#6 Sinzi Velicescu: Maintaining a consistent practice and growing your vision
Release Date: 12/01/2016
#26 Super Hueman Hustle - A.R.T. Podcast Season 2 Finale
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
Allison is a very well-known Bay-to-LA (and back) street artist, having been featured on the cover of LA Weekly's People of the Year issue, Juxtapoz Magazine, and many other places. She's also navigated a wide variety of career situations that have informed her work. For our season finale, host Jacob Patterson stopped by her new house in Oakland to chop it up. Warning: we say "hyphy" and "hella" wayyyyyy too many times in this episode. 8:17- Is San Jose the bay area or not? 8:57- Which part of Oakland are we in? 10:32- The Bay responding to the Ghost Ship fire ...
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#25 Hijinx PR Answers: What Is Art Management & PR?
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
Heidi Johnson has been putting the coolest art and events in front of the hippest people in LA for decades. In this episode she breaks down where PR and management cross over, how much of this stuff artists should be doing for themselves, and when it's time for you to get a manager. She also lets us in on some secrets of how to get your shit covered by the press. There's a lot of name-dropping in this episode, but every story is peppered with many years of wisdom, and by the end Heidi takes muthafuckas to school so don't miss the second half of this episode. We also share stories on the late...
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#24 How to Run the Art Department from the Gods
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
Maca rode some wild waves while Quest Nutrition jumped to the billion dollar company range, as he built one of the world's best art departments. Part of that was hiring Dino Nama, who is now Think Tank Gallery's Art Director. The two reminisce on what it took to operate on such a level, the difference of running smaller and more mobile design agencies, and break down wtf an art department even is. They also have a lot of inside jokes (just warning you). By the end of the episode we discuss what it would take to really build perfection in a design agency or art department. 7:00-...
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#23 Decoding the Artist with Yoshino
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
Yoshino has been a professional photographer in LA for a long time, and during a rut in his personal life and art practice, he started a podcast to re-inspire himself. That podcast is now one of the bigger arts podcasts in the world, and he has built a career and company out of it. In true Yoshino style, he flips the interview and gets host Jacob Patterson to open up about some personal topics and open relationship beliefs he's never shared in public. 6:03- Are you editing your show yourself, or do you have someone else doing it? 7:05- Jacob talks about interviewing people...
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#22 BrokeLA's Anna Shumacher: The Corporate Structure of DIY Culture
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
cARTel has done many things in the almost-decade that they've been shaping the experiential arts scene in LA. They've hosted fort parties, galaxy art shows with Bill Nye, giant sponsored activations, and been served a cease and desist by Coachella. The latter comes midway through the story of one of the largest and longest running DIY festivals in SoCal, fka Brokechella. Now called BrokeLA, it opens next month and has partnered with Spaceland Presents and the Regent for Anna's first year as the company's CEO. We dive deep into such an evolution, and also nerd tf out on some permitting stuff....
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#21 The Arts' Ever-Changing Cannabis Landscape with Little Face Events
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
Katie Carita Partlow of Little Face Events has changed the way that Los Angeles perceives cannabis events. Recognized by such now-household names as Weedmaps and Rolling Stone, Katie is the go-to personality in the weed industry to get a finely tuned message across in an artistic way. She's been called the "Best Pot Party in CA" (Rolling Stone) and she has her sights set high on 2018. If you're interested in doing anything artistic with Mary Jane this year, this podcast episode is the place to start. 6:46- Katie Partlow (Little Face Events) 5:53- Katie explains what...
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#16 Meow Wolf CEO Vince Kadlubek: Changing the Economy Through Art
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
#repost! We took this episode down to make a crucial cut. If you heard it the first time, enjoy it again cuz it's that good! If you missed it, here's your chance to listen to the world's hottest immersive arts company spin gold through their CEO.
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#20 Drinkin' Smokin' & West Coastin' – A Love/Hate Letter to Los Angeles
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
We've mentioned the trip that manifested DS&WC at Think Tank Gallery, the show that brought our gallery back into our old venue, but we haven't discussed the process of putting it on. Hundreds of people were involved in producing this massive arts and events series, and four of them sit down after breakfast to smoke a few bowls and talk about it in this episode. If you came to the show you'll love hearing what went into it, and if you didn't you'll love hearing our host's best friends ruthlessly mocking him for a couple hours. Long one but good one. 5:40- Intro 6:08-...
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#19 Think Tank Gallery Lied to You: Deception as Art Medium with Firefly Prod.
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
The last big show that was thrown with the Think Tank was a confusing one, for many reasons. Firefly Productions tricked the Think Tank into producing it, the Think Tank tricked its audience into attending it (#District798), and the actors tricked guests in every way shape and form. By the end, people even thought the weed was fake while they hit it. This show was described as a "mindfuck" by the media, and it encapsulated that word in every way. Whether you caught or missed the show, or caught the show but missed huge chunks of it (we don't blame you), this interview with Steph and Steven of...
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#18 Running a Creative, Mystical Ecosystem with "Sleep No More"
A.R.T. Artists Real Talk
New York's "Sleep No More" is probably the most successful piece of immersive theatre of all time. But there are thousands of moving parts to this magical machine. Guest Cesar Hawas likes to describe the parts of this creative ecosystem as just that, magic, but there are tons of insights to how an arts company can get such an expensive building and keep it running and profitable. Cesar talks about the more ethereal parts of Sleep No More (run by the production company Emursive) and all of the inspiration that surrounds it at the McKittrick Hotel in our first remote episode recorded...
info_outlineSinziana Velicescu, best known for her much-hyped Instagram profile @casualtimetravel and curatorial efforts at Standard Vision, is an old friend and a great photographer who has truly built a career on her own terms. She also has a very real and loving relationship with her home in Los Angeles. If you are an Angeleno through and through, this is the episode for you. If you're looking for some words of wisdom on maintaining your practice in a city as big as this one, you'll also find plenty of them here.
5:30 - City of dreams - http://standardvision.com/projects/city-of-dreams-macau/
6:40 - What is your role at Standard Vision?
7:22 - Can you name some notable artists who have shown on the screens?
Video Artist: Pascual Sisto
http://standardvision.com/teams/artists/pascual-sisto/
Animators:
Robert Seidel-
http://standardvision.com/teams/artists/robert-seidel/
Casey Reas-
http://standardvision.com/teams/artists/casey-reas/
Andreas Fischer-
http://standardvision.com/teams/artists/andreas-nicolas-fischer/
7:55 - SV Presents: http://standard.vision/labs/introducing-sv-presents/
8:05 - AREA by Will Galperin,
http://standard.vision/labs/introducing-sv-presents/
8:25 - Dan Chen SV Presents
http://standard.vision/labs/sv-presents-massive-by-dan-chen/
Elliot Lee Hazel - http://eliotleehazel.com/overview
Beck videos by Elliot Lee Hazel- http://eliotleehazel.com/video
12:17 - Bill Violla
13:45 - Jenny Holzer
http://www.artnet.com/artists/jenny-holzer/
http://projects.jennyholzer.com/projections/san-diego-2007
17:05 - How do you approach listening to people within the art you create?
17:25 - Teddy Kelly mural on 8th and Los Angeles: https://www.instagram.com/p/BCJvWyeLF__/
20:35 - What software are you guys using at Standard Vision?
22:25- Marriott:
http://standardvision.com/projects/la-marriott-hotel/
Transition to Photography
22:50 - Tell us how you got into photography and gained the skill of photographing architecture.
23:25 - Finding ways to photograph each shot differently.
24:25 - Being inspired as a child from LACMA’s modern art paintings.
25:40 - Children art classes at the armory in Pasadena
26:02 - Writer and art historian Cy twombly had kids make paintings for him allowing them to draw whatever they wanted, sometimes he would add to them sometimes he wouldn’t.
27:51- Sinzi adding visual puns in her photography
28:10 - What is your process?
28:25 - Exploring and capturing places that have history
29:25 - Street photography:
http://www.rinziruizphotography.com
31:25 - Sinzi falling back in love with LA by taking moments that are usually critiqued and finding life in them.
36:21- At what stage in your career was it when you looked at your photography and realized you could sell them in a gallery?
Where was the first gallery you sold them in?
37:25 - Eliminating people from photography shots
41:25 - Elements of human interaction in Sinzis photography
42:25 - What are the cities you have loved going to recently where your work has been shown and how does it feel?
48:05 - You Are Here video recap: http://www.thinktankgallery.org/event/you-are-here/
Neema Sadeghi: http://cargocollective.com/neemasadeghi
49:09 - http://www.thinktankgallery.org/breakbread/
https://www.instagram.com/scotthove/
51:08 - Are you restricting yourself to shoot only in Los Angeles?
54:09 - Vinyl mixtape monthly subscription: http://vinylmoon.co
Sinzi’s design: http://vinylmoon.co/volume012/
57:25 - Getting creative opportunities
57:53 - Building your own route around the US and getting paid to do it at http://blog.amtrak.com/amtrakresidency/
1:00 - Acid and shrooms
1:05:25 - Have you done any other road trip/photo trips?
Transition to music videos
1:06:25 - How do you define your style?
1:07:26 - Thoughts on rap music and music videos
1:09:16 - What music videos do you remember from when you were younger?
1:13:43 - The outside perception of Los Angeles and being who you want to be
1:17:05 - http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/
1:18:07 - Do you think you’ll spend your life in LA?
1:18:34 - Sinzi’s idea to create a GPS Based app of hidden gems in Los Angeles and how it relates to the already existing Pokemon Go
1:28:38 - Do you guys have a R & D department and is there any technology you specifically want to get your hands on?
1:29:46 - Damon Martin mural artist: https://www.facebook.com/Damon.Martin.Art
1:32:30 - Do you have a general mission that builds up to something in the future?
1:33:25 - Millennia's wanting to be invested in multiple creative outlets
1:37:25 - Do opportunities come to you now or do you still seek them out?
1:38:53 - When did you feel the shift of your work and you taking off?
1:39:40 - Brandon Monk skate ramp:
1:44:25 - Jacob ghost riding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQlonDdyUYk
1:50:15 - Have you done any music videos where the artist does not want to be in front of the camera?
1:51:44 - How do you transition from one opportunity to the next and do you have a strategy for it?
1:54:35 - Approaching the game with “If you are not in love with the shot don’t record it.”
1:57:08 - Are there any last memorable things you’d like to share with the listeners?
Tips for new photographers: Shoot with film to limit your photos or shoot with iPhones and don’t go by the rules.
Book recommendations:
https://www.amazon.com/Watermelon-Sugar-Richard-Brautigan/dp/0099437597
Where to find Sinziana:
Instagram: @casualtimetravel
Website: http://www.sinzianavelicescu.com
Standard Vision: http://standardvision.com