Content Minded Podcast.

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-...

A one-off video cathartic where I rant about the recent history of the failure of the Maple Leafs, the experiment of "new hockey" and it's startling parallels with the decline of Canada over the last 10 years, forgive me if I got certain hockey history details wrong. - - - Buy my artwork and artist prints: https://www.giantartproductions.com/ Support my work on Patreon for exclusive content and mo...

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 very exciting 100th episode of Content Minded, Prof. Stephanie Wakefield joins me for a brilliant and insightful d...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this exciting art-driven VISUAL episode of Content Minded, I explore what I term the modern painters of light. I go over the works of California abstract landscape painter Richard Diebenkorn, the Italian-American abstract expressionist Giorgio Cavallon and some of my favourite Canadian artists like Lawr...

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Apologies for a bit of an absence, but Painting Discourse is BACK. Here I am doing a quick winter lake study while talking about the significance of landscape painting and art as a form of conservationism and sacredness through aesthetic “distance”, and art as a sacred object while quoting a passage from a novel by Yukio Mishima, enjoy, and also please consider purchasing one of my works as well a...

On this episode of Painting Discourse, I come across three rusty chairs leaning up against a birch tree in a wooded field that provided a pretty good visual challenge to paint. I talk about plein air painting and phenomenology, as well as a quote describing the works of Van Gogh from the Deleuze and Guattari book "Anti-Oedipus". There is also a version of this video on my Substack. You can now buy...

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 the Content Minded House of Leaves series, legendary and controversial online poster Orcbrand joins me...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit gioscontentcorner.substack.com On this special Solo episode of Content Minded, I am back with a lengthy discussion on the possible future of AI technologies as they relate to culture, post-humanism and the fate of civilization. One theory in particular posits that a logical outcome of these technologies will trend towards entropy and de...

On this Painting Discourse video, I paint an early winter study of a dilapidated bridge on location while talking about some aspects of abstract or non-objective painting falling out of favour in the art world, and it’s significance in the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as my love for abstract-expressionism. If you like my work, consider subscribing to my Patreon or Substack linked below for hou...

Welcome back to another episode of painting discourse. Here is a little plein air work from a session at the locks done in the later autumn. I talk briefly about painting composition, 2025 in review, illustration vs. fine art and other things, enjoy, and happy new year everyone! Also consider supporting my work on Patreon or Substack. - - - Support my work on Patreon for exclusive content and more...

Merry Christmas everyone! It was recently my Birthday, I will be back to full podcasting and streaming hopefully soon. But in the meantime, here is a painting video where I capture one of my first winter plein air outings of the season while discussing the history and significance of winter painting, along with some helpful tips for painting in the winter time. God Bless and enjoy. - - - Support m...

There is a quote from the song “Symbolic” by the famous 90s Florida metal band Death: “Savour what you feel and what you see, things that may not seem important now, but may be tomorrow.” This week on Painting discourse, I paint a quick winter field study at a vineyard here in Niagara while talking about the importance of Plein Air painting in capturing a changing geographic landscape in tumultuou...