Art of the Beholder

This show is in partnership with the "Shine with Joy Foundation." With SHINE, your generosity will fuel their mission of empowering Black women in STEM, improving maternal healthcare equity, and spreading joy through Yoga and community programs. You can donate today on shinewithjoy.com or go straight to their donation page ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and help make tomorrow a better place. In this epi...

This show is in partnership with the "Shine with Joy Foundation." With SHINE, your generosity will fuel their mission of empowering Black women in STEM, improving maternal healthcare equity, and spreading joy through Yoga and community programs. You can donate today on shinewithjoy.com or go straight to their donation page ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and help make tomorrow a better place. The gang fo...

This show is in partnership with the "Shine with Joy Foundation." With SHINE, your generosity will fuel their mission of empowering Black women in STEM, improving maternal healthcare equity, and spreading joy through Yoga and community programs. You can donate today on shinewithjoy.com or go straight to their donation page ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ , and help make tomorrow a better place. In this episo...

This show is in partnership with the "Shine with Joy Foundation." With SHINE, your generosity will fuel their mission of empowering Black women in STEM, improving maternal healthcare equity, and spreading joy through Yoga and community programs. You can donate today on shinewithjoy.com or go straight to their donation page ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ , and help make tomorrow a better place. In this episode...

This show is in partnership with the "Shine with Joy Foundation." With SHINE, your generosity will fuel their mission of empowering Black women in STEM, improving maternal healthcare equity, and spreading joy through Yoga and community programs. You can donate today on shinewithjoy.com or go straight to their donation page ⁠here⁠ , and help make tomorrow a better place. In this episode o...

This show is in partnership with the "Shine with Joy Foundation." With SHINE, your generosity will fuel their mission of empowering Black women in STEM, improving maternal healthcare equity, and spreading joy through Yoga and community programs. You can donate today on shinewithjoy.com or go straight to their donation page here , and help make tomorrow a better place. Now in this episode...

Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss their picks for the best of what 2025 had to offer: Best in Seasonal Television – Alien: Earth; Pluribus HMs: Andor, The Bear, Severance, Hacks, Running Point, The Paper Best Limited Series in Televisio n – Adolescence Best in Film – The Life of Chuck; Frankenstein; Sinners HMs: Weapons, Black Bag Best in Music – The Omnific; Billy Woods: Golliwog HMs: Sh...

Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss Sandfall Interactive's familial RPG tragedy "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," focusing on the divisive narrative, the story's endings, and why this was another game not afraid to ask the hard questions, ultimately helping us understand how we, ourselves, deal with grief. Thank you for listening. Please consider supporting us with a donation...

Novo sits down with American Artist Gretchen Andrew (gretchenandrew.com) to talk about her roots as a technologist working at Google, the dark side of technology, including a discussion on her facetune portrait series, artificial intelligence and how to combat its growing concerns, and how she holds up a mirror of awareness with her work...as well as a little extra time to tell us how she feels ab...

Happy Halloween! In our 5th annual Halloween special, Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss why body horror, once a more niche, subgenre of horror, has become a more dominating force in the market, focusing on its own subgenres, its history in popular culture through film, and why it's risen to the surface since 2020. Thank you for listening. Please consider supporting us with a donation - @n...

The gang forgets to turn off another recording and ends up staying at the bar past close for afterhours, where they discuss the recent sea change with legacy late night talk shows, specifically "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the possible why of it all, and how it will affect the rest of the community, including us. Thank you for listening. Please consider supporting us with a dona...

Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss the career of producer, musician, and songwriter Butch Vig - a pivotal figure in the history of modern popular music, who's gone on to reshape the game forever - focusing on his roots, his history as a producer, including, of course, his contribution on a very special album, his time in the spotlight with his band "Garbage," auxiliary works,...

Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss the implications of the ever-evolving relationship of art & commerce, how the concept of entertainment fits in, and all their interconnected paradigms, including talks on "The Last of Us," Season 2, furniture, "Back to the Future," Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, and Rage-Bait Infotainment. Thank you for listening. Please consider su...

In the second part of a two part series, Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) conclude their discussion on Led Zeppelin's secret weapon - Bassist and Multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones - focusing on the latter half of his career, detailing Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" thru Coda, Supergroup "Them Crooked Vultures," and all the other work he's done post Zeppelin. Thank you for listening. Ple...

In the first part of a two part series, Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss Led Zeppelin's secret weapon - Bassist and Multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones - focusing on his roots, his musicianship, his session, arranging, and production work, and of course, his time with Led Zeppelin, detailing Led Zeppelin I thru Led Zeppelin Untitled, often known as IV or Zoso. Thank you for listeni...

NDP is back from break with a Quick Cut, where today we'll be discussing a very special album by Swedish duo Studio, entitled "West Coast," focusing on its unique history, the album dating back to 2006, its resurgence as of late, tracklist, musicality, and eventual legacy, begging the question: why didn't this album become a global phenomenon? Thank you for listening. Please consider supporting us...

Philip (Philipchurch.com) and Novo discuss They Might Be Giant's album "Flood" - a colossus of monumental proportions - focusing on its history, the unique songwriting approach and instrumentation, how John & John's innovations were ahead of their time and how in a lot of ways they still very much are, its legacy and influence, and why the album is such a testament that there are "no bad ideas...

Novo interviews podcaster Kim Davis, focusing on her roots, how she got into true crime podcasting and infotainment storytelling, the art of the "murder show," featuring her podcast show "Slaycation" (www.slaycation.wtf), and what the future holds for her and her career. Follow Kim and podcast show "Slaycation" here: www.slaycation.wtf @slaycationwtf on IG Slaycation on FB Thank you for listening....

Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss the first season of "Scavengers Reign," an animated tour de force, focusing on its story, characters, xenobiology, flora, and fauna, its unique animation style, and why the piece made us feel both insignificant on this pale blue dot, and equally, the most special entity in all of the cosmos. Thank you for listening. Please consider supporting us with a do...

Novo interviews husband and wife, Claas P. and Denise Jambor, a musician and photographer, respectively, focusing on their roots, eventual union, respective crafts, how they build their pieces and how they ultimately make each other better. You can reach and/or follow Denise at: contact@denise-jambor.com www.denise-jambor.com @denise_jambor_photography https://www.facebook.com/Denisejamborphotogra...

Finally, after years of research, development, questionnaires, data computation, and analysis, we've determined the greatest thing to come out of the Radiohead catalogue, and today, we'll be telling you what it is, why it is, and concluding our findings with objective evidence, so join us, won't you, down the rabbit hole... What do you think? Let us know! Thank you for listening. Please consider s...

Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss the evolution of storytelling in gaming, focusing on how they convey story and narrative in the absence of language, the retro games that did this first, our modern era, highlighting the game-ography of "Thatgamecompany," and what the future may hold, all culminating to one very important question: Will games one day be the best medium to tell a story? Wh...

Novo and Buck discuss Francis Ford Coppola's film "Megalopolis," focusing on the odd choices in the film, the risks he made, in and around the film, and the "What the?" moments, all framed by how we define and classify art and the meaning of something highbrow v. lowbrow... Thank you for listening. Please consider supporting us with a donation - @novodeproductions on paypal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ S...

Novo interviews filmmaker Fritz Frauendorf (www.fritzlewisfilms.com), focusing on his roots, how he got into filmmaking, his process and the identity he's developing as an artist and filmmaker, his filmography, and why he focuses his work on mental health. Follow Fritz Frauendorf: www.fritzlewisfilms.com Film Instagram Personal Instagram TikTok X Thank you for listening. Please consider supporting...

Novo and Philip (philipchurch.com) discuss the evolution of comment culture, focusing on the past, present, and future, the pro's and con's of this kind of feedback, and a very special thank you to our audience, even making time to read some of the criticisms we've gotten over the years, the kind that makes comment culture...comment culture. Thank you for listening. Please consider sup...