Content Minded Podcast.

(CONTENT NOTE: I Do not endorse everything my guests do or say online or offline, I am a humble interviewer/content aficionado trying to find different and interesting points of view). On this episode of spooky month Tubi Dumpter Dives, Granite from the Granite MTN Movie Club joins me to discuss the Tubi original production "Content" that came out this year. Directed by Coke Daniels, this film fol...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded, I dive into the recent debate over AI art and the question of authenticity and art’s humanly quality, what is motivating a new moral panic over AI art, what this means for art’s future and what can guarantee it’s worth, and how AI generated imagery is influencing art, cul...

On this episode of spooky month Tubi Dumpster Dives, I go deep into the weeds with A24's Film "Heretic", topics covered are the questions of religiosity and Christianity in the modern world, the Western tradition of political philosophy and how it intersects with various mind control experiments by intelligence agencies, and the 2000s new atheist movement. Strap in for a wild film review and SUPPO...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded, I break down a recent critique of the Adam Curtis Documentary “HyperNormalisation” from a recent article by Christopher Lasch’s Angry Ghost, hosted by the Substack “Cracks in Post modernity”. I discuss the concept of Hypernormalization, the recent anniversary of 9/11 and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com (CONTENT NOTE: I Do not endorse everything my guests do or say online or offline, I am a humble interviewer/content aficionado trying to find different and interesting points of view). On this episode of Content Minded, Alexander Adams returns to the show to discuss many issues around the contemporary art...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com (CONTENT NOTE: I Do not endorse everything my guests do or say online or offline, I am a humble interviewer/content aficionado trying to find different and interesting points of view). On this important episode of Content Minded, Brother Lunk join me to do a deep analysis of the various issues surrounding...

Reviewing the recent EDP445 Documentary by Mike Clum, an overview of his work, documentary and exploitation cinema towards internet culture, and why he presents a compelling product that deals with the nature of the lolcow and horrorcow, and online culture in general, on it's own terms. - - - Buy my artwork and artist prints: https://www.giantartproductions.com/ Support my work on Patreon for excl...

On this episode of Tubi Dumpster Dives, I examine a film near and dear to me. Lola is about a woman in Vancouver with no sense of self or identity who adopts the life and backstory of a friend she meets while wandering aimlessly. In it is various themes of identity and purpose, rural vs. urban life, early 2000s aesthetics, and the deeper context of living in a modern nowhere land that is Canadian...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded, I explore the concept of the sense of belonging in a cultural and sociopolitical context, especially in a post C-Vidian era. I bring together an excerpt from the Wang Huning book "America Against America" about the concept of commodification being a supplicant for governa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com (CONTENT NOTE: I Do not endorse everything my guests do or say online or offline, I am a humble interviewer/content aficionado trying to find different and interesting points of view). Recorded a year ago, but forgotten till recently, J Burden comes on Content Minded again for what was an impromptu discuss...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded I piece apart this concept of “aesthetic truth” as it relates to politics, philosophy and culture in the internet age. I open up with a recent excerpt from Giorgio Agamben on contemporary culture, then review an academic paper that discusses Foucault’s concept of “discursi...

On this episode of Tubi Dumpster Dives, I manage to pull out a gem in Uberto Pasolini's 2013 film "Still Life" about a quiet London civil servant who administers the last affairs of recently deceased destitutes and vagrants. It provides a nuanced look into middle age male loneliness, the tragic but necessary affairs of one's passing, and the nature of duty in the face of faceless institutional bur...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded, I explore the art, philosophy and historical context of the Gutai Art Association in Japan, one of the most important Avant-Garde art movements that came out of the post-war period. There is a discussion about their unique approach to art materials, the metaphysics of the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded Podcast, I discuss some writings from Parabola Magazine and Jean Baudrillard that came immediately before the 21st century from the 80s and 90s that predicted what life would be like in the age of mass digital communication and a new millennium, and I break down a new vide...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com (CONTENT NOTE: I Do not endorse everything my guests do or say online or offline, I am a humble interviewer/content aficionado trying to find different and interesting points of view). This week on Content Minded, I am once again joined by Magnetic Dream and new guest Esoteric Technologist to discuss many...

The first episode of hopefully a new series of reviews, Tubi Dumpster Dives, where I review interesting films and series found on Tubi. Here I am reviewing the limited series by the now defunct YouTube production company Rooster Teeth called "Day 5" about a global sleep apocalypse, its position in the horror genre, and a painting by Casper David Friedrich featured in it. Please like, share, subscr...

A shorter video on the recent Banksy statue and the discourse around it. Also available on Substack, Spotify and Apple podcast. Please consider supporting my work on Patreon, Substack, or buying one of my paintings or prints, enjoy! - - - Buy my artwork and artist prints: https://www.giantartproductions.com/ Support my work on Patreon for exclusive content and more: https://www.patreon.com/giantar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded, I dive into the strange demise of political discourse and political language in the digital age using the power/knowledge period of writings from Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard’s critique of Foucault and a representational model of semiotics as it pertains of the Re...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded Podcast, I delve deep into the essay by Carl Jung on the UFO phenomenon and Modern Art. I discuss the connection between the history of art and artists in guilds that acted as secret societies, the works of surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, an illustration of a divine vision...

On this special episode of Painting Discourse, I paint a rural house I returned to on location after many years while talking about art photographer Alec Soth’s intimate photo series on Niagara Falls in he early 2000s. I Discuss growing up in the region next to a tourist trap, localism, geographic meaning complexes, post-industrialization, the transformation of the landscape due to changing cultur...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this episode of Content Minded, I read and review an essay in C.G. Jung’s collected works entitled “UFOs and Modern Painting” where he analyzed works from his patients and from art history that pertains to the UFO and alien encounter phenomenon. I dive into various topics surrounding the UFO phenomenon...

On this Easter edition of painting discourse, I do a small landscape study from imagination while discussing the concept of space and perspective within religious art, featuring an image board from the digital artist Seele comparing the renaissance depiction of the last supper vs. a medieval icon of the apostles. the Video is available on Substack as well. Audio versions on Apple and Spotify podca...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com (CONTENT NOTE: I Do not endorse everything my guests do or say online or offline, I am a humble interviewer/content aficionado trying to find different and interesting points of view). On this episode of Content Minded, Zoomer Schopenhauer returns for a prescient interview on energy, economy, news and glob...

Napoleon Dynamite revisited, I watch the film after many years and break down it's various social undertones, its place in the millennial pop media canon, its approach to the modern western and coming of age film genres, and it's message of overcoming nostalgia while dealing with a changing world at the beginning of the 21st century. Also available on my YouTube and Spotify. If you wish to request...

A little Plein air demonstration on a grey day where I demonstrate the technicalities of painting from my colour choices, what I do with mixing grey colours, how to paint landscapes and find visual interest in beauty in places people tend to find dull. This video is also available on substack, and you can buy this work on my website! Link here: https://www.giantartproductions.com/product/gray-day-...