#124 "Salmon Chase"
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In this episode we talk about how to sell at art shows (maybe), brainstorming ideas for how to present a narrative without spoon-feeding your audience, a viral Reddit post about a photographer who deleted wedding photos in front of the groom, the mural festival Josh has been working on behind the scenes, the new Dune movie and dumb design choices in TV shows, discovering the true identity of Bigfoot!
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#123 Be Social-er
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Oops pow surprise! We are back with a new episode without waiting 3 months. In this one we talk about:
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#122 Professor YouTube
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It's a mini-ish episode! ...? In this one, Josh and Sergio talk about
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#121 Scott W. Prior "Robot Jesus Legs"
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Scott W. Prior comes back to the show to talk about dealing with weird people while doing plein air, the difficulties of painting a mosh pit, finding cool spots to paint, why NFTs are important. Scott's history of dealing with galleries, selling the Golden Gate Bridge painting, bartering with and trading for paintings, getting old and dealing with injuries & picking the theme music for driving off the Grand Canyon! Check out Scott and Sergio's work for #sonomapleinair on Saturday the 11th at Sonoma Square!
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#120 "Muy Bueno Job"
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And we're back! Sergio recaps his month in Colorado and Idaho, we talk about why California is the best state, why Josh doesn't care for flags, a Florida Man who thought Josh couldn't speak English, doing a mural in the Florida summer, the logistics of flying to do a mural, good and bad zoos and aquariums, Sergio wanting to go deeper into teaching, Josh's @paintguide takeover, and how watching TikTok before bed may cause plane crashes.
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#119 "Praybe Babies"
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We're back! Didja miss us? That's ok, we don't care either, we're PC's! In this episode, we talk about what we've been up to over the past couple of months, the concept of acquiring taste, people hating the artist "fnnch" for the wrong reasons, bad advice flying around on Facebook groups, and presenting art as entertainment on social media.
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#118 Drawing A Line In The Stone/Just Another Man Named Monday
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Sergio and Josh talk about death, dreams abstracting reality parallels art, everyone having a line between good and bad art, what bothers them the most about the “Subway Sketcher”, answer a couple of listener questions including if they would ever do sculpture, how a student should handle a professor making racially insensitive art, if cats know what color they are, and more. They discuss intent vs interpretation further, the show “Wanda Vision”, and Josh shares the most terrifying thing he’s ever
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#117 Non-Fudge-Able Tokens
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WTD Mini Episode #18 Intent vs Interpretation
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Sergio wonders if art viewers interpreting the intent of the artist in a different way that the artist intended annoys other people, and Josh has ideas about when people think all art is good.
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#116 Doing It Better Is Better
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Josh and Sergio ramble about the Super Bowl, Sergio gives an update on the gouache course and a sketch box he built, and they discuss a Youtube video they watched about business for artists. They talk about what they got out of the video such as how your personality relates to your natural salesmanship, limiting beliefs around making money, learning pricing from selling merch, and competing with dead artists for market share. We end by discussing how “art means what you want it to mean” is a cop-out.
info_outlineWe start off by talking about how to not do soul-sucking commissions and Josh asks Sergio a potentially friendship-ending question (17:40) before we get into what everyone is here to listen for: the recent video featuring Josh and MJ’s art without their permission! (20:00) Josh talks about why he deleted the story on his IG where he first announced this(38.37), what the response was to the video takedown by the offender, and why they were against the mural in the first place! They also talk about the Stone Sparrow Gallery show (1:07:10) and the new direction that MJ wants to go with her next body of work. Sergio talks about where he is at with putting together his gouache course (1:28:40) before we talk about the TV shows The Mandalorian, Fargo season 4, and Kingdom. We end with MJ talking about some interesting payment innovations in the gallery world. Get some merch from Josh at www.joshualawyer.com/shop!