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Discussions about art and the creative process. New episodes every other week.
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Episodes
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- 84. Is Your Resume Quietly Killing Your Art? Creative Credibility in The Modern World · 1 h 30 min · Season 4 Episode 4Someone who knows Matt's work better than he knows them wants him on a demanding project, and he asks what a person like that has to bring to win him over. Alex calls it…
- 83. Not Everything's Worth Optimizing · 1 h 0 min · Season 4 Episode 3Alex spent years feeling he was wasting his time, and now thinks he was filling a bucket that’s finally pouring out. One of the things pouring out is an acting workshop, which…
- 82. Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: Give Yourself a Year · 1 h 15 min · Season 4 Episode 2Once a week, a cozy bar in Omaha has jazz, and on certain nights the room feels like magic. One of us wants to make a concert film there in the spirit of Jazz on a Summer's Day…
- 81. Creative Momentum and Obstacles As The Path · 1 h 22 min · Season 4 Episode 1At a yard sale in Malvern, Iowa, one of us asked the woman running it about old cameras, and her husband climbed into the rafters of his barn and came down with a dusty 8x10 view…
- 80. What Happens To Your Ideas When Algorithms Leave? · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 26madebyalex.online Last episode of "season" 3! One of us has a Squarespace site he means to redo, and watching the other build madebyalex.online with Claude has him tinkering. The…
- 79. We've Been Sold Enough Chairs - Thoughts on The Future of Ai · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 25One of us is convinced the next big change in computing is an operating system you talk to, one that writes whatever you need on the spot, down to a VHS effect for the video…
- 78. Waiting to Talk - Conversational Narcissism, the Ego Myth, and Reading a Room · 1 h 17 min · Season 3 Episode 24We start with the show. Owning our own feed means no platform can switch it off, and when we finally have guests, we'd rather hear how someone thinks over a long conversation…
- 77. The Camera Opens Doors · 1 h 11 min · Season 3 Episode 23One of us pulled over to photograph an old pickup and a beat-up basketball hoop, and 30 seconds later the owner was walking him through his garage. The man, in his 80s, has a '69…
- 76. Matt Went to the Movies · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 22One of us stayed out for a 9 o'clock showing of Backrooms and came out more excited about a new movie than he'd been in years. It reminded him of Primer, a cheaply made film…
- 75. Leave Room for the Accident · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 21One of us is back from a family week in Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, and like every trip, it makes Omaha look better. He counts trips like that as a form of…
- 74. Proof of Work or How the Floor Gets Raised · 1 h 15 min · Season 3 Episode 20Daniel Arnold's new book from Loose Joints has no text beyond its title, only pictures sequenced by an editor at the publisher and a few blank pages we puzzle over. One of us…
- 73. That's a Pretty Good Tree · 1 h 37 min · Season 3 Episode 19One of us came out of an Omaha used bookstore with a $25 book on Henri Cartier-Bresson, after passing up a $75 Martin Parr on the display. Reading about a photographer who came…
- 72. The Critic Problem: Why Great Art Resists Easy Explanations · 1 h 35 min · Season 3 Episode 18In 1903 Rainer Maria Rilke answered a young poet who had sent him verses to judge, and began by saying that criticism is the thing least able to reach a work of art. Then he told…
- 71. What If Success Is The Unmeasurable Part? · 1 h 19 min · Season 3 Episode 18One of us watched a video of a woman of 93 still repairing oil pump valves and teaching a man in his 40s the job, and saw his own future in it. He studied fine arts and expects…
- 70. You Output What You Input · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 17We switched off the bright light because it wasn't the mood, and let the cameras suffer for it. That starts a talk about living with things of quality, which isn't the same as…
- 69. What If Your Best Work Needs Less Sharing · 1 h 15 min · Season 3 Episode 16If making the work is water, content is food coloring, and once it's in there's no getting it back out. One of us never expected what his video channels would bring: a feeling…
- 68. Protect The Work At All Costs · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 15We start on a worry that making videos about photography turns the pictures into content. Good work takes time: photographs one of us shared, taken over three and a half years…
- 67. Leica Luck · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 14More of a fun for us one here. One of us opened Facebook Marketplace to find a Leica M11 and a Leica Q2 for sale, listed by a woman selling her father's cameras. He offered to…
- 66. Back to Square One · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 13One of us sold an old Nikon lens on eBay for $425 to a buyer in Switzerland. Then a stranger on TikTok pointed out it was a rare early version, with a very low serial number. He…
- 65. Attempting A Low-Stakes Space For Photography And Conversation: PART 2 · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 12We still don't have a name for the space. An hour of brainstorming with ChatGPT, until one of us hit the usage limit, turned up mostly pretentious ideas like the Greek word…
