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Need a dose of creativity and accountability? Hosts Monica and Candace are prioritizing ART and talking about it in a real way. One take, no script, and no filters… just two humans inviting listeners in for a fun weekly chat about what they’re making now and what is inspiring them.
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Speaker 1
Welcome.
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Speaker 2
Hello. Welcome to. As We Art.
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Speaker 1
Little too much energy. Monica.
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Speaker 2
Yes. Hello.
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Speaker 1
Welcome. Welcome to As We Art episode.
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Speaker 2
22 to 22, 22, 22.
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Speaker 1
We Love You.
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Speaker 2
22. A League of Their Own.
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Speaker 1
A League of Their own. That was Rosie O'Donnell's number. Yes. And she had fans.
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Speaker 2
She had some fans.
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Speaker 1
And they love to 22. Welcome, welcome I am Monica.
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Speaker 2
I'm Candice.
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Speaker 1
And we love A League of Their Own.
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Speaker 2
We really do. So long Charlie.
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Speaker 1
Singing to you. All right. Let's start. So this is as we Art of the podcast via YouTube, where we talk about the art we're working on right now and what else?
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Speaker 2
And also, I know we talk about what's inspiring us, and we also want to hear from you same things. What are you working on? What's inspiring you?
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Speaker 1
Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Tell us. Share with us. Give us energy.
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Speaker 1
You know we feed off you. Yeah. We're trying to keep creativity in the forefront. We're trying to just tap into our human side. And so this podcast helps us stay accountable. Every week we come at you every Tuesday with the art we're working on, no matter where it is, what stage it's in and what's inspiring us or what's challenging or whatever we want to talk about.
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Speaker 1
But we'd love to hear from you about what you're working on. Even if it's not considered traditional art, we don't care. Whatever you're working on that keeps you human, keeps you creative, let us know.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, creativity is creativity. It doesn't have to have a special, like, art label stamped on it. So, you know, coloring pages with your kiddos is creativity.
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Speaker 1
Yeah.
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Speaker 2
I mean, honestly, everything you have to do with your kiddos is creativity, because that takes a lot of energy.
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Speaker 1
I had, woman, grown woman come to me and say, you know, you were you babysat for me when I was younger. And I was like, oh, that's nice. I feel so old. And she said, the thing that I remember about you babysitting Monica, this is true. I don't I don't remember it, but she did. She's like, I was young.
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Speaker 1
We were coloring a coloring book. And she said, I went, this is true, that the little girls, she said, as a little girl, I went out of the lines by accident and my reaction was so happy. I was like, yes, let's color the background. Let's go out of the lines. Let's make jagged borders like I taught her that that was totally okay, and that apparently that stuck with her.
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Speaker 1
I do not remember this. This was Brittany. Oh, wow. Yeah. This is someone we know now is an adult. It was a friend's niece, but I was just coloring with her, and she's like, Monica, I'll never forget that. And she is now a mother of two daughters. And she's like, yeah. Coloring outside the.
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Speaker 2
Lines, girls.
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Speaker 1
There's nothing wrong with that. So whatever art you're working on, even if it's in a coloring book, that is that's no small thing we want to know. We have mugs of coffee this morning. We ordinarily we record in the evenings. Seems, afternoons.
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Speaker 2
It's a toss up, but we usually don't bring drinks on the podcast.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. We needed a little, a little more, a little extra this morning.
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Speaker 2
Or judge.
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Speaker 1
This mug has phases of the moon on it. And if you're just listening to the podcast, don't you worry. We'll post pictures on our Instagram as we art podcast. But this is a phases of the moon mug that I love. This is a local artist, in New England, John Crowley, who does a lot of hearts and moons.
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Speaker 1
What's your mug, Candice?
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Speaker 2
My mug is a gift from my sister, who lives in Australia. And it is a very pleasant 70s floral theme that says fuck this shit at the bottom. So she loves you.
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Speaker 1
Well, that's the most perfect mug for Candice. Our mugs often have a contrasting theme. Yes, yes.
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Speaker 2
Mine don't tend to be happy.
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Speaker 1
Okay. No. It's true. Yours are. A lot of them have a little bit of evil, a little bit of.
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Speaker 2
Usually something a little spooked.
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Speaker 1
Halloween? Yeah. And mine are usually nature.
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Speaker 1
Okay. So we're happy to be here. We're going to get into it and talk about how are week has been and what art we've been doing. This is so exciting. We're also excited. It's 22. Yeah that's a big deal.
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Speaker 2
That is a big deal.
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Speaker 1
22nd episode. And some of you've been following along the whole time, which we appreciate. We love the support and some of you are just finding us. Welcome. You're welcome here anytime.
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Speaker 2
Talk about subscribe like like the video and just share. Just be here with us. Clean our building a community.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, we really are. We we're trying to build a communicate, communicate and communicate.
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Speaker 2
To build something.
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Speaker 1
How do you make communication community a verb? We're trying to community ties people who are trying.
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Speaker 2
To communism things of the right word.
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Speaker 1
We're trying to build a community of other people that are also trying to fend off AI in a way that I know it's here. I know it's part of daily life. Now. I'm not I'm not denying that. I'm just saying we're trying to be creative and be intentional about doing things that are still use our human mind or human hands that don't involve AI.
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Speaker 1
So.
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Speaker 2
So we do not use AI. Yeah. For any, for.
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Speaker 1
Any of our art. So that is like really important to us. For my writing, for my art. No, no I we all.
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Speaker 2
Environment reject AI.
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Speaker 1
Yes. And we love we're proud that we create our own stuff. We're we create things from our brains and we're original about it. So the art this week, actually, I showed it in progress last week. It's a blue panel of stained glass.
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Speaker 2
Hold on before you show.
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Speaker 1
Oh.
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Speaker 2
I think I have this. It's on my mind. Okay, okay. Community as a verb. Be commune. Like, come, gather.
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Speaker 1
Because why do I think of when you say commune? I'm thinking, I like hearing something like communing with the dead. I don't know, is that the right word? I don't know.
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Speaker 2
If I know, I don't know.
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Speaker 1
Community as a verb. We want to know communicators. There's got to be someone out there that smarter than us is a lot of people smarter than us. Let us know if you know it's a low bar.
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Speaker 2
Come on.
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Speaker 1
Guys. Yeah, we could Google it, but that's using AI. Yeah, we have a dictionary. It's not within reach. That's okay. Community we're building. We want other people who are like minded. Show us your art. I'll show you mine. Show me yours. Oh, I brought a white background so you can hear.
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Speaker 2
I'll see you. Thanks, baby. I'll hold it with my other arm.
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Speaker 1
Get this official professional white background. So can you go up?
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Sorry, I have to hold it with. Yeah. Non microphone facing.
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Speaker 1
Arm. So I used eight different, pieces of glass textures that I love, colors that I love. It's a lot of blues and teals. And this is being sent to a friend. He has an upcoming birthday. This will be a surprise in the mail for him.
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Speaker 2
It's beautiful.
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Speaker 1
Thank you, thank you. I'm really happy with it. It was fun to make with some of my favorite glass. And he and I, We have water in common. We met because of a river and because of rowing. And so I'm really excited that, that he'll get to hang that in his house. It makes me happy.
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Speaker 2
That's awesome. Sorry. My mic is, like, very much not in the right spot.
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Speaker 1
Yes. Come on, Mike.
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Speaker 2
I keep bonking it with my bicep, kind.
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Speaker 1
Of which is huge. Then I'm kind of pom ripped. You okay? So I'm. That's my art for the week. I'm happy it's done. It was fun to work on stained glass. Of course I have an ongoing project that there's no progress to show because I'm still working on, a pattern to make a lampshade, which I worked on, but not enough to show you progress.
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Speaker 1
So that piece I was really happy to solder and polish and finish.
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Speaker 2
It's awesome. I love the colors she chose. I think sometimes this is really fun to make a geometric pattern.
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Speaker 1
Not for me. Oh no.
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Speaker 2
Okay, I'll speak for myself sometimes it's very fun to make a geometric pattern. We usually tend to create things that look like, you know, something recognizable, like, I don't know, a, a heart or whatever. But sometimes just being able to like, go with the flow like that. But also have parameters. I don't know, it's kind of an interesting way to create art because there's some like spontaneity to it with the color choice, but then there's very specific structure you have to stick to.
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Speaker 1
So yes, and fun. For those of you who know Candace, who have been following, she loves following structure. She will make a pattern and follow it to the tee.
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Speaker 2
Yes, I like following structure and rules in art life.
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Speaker 1
Not a little more rebellious. I on the other hand, this was very challenging for me to stay to the lines and make something geometric. And I didn't. In fact, it's not quite square, but I did love cutting these triangles. It was interesting to challenge myself to have straight edges. Ooh, it's very hard for me. Because I really, really like building things organically and going off the rails and coloring outside the lines, just really, truly going as I go.
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Speaker 1
And like changing the shape mid project at the end of the project. I love it. This was a little different, but I do like that I stuck to my idea of my pattern and I had to. I even had to adjust on the fly and make it a little narrower than I intended to, because one of the pieces of glass that I wanted to use, I only I didn't have quite enough left for the size triangle I needed.
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Speaker 1
And but I really wanted to use that glass, so I cut everything else a little smaller in order to fit that glass. Usually you pick a different piece of glass that you have that does fit your pattern. I'm the opposite. If I want a certain piece of glass in my piece, I will make everything else fit around that.
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Speaker 1
That's usually how I operate.
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Speaker 2
It's good, it's good.
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Speaker 1
It works for me. So I'm happy that's done. We will get that shipped off. We have a few things to ship. We have art that's piled up that we've been promising people. And if you're one of them, thank you for your patience. And we'll be mailing finally going to the post office and mailing a lot of art today.
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Speaker 2
We're going to be shipping machines.
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Speaker 1
Yes. All right, my dear, what did you get to Candace?
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Speaker 2
Nothing. No. This week I made a very kind of special linocut. My sister has a birthday coming up. My youngest sister, I have two younger sisters. I'm the eldest child. If you can't tell by my personality. I my youngest sister has a birthday coming up, and she also is a barber apprentice. So I wanted to make her something special.
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Speaker 2
She's really getting good at being a barber. Very into it. She's doing awesome. I'm really proud of her. And, so for her birthday, I wanted to make her a linocut that she can put at her station at the barber shop. So I cut this lino and I did it in the form of a tarot card. It's a tarot card with a barber pole in the middle.
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Speaker 2
It says the barber, which is a made up tarot card, by the way.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, this.
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Speaker 2
If you don't know tarot.
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Speaker 1
There's no barber card in.
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Speaker 2
Tarot. Henry David tarot.
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Speaker 1
This is such a good sketch. So you sketched it, you transferred it, and you carved it.
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Speaker 2
Sketched it, transferred it, carved it, and I printed it. I did the whole process.
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Speaker 1
You get to see the final.
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Speaker 2
And so this is the final print for her.
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Speaker 1
So good.
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Speaker 2
Me and my sisters, my sisters and I, we all kind of love things that are, like, mystical and spooky and, so I thought, you know, tarot cards would be great. And, she's. My sister's really into, like, traditional tattoos, traditional art, kind of sailor Geri style tattoos. So I tried to stick with that for the the way the art looks on the card.
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Speaker 1
Is that why you picked one color as well? Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Baltic and white. Not not multicolor. Just to kind of stick with that.
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Speaker 1
I love the wavy lines on the barber pole and I love the letters.
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Speaker 2
The barbecue.
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Speaker 1
This is so cool. So again, if you're listening on the podcast, we're so glad you're here. But you don't want to miss this one. This piece of art by Candace is one of my favorite little cuts she's ever done. There'll be a picture of it on Instagram, and we will be putting this in a frame and mailing it off to the birthday girl.
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Speaker 1
This is so awesome. Yeah. Tarot cards. I like your just the like the nod to terror it's not apparent to and just anyone. If you don't know about tarot cards, I wouldn't have necessarily known that. But I really, really like how it came out.
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Speaker 2
Thanks. I really like it. It was a lot of fun to make. I got to put a lot of love into it with my hands. Now she.
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Speaker 1
Could hang it at her station.
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Speaker 2
For a small injury.
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Speaker 1
Oh, what? I saw you dealing with your pinky, but I don't do well with blood. Tell me what happened or tell us what happened. But not the gory version.
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Speaker 2
Okay, so linocut tools are incredibly sharp, and you're also using a lot of force to carve away linoleum. So you always want to keep your hands behind the direction you're carving, which I do, but I happened to be carving away background, which is like fluid motion. And I slipped and it went a weird direction and actually hit my pinky, and cut into it.
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Speaker 2
It was so sharp. I didn't feel it, but I just there was a lot of blood, but gosh, I'm fine. It was like such a sharp, just kind of it cut. It healed really quickly. Like it sealed up very quickly.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. You're Band-Aids off? Yeah, yeah, but you didn't get off.
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Speaker 2
Because I didn't want a dirty Band-Aid on the podcast.
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Speaker 1
Why not? But you didn't need stitches.
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Speaker 2
I did not very grateful. I'm very, very lucky. You can get really, really hurt. I've seen people that have had to go to the hospital because they've stamp right into their hand. Tool is sticking out, so.
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Speaker 1
Oh, okay. Okay. I said the non gory version. I'm so.
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Speaker 2
Sorry. My story.
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Speaker 1
I'm so squeamish. But I don't like blood or sharp things. But again, with glass work and with lino cutting you're going to have sharp tools and sharp things. And there's Band-Aids. There's a need for Band-Aids.
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Speaker 2
Stained glass. Glass splinters are the worst. It's a very specific type of pain that's like, makes everything in you. Just like it feels like you're. Every hair on your body stands on end. When you get a glass splinter, you just know it.
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Speaker 1
I know, I'm so used to them, but that, you know, you're dealing with sharp scalpels over there. Little world. So. Yeah. How about you guys out there and listen, All.and, are there tools in whatever you like to do? Hobbies, artwork, interests, activities, any tools that you have to be extra careful around? I don't want gory stories because I can't deal with that.
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Speaker 1
But is there a tip you can share with us about safety or about something you've had to adapt to what you use? We'd love to know. It's always helpful to share some safety tips, even if you don't always follow them. Because I should wear like for me, I should wear, cutting gloves, like when I'm dealing with glass, but I do.
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Speaker 2
Protection.
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Speaker 1
And what.
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Speaker 2
Eye protection?
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Speaker 1
I wear the goggles okay when I'm grinding, but that's it.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, I wear them for everything. Oh, for cutting, grinding, soldering. Yep. Yeah. I mean, we've, we know someone who has had solder splatter up and melt their glasses.
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Speaker 1
I do where I have to wear my glasses in the studio. So I have a pair of older glasses that I don't care so much about. So if they get solder splatter. So I wear glasses, but I should wear safety goggles.
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Speaker 2
I need the sides closed glasses don't do anything and I know they will shatter if.
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Speaker 1
I feel so. It's so seen and punished and oh shame, I don't punish.
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Speaker 2
Just publicly shamed.
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Speaker 1
Publicly shame. Yes, safety gear.
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Speaker 2
To the stockade. Is that what they called it?
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Speaker 1
I don't know where you have to.
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Speaker 2
Like, put your hands in it for town square.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, I don't I don't always follow the safety rules. And I have learned the hard way and not learned from it. So I ask for safety tips just because I'm inspired by those who follow the safety guidelines, not because I'll do it.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah. For Monika, life is hard. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
I sometimes make it harder than it has to be.
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Speaker 2
I think you're such a good artist, though. I just wish you were a little bit safer sometimes.
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Speaker 1
I know, I know, I'm not going to promise that I will, because that's not genuine. But I'll. I'll try to try to try to think about it.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. And that's why I love you.
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Speaker 1
Okay.
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Speaker 1
Let's move on now to inspiration.
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Speaker 2
Oh, what's your inspiration this week?
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Speaker 1
I know it seems like I well, I feel like I often say a book that I've just read so well, but I just finished a book that I really want to talk about it because it really is inspiring, but for not the reasons I thought. So I read if you haven't had a chance, I highly recommend it. It's Pamela Anderson's book called love, Pamela again with the library cover.
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Speaker 1
The plastic cover on this I'm showing the camera right now. Might be a glare from our fancy professional lighting. This is not like a memoir that you would expect. It's it's not, written in that sort of way. It's creative writing. It's beautiful. And unbeknownst to me, Pamela Anderson is a poet and I mean a poet. She is deep.
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Speaker 1
She's intellectual imagery. Her relationship with nature is her relationship with our emotions. It is fucking awesome. She also lived a lot of her life as the rock and roll party pinup. We know this. That's her exterior.
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Speaker 2
Exterior I like it.
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Speaker 1
Exterior, public persona, but there's so much more to her. And I'm so glad she waited to write this book. Now that she's at a certain time in her life where she can look back and reflect, and just with such authenticity and care and her own, she was she was so adamant about writing this book in her own terms.
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Speaker 1
She didn't want any like sort of script doctor, ghostwriter, partner, whatever. She wrote this herself, she in fact wanted the whole book to be one long poem, but they're like, no, we need some paragraphs and sentences with periods. So she reluctantly added, but she'll have some narrative with paragraphs and sentences and periods and then the poetry. And it doesn't.
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Speaker 1
It really adds to the story. And it's so lovely the way she tells her story and her love for her two boys, and her love for animal activism and nature and how she lives her life now. So the reason why I find this super inspiring, besides reading about an amazing woman that has gone through a lot, is she's living with such intention right now.
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Speaker 1
Tiny little awarenesses of the small little details. I mean, she's growing her own vegetables in her own wild roses and cultivating this life of just serenity and nature and calm and slowness, which is very opposite from how she lived most of her public life. But it was so nice to read, and it inspired me, since I am trying so hard lately to slow down, to just change my pace a little bit.
00:20:40:07 - 00:21:02:15
Speaker 1
I'm like, pedal to the metal, full throttle. How many idioms can I come up with? I, I have been raised in my life to value productivity. And I am really trying to unlearn that because there's actually so much more value for me in slowing down and sitting outside, looking at nature, sipping my coffee, so.
00:21:02:21 - 00:21:06:12
Speaker 2
Experiencing things instead of going for the output.
00:21:06:18 - 00:21:28:25
Speaker 1
Oh my God, it's so awesome. I used to be proud of the fact that I walk fast, talk fast, eat fast, everything fast, and now I'm I'm I'm unlearning that. I'm not proud of that. I needed to go through that because it's truly, genuinely me and how I operate. But it's I'm getting more out of it by trying intentionally to slow down.
00:21:29:01 - 00:21:50:21
Speaker 1
So that's my inspiration this week. This book's phenomenal. I need to return to the library. I'll get something else to read if you have any recommends for books. I especially love reading. Whether it's nonfiction or fiction, women write the heroine of their story, especially when they're like, not a victim. They're even if they've had unfortunate circumstances, they come out as a heroine.
00:21:50:23 - 00:22:00:18
Speaker 1
There's some quote by Nora Ephron about that, like be the heroine in your life story, not the victim. I paraphrasing, but thank you, Nora Ephron, for that.
00:22:00:21 - 00:22:01:19
Speaker 2
It's great.
00:22:01:22 - 00:22:09:10
Speaker 1
I hope I just got that right, because I just pulled it out of thin air and I'm like, was that Nora Ephron? I think of us. I'm sure it was. It's a great quote.
00:22:09:10 - 00:22:11:18
Speaker 2
I'm pretty sure she has some good ones.
00:22:11:20 - 00:22:13:21
Speaker 1
So inspiration. Thank you for listening.
00:22:13:26 - 00:22:23:15
Speaker 2
Well, Pam Anderson's fantastic, I love her. And, there's also a really good documentary about her. I think it's called I Love You, Pamela.
00:22:23:18 - 00:22:25:19
Speaker 1
Okay, that she said yes.
00:22:25:19 - 00:22:27:22
Speaker 2
She well, she, she.
00:22:27:25 - 00:22:30:07
Speaker 1
Like her sons. Maybe sometimes.
00:22:30:07 - 00:22:33:26
Speaker 2
Yeah. Her son. I believe the old Dylan and Brandon.
00:22:33:26 - 00:22:34:14
Speaker 1
Brandon.
00:22:34:14 - 00:22:38:10
Speaker 2
Brandon. Okay. Yeah. He he made it with her.
00:22:38:13 - 00:22:49:20
Speaker 1
Okay. Good. Because she does not she does not, support any movies or documentaries or shows that are about her without her, her input.
00:22:49:22 - 00:22:50:07
Speaker 2
Yep.
00:22:50:10 - 00:23:08:13
Speaker 1
And so, yeah, her son, that's not in the book. This book came out in 2023. So maybe that documentary was newer. And she's done a lot since then, especially the no makeup skincare line that's completely natural. And she goes everywhere now without makeup and it's so refreshing, so refreshing. I say, Pamela.
00:23:08:20 - 00:23:14:04
Speaker 2
Yeah, I feel like the documentary probably came out around the same time okay. As the book. So great.
00:23:14:04 - 00:23:31:20
Speaker 1
I think I would like to watch it. I it's it it's not mentioned in the book, although, she talks about her adult sons and what they're up to, and I know he's producing, so yeah, maybe that's part of it. So yeah, let us know. Any book recommends documentaries. We love those recommends we're spending less time on the screen.
00:23:31:20 - 00:23:37:11
Speaker 1
So reading and activities in nature is always good. But we we can watch a documentary every now and then.
00:23:37:13 - 00:23:38:21
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00:23:38:24 - 00:23:41:02
Speaker 1
Inspiration. Candice.
00:23:41:04 - 00:23:48:18
Speaker 2
My inspiration this week will shock everybody based on my art. My inspiration this week is tarot cards.
00:23:48:21 - 00:23:49:09
Speaker 1
Tarot.
00:23:49:09 - 00:24:17:23
Speaker 2
I really enjoy collecting them, looking at them, learning about them, learning the different suits and stuff I don't like live my life based on tarot or any of that. I don't subscribe to any sort of belief or religion or, open minded. Yeah. But I really find like just the kind of mysticism surrounding tarot very interesting.
00:24:17:23 - 00:24:34:24
Speaker 2
And I don't know, it resonates with me. So it's, it's fun to collect and learn about, but I to show for my inspiration my favorite tarot deck that I own. And it is by Christina Ricci. Shout out to Christina Ricci.
00:24:34:24 - 00:24:36:16
Speaker 1
She's a great actor. If you're a.
00:24:36:18 - 00:24:41:22
Speaker 2
Child of my era, you definitely were obsessed with her at some point in your childhood.
00:24:41:22 - 00:24:45:21
Speaker 1
For what was she, a movie that you like? What comes to mind for you right away?
00:24:45:23 - 00:24:59:17
Speaker 2
So many things. Addams family, she was in. Of course. Now I'm drawing blank Batman movies. Oh, yeah? Yeah, there's a no, I mean, mermaids, so many things. She was in Casper.
00:24:59:19 - 00:25:02:15
Speaker 1
But Addams Family movies, we've seen both. There are two. Right.
00:25:02:15 - 00:25:04:26
Speaker 2
And it was family and Addams Family Values.
00:25:05:02 - 00:25:07:05
Speaker 1
And as an adult now she's.
00:25:07:08 - 00:25:09:03
Speaker 2
She's in Yellowjackets.
00:25:09:05 - 00:25:11:25
Speaker 1
Today. Am I wrong? Wasn't she in Wednesday?
00:25:11:27 - 00:25:12:11
Speaker 2
She was on.
00:25:12:11 - 00:25:17:29
Speaker 1
Wednesday. Yep. Yeah. Yellowjackets. Okay, so Christina Ricci show this loveliness.
00:25:18:02 - 00:25:32:08
Speaker 2
So she has a tarot deck that she created with an illustrator. And it is called Cat Full of Spiders. And it comes in this, like, really cool book that holds the tarot cards, and so.
00:25:32:10 - 00:25:39:20
Speaker 1
Oh, I know you're still learning about these, but is there a favorite card, whether it's like the artwork on it or the meaning behind.
00:25:39:20 - 00:25:42:03
Speaker 2
It, I put my favorites at the bottom so I can.
00:25:42:03 - 00:25:45:19
Speaker 1
Show you, oh, so might just be quite.
00:25:45:19 - 00:25:51:12
Speaker 2
A card in this deck. The artwork is the Five of Swords. Can I say really cool?
00:25:51:14 - 00:26:01:08
Speaker 1
Ooh. Oh, that's a little spooky. So what we're looking at is a card, Five of Swords. I'll put a picture of it on Instagram. And you like this one for the meaning or the art?
00:26:01:12 - 00:26:16:06
Speaker 2
The art for sure. The meaning, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not super well-versed in this, is that you're like, going through a struggle trying to, you know, you're struggling with something that you need to overcome.
00:26:16:06 - 00:26:18:10
Speaker 1
Can you relate to that.
00:26:18:12 - 00:26:19:16
Speaker 2
Story of my.
00:26:19:16 - 00:26:30:20
Speaker 1
Life? I think we can relate to that. But this is beautiful art and I like that. It's hand drawn. This is not made with I thank you, Christina Ricci. It's cool.
00:26:30:20 - 00:26:38:29
Speaker 2
I don't remember the name of the illustrator. I should look, Yeah, I have to.
00:26:39:01 - 00:26:46:29
Speaker 1
We can put it on the, featuring forward, but creative direction by Marc Hampton. Oh, deluxe custom art by.
00:26:46:29 - 00:26:50:10
Speaker 2
Philippe Flores from Long Beach, California.
00:26:50:12 - 00:26:52:10
Speaker 1
Okay. Philippe Flores.
00:26:52:13 - 00:26:54:06
Speaker 2
Thank you. Philippe.
00:26:54:09 - 00:26:56:10
Speaker 1
Yeah, for being such a good artist.
00:26:56:10 - 00:27:05:23
Speaker 2
And also, I just want to share death because, okay, he's afraid of that card, but it's amazing. The art is amazing. It just means transition. Change.
00:27:05:26 - 00:27:08:14
Speaker 1
It looks like her. It looks like her.
00:27:08:16 - 00:27:15:11
Speaker 2
Yes. They're all like any figure on the cards. Is her as a different character?
00:27:15:11 - 00:27:17:12
Speaker 1
Oh. Very good. I need to look at this with you.
00:27:17:17 - 00:27:19:00
Speaker 2
I know. Okay.
00:27:19:03 - 00:27:37:04
Speaker 1
Well, we have different hobbies and different interests. I swear we are married, we live in the same house, but like, we have different interests. And Candace can spend hours looking at the artwork and the meaning behind tarot cards. I that requires slowing down and having patience. I'm trying to embrace that, so I would love to look at that.
00:27:37:04 - 00:27:39:11
Speaker 2
Deck with you. Awesome.
00:27:39:14 - 00:27:44:13
Speaker 1
But I like that inspiration. I can see how you got that idea to make your art this week.
00:27:44:15 - 00:27:51:29
Speaker 2
Yeah, I just thought it would be something that my sister would like, because, you know, we're all into the spooky realm.
00:27:52:02 - 00:28:15:21
Speaker 1
So that's awesome, I love that. So if you're listening out there or watching out there, tell us if you're into a tarot or what you think about different spooky realms, what you're inspired by. We love hearing books, music, documentaries, artists that you have found. Music. Gosh, we always have music going on with.
00:28:15:22 - 00:28:19:13
Speaker 2
PJ Harvey t shirt. My all time favorites.
00:28:19:15 - 00:28:38:11
Speaker 1
She is one of your all time favorites. I have come to love her even more. I knew of her and I have seen her in concert before meeting you, but we've seen her together since and listened to a lot of her albums and she is talk about original. Yes, writes all of her own lyrics and sings all her stuff.
00:28:38:13 - 00:28:41:17
Speaker 1
She's just so good and she's had a long career.
00:28:41:19 - 00:28:47:27
Speaker 2
Yep. She does a lot of the illustrations for her albums. She's amazing.
00:28:47:29 - 00:29:08:02
Speaker 1
That's awesome. Fiercely independent. Yeah. But just like an independent, fierce woman who's doing her thing and putting yourself out there. Yep. We love that. We love that. So and we're aspiring to be that. And maybe we are in that category of people, of women doing their thing and putting themselves out there. So this podcast is part of that.
00:29:08:02 - 00:29:21:13
Speaker 1
We're really, really happy you're here. We love having you stop by every week and check in and share with us whatever inspiring you, whatever art you're working on, we'd love to know. Yeah. And, that's episode 22.
00:29:21:14 - 00:29:28:03
Speaker 2
We did it 22, in the books. Yeah. Thanks for being here. We're here. Wow, that was.
00:29:28:05 - 00:29:30:01
Speaker 1
Great. And running around.
00:29:30:04 - 00:29:35:17
Speaker 2
We all speaking in rewind. We're going back up to,
00:29:35:20 - 00:29:42:22
Speaker 1
Let's. Shit. I almost did a spit take. I happened to take a sip of coffee when you did your rewind. Oh, Candace. Yeah, that was.
00:29:42:22 - 00:29:43:20
Speaker 2
Great. Sorry for that.
00:29:43:25 - 00:29:45:00
Speaker 1
What were you going to say?
00:29:45:00 - 00:29:55:12
Speaker 2
We're happy you're here. Thanks for being here. We appreciate you. And thanks for letting us talk about the things we create. Please share with us what you create and we'll see you next week.
00:29:55:14 - 00:29:57:03
Speaker 1
Woo hoo! Bye.