Podcast appearances and mentions of renee french

On this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with, artist, Renee French.We discuss how she first got into making alternative comics, her transition into gallery work and learning to paint, her recent exploration into printmaking, and a whole lot more!Also mentioned in this episode: Penn Jillette, Françoise Mouly, Scott Teplin, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Beinart Gallery, Naoto Hattori, Steven Weber, and Emma Booth.Follow Renee:Instagram: @reneefrenchFollow the Show:Website: artaffairspodcast.comPatreon: artaffairsInstagram: @artaffairspodcastFacebook: @artaffairspodcastTwitter: @art_affairs

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that’s a combination--Iggy Pop. On this episode of Remainders, Darren and Patrick discuss the caffeine-fueled conversations in legendary auteur Jim Jarmusch’s 2003 film Coffee and Cigarettes. Jarmusch tells stories of social misfits experiencing the downside of the American Dream, and remains one of the most unique filmmakers working today. An ode to broken connections, Coffee and Cigarettes documents 11 obscure, awkward, and sublime meetings with the most essential cult figures in music, film, and beyond. We rave with Roberto Begnini, ghost-bust with Bill Murray, and check out the jukebox with Iggy Pop. But beyond the bitter, black coffee and awkward pauses, why has Jarmusch endured as such a force in independent cinema for so long? Join us as our hosts sip a little coffee, take a drag, and see what remains.more: www.remainders.com/season-1

Born in the US and currently living in Australia, Renee French is an artist acclaimed for her hundreds, if not thousands, of drawings in the form of original works, art books, graphic novels, underground comix and children's books which she has created over the last 25 years. Her art has been exhibited in solo shows in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo (several which sold out) as well as in many group shows. And now there is a waiting list for her paintings. They are effectively sold before they are started even though she has only been painting full time for a year. Free from the restrictions of narrative, she now paints characters whose images speak for themselves; a mummified bunny, a cute chihuahua, a bird with an elongated beak and bulging eyes, a raccoon smoking a cigarette. French's imagination brings to life these creatures which stare out at the viewer with soulful eyes. French has over 100,000 followers on Instagram, many who tune in to her live video feeds where she paints and answers questions about her process and technique - often with a TV series like Neighbours or Blue Heelers playing in the background. You'll often see her works labelled with the hashtags 'pop surrealism' and 'low brow art' on Instagram - art movements which have been influenced by surrealism and popular culture. We spent hours talking and laughing and this interview starts at the relatively recent point when she decided to learn to paint.  We talk about  Instagram, why Australia made her want to be a painter, galleries in the age of the world wide web and lots more. Press 'play' below the feature photo above to hear the interview. See a short video of Renee French's work from the Talking with Painters YouTube channel below. Upcoming events Exhibition at Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, November 2018 Links to things and people we talk about on the show Renee French on Instagram Renee French at Adam Baumgold Gallery Renee French blog Julian Ashton Art School Brett Whiteley Baby Bjornstrand Ben Smith Nick Stathopoulos on Talking with Painters Alla prima painting The Archibald prize David Gulpilil by Craig Ruddy (Archibald prize winner 2004) Neighbours Blue Heelers A Country Practice All Saints Gregory Jacobsen Suzanne Archer on Talking with Painters Martin Sacks La Luz de Jesus Gallery Giant Robot Store Beinart Gallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30I_4tf6vg8

Editors Julia Gfrörer & Sean T. Collins have amassed some of the darkest talents within as well as outside of comics to create a wholly singular reading and visual experience. From masters of horror like Clive Barker to leading figures in altcomics such as Simon Hanselmann, this collection — focused on the intermingled themes of horror, ography, the Gothic, and the abject —Mirror Mirror II transcends the expectations of what a comics anthology can do. Mirror Mirror II features new and unpublished work from Lala Albert, Clive Barker, Heather Benjamin, Apolo Cacho, Sean Christensen, Nicole Claveloux, Sean T. Collins, Al Columbia, Dame Darcy, Gretchen Alice Felker-Martin, Noel Freibert, Renee French, Meaghan Garvey, Julia Gfrörer, Simon Hanselmann, Aidan Koch, Laura Lannes, Céline Loup, Uno Moralez, Mou, Jonny Negron, Claude Paradin, Chloe Piene, Josh Simmons, Carol Swain, and Trungles. Julia Gfrörer was born in 1982 in Concord, New Hampshire. Her work has appeared in Thickness, Arthur Magazine, Study Group Magazine, Black Eye, Kramers Ergot, and multiple volumes of Best American Comics. Her graphic novels Black is the Color and Laid Waste are published by Fantagraphics Books. Sean T. Collins has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Wired, Vulture, Esquire, Pitchfork, The Comics Journal, and others. His comics have been published by Marvel, Top Shelf, Study Group, and Youth in Decline. He and Julia live with their children on Long Island. Mirror Mirror II is the publisher 2dcloud's annual flagship anthology. 

Join us today for a conversation with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot from the Go team. They will discuss with your hosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel why Go is so successful for all the things cloud and how you can use it with Google Cloud Platform. About Andrew Andrew has worked on Go at Google since almost the beginning, and has written tons of blog posts and talks on Go. He spends most of his time making Go easier to use. About Chris Chris joined the Go and Cloud teams last year to improve the experience of writing Go applications for Google Cloud Platform. Before that, he worked at Google on the Maps APIs for around five years. Cool thing of the week EVE Fanfest 2016 - Kubernetes and Google Cloud video Interviews The Go programming language web Go on Google App Engine docs Google Santa Tracker web Tweak The Turkey with a Go powered Doodle doodle gofmt command docs goimports command docs Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey YouTube Bookshelf tutorial for Go on App Engine tutorial The Go Tour Go Samples repo Question of the week Google Cloud Dataflow docs Google BigQuery docs MapReduce wikipedia Where can you find us next? We'll both be speaking at Google I/O next week! Mark will then be at Change the Game SF Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate. The Go gopher, by Renee French

Occasionally, Derek and Andy like to devote an episode to a particular publisher, looking at the recent or seasonal releases and providing a snapshot of the kind of books they publish. So for this week, the Two Guys discuss the spring publications from Koyama Press, a Toronto-based small press founded in 2007 by Annie Koyama. This is a publisher that the guys deeply appreciate but have discussed little on the show. (They reviewed Renee French's Baby Bjornstrand in November of last year, and there have been a few reviews of Koyama books on the blog.) The conversation begins with Alex Schubert's Blobby Boys 2, a minimalist collection of stories with a punk aesthetic and a great sense of humor. This is a follow up to the first Blobby Boys book, which came out in fall of 2013. The guys discuss the book's wild and violent comedy, and while they enjoy the strips devoted to the titular characters, they particularly like the two stories focusing on Fashion Cat, a hip, powerful, yet ill-fated celebrity of the fashion world. After that, Andy and Derek look at Ginette Lapalme's Confetti. This is not really comic -- although there is a little sequential narrative in the opening pages of the book -- but more of an art book. Lapalme's illustrations, paintings, and object art are featured throughout, and the guys try to find several iconic themes that link the pieces together, such as melting heads, bodily fluids, butts with eyes on them, and the obvious prevalence of cats. Next, they turn to an unequivocal comic, A. Degen's Mighty Star and the Castle of the Cancatervater. This is special kind of superhero story, one that is largely silent. (There is text that introduces each chapter's dramatic personae, and there are vague sounds, represented by Ns and Hs, that are sprinkled throughout.) Degen's unique take on the hero or adventure genres is both compelling and metaphorical. But when it comes to thought-provoking texts, there is perhaps no book discussed this week more philosophical than Dustin Harbin's Diary Comics. This project began as an online illustrated journal that Harbin kept beginning in January 2010, where he would try to represent each of his days with at least one comics panel. He continued this experiment off-and-on until September 2012, eventually releasing hardcopy issues of this work in four short installments. Now, all of those life stories are collected in a single volume, and one of the pleasures of reading Diary Comics is seeing the development of Harbin as an writer and how his art, as well as his understanding of himself as an artist, progresses over time. Indeed, the highlight of the text is its opening and closing sections, where Harbin introduces his project and provides a interpretive context that is much more than mere navel gazing. This is the kind of meticulously crafted and experimental work, much like that other books discussed on the episode, that represents Koyama's mission and deserves far more attention from comics readers.

Andy W. heads to this year's Small Press Expo, and there he talks with fifteen different creators about their work, their upcoming projects, and their experiences at the expo. In this special episode, you'll hear brief interviews with James Kochalka, Box Brown, Ellen Linder, Michael DeForge, Renee French, Ed Piskor, Jason Shiga, Nate Powell, Gregory Robison, Evan Dahm, Rachel Dukes, Luke Howard, B. M. Prager, Lucy Bellwood, Noah Van Sciver. There are a lot of fun nuggets packed into this show, so enjoy SPX vicariously through the interview prowess of Andy.

Renee French and Dan Berry talk about getting into a project, falling in love with drawing tools, where ideas come from and how they incubate. Get over to Patreon right this second to help support the show!

LINKS: http://traffic.libsyn.com/stanhope/doug_stanhope_podcast_031.mp3     Doug invites cancer filled comedy lover Laura Kimball on the podcast to discuss things the downside of having cancer, comedy and a couple of other things.      If you have a story for Doug you can leave a message on the Burner Phone,(520)366-1078. Check out comic artist Renee French  - http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/     Recorded June 10, 2014 in the Atrium hotel after the Irvine Improv show with Doug Stanhope (@DougStanhope), Laura Kimball and Greg Chaille (@gregchaille). Bible artwork by Renee French. Produced and Edited by Greg Chaille (@gregchaille). Intro music "Don't Cut Yr Hair" by Mishka Shubaly. Closing song "Party Time" by The Mattoid. Both available on iTunes. Check Doug's West Coast tour dates at dougstanhope.com. Take a moment to register for 2014 Stanhope Tour news in your area, including the USA, UK, Europe, Australia and more. Register now so you don't miss out.

Due to the poor diet lifestyle of truck drivers, autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes are on the rise and there is evidence showing a link between GMOs and the increase of autoimmune diseases including arthritis, multiple sclerosis, leaky gut, lupus, cancer, heart disease and inflammatory bowel disease and other inflammatory diseases.  GMOs are now used in soy, corn, beets, cotton, alfalfa and 70% of processed foods, introduced to our food chain by the chemical company, Monsanto. World -renowned, Dr. Howard Fisher joins us as our expert guest to discuss these serious health issues. Also joining us is Renee French who will share her life changing story to a road of  better health. Co-host Donna Smith will also share her own personal knowledge and experience of the dangers of GMOs and how she has proven many doctors wrong by overcoming the effects of crohn's disease through diet modification. We will discuss the evidence and solutions to this growing health epidemic including research showing the benefits of the Moringa tree.

The first time I interviewed Renee French, was very early in the Inkstuds days. Thankfully I didn’t scare her off and she agreed to come back and catch up. Her latest book, H-Day seems like a new step in her … Continue reading →