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Season 2 Episode 0 WTF Happened to Think Tank Gallery

Release Date: 02/02/2018

#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 ...

#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...

#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-...

#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...

#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....

#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...

#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.

#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-...

#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...

#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...

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We're back! It's been a while since A.R.T. has posted an episode of our podcast, and a lot has happened in the interim. If you read between the lines (or read the "farewell letter" we published online after the LA Weekly story last year), then you know a bit of what happened, but our host Jacob Patterson takes a moment in this episode to break down what happened and where we're at because of it. If you don't give a damn and want to hear inspiring creators talk about how they're changing the world, skip this one and head over to the first full episode of Season 2 with the CEO of Meow Wolf.

0:18- What has happened to Artists Real Talk?

1:14- Check out the last episode recorded on Artist Real Talk

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-r-t-artists-real-talk/id1159607075?mt=2&i=1000381750912

2:38- Why Think Tank stopped hosting the podcast, and what happened between season one and season two

3:47- Art Director Dino @nunquamdormio

3:52- Jacob’s assistant Elsa @hellsuh

4:00- Sleep No More immersive show in New York

https://mckittrickhotel.com/sleep-no-more/

5:34- What happened to Think Tank Gallery in general

6:00- LA Weekly following the think tank story

6:16- Listen to Artist Real Talk episode 9 with Scott Hove here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-r-t-artists-real-talk/id1159607075?mt=2&i=1000379211211

6:30- Scott Hove

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https://www.instagram.com/scotthove/

6:37- Read more about the Ghost Ship Fire here:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/what-happened-exactly-in-oaklands-ghost-ship-fire

6:55- LA Weekly

http://www.laweekly.com/arts/in-the-wake-of-oaklands-ghost-ship-fire-popular-downtown-gallery-think-tank-has-been-forced-to-close-8043495

7:02- Think Tank’s Farewell letter to DTLA

https://thinktank.gallery/farewell

7:30- Jacob goes into detail about what happened to Think Tank Gallery, what is 939 studio and what is Think Tank gallery doing next.

8:45- Scheduled inspections at Think Tank

10:33- Trap house event

http://www.laweekly.com/event/trap-house-la-opening-night-7434673

12:23- Eviction notice

13:00 Think Tank creating a community a system where a community can run

16:57- Ammon Rost

http://ammonrost.com/

18:02- Re branding / splitting the brand

19:47- Think Tanking only hosting rentals

20:25- Moving from DIY to “do it right” the difference between doing it yourself and doing it correctly so that it could live in its highest potential.

23:14- Cleaning up Think Tank to start renting it out

24:38- Does Think Tank have a social responsibility to re-sign the lease?

25:05- Drinkin’ Smokin’ West’ Coastin’ event

https://drinkinsmokinwestcoastin.com/

26:49- Dino the art director of Think Tank, stepping up and helping in inspiring ways.

28:40- Jacob explains how he had to take off his creator hat and put on his business man hat to looking at things more objectively.

31:11- Details about 939 Studio is an event rental site now, when someone wants an artistic collaboration they hit up think tank and from there they will decide if they will pitch it to 939 studio.

33:00- How Think Tank stopped wasting time pursuing things that couldn't be profitable enough to exist and started thinking outside the box

33:45- Think Tank’s event Legal Goods

https://thinktank.gallery/youarehere3/

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