S2 Ep.5: Trixie Minx - Dancer, Producer, and NOLA-based Burlesque Innovator
Release Date: 09/15/2017
S2 Ep.18: Jay Ruttenberg – Editor of the Lowbrow Reader + Connoisseur of Tasteless Humor
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Jay Ruttenberg – Jay's love of the movie Billy Madison prompted him to start a zine dedicated to lowbrow humor, and in the process he invented a new cultural space for the finest journalists in America to write about comedy.
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S2 Ep.17: Guerrilla Girls – Feminist Arts Activists. Creative Complainers. Hashtag Heroes.
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Guerrilla Girls – Anonymous, but hilarious, female artists tackle discrimination and equity issues in the art world. Their super power – creative complaining – has moved the needle and may be a model of effective protest and activism for many of the troubling issues of our time.
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S2 Ep.16: Ben Monder – Enigmatic Guitar Hero & Black-box for Beautiful Music
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Ben Discusses: Acceptance of being a really slow worker; working on David Bowie’s final album; musicians he admires; feeling like he needs to catch-up; privileges and responsibilities of being an artist; thriving on comfort; perfectionism; how creative risks aren’t really risks if taking them isn’t optional.
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S2 Ep.15: Bob Oswaks – Sr. Entertainment Exec. turned Master Artisan Baker
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Bob discusses: his transition from VP of Sony Pictures Television to Proprietor of Bob’s Well Bread Bakery & Café; leaving at the top of one industry and rising to the top of another industry; a conversation he had with Norman Lear about change; research and 104 weekly homework assignments to write a business plan; grieving losses and moving on to a more satisfying life; when his friends in the bakery world told him he was crazy for starting his own bakery… but he did it anyway; feeding people’s soul
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S2 Ep.14: Michael Brubeck - The King of Cannabis, CEO of Centuria, & Author of Tipping the Scale
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Michael discusses: The conditions of the $200B worldwide cannabis market; how his company, Centuria, scaled up to be the largest cannabis manufacturer in North America; his approach to enrolling the smartest minds in the world to develop state-of-the-art growing techniques; what it felt like when the US Attorney General was threatening him with life in jail; the advantages and disadvantages of creativity in business; tow the worst day of his life was the best day of his life
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S2 Ep.13: Daniel Zhu – Founding Member of Stance Social Media & Broadcasting, Digital-Creative & BBoy
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Daniel discusses: Running a social media company dedicated to hiphop dance, breaking, tricking, & parkour; being an outsider who fell in love with breaking; the idea of BBoy culture being underground + maintstream simultaneously; how music shapes dance; ways Bboy culture brings people together; the parallel between breaking and skateboarding; the role respect plays in accessing the best dancers; which dancers are pushing boundaries; balancing Stance and working a real job; the power of social media.
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S2 Ep.12: Roger Durling - Santa Barbara International Film Festival Exec. Director
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Roger discusses: film as an educational tool; visual culture; the communal function of movies; film as the great equalizer; the culmination of experiencing any type of art; his pathway to running a film festival -- a perfect fit; how he reshaped SBIFF from a community event to a major stop on the Oscar campaign; being an introvert with an extroverts job; working in isolation, burnout, finding support, and being renewed
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S2 Ep.11: Maiza Hixson & Ingrid LaFleur - Artists, Curators, & 2017 Mayoral Candidates
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Maiza & Ingrid discuss: their careers as artists/curators and transitions into politics; utopian activism and the power of imagination to fuel change; Afrofuturism; the paradise of Detroit; the limitations of institutions; how lessons from curating art inform their political lenses
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S2 Ep.10: Adam Levy - Guitar Slinger, Musical Alchemist, Educator + Journalist
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Adam talks about: being a regular collaborator & touring musician with Norah Jones and how the first song with words he ever wrote was on her multi-million selling album; how his first studio session was spent working with Tracy Chapman recording Give Me One Reason to Stay, which one multiple Grammys; his shift from a jazz focus to song writing; his path of accidental opportunities; working in very diverse musical situations; & his Youtube Channel Guitar Tips & Guitar Tips Pro.
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S2 Ep.9: John Lee Dumas - Podcast Jedi, Host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, Can-Do Kinda Guy
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MAKE MOVES S2 Ep.9 feat. John Lee Dumas, podcast Jedi, host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, and can-do kinda guy. JLD discusses: starting the top-ranked podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire; what went through his mind when taking the big leaps; celebrating small wins; wow a podcast led to 13-revenue streams and $4M/year in revenue; Podcasters' Paradise - the largest podcast community in the world (3,000+ members); life after financial security and location independence; freedom; and the big question: WHY?
info_outlineMAKE MOVES S2 Ep. 5 feat. Trixie Minx, dancer, producer, and New Orleans-based burlesque innovator. Trixie schools John on the world of burlesque and challenges a few assumptions. She talks about:
- The goal of burlesque
- How burlesque found her
- The collaborative nature of the artform
- Dancing in venues ranging from a crawfish boil to the Kennedy Center
- The unexpected demographics of the burlesque audience
- Her biggest fears and her grandma's last words
- The comic roots of burlesque
- Mixing jewish faith with the art of strip tease
- Being empowered and killing them with kindness
With permission of Ropeadope Records, this episode features a segment of the track off of Jim Stephens' Full Tilt Boogie Band's album On Our Way to Forever.
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