SubRant Catherine Lynn & James Fryer
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- Arts
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SubRant: a podcast wherein Catherine and James, two wildly (mildly) creative and cosmopolitan (provincial) Parisians (Phoenicians), wander in and out of conversations about art and other stuff that annoys them.
SubRant Website
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Episode #86: "Luxury Vinyl"
SHOW THEMES
Houses and 'Performance Art' suck but dogs are awesome
SHOW NOTES
The house falls apart
Good vs bad home inspectors
Marina Abramovic
Performance art is... not art
Barry Lyndon vs Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Free Hug Bear
Polluting the store with AI nonsense
Will AI destroy the world?
The tragic story of Sam Altman
Did the internet exist before the smartphone?
Dogs make life better
X's brand assests live on... Twitter.com
Apple invented USB-C -
Episode #85: Artists & Thieves
SHOW THEMES
Stolen, painted over, and exploited: the many horrible lives of modern 'art'
SHOW NOTES
Stealing art? Why bother?
Ruthless People
Judge Reinhold
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring
Arthur Brand - the "Indiana Jones of the art world"
Indiana Jones is a thief
Drug smuggler steals art to reduce sentence
Sex, three times a week!
James, the art thief
King not Ing
This is the whole show
Jens Haaning
Take the money and run, literally...
"Almost as embarrassing as The Orlando Museum of Art"
The "Art" of North West
My only hope is that no one knows who North West is
Sylvestor Stallone paints
Thrift Store Ghost Painting
Ghosts on everything
Is A.I. writing the article? -
Episode #84: Not So S3XY
SHOW THEMES
Muddy Hippies, the true origin of "Prompt Engineer", and ridiculous rich white men
SHOW NOTES
X - the most powerful letter...
Burning Man
What should a modern Hippie drive?
"Nordstrom was in my soul"
"Where does the water come from?"
"Goodwill for bikes"
Offer-Up sucks
Fakesquiat t-shirts
The Lexus of fakes
Scion xB
Trump mug shot = Zoolander
Trump took the cookies
X is useless
"Twatter"
"You need better notes"
Elon Musk = Howard Hughes
S3XY
He's bad at jokes
Prompt Engineer
Large Language Model explained
Reddit explained
Adversarial prompting
SubRant gets spiritual
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Episode #83: The Orlando Museum of Fake Art
SHOW THEMES
Catherine and James put Florida art museums and wannabe politicians in time-out
SHOW NOTES
Vivek Ramaswamy is an asshole
Orlando Museum of Art is on probation
Aaron De Groft
Dinosaurs aren't real
Mitch McConnell freeze
Age limits?
Lock em up! (Catherine's chihuahuas)
Fakesquiat with BTS
"You're a puddle"
Elle Cordova
"So much stupid online"
Catherine has a negative attitude towards negative people
Drennon Davis and his cats
"Can't trust the art world"
Catherine is addicted to Pumpkin Spice Latte...
Vegan pancakes at The Coronado
Toast -
Episode #82: Klimt Goes to Yellowstone
SHOW THEMES
SubRant disembowels an article about an unfinished Klimt and James goes on vacation
SHOW NOTES
Catherine's bathroom woes continue
"Post mid-century design aesthetic"?
James explains art pricing
Cabin fever in Phoenix
James was attacked by the idea of being attacked by a bear and it ruined his vacation
"Tourons" - moronic tourists blocking traffic to look at the ugly bison
Bison are, in fact, mangy mutated cows (and I don't like cows)
A short story of James being the responsible one
Glacier National Park is best
Klimt's "Lady with a fan" sells for stupid amount
What actual Klimt paintings look like: WikiArt and ArtViewer
The Japanese influence on Post Impressionism
Chance the dog begins to cough because Catherine is painting (nail polish) in the house and poisoning everyone
"Stylized elsewhere"
Let's sell some Faquiats
Martin Mull's renegade art show
Nail polish removal process is too much for James -
Episode #81: Recycling Economies and Dead Artists
SHOW THEMES
A new show for a dead artist, art vandals go to Vatican jail, and Apple reinvents Virtual Reality. Oh, and circular economies.
SHOW NOTES
Catherine is excited about a NEW Basquiat show, but James is not
More Fakesquiats
"A myth building exercise"
James identifies that he is, in fact, an asshole
Art hooligans / environmental activists go to Vatican jail
James breaks down the Apple Vision Pro (definitely not a VR headset)
Catherine is desperate to be part of the circular economy, but James keeps her straight
"Circularity is the hottest topic in the fashion industry right now"
iPhones are already circular, they never go to the landfill
Catherine's mother doesn't do recycled bricks
Recycling news is what we do
Customer Reviews
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Absolutely love your podcast, hopef you continue to grow!
Oddly And Surprisingly Entertaining
Listened in entirety to this quirky yet relatable “rant” about “nothing” that left me amused and wanting to hear more. Enjoyable banter! Will listen again to hear this morph into “something”!