Brandi and Danni are two sisters who just happen to be dead inside. With no fulfilling careers, longtime relationships, or children, they turn to the only thing promised to give them a feeling: art. Every week, Brandi and Danni will get face to face with art, discuss the wack history behind it, and evaluate its life-giving powers. Join us on Art Sistory, where two sisters put art to the ultimate test: can it make you feel alive? If you listen in, maybe you will feel just a little less dead i ...
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Danni Lin Podcasts
Conversations with heroes and colleagues in the world of Software, Design, and Motion.
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Danny Perry | Plugin Play, AI Development, Agentic Motion & a New Motion Marketplace
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1:39:10Learn more about Danny at https://www.dannyperry.me Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Danny Perry — Founder of Plugin Play — historically a plugin development company and just recently expanding to be a new marketplace for motion and video pros. We spoke about - How AI development has evolved in his or…
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Antonino Iacona | Apple, Google Creative Lab, Motion with Intent & Studio Santo
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36:33Learn more about Antonino at https://antoninoiacona.it Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Antonino Iacona — motion designer & director. Antonino has worked at Apple, Google Creative Lab and is now running Studio Santo. We spoke about: How Apple shaped his craft through slow, iterative, detail-obsessed d…
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Justin Poore | Lead Producer of Cleo Abram's Huge if True
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58:14Learn more about Justin at https://www.youtube.com/@CleoAbram Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Justin Poore — an animator and the producer of Huge if True — a show by Cleo Abram that’s had a ton of attention and engagement over the last few years, recently reaching 6 million subscribers on YouTube. Cl…
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Grant Shaddick | Tella, Editing Agents, Video in the Cloud, Design Constraints, and Screencasting
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1:43:43Today I’m speaking with Grant Shaddick, CEO of Tella. Tella is a recording and editing tool that is totally cloud-based. It’s like Loom but more HQ, and it handles a lot of the post-production for you. I’ve used Tella for a couple of years now and have been using it more recently as I’ve moved to more off-the-cuff production. It’s been a really del…
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Audrey Havey | Riot Games, Visual Communication, Esports, Art Direction & Experiments
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1:44:23Learn more about Audrey at https://www.audreyhavey.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Audrey Havey - a freelance designer, illustrator, and motion designer. I know Audrey through her YouTube channel where she teaches and vlogs on a wide variety of topics. And as I discovered her work i really wanted …
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Mengh-Hsueh Lin | Motion, Anime, Instructional Design, and a New Chapter
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37:42Today I’m speaking with Meng-Hsueh Lin, an animator and motion designer. He’s worked with studios like Ordinary Folk, Coat of Arms, Awesome Inc as well as clients like Disney, Airbnb, and Volkswagen. We spoke about: His CS degree His passion for anime His experience with School of Motion Freelancing and collaborating with studios like OF Riggi…
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Twisha Patni | Buck, Multidisciplinary Design, Process, Illustration Systems and Google Gemini
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1:03:13Learn more about Twisha at https://www.twishapatni.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Twisha Patni, an Art Director & Graphic Designer. She’s worked with brands such as Apple, Spotify, Netflix, NYTimes, The Economist, and is now at Buck. We spoke about — Being multidisciplinary — How she’s developed…
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Tom Parkes | Web & Brand, Design as Art, Communication, Sensitivity & Receptivity
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1:38:06Learn more about Tom at https://www.tparkes.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Tom Parkes - a Web+Brand designer. Tom’s worked at both agencies such as Instrument, Justified Studio, MetaLab, and freelanced for companies such as Airbnb, Microsoft and he’s now at Glide - where I work - leading web & br…
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Chris Spags | JetBoost, Software Development, Webflow, Scaling and Selling a Business
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51:20Find out more about Chris → https://cspags.com/ Find out more about the podcast here → https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Chris Spags, a software developer and the founder of JetBoost. I was involved in a project with Chris a few years back and recently found out that he's just sold JetBoost, a very popular suite of tools in the Webf…
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Chase Goulet | Product Design, Minecraft, Architecture, The Art of Learning, AI and Creativity
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1:17:17Today I'm speaking with Chase Goulet, a product designer and former professional Minecraft builder. Find out more about Chase → https://chasegoulet.com/ Find out more about the podcast here → https://jackvaughan.com We talked about: - Failure, mindset, and the art of learning - Minecraft, architecture, and his road to product design - His colle…
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Greg Stewart | Ordinary Folk, The Bible Project, Technical Animation, Motion Design, Art Direction, Cavalry
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2:02:08Find out more about Greg → https://www.jdgstewart.co/ Find out more about the podcast here → https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Greg Stewart—one of the founding members of Ordinary Folk and now Lead Animator at the Bible Project. I’ve known about Greg for a long time, as Ordinary Folk are without doubt my favourite motion design st…
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Abdoulaye Barry | LinkedIn, Dubai, Marketing, Motion Tools, Freelancing
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54:11Find out more about Abdoulaye → https://barrymotion.com/work Find out more about the podcast here → https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Abdoulaye Barry, a Motion Designer and Teacher. I've been aware of Abdoulaye’s work for a little while now and wanted to get him on to catch up about his work, his approach to marketing in the motion w…
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Coralie Delpha | Shopify, Freelance Development, Community, Mentors, and Learning to Code
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1:55:09Today I’m speaking with Coralie Delpha — a lead technical architect at Shopify. Coralie is a lovely, calm and curious individual. And very well regarded in her community — i’ve known her for a while and was really interested to catch up and dive deeper into her work, the Shopify ecosystem and more. We spoke about her journey in law, business school…
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Maria Cruz | 2D Motion, Art Direction, Experiments, Music & Motion, Cavalry, UI Animation
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1:54:49Today I'm speaking with Maria Cruz, an artist, animator & motion designer. Maria’s worked with big companies like Google, Netflix, Apple, Sony… as well as top studios like Hornet, Odd Fellows, Buck, and now Hook. We spoke about many things: Early creativity and childhood ways of seeing Art direction, connection, inspiration, curiosity, and breaking…
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Adam Plouff | Battleaxe, Overlord, Motion Development and After Effects Tools
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1:52:36Find out more about Adam‘s work at https://battleaxe.co/
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Arie Stavchansky | Dataclay, Data Driven Video, Automation, Adobe, and AI Video
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1:35:23Today, I’m speaking with Arie Stavchansky, CEO and Founder of Dataclay. Dataclay is a company that develops software for motion designers and video professionals focused on data-driven video. Although this concept has existed for a while, it's not that widely known, but understanding data driven video and it’s interaction with AI is going to become…
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Matt Perry | Framer, Motion, and the Future of Web Animation
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1:14:30Today I'm speaking with Matt Perry, creator of some of the most used web motion libraries in the world. His work has transformed how developers bring interactivity and smooth animations to the web. For the last 6 years he’s been at Framer, building Framer Motion — and he’s just taken that independent as a new project — Motion. I've been wanting to …
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Hayley Akins | Motion Hatch & Marketing for Creatives
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29:55Hayley Akins is the founder of Motion Hatch, a school that helps motion designers and creatives grow their business. Hayley is one of the originals in this space. She's been active since 2017 and has helped many people in the industry. I wanted to bring her on to discuss marketing, how it's evolving for creatives, and how to effectively connect wit…
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Imsety Taylor | Creativity, Motion, Tech, Set Angle, and Being Multidisciplinary
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1:19:16Imsety Taylor is a creator, motion designer, and founder of Set Angle — a web and motion agency. He’s worked with brands like Ford and Keller Williams and collaborated with studios like Ravie. I identify a lot with Imsety — although I'm probably not as talented. He’s got a deep love of being creative in four mediums that we share: animation, techno…
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Ian Waters | Cavalry, Conceptual Design, and Building Motion Tools
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1:26:40Today I’m speaking with Ian Waters - CTO of Cavalry. This is a really fascinating and quite technical conversation about designing motion tools. Cavalry is a relatively young Motion Design tool with a really talented team. And to be building a new motion design tool at this time is really interesting… Motion design is still young and it’s a paradig…
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Oscar Brooks — CEO at V88: Glide, No-Code, AI Component, & a New Breed of Software Developer
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1:10:47Today I’m speaking with Oscar Brooks, co-founder and CEO of V88. V88 is one of the leading Glide agencies. They've built hundreds of applications and scaled incredibly quickly in the last year, mostly due to their talent and personality, but also because it’s just a really interesting time at Glide right now. So I wanted to get Oscar on to help exp…
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Wes Cockx - Creative Director and 3D Artist: Microsoft, Deep Mind, Rendering, and Creative Experiments.
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1:08:58Today on the podcast, I’m speaking with Wes Cockx (@wes_cream), creative director and 3D designer. Wes is one of my favorite 3D artists and has worked for Microsoft, Deepmind, Apple, Meta, Google, Github and more. We spoke about his early experiences in 3D, rendering, his creative process, experiments, working with different clients and much much m…
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Today on the podcast, I’m speaking with Isaac Gili (@isaacgili), CEO and co-founder of Shuffll — an AI Studio for Video Creators. We talked a lot about Shuffll, the tech behind it and the future vision for making video marketing & production more accessible and scaleable. Please reach out if you have comments, guest-suggestions, or feedback. @jackm…
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Evan Abrams | Motion Designer & Educator
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1:44:26Today on the podcast, I’m bringing you Evan Abrams (@ECAbrams), motion designer and educator, renowned for his expertise in After Effects. We discussed communication skills, the process of idea render, design concepts, tools, the art of learning AI's future role in the industry and much, much more. Please reach out if you have comments, guest-sugge…
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Yann-Edern Gillet | Software Designer at Linear
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59:31Learn more at → https://jackvaughan.com Yann’s Website → https://yannglt.com Yann-Edern is a software designer and maker based in Paris, focused on developer experience. He’s currently working at Linear and most recently contributed to the new UI of the desktop app. He previously worked at Specify, where he contributed to creating a Design API …
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Today I’m bringing you Tristan L’Abbé, a product designer and head of design at Glide. We talk about design tools, paradigms, the evolution of web & native, Tristan’s background in design & engineering, the role of constraint in creativity, the way your tools impact your work and thinking process, and a look at the process and craft of product desi…
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In this episode I speak with Andy Claremont, who's head of community and ecosystem at Glide. We talk about the early days of discovering online communities in our youth and his journey from community member to community professional. We also talk about the state of no code, its relation to AI and where the space is going.…
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#008 Kyle Hamrick | Motion Designer
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1:18:00Kyle Hamrick is a creative and technical director, motion designer, video editor, and Adobe Certified educator. Despite its youth, motion design is a vast and continually expanding field. I was eager to restart this podcast with an overview of it from Kyle's perspective. Show notes at: https://jackvaughan.com/posts/008-kyle-hamrick…
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Ep 39: Bernini's Fall From Grace (For Like Three Weeks)
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50:25Here he is! Ring the bells! Sound the trumpets! Brandi's favorite artist is here and it is Bernini. Our beautiful baroque boy is the cream of the crop, queen of rome, and master of marble. And you make think this perfect sculptor never struggled in his whole career well YOU WOULD BE WRONG. Our sweet innocent babe was cheated and besmirched by jealo…
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Art Sis Collab! Lilly Martin Spencer's Spread-Eagle Chicken
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36:02She stretches her hand out towards you. Will you shake it?!?! Historical AF Podcast and Art Sistory say "yes!" in this collab from the pre-Civil War stars! And Shake Hands? (1854) is the wonderfully weird painting Kyna and Natalee have brought for us to put to the test today. Join us as we go on a journey with Lilly Martin Spencer, a plethora of su…
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Ep 38: Michelangelo Never Showered Even Once
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52:34The Sistine Chapel (1508) is the triumph/torture of world's most famous and crustiest artist. Michelangelo may have never painted before but there was one thing he was definitely a master of; being a lil' bitch. And by lil', I mean absolutely gigantic. Today we tackle this monster and dish all the goss on our final ninja turtle and the lord of the …
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Ep 37: Raphael, Hard Boiled Eggs, & Feminine Baguettes
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47:31Raphael! Master of the Renaissance! Painter of Beauty! And a sweet perfect boy who charmed all he met. All except... Michelangelo! Why did the almighty painter of twunks hate our sweet angel baby? And what did Raphael do about it? Come with us on the Dolce Vita as we dish the goss on the only heterosexual ninja turtle and reveal how the sweet can a…
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*Attention! This episode has discussions of sexual assault and rape. Skip the below timecodes if needed** No one paints a head chopping like Artemisia Gentileschi. It's got all you could ever want: blood, horror, drama, and a badass woman empowered by sweet righteous fury. Artemisia is the queen of the Baroque and queen of my heart. Don't take my w…
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If there was any sculpture that could be called the gayest, it would be this. Donatello's David (1450s) is a bastion of homoerotic glory. From his booty to his tooty, he is the one twink to rule them all. Step aside haters, because this David embodies queer culture in Renaissance Florence and even Michelangelo's legendary twunk is quaking. Check ou…
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It's a wild love story filled with passion and hardships in Renaissance Florence! A painter, forced to be a friar, and his beautiful model, forced to be a nun, a romance that can never be but falling in love anyway. JK! Actually it's just one horny dude and a nun he may or may not have kidnapped. Fra Filippo Lippi is the first rascal of the Renaiss…
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*Attention! This episode has discussions of gore, murder, and violence. Skip the below timecodes if needed** We are in the CRADLE OF THE RENAISSANCE! Florence town. Firenze is finally here. Brandi's heart explodes. And boy oh boy does she have a story for us. Easter Sunday. The Duomo. And MURDER?!?! Oh baby, stay tuned and find out why you never ki…
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It's a spectacle. It's a popularity contest. It's a fun fair. It's a nightmare. Welcome to the 58th Venice Biennale! It's the art olympics where countries compete to be most... something. And Danni is here to sift through the garbage for you! And what has she found? Oh! More garbage! (In the form of the Biennale's Gold Lion winner, Jimmie Durham) C…
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Have you ever seen an artist that is all BALLS and no SH*T? That's Tintoretto, the nastiest boy in the best way. His art is quick, cheap, and bitchy. It's everything you could ever want in an artist. That is unless, you are one of his many rivals! Come with us as we tell the tale of the nastiest boy who ever was and how this little dirt child start…
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Wow. We love Goya. From his bad paintings to his charming smile to his general lumpiness. And we aren't the only ladies who loved a little Goya in their lives. Join us as we talk about the two potential hotties who posed for his infamously sexy La Maja Vestida (1805) and La Maja Desnuda (1800). Plus some discussion of a few perverts, secret love af…
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Art Sis Collab! A Nipple Pinchin' Satan Canoodlin' Witch
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37:27Have you ever seen a painting and thought, "what"? Well, that's exactly how you should feel when face to face with the most WTF paintings in the Louvre, Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of her Sisters (1594). But fear not! Because in a landslide collaboration between two badass art podcasts, Kieve Rodeheaver of Please Touch the Art Podcast, is here to t…
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It is the puzzle that stumps all art historians. The enigma painting. The truly inscrutable masterpiece. It is Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velazquez. What is going on in this ding dang thing!? Art historians have been debating that for centuries. We might never know. But one thing we do know for sure? Velazquez is very good at painting. And this ju…
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*Attention! This episode has discussions of gore and executions. Skip the below timecodes if needed** This week we got nasty! Well, mostly Danni. She became compelled to tell the frightful story of James Scott and his horrible portrait that hangs in London's National Gallery. Now London has a long and varied history of death and disgust but Danni m…
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We are in Victorian England! And there's nothing the Victorians loved more than a scandal. And John Everett Millais was an expert at getting wrapped up in them. Yes, his painting, Christ in the House of his Parents (1849), was so shocking that Charles Dickens denounced it publicly. But that's child's play for Millais. The real juice comes from his …
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Art Sis Collab! Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Proves Men are Trash
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53:01Our good friend and french art history buff, Hadley Leary, sent us on a mission to find the one, the only, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and her painting, Peace Bringing Back Abundance (1780). This painting was Le Brun's slap to the patriarchy! Her karate chop to the systemized oppression! And her refusal to be pinned down as just one kind of pain…
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What is it about her? Her knowing gaze? Those bald brows? That subtle smile? There is something about the Mona Lisa (1503) that makes everybody go gaga! Kings were poopin' with it! Boys were throwing themselves off buildings for it! And the French police were accusing Picasso of stealing it! What is the story behind this enigmatic lady and what Da …
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Ep 25: The Venus de Milo Looks Better That Way
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38:51We've made it to Paris and it's got the key to our heart. This town also got more art than any town has the right to have. And out of all the masterpieces upon masterpieces at the Louvre we found the greatest one of all: The Venus de Milo. Is it because of her beauty? Her grace? Her rarity? Her importance? Of course not! It's because some 100 year …
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Did you know that there is a church on the outskirts of Prague, decorated with hundreds of human bones?!? With all those bones, you gotta wonder, who do they belong to? And that's just what Danni is here to tell us! And the story takes us through cookin' gooses, multiple crusades, battle wagons, and a skin drum. Join us as we explore the Sedlec Oss…
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Art Sis Collab! We All Hate Černý's Hot Babies
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45:03Welcome to our first ever collab episode! Today our good friend and Prague expert, Eve Asher, sent us on a horrible adventure to see the art of the resident Czech Republic Bad Boy, David Černý. His art may be full of cheeky twists and turns but the one thing we can all be sure of is that Černý sucks! Today, we saw his Babies (1999) sculptures which…
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Ep 23: One Does Not Say No to Sarah Bernhardt
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44:35How does one man's art go from petty theater dressings to gracing every teens' phone case and tumblr background? Well, all it takes is talent, sugar daddies, luck, and call from the one and only Sarah Bernhardt. That's the exact cocktail our Czech friend, Alphonse Mucha, cooked up that launched him to stardom! And now every pretty Art Nouveau illus…
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Have you ever seen somebody so hot you think, hey, that can't be real? That's not allowed! That should be impossible! Well, neither had we until we saw THE QUEEN!! The Bust of Nefertiti (1345) is like Angelina Jolie in Maleficent peak hotness but brown. And the real Queen Nefertiti is even better. She changed the canon, changed the religion, and ch…
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