Arts & Entertainment with Chris & Randall
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Join us as we give arts & entertainment the discussion they deserve.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Join us as we give arts & entertainment the discussion they deserve.
Language:
English
Website:
http://chrisandrandall.com/
Email:
rjmills@gmail.com
Episodes
ep100: Looking back at 99 shows
7/1/2022
Chris and Randall discuss the last 99 episodes before taking a little hiatus of perhaps a couple of months.
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Our most popular episodes
Total downloads:
ep6: Modernism vs. Post-Modernism
ep7: PUNK ROCK
ep15: 1980s comedies - part 3 of 3 - John Hughes and late 80s
ep2: Hipster Hollywood in the 60s
ep3: Science fiction TV shows we're watching
ep20: Chris' latest obsession or Youtube music in the time of COVID-19
ep4: Randall introduces a new genre: Bonkers Sci-Fi
ep24: Generation X growing old with radio
ep11: Stand up favorites new and old
ep19: Randall hates on J.J. Abrams
First 7 days:
ep94: What is Generation X humor?
ep96: 21st century music bio-pic with guest Bill Gucwa
ep95: How to sell NFT art
ep99: The Vietnam War movie as apologia for empire
ep82: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
ep91: The abstract moment
ep97: Q & A with Jerry Leibowitz — Professional Animator, Underground Comic Creator, and Graphic Designer
ep90: The road to modernism
ep62: The arts & entertainment of the Fourth of July
ep80: Turkeys that are so bad they're good
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Topics discussed include:
How to be a guest
advertising on Facebook
Generation X
Randall's love of Marcel Duchamp
Herbert Marcuse
ep30: Does art influence the public mind?
Harry Potter
A Christmas Carol
Star Wars
Science Fiction
Comedy
stand-ups
ep8: PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A STAND UP, or the aesthetics of President Trump
Taika Waititi
Thorstein Veblen
ep41: Candy as entertainment
live performance
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recorded June 15, 2022
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Duración:01:27:15
ep99: The Vietnam War movie as apologia for empire
6/22/2022
Randall asserts that (US-made) Vietnam War movies nearly universally serve to exonerate US conduct in the war — a war whose purpose is only to oppress indigenous people, further colonialism, and expand empire.
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Vietnam movies discussed include:
The Green Berets (1968)
Coming Home (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
First Blood (1982)
Platoon (1986)
Good Morning; Vietnam (1987)
Hamburger Hill (1987)
Gardens of Stone (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Hanoi Hilton (1987)
Born on the Fourth of july (1989)
Casualties of War (1989)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Rescue Dawn (2006)
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Topics discussed include:
US empire building
The Phoenix Program
What would a good Vietnam movie be like?
The CIA as an outgrowth of Nazi intelligence
Reinhard Gehlen
Operation Paperclip
Mỹ Lai massacre
Wannsee Conference
Côn Đảo Prison
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
American Sniper (2014)
The Card Counter (2021)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Bertolt Brecht's distancing effect
wars run by the CIA
Missing (1982)
Paths of Glory (1957)
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https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/movies-video-games/2018/03/29/military-times-10-best-vietnam-war-movies/
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Quotes from this show:
I would call it a moral get out of jail free card because if every soldier in every war is really just an innocent chap who accidentally signed up for the wrong thing and now got stuck with a bunch of bullies who don't know any better, it really reduces the entire nation's moral culpability in a war because now it's just a bunch of good guys and bullies. —Chris
These movies are trying to excuse the US' behavior in Vietnam. —Randall
We gotta do bad things because the people we're fighting do bad things. You can literally justify anything with that moral equivalency. There's no point in having law, order, civility, or even a Geneva Convention if you're just going to tell hero stories. —Chris
Our hero has the right to morally transgress because the villain is always so bad that the rules of civility exempts our hero from having any rules of civility. —Chris
The CIA is the missing character in a lot of these movies. —Chris
Every other kind of genre there's a moment of catharsis and realization that you can be a better person, but you can't do that with a country. You can't tell a story about a nation becoming a better person. Every time you make a war movie you're always going to end up with this false pat on the back. —Chris
Is there anything the US could do that the US people would be ashamed of? —Randall
Almost every one of our war movies are in some sense a perverse rationalization for violence. —Chris
Why are they made at all? They're glorifications of going to war. —Randall
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Background reading:
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism by Daniel Sjursen
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recorded June 12, 2022
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Duración:01:14:02
ep98: What is Psychedelic Music? — with guest Robert Ciccone
6/18/2022
Chris and Randall talk psychedelic music with musician Robert Ciccone.
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Topics discussed include:
origins and influences
LSD
The Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Tomorrow Never Knows
Brian Wilson
Pet Sounds
Rubber Soul
Smile
Good Vibrations
Monterey Pop
What is the connection between LSD and Psychedelic Music?
White Rabbit
stereo technology
Led Zeppelin
The Who
fashion
Grace Slick
Altamont Free Concert
The Doors
Vanilla Fudge
The 13th Floor Elevators
Love
The Left Banke
Walk Away Renée
Light My Fire
Cream
Santana
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Buffalo Springfield
Miles Davis
Break On Through (To the Other Side)
The Rolling Stones
Tony Bennett
Hair
Jesus Christ Superstar
Godspell
the end of the era
Woodstock
Whole Lotta Love
King Crimson
Velvet Underground
MC5
The Standells
Embryonic Journey
Frank Zappa
I am the Walrus
Astronomy Domine
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Rob's 5 indispensable Psychedelic albums:
Are You Experienced
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Magical Mystery Tour
After Bathing at Baxter's
Live/Dead
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recorded June 6, 2022
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Duración:01:21:32
ep97: Q & A with Jerry Leibowitz — Professional Animator, Underground Comic Creator, and Graphic Designer
6/10/2022
Chris and Randall talk to Jerry about his wide-ranging career in the arts.
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Jerry Leibowitz is known for:
The Mouse and the Monster (TV series 1996-1997)
Atomic Puppet (TV series 2016-2017)
graphic design
logo design
experimental music (which we don't discuss)
comics/comic strips
comedy writing
https://www.dotandcom.com/
And many other things we don't have time to discuss.
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recorded June 8, 2022
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Duración:00:58:20
ep96: 21st century music bio-pic with guest Bill Gucwa
6/2/2022
Chris and Randall welcome guest Bill Gucwa to discuss the genre of music bio-pics.
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We each pick three favorites:
Bill
1. Ray (2004) Ray Charles
2. La Vie En Rose (2007) Édith Piaf
3. Get On Up (2014) James Broawn
Randall
1. The Runaways (2010) The Runaways
2. Behind The Candelabra (2013) Liberace
3. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Freddie Mercury and Queen
Chris
1. I’m Not There (2007) Bob Dylan
2. Love & Mercy (2014) Brian Wilson and Beach Boys
3. Straight Out of Compton (2015) NWA
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recorded June 1, 2022
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Duración:01:15:13
ep95: How to sell NFT art
5/26/2022
Chris & Randall interview Randall's brother, Nick Juntilla, who has recently participated in a successful NFT collection sale, J. Pierce & Friends. ***
Slides: https://mega.nz/file/UltSQKYC#27Py1gpo9sIbeRJHHnALEuw63TQjpEx3s7A6PML_0Xk
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Visit Nick's website: https://ownerfy.com/
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Topics discussed include:
https://chrisandrandall.com/ep49-beeples-nft-art-auctions-for-69-million-dollars
Beeple
NFT technology
Skycoin
Polygon
Avalanche
NFT art
Bored Ape Yacht Club
Crypto Punks
J. Pierce & Friends https://opensea.io/collection/jpierceandfriendsnft?search[sortAscending]=false&search[sortBy]=LAST_SALE_PRICE
Twitter profile pictures
Discord
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recorded May 17, 2022
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Duración:01:25:38
ep94: What is Generation X humor?
5/19/2022
Chris and Randall try to figure out Generation X' sense of humor.
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Download slides here: https://mega.nz/file/dgV1EBZa#EeqCTiPCRlxy4jzBxl5lYdeZ-6myx9puTIlBVuc7fcw
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Topics discussed include:
the Baby Boom
Douglas Coupland's Gen-X
stand up comedy boom
stand up comedy albums
the 1970s
cable television
VHS rentals
Monty Python
Bennie Hill
Mel Brooks
National Lampoon
Robin Williams
Richard Pryor
Steve Martin
Eddie Murphy
divorce
labor unions
college degrees
homeownership
political corruption
Richard Nixon
"suspect everyone"
Hippie movement
Ronald Reagan
AIDS
recreational drugs
Gary Coleman
John Hughes
The Facts of Life
sarcasm
cynicism
Dennis Miller
Andrew Dice Clay
Sam Kinnison
Howard Stern
Joan Rivers
Janeane Garofalo
The Ben Stiller Show
Friends
Daria
Gilmore Girls
Yuppies
Slackers
Wayne's World (1992)
Clerks (1994)
Clueless (1995)
Rushmore (1998)
Freaks and Geeks
Wes Anderson
Noah Baumbach
John Cusack
Adam Sandler
adult child movies
Jack Black
Amy Schumer
Alt comedy
Marc Maron
Sarah Silverman
Jeff Ross
Margaret Cho
Zach Galifianakis
Chris Rock
Dave Chappelle
Albert Brooks
Gen X memes
The Office
Bojack Horseman
Ted Lasso
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recorded May 13, 2022
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Duración:01:35:08
ep93: Adolf Hitler's taste in art
5/6/2022
Randall shows Chris some of Hitler's favorite artists, and some of Hitler's own paintings.
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Download slides here: https://mega.nz/file/VpllnD4D#hy3_24eqWYTHTM3SR3x2XNOACkZ57XmwC5_8kBd1a0I
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Hitler's favorite fine artists according to Albert Speer:
1) Eduard von Grützner
2) Wilhelm Leibl
3) Hans Thoma
4) Hans Makart
5) Carl Spitzweg
6) Arno Breker
7) Paris Bordone
8) Titian
9) Anselm Feuerbach (Nana)
10) Giovanni Paolo Panini
11) Eduard von Steinle
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In the book, The Mind of Adolf Hitler, Hanisch reports: "He (Hitler) was never an ardent worker, was unable to get up in the morning, had difficulty in getting started, and seemed to be suffering from a paralysis of the will."[6]
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This episode based on Inside the Third Reich, 1970 edition, first US printing
You may read a different edition online here: https://archive.org/details/Inside_the_Third_Reich_Albert_Speer
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p43
One of Hitler's as well as Hoffman's favorite painters was Eduard Grützner...
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For all departments of art Hitler regarded the late nineteenth century as one of the greatest cultural epochs in human history. That is was not yet recognized as such, he said, was only because we were too close to it in time. But his appreciation stopped at Impressionism, whereas the naturalism of a Leibl or a Thoma suited his activistic approach to art. Makart ranked highest; he also thought highly of Spitzweg. In this case I could understand his feeling, although what he admired was not so much the bold and often impressionistic brushwork as the staunch middle-class genre quality, the affable humor with which Spitzweg gently mocked the small-town Munich of his period.
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p90
Along the opposite wall stood a massive chest containing built-in speakers, and adorned by a large bronze bust of Richard Wagner by Arno Breker. Above this hung another tapestry which concealed the movie screen. Large oil paintings covered the walls: a lady with exposed bosom ascribed to Bordone, a pupil of Titian; a picturesque reclining nude said to be by Titian himself; Feuerbach's Nana in a very handsome frame; an early landscape by Spitzweg; a landscape of Roman ruins by Pannini; and surprisingly, a kind of altar painting by Eduard von Steinle, one of the Nazarene group, representing King Henry, founder of cities. But there was no Grützner. Hitler occasionally let if be known that he had paid for these paintings out of his own income.
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Occasionally the movies were discussed, Hitler commenting mainly on the female actors and Eva Braun on the males. No one took the trouble to raise the conversation above the level of trivialities by, for example, remarking on any of the new trends in directing. Of course the choice of films scarcely allowed for any other approach, for they were all standard products of the entertainment industry. Such experiments of the period as Curt Ortel's Michelangelo film were never shown, at least not when I was there.
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Later, during the war, Hitler gave up the evening showings, saying that he wanted to renounce his favorite entertainment "out of sympathy for the privations of the soldiers." Instead records were played. But although the record collection was excellent, Hitler always preferred the same music. Neither baroque nor classical music, neither chamber music nor symphonies, interested him. Before long the order of the records became virtually fixed. First he wanted a few bravura selections from Wagnerian operas, to be followed promptly with operettas. That remained the pattern. Hitler made a point of trying to guess the names of the sopranos and was pleased when he guessed right, as he frequently did.
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To decorate the Goebbels house I borrowed a few watercolors by Nolde from Eberhard Hanfstaengl, the director of the Berlin National Gallery. Goebbels and his wife were delighted with the paintings—until Hitler cane to inspect and expressed his severe disapproval. Then the minister summoned me immediately: "The...
Duración:01:03:45
ep92: Who really painted the first abstract painting?
4/28/2022
Did Wassily Kandinsky really invent abstract art? Randall takes Chris on a journey with many twists and turns.
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Download slides: https://mega.nz/file/J9tGTQAC#5Oa99t7-pxmdxowHcq0pe5i5nSpKYg-Gns1MXlJtovc
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Topics discussed include:
the first abstract painting
Wassily Kandinsky
Hilma af Klint
Helena Blavatsky
automatic drawing
Rudolf Steiner
The Ten Largest
Theosophy
Sigmund Freud
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
Bauhaus school
Georgiana Houghton
Albert Einstein
the birth of the modern world
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Timeline:
1859 -- Georgiana Houghton starts making "spirit" drawings at seances
1862 -- Hilma af Klint born
1863 -- Salon des Refusés
1871 -- Houghton pays for a show in London
1874 -- Impression, Sunrise by Monet
1875 -- Helena Blavatsky cofounds the Theosophical Society, as "the synthesis of science, religion and philosophy", proclaiming that it was reviving an "Ancient Wisdom" which underlay all the world's religions.
1880 -- Hilma's 10-year-old sister dies, spurring her interest in the occult
1882 -- Hilma af Klint enrolled in Sweden' s Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
1884 -- Georgiana Houghton dies
1887 -- Hilma af Klint graduates with honors, awarded use of shared studio until 1909. Here she paints first 100 or so Paintings For the Temple.
1888 -- The Five is founded
1895 -- X-rays discovered
1895 -- Sigmund Freud publishes one of his first books, Studies on Hysteria
1896 -- Radio waves discovered, first radios 1900
1896 -- radioactivity discovered
1896 -- Hilma experiments with automatic drawing. was participating in weekly seances with The Five.
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Through her work with The Five, Hilma af Klint created experimental automatic drawing as early as 1896, leading her toward an inventive geometric visual language capable of conceptualizing invisible forces both of the inner and outer worlds.[citation needed] She explored world religions, atoms, and the plant world and wrote extensively about her discoveries.[5] As she became more familiar with this form of expression, Hilma af Klint was assigned by the High Masters to create the paintings for the "Temple" – however she never understood what this "Temple" referred to.
Hilma af Klint felt she was being directed by a force that would literally guide her hand. She wrote in her notebook:
The pictures were painted directly through me, without any preliminary drawings, and with great force. I had no idea what the paintings were supposed to depict; nevertheless I worked swiftly and surely, without changing a single brush stroke.[14]
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1903 -- Kandinsky paints the Blue Rider
1904 -- Hilma af Klint joins Theosophical society
1904 -- Hilma af Klint was informed by spirit guides a great temple should be built and filled with paintings.
1905 -- Albert Einstein publishes his 4 seminal papers: photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy.
1906 -- Klint begins automatic painting https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/travel/stockholm-hilma-af-klint.html
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led by a spiritual guide named Amaliel who contacted af Klint during séances and not only “commissioned” the paintings but, at least at the outset, had, she claimed, directed her hand as she painted.
“The pictures were painted directly through me, without any preliminary drawings and with great force,” af Klint wrote in one of her journals of the 193 mostly abstract works known as “The Paintings for the Temple,” meditations on human life and relationships in the most elemental terms. “I had no idea what the paintings were supposed to depict, nevertheless I worked swiftly and surely without changing a single brush stroke.”
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https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20181012-hilma-af-klint-the-enigmatic-vision-of-a-mystic
Absorbing a wide array of cultural influences old and new – from Goethe’s colour theories to Darwin’s discoveries concerning evolution, from Car Linnaeus’s botanical taxonomies to cutting-edge ideas about atomic matter and radioactivity – Af...
Duración:01:21:27
ep91: The abstract moment
3/31/2022
Randall and Chris discuss the moment the "modern" world was born, with the first abstract painting in 1910.
Another slide episode. Watch the video on Youtube or Facebook or download slides here: https://mega.nz/file/ExlWgJiC#1o5JkcH5qSFZ28Fu06JIxrsEibX5sSV_mK4t9QoJ-co
Topics discussed include:
Salon des Refusés
Impressionism
Expressionism
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Arnold Schoenberg
influence of photography
Fauvism
The Blue Rider
Cubism
Composition V
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
A Princess of Mars, 1912
H. G. Wells
Bauhaus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Bauhaus_to_Our_House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_(New_Order_album)
Timeline
1863 -- Salon des Refusés
1903 -- The Blue Rider painted
1905 -- Fauvism coined
1906 -- Post-Impressionist coined
1910 -- Cubism coined
1910 -- FIRST ABSTRACT PAINTING
1912 -- 'A Princess of Mars' released in All-Story magazine
1913 -- Armory Show
1914 -- WWI
1919 -- Bauhaus (building house) founded by Walter Gropius
1929 -- Buck Rodgers comic strip published
1933 -- Famous Funnies, first modern comic book published
1937 -- 'The Hobbit' published
recorded March 29, 2022
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Duración:01:06:20
ep90: The road to modernism
3/10/2022
Randall talks to Chris about the transition to modernism in painting.
slideshow download:
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/chrisandrandall/ep90slideshow.zip
Timeline:
1863 -- Salon des Refusés
1874 -- Impression, Sunrise by Monet
1875 -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler paints Nocturne in Black and Gold -- The Falling Rocket
1877 -- John Ruskin published his attack on the paintings of James McNeill Whistler exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery
1878 -- Whistler v Ruskin trial (https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24650)
1881 -- Paul Gauguin moves to Tahiti. His avowed intent was to escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional"
1884 -- Georges Seurat founds theory of chromoluminarism, divisionism
1886 -- Symbolism coined
1888 -- Cloisonnism coined
1889 -- Synthetism coined
1890 -- Whistler publishes The Gentle Art of Making Enemies with full transcript of case
1903 -- Gauguin dies
1903 - 1906 -- Gauguin retrospectives in Paris
1903 -- Kandinsky paints the Blue Rider
Topics discussed include:
"alternative" art
alternative music
Camille Pisarro
Impressionism
Eugène Delacroix
Islamic art
Zen art
Alexander Cozens inkblots
traditional African art
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Positivism
recorded March 7, 2022
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Duración:01:10:08
ep89: Impressionism is bad photography
3/3/2022
Randall goes on a deep dive of modern art in an attempt to describe what leads to abstraction.
(You may download slideshow here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/chrisandrandall/ep89_slideshow.zip)
Topics discussed include:
figurative art
religious art
fantasy art
landscape painting
Alexander Cozens
John Robert Cozens
Thomas Monroe
J. M. W. Turner
Theory of Colours by Goethe
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
En plein air (open-air painting)
painting technology
Eugène Delacroix
photography technology
Paris Salon
Impressionism
Claude Monet
Timeline discussed:
1785 -- Alexander Cozens published a pamphlet on this manner of drawing landscapes from blots, called A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape
1776 -- Cozen's son, John Robert Cozens displays A Landscape with Hannibal in His March Over the Alps, Showing to His Army Fertile Plains of Italy, now lost
1777 -- John Robert Cozens paints watercolor Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo at Sunset which auctions for 2.4 million pounds in 2010
1794 -- John Robert Cozens has nervous breakdown. Committed to Bethlem Royal Hospital. Famous doctor/art collector Thomas Monro buys his collection. Dies 1797, 3 year later. Painter JMW Turner is in his circle
1800 -- The theory of 'En plein air' painting is credited to Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819) first expounded in a treatise entitled Reflections and Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape
1810 -- Goethe’s Theory of Colours
1812 -- J.M.W. Turner paints Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, slide 004. Inspired by A Landscape with Hannibal in His March Over the Alps, Showing to His Army Fertile Plains of Italy
1824 -- Massacre at Chios by Eugène Delacroix
1824 -- Delacroix Horse Frightened by a Storm
1830 -- Delacroix Liberty Leading the People
1831 -- The Great Wave at Kanagawa
1839 -- France pays Daguerre a pension in exchange to publish his photographic process. France considers this a gift to the world. By 1853, an estimated three million daguerreotypes per year were being produced in the United States alone
1841 -- Delacroix Christ on the Sea of Galilee
1841 -- American John Goffe Rand, a portrait painter and inventor, invents the tin paint tube. The tin tube allowed unused oil paint to be stored and used later without drying out. Renoir said “Without tubes of paint, there would have been no Impressionism.”
1850s -- Field easel invented
1862 -- Delacroix Shipwreck on the Coast
1863 -- Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Armand Guillaumin, Paul Cézanne, and others' works are all rejected by the Salon. Emperor Napoleon III founds the Salon des Refusés "exhibition of rejects" to display their works.
1872 -- Claude Monet paints Impression, Sunrise
1888 -- Monet starts painting Haystacks series
recorded March 1, 2022
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Duración:01:09:04
ep88: 2022 Oscar picks
2/24/2022
Chris and Randall make their Oscar picks.
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Best Visual Effects
Randall: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Chris: Dune
Best Production Design
Randall: Nightmare Alley
Chris: Dune
Best Cinematography
Randall: Nightmare Alley
Chris: Dune
Best Adapted Screenplay
Randall: The Lost Daughter
Chris: The Lost Daughter
Best Original Screenplay
Randall: Belfast
Chris: Licorice Pizza
Best Costume Design
Randall: Nightmare Alley
Chris: Cruella
Best Supporting Actor
Randall: Ciarán Hinds
Chris: J. K. Simmons
Best Supporting Actress
Randall: Judi Dench
Chris: Ariana DeBose
Best Actor
Randall: Andrew Garfield
Chris: Benedict Cumberbatch
Best Actress
Randall: Olivia Colman
Chris: Olivia Coleman
Best Director
Randall: Kenneth Branagh
Chris: Jane Campion
Best Picture
Randall: CODA
Chris: The Power of the Dog
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recorded February 15, 2022
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Duración:00:53:22
ep87: The arts & entertainment of Super Bowl 56
2/17/2022
Chris & Randall discuss the Super Bowl halftime show and pick their top 5 commercials.
Youtube playlist for this episode: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsaXZW9t1b1CbcMcox2PkB1JxuiOFTu7N
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Randall's commercial picks:
“Goodbye Cable” Super Bowl | 5G Internet | Verizon
Bud Light Seltzer Hard Soda - Land of Loud Flavors
Introducing the Captain Morgan Super Bowl Punch Bowl
Quaker | Pregrain Before the Big Game :30
Welcome to Irish Spring
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Chris' commercial picks:
Zeus & Hera | BMW USA
Lays "Golden Memories" Long Form w/Paul Rudd & Seth Rogen
LeBron James Super Bowl Commerical With His Younger Self
Don't Miss Out on Crypto: Larry David FTX Commercial
A Clydesdale's Journey | Budweiser Super Bowl 2022
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Topics discussed include:
SoFi Stadium
Hip hop music
Dr. Dre
Snoop Dogg
Eminem
Mary J. Blige
50 Cent
Kendrick Lamar
The Weeknd
Tupac Shakur
Pop music
cultural influencers
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recorded February 15, 2022
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Duración:01:13:19
ep86: Wild Cards — part 2 of 2 — Joker (2019)
1/20/2022
Chris and Randall discuss Joker (2019).
Topics discussed include:
Todd Phillips
Hated: GG Allin & the Murder Junkies (1993)
Todd Phillips & Michal Moore interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X2u7qu9oOQ
the 1970s
Fisher Island
Bernhard Goetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shooting
parasocial relationships
parasocial interaction
https://chrisandrandall.com/category/parasocial+interaction
Joe Franklin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Franklin
Network (1976)
"realism" in comic book movies
entertainment v art
The King of Comedy (1982)
social media
recorded January 12, 2022
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Duración:00:36:46
ep85: Wild Cards — part 1 of 2 — The King of Comedy (1982)
1/13/2022
Chris and Randall discuss The King of Comedy (1982).
Topics discussed include:
Network (1976)
parasocial interaction
parasocial relationships
autograph hunting
https://chrisandrandall.com/category/parasocial+interaction
recorded January 12, 2022
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Duración:00:40:43
ep84: Pop-up Retail, Installation art, Happening, Land art, Virtual reality, Immersive art
1/6/2022
Chris and Randall discuss Pop-up Retail, Installation art, Happening, Land art, Virtual reality, Immersive art. Are they all part of a single aesthetic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-up_retail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality
https://agoradigital.art/blog-what-is-immersive-art/
Topics discussed include:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tant_donn%C3%A9s
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-installation-art/
https://www.happyplace.me/
https://madhatterginteaparty.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man
Stranger Things Pop-up
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/04/ted-lasso-believe-fan-experience-california/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Exhibition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_house
https://www.thedinnerdetective.com/
https://vangoghexpo.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Light
recorded December 17, 2021
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Duración:00:33:55
ep83: 2021 recap
12/30/2021
Chris and Randall discuss 2021 in arts and entertainment.
Topics discussed include:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/02/us-rejects-calls-regulating-banning-killer-robots
COVID-19
Nicole Kidman ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiEeIxZJ9x0
theatrical release window
streaming
French release window: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/french-cinema-body-can-collapse-release-windows-covid-19-crisis-1285803/
home theater
Secrets of the Whales (series)
https://www.imaxenhanced.com/
WandaVision (series)
Kathryn Hahn
Agatha: House of Harkness
movies vs TV
Mare of Easttown (series)
Dopesick (series)
Squid Game (series)
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/11/north-korea-squid-game-smuggler-death-sentence-1234681415/
The Beatles: Get Back (series)
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
live entertainment
stand up
theater
recorded music
Colin Hay
Elton John
Donald Trump
Bill Maher
Dave Chapelle
Joe Rogan
"woke" comedy
https://www.facebook.com/itswilwheaton/posts/4388851747908000
Dr. Seuss
recorded December 15, 2021
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Duración:01:14:51
ep82: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
12/23/2021
Chris and Randall discuss The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), one of the greatest A Christmas Carol adaptations.
Best A Christmas Carol adaptations: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls574145227/
Topics discussed include:
past A Christmas Carol episodes: https://chrisandrandall.com/category/A+Christmas+Carol
Jim Henson
Thomas Nast (cartoonist)
Michael Caine
the "Jim Henson Ending"
Ebenezer Scrooge
Paul Williams
Cut song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r57KXWeXKoY
Richard Williams' A Christmas Carol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzyC9CZuOA
recorded December 17, 2021
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Duración:01:01:56
ep81: Why Broadway Loves Hollywood & Hollywood Hates Broadway
12/16/2021
Chris explains to Randall his view of the relationship between Hollywood and Broadway.
Topics discussed include:
In the Heights (2021)
Dear Even Hansen (2021)
West Side Story (2021)
Prom (2020)
Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021)
The Humans (2021)
Cats (2019)
Into the Woods (2014)
Sing 2 (2021)
aesthetics of theater vs cinema
Avenue Q
Disney musicals
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Cats (1998)
American Utopia (2020)
recorded December 15, 2021
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Duración:00:46:41