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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
Hello, hello, hello.
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Speaker 2
Welcome.
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Speaker 1
Hello and welcome to as we Art.
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Speaker 2
As we Art episode. In this a little bit, I apologize.
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Speaker 1
Why is your mic.
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Speaker 2
I changed it so my my arm, my gigantic bicep doesn't hit the mic. Arm anymore.
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Speaker 1
I think I want mine up because I am a flail or of arms. Yeah. And now, anyway, if you are just listening on the podcast, you're missing out on the mic. Placement that Candice has done is mind still like more phallic?
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Speaker 2
What?
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Speaker 1
I don't know, maybe even mean. Like it's like in my face this my oh no.
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Speaker 2
All right. Let's see if I really think about it. All microphones are phallic. Okay.
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Speaker 1
So we don't cut things out in this but we're going to start over. Welcome to episode 25 of As We Art. I'm Candice. I'm Monica.
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Speaker 2
We're here to talk about what we're creating and what's inspiring us, including the positioning of our microphones. We also want to hear from you. What are you creating? What's inspiring you? How do you use your microphone?
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Speaker 1
Let's not. Okay. So thank you for being here. Welcome, welcome. We're a podcast. We're a YouTube channel. But if you are just listening, since we're talking about a lot of visual things with our art projects, be sure to follow us on Instagram because each week after the episode, after we figure out what we talked about, we go back and post pictures to accompany each show.
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Speaker 1
So those are helpful, right? For the visual cues. But there's another reason why we really want you to follow us on Instagram.
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Speaker 2
We need friends.
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Speaker 1
No, no.
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Speaker 2
Episode 26, which will be the next episode. We're going to be doing a giveaway to celebrate six months of As We Art, and we're going to be doing that on Instagram. So go follow us at As We Art podcast. And we will get you hooked up with some art if you enter the giveaway.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, that'll be fun. I know we started this to keep ourselves accountable, to make sure we're being creative every week, making sure we're prioritizing time to feel like a human, using our hands to create stuff. And so we committed to one year. And so, yeah. Next episode is going to be the halfway mark of that yearlong commitment.
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Speaker 1
And we want to do that by celebrate that by doing a giveaway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've made a few pieces of art this year that we maybe would have without the podcast, but I think the podcast definitely has helped the momentum.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, it's definitely kept me accountable to make sure that I'm incorporating creativity anywhere I can instead of just like, oh, I'll get to that next week or whatever. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
The other thing that we didn't, I don't know, we didn't go into this anticipating this would be a thing. But we've also created more art this year due to the podcasts because of you guys. Yes. You're sharing every week photos of what you're working on are telling us about it, whether it's, texting or commenting on YouTube or commenting on Instagram.
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Speaker 1
It's awesome because your creativity and inspiration keeps us going, and we've added a lot of music to our playlist because of you as well. So any book recommends song recommends, let us know because we love adding to our inspiration pools of inspiration.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. And we're going to start doing an artist of the week starting this week. So stay till the end to find out who the artist is. And if you have recommendations for who you want as the artist of the week, please send them to us. We love seeing people's art. It's awesome.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, we we really do. And we love to follow local artists. So last week we mentioned a fellow local artist named Melissa who does watercolors, and we mentioned her cards. But we didn't have an example to show you. And we won't always. For artists of the week, however, we want to give a shout out to. But this week said us to the end.
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Speaker 1
Stay till the end.
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Speaker 2
Didn't.
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Speaker 1
Drip. Stay till the end.
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Speaker 2
Because this is our Scott episode. Look that up. Oh, God.
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Speaker 1
Who who's the actress? Oh my God. The sex and the city. Samantha. Kim Kudrow. Oh my God. If you have not found Kim Cattrall.
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Speaker 2
Scat.
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Speaker 1
Effort to scat.
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Speaker 2
Her, we are. I think she's been now playing the jazz bass. Zab Ado Reilly, you hit it up. Just.
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Speaker 1
Just stop listening to us and pause and go find that video. I was like, what actress tried to scat? It's embarrassing. It's hysterical. It's funny. And she's being serious. This was not a comedic bit.
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Speaker 2
I think it's like part of a some beat beatnik poem that she's trying to recite over jazz. It is not, that is not it. Whatever it is, that was.
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Speaker 1
A little hypocritical because we're on this to celebrate other people's creativity. And she was she was doing her thing and living in her moment. But I'm sorry. It is funny.
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Speaker 2
Still.
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Speaker 1
And maybe some people could turn to us for humor when they see our attempts at art and they're like, nice try. That's funny, but do yourself a favor and go watch that. Yes.
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Speaker 2
And stay till the end of it, please.
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Speaker 1
Because we do have a sample of the art of one of the artists we want to give a shout out to this week. Okay. Let's talk. What do we make week 25. What did we make.
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Speaker 2
I'm going to go first.
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Speaker 1
Okay. Good.
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Speaker 2
Yay. What I made this week, I was making something for my mother for her birthday. Happy birthday. Mom. I created a reduction linocut, which is where you carve a little bit. Print one color. Carve a little bit more away. Print another color. Carve more. Print another color. So it can't be recreated. So it's just just for mom.
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Speaker 2
But I did make a couple extras that I'll throw on our website eventually, but so.
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Speaker 1
Hers has been framed and mailed, and by the time this airs, her birthday will have happened. Yes, but yeah, Candice printed a couple of extra so she could show us the incredible detail.
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Speaker 2
Oh my God, I made a reduction that is upside down. Sunflower.
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Speaker 1
We have a fan going this week because it's humid and sticky. That's going to hold it out closer to the camera.
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Speaker 2
My mom loves sunflowers. I mean, really, who doesn't love sunflowers? They're great. So I made a reduction sunflower linocut. It's got a layer of orange, layer of yellow, and then a layer of black. It can't be.
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Speaker 1
Recreated.
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Speaker 2
Because the lino is just the outline now. But I also made one card because I had some extra ink each time, so.
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Speaker 1
See, I really like it on the brown. I like it on the white, but the brown I won't. It's a little different.
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Speaker 2
I most likely won't make reduction liners into cards because it is such a labor intensive process, but I figured this would be a fun one to like, have kicking around the house for when we want to send it to someone special or whatever.
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Speaker 1
It's gorgeous, and it has more of the dots in the center than the other prints.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, that was my, heavy handed inking. So on the other prints, which is why the dots are missing in some places.
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Speaker 1
Stunning. So I see yellow and black, but I'm also seeing a little bit of orange.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. I just I just talked about the colors orange, yellow and blue. Sorry.
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Speaker 1
My brain was not.
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Speaker 2
You were thinking about sunflowers.
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Speaker 1
Orange, yellow, black. Awesome. And we I think we did grab some like process pictures. So be sure to check our Instagram because I'll put the steps that Candice took to get to this. And yeah, I was like, oh, can you print some more? And she's like, no. Yeah. On a reduction print because you carve in between each color, there's no way to go back and do that again.
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Speaker 1
So it's.
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Speaker 2
It's really.
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Speaker 1
Cool because they're kind of not kind of they're rare. Like if you get one of these.
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Speaker 2
It makes it really special. But it also makes it really scary because if you fuck up, that's it. Yeah. It's no way to fix it.
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Speaker 1
Okay. I love this art, Candice. I think it's phenomenal. And I'm proud of you.
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Speaker 2
I'm having a lot of fun with lino cutting. It's I, I think I found something that I will continue. I mean, stained glass is one of those things for me. I'll make stained glass my whole life. Jump in and out when I want. But, I think lino cutting is going to be up there as well.
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Speaker 1
I'm sure some of them can take a really long time, but it seems like lino cutting, lino cutting you. You see the result a little bit faster, than stained glass? I don't.
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Speaker 2
Think so. No, actually, especially with the reduction line. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
You. No. That's good. Yeah. I'm. I think it takes a lot of patience to carve all those little bits.
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Speaker 2
But there's some artists out there that do, like really, really detailed linocut work, and it takes them like six months to carve a line. So, yeah, there's some very dedicated, relief print artists out there.
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Speaker 1
That's awesome. I've seen some online because we've been following some artist and some of them are big, like as big as a table. It must have taken so long to carve, but I'm impressed. That is incredible. That's great. And it is art. I want to say I'm going to point this out, give you a shout out.
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Speaker 1
Candice helped. Not helped. She did it, but she created a logo and a background for my, one of my other jobs, which is teaching. I teach ESL online for non-native English speakers, and I started a series, another series of, YouTube videos for those learners. I've done it years in the past. I'm starting another one. But to give it a little fresh up to the page, Candice created new background music, a logo with colors and, like a template for the thumbnail.
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Speaker 1
That's really, really cool. And I'm super stoked. When I first started teaching and making videos online, I was definitely worried about like, being myself or, saying anything about Pers, about my personal life. Like the first few years of teaching, especially internationally. I just didn't say anything. Not even that it I was gay or and I wasn't purposely hiding it, but I just was keeping it about English only.
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Speaker 1
And I have found over the years that I've had much more success with my clients, my students, when I'm just me, I'm me, and I'm not focusing on accent reduction. I'm embarrassed that I ever try to focus on that because accented English is everywhere around the world. Every single person has an accent. Everyone.
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Speaker 2
Even Americans. Even though for some reason Americans seem to think we don't. You know.
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Speaker 1
You can't say, oh, they have an accent. We don't. Everyone does. And so I'm not working on that and working on communication, confidence, being yourself. And so this new, logo you made and the pattern, the template pattern with that nod to a rainbow is just so special. I'll put a screenshot of it on this week's As We Art, because I do want you to see Candace's hand in that, she had me, like, come in and like say, yeah, these colors are great or this font, but I'm, I just want to point that out.
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Speaker 1
There's still some art and creativity happening, even when it's like, job related and it's impressive.
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Speaker 2
Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. It was fun. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Took a little while.
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Speaker 2
It did take a while. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So happy that you're patient enough to do that. I promise you, it wouldn't happen without you.
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Speaker 2
I bet it would. No, it would not.
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Speaker 1
My art this week, I didn't mean. Are you done?
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Speaker 2
I'm all set. What did you make? Monica.
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Speaker 1
So one of the things that just was so time consuming. But I'm happy I have some updates about this snake lamp that I'm making. Is. I pulled out some glass that the client's choosing among different colors, which is good. I worked and worked and worked on making a shade, form like a mold so I can make a pattern on this shade because it's not symmetrical.
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Speaker 1
So there's this there's no wiggle room in this lamp. You guys, this is so unlike my normal projects. There's the light bulb post in the middle of the lamp where the light bulb will eventually go, and then a metal snake. If you've been following us, you know what I'm talking about. And it dictates how wide the base of the lamp can be.
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Speaker 1
I can't fudge that. You can't, like, mess up and make your stained glass lampshade too wide or it won't fit. And I worked and worked on trying to make these so many different materials. On trying to make a form. And finally I'm like, okay, this this just keeps shifting. I need some structured thing to go by. So I broke down and got a used lampshade that would will fit, and I'm using that to then form my mold or make my form from so that was finally a relief to just get some help on a shape that already exists that has the right flare to it.
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Speaker 1
And that's what I needed. So I had to learn. Can't do everything I want by hand. There are some things I do tend to reinvent the wheel sometimes.
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Speaker 2
That's okay. You learned things along the way, you know?
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Speaker 1
Yeah, I learned things along the way. Like, I don't know, I'm. I am so dumb when it comes to math and geometry that I didn't do. I'm. Yeah. Learning the what's the right word? I have a challenge when it comes to certain math concepts, let me tell you. Did you guys know that if you have a circle, I needed a three inch circle, right.
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Speaker 1
For the base, IA3 inch circle. And when I started working with this cardboard I was working with, when I added to it, it kind of squared out a little bit. So the circle became kind of a square ish. Well, after it became a square, this changes the surface area, the light bulb, metal circular bracket thingy that holds it no longer fit.
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Speaker 1
I thought, you know, the circle will still fit in the square. No, no it doesn't. So that might sound obvious is some people you have to make the circle much wider than you think. If it's going to become a square or just start with a square, goddamn it. So it was really interesting and challenging for my brain.
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Speaker 2
Yet Monica's way of making a lamp is like that game from the late 80s early 90s. I think it was called perfection, which is terrible. But it was like this platform with all these different shaped pieces that you had to get in. And there was a timer. Oh, and at the end of the timer, it shot all the pieces into the year.
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Speaker 2
It was so scary. I had that game.
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Speaker 1
Oh my God.
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Speaker 2
Bash it out of me. I played it like twice, I hated it, I'm pretty sure it was called perfection, but that seems to be your approach to oh.
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Speaker 1
Hell no to perfection. With a timer. Yes.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. I had to get every shape in there, and I don't know, I'm making it up for, let's say, three minutes.
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Speaker 1
I.
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Speaker 2
And it was like, not a small number of shapes. It was like an exorbitant amount of shape. Three. I think it was like 24 shapes.
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Speaker 1
I bet my therapist invented that game to get business to get clients.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1
Because.
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Speaker 2
They're still PTSD in that game.
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Speaker 1
That sounds awful. Yeah. I'm so glad I never played that, especially with the timer. I can't even do a jack in the box.
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Speaker 2
Between that and operation, like.
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Speaker 2
Kids are just traumatized. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
All right. What 80s or 90s game traumatized you? We want you to share with us. What do you talk about in therapy that is still haunting you from your childhood? That sounds awful, but no, I needed help to make this lampshade. And so as soon as I get this, this lamp form made, I cannot wait to start.
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Speaker 1
I can't wait to start applying glass to it because I'm so ready. I think I mentioned, I think I've mentioned to listener land that that lamp shade is going to be green leaves all around, with a red apple, a hint of a hand and one side, and then a hint of a woman's profile and long hair on the other side as a nod to Eve and her apple.
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Speaker 1
Because there's a snake lamp. This is a commission. This is what the client wants. I, I usually don't take commissions anymore, but she had asked years ago. And this is a family friend, so we are doing it, but we shall see what the end result is. I hope it looks like it does in my mind.
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Speaker 2
It'll be amazing. Thank you. The other here first. It'll be amazing.
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Speaker 1
You know, I was thinking my other piece of art that I made this week has is also a golden yellow flower. Oh, nice. I'm looking at Candice's amazing sunflower. So we grew up with Korean flowers in our yard, and my sister requested, stained glass window. She saw my house plant from last week and she's like, oh my God.
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Speaker 1
That golden background reminds me of coffee shops is can you make like a stained glass window of some quirky opposites? So I drew a pattern, colored it in to give her an idea of like, maybe this might work. This is not what I'm going to make out of glass, I will tell you. But I did take some time to draw this this pattern.
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Speaker 1
The blue sky on it is too much. So there's going to be a much lighter shade or less, maybe less sky. I definitely want petals to go up into the skyline, and I want those Korean pieces to be life size with all that greenery. We had a big field. So anyway, that's one of my pieces of art.
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Speaker 1
Beautiful. Well thank you. It's it's not what the end pattern will be.
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Speaker 2
They never are. Stained glass patterns evolve over time.
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Speaker 1
It needs to evolve because that's how that bloom. Like, whoa. It looks like a big, bold blue stripe. I want those flowers to be the big hit of the window. Yeah. Crops is flowers. Do you know this flower out there in listener land? Is there a flower that I should. I'll put a flower, a picture of these flowers online on our Instagram.
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Speaker 1
But I just love it's so nostalgic to see these flowers. They're called quarry opposites. I don't know where they grow.
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Speaker 2
Different types of them.
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Speaker 1
Oh there are.
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Speaker 2
There's like sand quarry opposites. And what of other types?
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Speaker 1
Oh, because you got seeds wants to try to grow different crops.
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Speaker 2
Are like 3 or 4 tries to get the right seed. Just a heads up. If you look for career ups, a seed out there, make sure you're looking at the right one, whatever it is that's appealing to you and will grow in your area.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ours grew wild. We had a big field of them. It was like golden. It was awesome. And instead of a lemonade stand, my sisters and I had a little quarry opposite, and we'd we'd pick little bunches, put a rubber band around it, put it in a little vase of water and have a roadside stand.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. It was.
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Speaker 2
So cute. It was cute. It was fun.
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Speaker 1
Okay. So inspired by yellow, apparently. Yeah. Both of us.
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Speaker 2
This is the week of yellow.
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Speaker 1
What other inspiration did you find?
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Speaker 2
So my inspiration. This week's kind of fun because I've been spending, like, a little bit of time each day on the as we are social media, you know, checking things that people have tagged us in and, but also like going through and intentionally following some awesome artists and different mediums. And it's just been really inspiring to see how many creative people there are out there for like every one follow, I click, I get like 20 suggestions that can then lead down a rabbit hole of amazing art and creativity.
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Speaker 2
And it's just, it's been awesome to see all the things that people are creating. And I don't know, it's really inspiring to see how many people out there still making art, still doing things despite whatever might be happening in their lives or their area of the world. And still just creating and putting awesome, you know, beautiful things, political things out into the world.
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Speaker 1
So I'm so happy to hear you say this, because and I'm glad you find inspiration from other artists. And I know you're limited on screen time. And so instead of looking at your phone and just scrolling, you're intentionally going on there in small batches to look for artists. And I think that's awesome because not only is it hard to make art sometimes with the big, the big picture of the world and what's happening, but of course, also with AI.
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Speaker 1
So AI is is unfortunately taking over a lot of artistic endeavors and things that look homemade might be AI or AI or other places are stealing, copying original artists work and using it for their own purposes and selling it at a fraction of the price on some discount sites from overseas. You know what? We still make art even when all of that might happen or does happen.
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Speaker 1
We're not focused on it. We want to make our art. We know we made it. If someone buys it, that's awesome. If they don't, that's fine too. We're so happy doing that. And if you find other artists out there doing their thing and being original and like, it's just so it is. It's really inspiring.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. And just like along the lines of what Monica was talking about, just give them some encouragement, just jumping on to their social media and saying, hey, this is beautiful. As an artist. Like that means so much and just makes you want to create more, to know that somebody out there also appreciates something that you have an eye for.
00:22:34:27 - 00:22:55:25
Speaker 1
That's a that's a really good point because sometimes I'll just like things. But I don't as often take time just to say this is incredible or that is awesome. Do it do it. Those sentences mean a lot to an artist and it does encourage them to keep going for sure. Yeah, I love that. I love the inspiration.
00:22:55:27 - 00:23:02:17
Speaker 2
Also, I'm still cranking the New Moon album, so if you're not listening to dancing on the wall, you should be.
00:23:02:23 - 00:23:05:15
Speaker 1
Yes. Oh, that song and the video.
00:23:05:16 - 00:23:07:06
Speaker 2
That's the name of the album too.
00:23:07:08 - 00:23:21:16
Speaker 1
Oh, okay. Well, the video for the song Dancing On This Week and it's going well is hot. Yeah. Muna Muna is a band we love and I think you splurge a little bit and buy tickets or something, and we're.
00:23:21:16 - 00:23:23:04
Speaker 2
Seeing Muna in October.
00:23:23:10 - 00:23:44:01
Speaker 1
They're coming to Boston, so we're going to see them and oh my God, you were not kidding. I hadn't seen videos till this week when you showed me, but I'm like, oh, it's so refreshing to see queer people and artistic people and creative people out there really just being themselves in it. It's, it's refreshing. It's so. And it's really good music.
00:23:44:01 - 00:23:52:08
Speaker 2
Yeah. It's awesome. Yeah, really good summer album. Go check it out. Yeah, I'm still checking it out every day.
00:23:52:10 - 00:23:54:18
Speaker 1
Dancing on the wall. That's the name of the album.
00:23:54:24 - 00:23:55:06
Speaker 2
It is.
00:23:55:06 - 00:24:12:23
Speaker 1
Okay. Yeah. That's great. I love when inspiration is music. And if you have music that you can recommend to us, any genre. There are times I really like the upbeat music. I also really like chill music, but any genre, please recommend anything to us that we can add to our playlist.
00:24:12:23 - 00:24:25:26
Speaker 2
Yes, and if you ever want to go down a musical rabbit hole, please hit me up. Yeah, I'm all about it. I, I'm obsessed with music and have been since I was, in the womb. Yeah.
00:24:25:28 - 00:24:31:20
Speaker 1
That's great. Candice knows a lot about music, a lot of different genres, and she loves talking about it.
00:24:31:23 - 00:24:35:20
Speaker 2
And I can you can give me one band you like and I'll give you ten more that you like.
00:24:35:20 - 00:24:39:26
Speaker 1
So it's an incredible talent. Thank you.
00:24:39:28 - 00:24:43:01
Speaker 2
It's fun. I like doing it.
00:24:43:04 - 00:25:15:19
Speaker 1
So my inspiration this week is a book. Guess what? It's a memoir. I know, shocker. Judy Blume is one of my favorite authors from my childhood, adolescence, age. She wrote incredible, groundbreaking books. And if you're not familiar with her work, then you weren't growing up as a girl in the 80s. But but she wrote she's written so many books for an audience, even adult books to not just children's, but young adult books.
00:25:15:19 - 00:25:18:05
Speaker 2
And I've I've never read any Judy Blume.
00:25:18:07 - 00:25:42:14
Speaker 1
We're going to fix that. Candice and I read every night, and I'm going to add some Judy Blume books, like adolescent young adult books like Tiger Eyes and, are you there? Got it's me, Margaret and Deanie. There's some amazing books by Judy Blume that have influenced my life in so many ways, but this memoir by Mark Oppenheimer, yes.
00:25:42:14 - 00:26:16:29
Speaker 1
It's thick. It's so worth the read. There's so much you learn about her family's history and and her life and her inspirations for these stories. The reason why it was so groundbreaking and and controversial, by the way, is because she she was talking about real things. She was explaining real conversations within a family, a lot of dysfunction, family, but not like really like everyday issues and really normal issues that we don't think it's anything for, like I'm going to use.
00:26:16:29 - 00:26:40:07
Speaker 1
Are you there got it's me Margaret as an example of this young girl questioning religion and getting her period and and masturbation and these were like some of these books have been banned because Judy Blume's books were just too they weren't polite, you know, and she stuck to it, and she wrote what she knew, and she wrote What's Real, and it's so inspiring.
00:26:40:07 - 00:26:59:09
Speaker 1
But her story, her life story and how she managed to navigate the world is so interesting. So I highly recommend reading Judy Blume books. But if you want an awesome memoir about an incredible writer or incredible woman, I would read Judy Blume A Life.
00:26:59:11 - 00:27:08:13
Speaker 2
So I have a question. And because I don't know the answer, is it a memoir? Or if it's technically a biography, like, does a memoir have to be written by the person?
00:27:08:15 - 00:27:17:12
Speaker 1
You're right. I called it a memoir. A memoir is usually you write an autobiography. I think memoir is normally an autobiography. That's a biography. You're right, not a.
00:27:17:12 - 00:27:18:27
Speaker 2
Memoir. I'm just asking, I don't.
00:27:18:27 - 00:27:39:11
Speaker 1
Know, I don't know, I don't know the definition exactly either. I'm pretty sure when I think of memoir, I think of you wrote it yourself about your own life. But I think this is a biography. That's a yeah, that's a really, really good point. And I learned a new topic, a new genre of books called bio fiction.
00:27:39:11 - 00:27:57:20
Speaker 1
So it's like writing a biography about someone, but you're fictionalizing some of it or all of it, you know, like, I just I read a Frida Kahlo book that sounded like a biography, but this book was written in modern times, and there's no way the author interviewed the subject. So, yeah. Biopic. I happen to really like to.
00:27:57:25 - 00:28:22:01
Speaker 1
I love books where I learn something. Yeah. I learned a lot just about Jewish community, about open, open minded, about religion. Just growing up in the era of where she grew up, in an era of the United States, in a timeline in history where things weren't discussed, and writing these in books like she was, she had had a book like this when she was when she was a kid.
00:28:22:01 - 00:28:24:06
Speaker 1
And those books really influenced me.
00:28:24:10 - 00:28:38:02
Speaker 2
That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, that's a I mean, that's a whole other rabbit hole. All the women that have been silenced for just not being, you know, polite or polite. Polite. So stupid.
00:28:38:04 - 00:28:54:26
Speaker 1
This is way more women die of choking. It's because they're embarrassed to to make a sound. So they they're more likely to get up and to leave a table or go into a bathroom at a restaurant or a house and die versus men who will just fucking cough their brains out at the table. Who cares who see, it's this.
00:28:54:28 - 00:29:10:22
Speaker 1
This. It's ingrained in us to be quiet, to be smaller, to be polite. And it's really interesting to unlearn those things as an adult. So, yeah. If you're choking, cough as loud as you can choke it or just show or.
00:29:10:24 - 00:29:12:00
Speaker 2
Gesture or flail.
00:29:12:00 - 00:29:24:08
Speaker 1
Yeah you can. Maybe you can't cough but do something to draw attention to yourself, even if you're completely inconveniencing people or worried about how you might look. Who cares?
00:29:24:08 - 00:29:41:09
Speaker 2
Like, I know, women. People who, but identify as women, you're just taught to exist, but not make noise or take up space. So, you know, if you have an emergency, take up some fucking space, please.
00:29:41:11 - 00:29:41:26
Speaker 1
You know? Yeah.
00:29:41:27 - 00:29:53:13
Speaker 2
Embarrassment is not the worst thing on the planet. Taken from someone who is always scared of being embarrassed. The few times you get embarrassed, you're like, oh, that wasn't bad, okay, am I right?
00:29:53:15 - 00:30:12:07
Speaker 1
Yeah. I'm all about flailing, failing, being rejected. Just go for it. Keep living. Try to like, make it, make light of it a little bit, or acknowledge it and move on. Yeah, because everyone has insecurities. So, that's my inspiration as a lovely rabbit hole.
00:30:12:08 - 00:30:13:21
Speaker 2
Very good rabbit hole.
00:30:13:23 - 00:30:18:00
Speaker 1
So before we go, we do want to mention this artist that we want to give a shout out to.
00:30:18:06 - 00:30:22:20
Speaker 2
The week that we produced of the week artist of the week. No.
00:30:22:22 - 00:30:23:20
Speaker 1
I love your chair.
00:30:23:21 - 00:30:31:07
Speaker 2
Thank you. I wanted to have more fanfare. So now you know, we're moving on from Judy Blume to Artist of the week.
00:30:31:10 - 00:30:43:29
Speaker 1
Normally when we show art on this podcast, we are showing our own art. So this is a huge exception. It's one of our favorites. We probably have 15 to 20 ceramic pieces that this artist has made. Yeah.
00:30:44:01 - 00:30:44:25
Speaker 2
She's amazing.
00:30:44:25 - 00:30:53:27
Speaker 1
She's amazing. It's so unique. Her style is so specific to her. Most of the things we have our smaller ornaments, but this is a wall hanging we brought in to show you.
00:30:53:27 - 00:31:30:24
Speaker 2
Yes, yours is art by. Hold on. Drumroll, drumroll Lori Dawn ceramics. She's amazing. We have so much art from her. This is a piece of a black cat on a moon, and she has a lot of, like, very, patterned ceramics. Very cool. Even the cat is made out of, like, patterned ceramic. She's just awesome. She makes some really, like, kind of gothy funky, punky, really cool art.
00:31:30:26 - 00:31:37:17
Speaker 2
I believe she also is very into hardcore music. Yes, she is a bass player.
00:31:37:19 - 00:31:38:28
Speaker 1
Oh, I don't know what instrument she.
00:31:38:29 - 00:31:39:22
Speaker 2
She's a bass player.
00:31:39:22 - 00:31:41:00
Speaker 1
She goes to a lot of shows.
00:31:41:00 - 00:31:43:17
Speaker 2
Correct me, Lori Dawn, if I am wrong, please. Yeah.
00:31:43:23 - 00:31:49:19
Speaker 1
And I think this is terrible. We did no research. I think she's from New York.
00:31:49:21 - 00:31:51:04
Speaker 2
Long Island, I believe.
00:31:51:04 - 00:32:01:21
Speaker 1
Yeah, I think she's she's local to where we are now in Massachusetts. But we love her. We love following her. We give her a follow. We can put her tag or Instagram handle.
00:32:01:26 - 00:32:11:10
Speaker 2
Yeah. Go check her out. She's, on Instagram. She's at Lori Dawn. One word underscore art. I believe it's in that notebook where you just double check. Oh, yeah.
00:32:11:10 - 00:32:14:14
Speaker 1
We wrote it down because this is important. Yes. So you're Lori.
00:32:14:14 - 00:32:15:19
Speaker 2
Dawn underscore.
00:32:15:19 - 00:32:18:08
Speaker 1
Art and Lori is Lori I.
00:32:18:09 - 00:32:20:08
Speaker 2
Yes. Do you do.
00:32:20:10 - 00:32:25:21
Speaker 1
One. Yeah. Underscore art. So she's incredible. We love her art. She's.
00:32:25:21 - 00:32:42:20
Speaker 2
Also such a nice awesome person to chat with. Go check out our art if you. She's going to be at, a vendor at the market coming up, if you're on Cape Cod. Cordelia is having a misfits night market with vendors.
00:32:42:20 - 00:32:44:11
Speaker 1
Misfits. That's our kind of leave.
00:32:44:11 - 00:32:55:00
Speaker 2
It is on the part. One just fits, but it might be the 26th. I would have to look at a calendar, go check out Cordelia as well. You can go to their, Instagram page.
00:32:55:02 - 00:33:06:03
Speaker 1
We promise to do a little bit of research before we do this next week, but we will put it on our Instagram. The date of that market. Misfits kind of like darker art. Some punk rock stuff.
00:33:06:04 - 00:33:16:14
Speaker 2
It's art that's not like we're. It's very. Yeah, there's a lot of queer art. It's art that's not geared toward tourists. Here on Cape Cod. There's a lot of.
00:33:16:19 - 00:33:17:13
Speaker 1
Not for sale.
00:33:17:14 - 00:33:38:13
Speaker 2
Bees and lobsters and which, unfortunately, a lot of the artists here have to make some of that in order to make money. So the Misfits Night Market is for them to bring their art that is not geared toward tourism. And yeah, go check it out. Cordelia is also an awesome organization to support. Yeah.
00:33:38:18 - 00:33:40:21
Speaker 1
And the artists they have I'll give them a.
00:33:40:21 - 00:33:54:22
Speaker 2
Follow of artists and residents. And they also do a lot of classes for kids and yeah, they're a nonprofit. So go, go give them some love as well. And check out Lori Dawn Lori Dawn ceramics.
00:33:54:22 - 00:34:21:04
Speaker 1
So good artist of the week. A little shout out if you ever recommend to us about a local artist in your area that you want us to look at, you want us to follow, you want us to shout out, please send us a message, comment on YouTube, comment on Instagram, and we totally will. We were really inspired by flowers this week, and it's coincidental because one of our listeners sent us a picture of a project she made, and it's a bouquet of flowers in a vase.
00:34:21:05 - 00:34:29:16
Speaker 1
However, all of the flowers are made from, like, her husband's grandmother's button collection.
00:34:29:16 - 00:34:33:15
Speaker 2
Yeah, like the tin of buttons you would have to sew on to things.
00:34:33:15 - 00:34:53:24
Speaker 1
All the different. It might have been her or his mother. The button collection had hundreds of buttons, all different colors and sizes, and Brenda made a bouquet of flowers and sent us a picture, which I will add on Instagram. It was so cool! But this is exactly what we love to see the inspiration, the projects you're working on, whether it aligns with what we happen to be doing or not.
00:34:53:24 - 00:35:00:07
Speaker 1
It doesn't matter. Show us your stuff. Tell us what you're inspired by. What are you reading? What are you listening to? What are you making?
00:35:00:07 - 00:35:01:19
Speaker 2
Yeah. Stay creative.
00:35:01:26 - 00:35:09:04
Speaker 1
Yeah. Thanks for being here. This was episode 25. We'll see you next week at our half way. So a three episode way.
00:35:09:04 - 00:35:13:12
Speaker 2
Episode of This is Me dancing in a chair.
00:35:13:14 - 00:35:14:11
Speaker 1
I'll do a little shoulder.
00:35:14:11 - 00:35:16:17
Speaker 2
Shimmy. Nice little shimmy shimmy.
00:35:16:20 - 00:35:20:18
Speaker 1
All right. Thanks for being here. We'll see you next time. Bye bye.