Content Minded Podcast

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 forexclusive c...

(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 discussion about her work dealing with her concept of the Backloop and the concept of the Anth...

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 Lawren Harris and Takao Tanabe. In the Full version I also go more into abstract painting, a new...

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...

(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). Mike of Pol returns to Content Minded for an exciting in-depth discussion of the works of Jean Baudrillard in relation to internet culture, pure objects or hyper-objects, memes and political events. We go through hi...

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 c...

(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 to discuss the existential void and self-referential nature of House of Leaves as a "boo...

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 decay rather than something that can harness true creative potentials. I talk about AI spiritua...

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. (this video is also available on my substack as well, subscribe...

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 seeThings that may not seem important nowBut 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 landscap...

(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, the long-awaited cross over with Paultalk is here. We talk about his analysis of the history of Western art from the Renaissance to the early and later modernist periods up to conte...

Today on Painting Discourse (every Monday!) I do a little study by the Welland canal and discuss a recent short article by my friend and filmmaker Sunwound on current cinema trends and what can be described as “slop realism” in art and films, the current state of the culture industry and lazy trends of art and films appealing to political “discourse” and what this says about cultural stagnation. P...

Painting Discourse is BACK! This week I discuss an article in Palladium magazine about the current state of Canada and it's ruling elites, it got me thinking about a recent trip I made to a place in Niagara Falls to do a plein air painting study (I have some footage in a recent short) and what my purpose as an artist is in a changing cultural and sociopolitical epoch. Also m frustrations with...

(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, Kino Corner once again returns to the show to talk about the life and films of Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny, etc), modern Hollywood cinema, Fight Club and American Ps...

(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 special Halloween edition of Content Minded, the pulp writer Parker Longbaugh joins me to discuss a favourite film genre of ours, found footage horror. We discuss the history of found footage, why it is so a...

Dig Arc with me and Prude discuss the Boris Groys essay "under the gaze of theory" that covers the role of critical theory and the history of philosophy as it relates to the work of art in the age of mass media and globalization. We also talk about current news, Labubu capitalism, and more! Plz FOLLOW and SUPPORT Prudentialist here:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDoiJEufoWOzn4...

(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, Jewel Disc Case of the Innocent X project podcast joins me to discuss the book House of Leaves, the archetypal path of the feminine in art, postmodern literature, her inside view o...

(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, I conclude my interview with Orthodox Icon painter Shayne Swenson, where we go in depth into the position of Orthodox converts in the West, the history of the Icon during the Soviet...

(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 special two part episode of Content Minded, Shayne Swenson joins me to talk about his history with religion and his education and journey into Orthodox Icon writing. We also talk about various things relatin...

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