Lutz's work examines topics such as identity, spirituality, mental health, and the cause and effect of the injustices faced by the black community. He approaches his craft with questions rather than answers using storytelling as a tool to examine his research interestsSee More: www.glennlutz.com + Glenn Lutz IG @glenn_lutzFollow us:StudioNoizePodcast.comIG: @studionoizepodcastJamaal Barber: @JBarberStudioSupport the podcast www.patreon.com/studionoizepodcast