Cannabis Goldsmith - A Show About Art and Design

Canadian diamonds were once a thing. Conflict-free and clean, but expensive to extract. They were diamonds you could feel good about buying, and that was their main selling proposition. People would pay more for them, knowing they weren’t contributing to wars and child labor. But that all ended once lab grown diamonds came onto the market. Diamond prices are crashing now, as we predicted, and it m...

Some of us need to wear jewelry to facilitate movement. In this episode I explain what orthotic jewelry is and how it improves the lives of people in our world. Information, photos, drawings and links to videos aboutthe construction of the 170th Spencerville Fair Sterling Silver Trophy Belt Buckle: https://tribe.ca/170 TRIBE - The World's Luxury Cannabis Jeweler https://tribe.ca   Send an emai...

Wouldn't it be great to make your art and do nothing else? But it turns out we have to sell the art, talk about the art, market the art, build websites, clean the studio, and sort out the learnings we acquired while making the art. I completed the master model design for the Spencerville Fair Sterling Silver Trophy Buckle and now I'm using the open space between projects to clean the studi...

Everything is triggering now. It seems like the ratchet turns tighter every day. Are world events spiraling out of control? How can we cope with it all? Make Art. In this episode I talk about some simple steps you cantake to re-introduce art into your life to cope with the insanity of the world. You’ll learn how to re-connect with the artist inside yourself. I talk about the the Spencerville Fair...

I'm up with the birds at 4 am to talk about how to use the forcing function to do just about anything, to learn about anything, with almost no effort. Use the forcing function to slingshot around the moon to escape gravity while increasing your speed, to maximize your leverage in life. This is the hack the empowerment and self esteem gurus are always trying to sell you for huge amounts of cash...

I think the Canadian Prime Minister's wife needs fashion advice and here it is. She is being treated in a demeaning way visually by our prime minister at public events, and that has to stop. Her fashion choices are making matters much worse. I suggest some fashion fixes for our Prime Minister's wife so she can display her own personality on Canada's public stage to step out of her husb...

There will come a time when you will want people to see your art. Whether it's shown on on the wall of your local coffee shop, at one of your country's most important and oldest county fairs, or at a gallery, you will eventually have to pitch your art to strangers. In this episode I explain how I pitched the Spencerville Fair Organizing Committee on an idea for a Sterling Silver Trophy Bel...

This podcast has always been about trying to understand what art means. Yesterday, I listened to a New Yorker podcast where David Remnick interviewed Brian Eno on his new book on art called What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory. I ordered the book immediately, but it did not arrive in time for the podcast, so today's show is about what I want the book to be about. I've never really thought a...

Today's pop music is very strange compared to the pop music of the past - it seems familiar, yet it's not. It sounds like a song you might have heard before, but it isn't. Today's pop music is less shaped by creativity and more designed by licensing considerations, technology, and media monopolies. I explained what happened to pop music in this episode of the show and how we can fi...

We have a pretty large county fair here in the fall called the Spencerville Fair. They have an art building filled with photography, paintings, quilts and other art from the community. I hope to shine a light on their arts building and perhaps even design a Sterling Silver belt buckle for the fair's 170th Anniversary. I will go to the fair's organization meeting next week to see if I can p...

How are big jewelers like Pandora coping with tariffs? Carefully. I explore their strategy of separating their US, Canadian and Mexican sales into separate and defined tariff channels. Will it work? Lastly, many Canadian retailers along the border here are worried Americans won't come to Canada to spend their money this summer. I explain why we shouldn't worry about this at all because the...

Aren't we all sick of politics now? I am, and in this episode I talk about the steps I'm taking to get politics out of my studio and life. I describe how to set hard boundaries about political content on your facebook account, and how good this will be for your mental health. We all know social media is an addictive trap. When social media combines with politics it becomes brain mulching....

Our Canadian election is over now and I am refocusing on art. Join me today as I describe what goes into publishing a coffee table hard cover art book. You'll learn the difference between true self publishing and having your book published by a publisher. What is best for your book? You'll learn how to consider the best ways to get your own book published. I tell you how to ask for accurat...

Canadians are like the fish who don't know they live in water. Most people outside Canada do not know that Canada has a highly controlled media, news, and digital information space. We see what our government wants us to see, and tomorrow we will see what kind of an impact near total government control of communications in a G7 country has on election results. I'll be back on Wednesday wit...

What do you do when your mentor starts giving you really bad advice on things they know nothing about? You dump them, that's what you do! I describe how pissed I am at Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway for using their huge podcast audience to try to influence the Canadian election, from the USA! I describe my history as Kara’s biggest Canadian podcast fan, and how I’ve been a supporter of their...

It's 420 AND Easter Sunday, so if you are at a wonderful but boring family gathering and you need a break, you can step outside to listen to this podcast, if you know what I 'm sayin'... Happy 420 from alexd and Happy the rabbit in Upper Canada! Canadian customers can order our amazing sterling silver hockey sticks tariff-free here: https://tribe.ca/hockey TRIBE - The World's Luxury Cannabis Jewel...

We are in the last two weeks of a federal election in Canada and it 's very close, if you believe the polls. Each candidate has their own ideas about what to do with the CBC. Carney wants to lavish the state broadcaster with billions in tax money and I'll explain why. Poilievre want's to pull their tax funding and let them fend for themselves to compete with other media entities around...

As America collapses and Canada suffers through a foreign-influenced election, I talk about how I'll deal with American tourists, if they come across the Canadian border this year. I will be respectful, but should I feel sympathy or pity for them? I get into the benefits of signing up for a class or workshop in your community to learn a new art skill, and how to convince yourself to go. There...

The world comes to grip with the collapse of America and realizes the way forward is to leave the United States behind. Water flows around or over obstructions and this is happening now. I talk about the strange media and polling space in Canada where a full third of our journalists work for the state broadcaster, while the other two thirds of Canadian 'journalists' are state funded with wage supp...

Canada is deep into a very consequential election. I give you a sense of the vibe here in Canada. I explain how I am voting and why, but also advise never to tell people how you are voting and why. I talk about how cannabis itself has changed since legalization in Canada. Cannabis has changed its shape, taste and strength to fit into Canada’s legal economic framework. I describe how cannabis has b...

The orange psycho hillbilly says the Canadian people are nasty. He has no idea. After only 50 days of an insane president, the United States is in a deep constitutional crisis and its democracy is unraveling. The president has driven away ALL America's friends in the world, yet strangely, most Americans are completely unaware this has happened. I talk about what the orange psychotic hillbilly’s ma...

New polls show that a huge grassroots movement of shoppers has emerged in Canada who are not buying American made products. We are carefully looking at our labels and choosing to vote with our wallets to buy Canadian manufactured products or the products of any other country except the United States. It's not only the products, we've stopped buying America as an idea, and our thinking has...

The high gold price is is flattening the jewelry trade in Canada as gold jewelry becomes too expensive to buy. De Beers is looking to cleave off their natural diamond business but who will buy it? The new United States continues to reveal itself to the world, and it's an ugly sight to see. Our Sterling Silver Grinders are amazing! We custom make them and we ship them all over the world: https://tr...

The fat lips, the fillers, the hair that looks like you stuck your finger in a socket, it's the new American esthetic. Thick is out, ozempic lolipop is in. For the Washington men, the suit color has changed from dark gray to flag blue and it's only a matter of time before they start wearing stars & stripes top hats as they fan out across the globe to demand protection payments from weaker, sov...

I warned you European listeners about what was coming! We must band together to stand up against the USA for our countries and our economies, for our survival (and thrival!). We must remove trade barriers between Canada and Europe, between European countries, between Asia and Canada. We must grow around and away from the United States or they will take us all down with them. Also, I talk about the...