Episode #48: Let Them Eat Koi!

27/05/2022 30 min Episodio 48

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Episode Synopsis

SHOW TOPICS
 - Leaving Facebook, again!
 - Warhol stole our colors
 - Drought is real
 - "The Sugar Shack", Ernie Barns
 - Barns, Wyeth, Rockwell, Holyfield
 - Sugar Shack vs The Mona Lisa
 - Doesn't matter what is real
 - Stupid or boring, both!
SHOW NOTES
 - 00:07 - Cookies and podcasts don't mix
 - 00:55 - 72hrs of Facebook is enough!
 - 02:05 - "Faking" a breach for a phone number?
 - 03:30 - James plays "chicken" with Instagram, and wins!
 - 04:05 - Panic de-activation
 - 04:55 - They know what you did last summer
 - 06:02 - Black and white and mostly people I don't know
 - 08:30 - Artist name correction: "One Beach Plastic", Richard and Judith Lang
 - 09:25 - Ozzie Osborn is alive, but James remain unconvinced (or maybe just doesn't care)
 - 09:50 - Our opinions are not legal advice AND neither of us are lawyers!
 - 10:15 - Warhol' and SubRant's common-color-ground
 - 10:55 - Just get a real camera!
 - 11:57 - What is a "Super Market Star"? Catherine is.
 - 12:45 - Drought of content about a drought
 - 13:55 - Calabasas Koi
 - 14:45 - Wealth and the American "Porpoise"
 - 16:45 - Symbiotic relationship between rich people and big goldfish explained
 - 17:11 - "Let them eat koi!"
 - 17:50 - Good Times! Another art auction, another $15,000,000!
 - 18:20 - "The Sugar Shack", by Ernie Barns
 - 19:07 - He fills the canvas with movement!
 - 19:46 - "Country Ride" 1982 reminiscent but not derivative of Wyeth
 - 21:35 - Barnes: "abstraction not exaggeration"
 - 22:20 - Similar to Rockwell, in that they are both illustrators of ideas
 - 24:21 - John Holyfield
 - 25:03 - Back to Warhol, it's just a t-shirt
 - 25:30 - "The Sugar Shack" vs. "Mona Lisa"
 - 26:30 - We're not meat bags, we're a simulation
 - 28:37 - Do you prefer stupid or boring?
 - 29:26 - Twitter poll fail
 - 30:15 - Go wash your car