131. Pre-crastinating Art with Aaron Bou...

Today, we are joined by Manu Sobti who is a senior lecturer at the University of Brisbane in Australia. We talk to Sobti today about his research on Pierre Jeanneret and Aditya Prakash, what he found, and the role of these two people in the making of modern India and modern archi ... Show More

Today, we are joined by Ijlal Muzzafar who is a professor at RISD and author of Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital. The book is M’s thesis on how modernists in the post-war era invoked and worked with the concept of development to ... Show More

Today, we are joined by Jeffrey Fracé who is the chair of acting at the University of Washington. Fracé discusses his background of the arts through Shakespeare, improvisational theater, the different modalities of theater, and the difference between producing theater and produci ... Show More

This week, we're discussing what it means to be an artist. Renowned music producer Rick Rubin has written a book in which he argues that the artist is a conduit for creativity comes from source energy. Therefore, he says, the artist’s job is to open themselves up as much as possi ... Show More

Julia Cameron is the bestselling author of The Artists' Way. She is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and essayist, she also has extensive credits in film, television and theatre, and is an award-winning journalist. Her groundbreaking books on creativity have become internationa ... Show More

Creativity... What is it? Merriam Webster says its, "the ability to create OR the quality of being creative." But we're not so sure this definition is any bit helpful or insightful... We believe creativity is, “the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the produ ... Show More

So I directed a small action short film a few years back called "BROKEN." I shot the film on MiniDV Tape (yes I'm old) on the Panasonic DVX 100a, the indie film workhorse of its day. My team and I filmed it in West Palm Beach Florida (not exactly the Mecca of the film industry) a ... Show More

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosopher and novelist Leo Tolstoy's book What Is Art? It focuses specifically on the definition of Art that he provides in the work, construing it as a means of communion between people. To support my ongoing work, go to m ... Show More

Le 7e art voit naître chaque année de nombreux événements en son honneur, visant à récompenser les œuvres de cinéma les plus talentueuses. Du réalisateur à la lumière, en passant par les décors et bien évidemment les acteurs, toute la chaîne de création d'un film est célébrée dan ... Show More

This week we're talking about how simply acting on a project is the best way to learn, research, get better. Every time you post something, write something, paint something, record something, you are producing information that you can use to do it better the next time. For us, bu ... Show More

We're revisiting our Quentin Tarantino / Paul Thomas Anderson series with two films that many would say are their respective masterpieces. After they spent the 90's being the gods of film schools everywhere, they entered the 21st century artists with something to say, e ... Show More

We start a two-part discussion of the utopias and dystopias of the late 19th century 'machine age,' when new technology seemed to be remaking the world, and society along with it. What sort of world would the machines bring? In this episode we discuss Samuel Butler's novel 'Erewh ... Show More