Good Point Podcast

This week we ask some important questions about texture. Can you touch a compression codec like a painting? Does a tablet need to feel like paper? Should keyboards feel like handbags? Do you really need to see a rom-com in 3d? HD Boyz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C5YAc6L_KQ Toronto Public Library http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/ Arte Povera https://news.artnet.com/market/an-introduction-to-...

Rafael and Jeremy discuss cities, gentrification, geriatrification and tech workers living under a glass dome. iPhone X is rent priced https://twitter.com/Lowk3yKat/status/923997111720476672 Lean Artist Chicago (jeremy’s latest version of his artist accelerator) http://www.leanartistchicago.com/ Death Wish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZgZ9cN4kQ Richard Florida “everything is gentrification no...

This week we talk aesthetics, Rafael coins the term Klingoncoco and Jeremy declares anti-social aesthetics impossible. Explain Me, Paddy Johnson and William Powhida’s new art podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/explain-me/id1292346467?mt=2 Kickstarter PWL camp https://storify.com/GloryEdim/pwlcamp2016 Relational Aesthetics https://www.amazon.com/Relational-Aesthetics-Nicolas-Bourriaud/dp/2...

This week marks the first occasion we have both been in the same city at the same time. To celebrate we recorded this very special episode of Good Point in front of a live audience at Kickstarter’s offices in Greenpoint during their annual PWL Camp. The topic, Reproduction, was suggested by the audience. China ends one child policy after 35 years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/china...

On our very first episode in duophonic stereo sound we talk about well, sound, plus all the newly released and upcoming tech that’s transforming it’s nature and meaning. - Radio Compressors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression - 5 biggest announcements from Google’s Pixel 2 event https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16403272/google-event-2017-news-recap-pixel-2-clips-home-pixelboo...

This week Raff Riff and Bailey channel their art therapist personas to talk about anxiety, Apple’s role in increasing teen suicide rates and how to avoid feeding your peers a shit sandwich. Riff Raff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxLS-cpgbe0 Car Talk https://current.org/2016/07/nprs-best-of-car-talk-will-end-in-september-2017/ Richard Prince http://www.richardprince.com/ Barbara Kruger http://ww...

This week we talk about data visualization, hereby known as pizza vs macaroni, and we announce our first ever Good Point t-shirt A/B test. Japan’s music fanatics want personal grid connection; ‘electricity is like blood’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463 MP3 sound quality challenge http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/0...

The week Rafael asks why performance art has to be so cringe worthy and Jeremy argues that Apple’s recently announced iPhone X represents the biggest innovation for performance art in years. iPhone X https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/ PrimeSense https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primesense#/entity Johnny Lee http://johnnylee.net/ Faceshift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLfAmNDNgHk Face Tracki...

The art world is back to work and nearly every gallery opened a show this week, including Rafaël. Find out why people say openings aren’t about the art and why Jeremy won’t allow cheese at his own. Rafaël at his opening at Postmasters https://www.instagram.com/p/BY06qGXh6Rl/?hl=en How Collectors Use Instagram to Buy Art https://www.artsy.net/article/elena-soboleva-how-collectors-use-instagram-to-b...

This week Rafael and Jeremy, two refugees of the browser wars, share tales of sacrifice and chivalry from the early days of the internet. A Muppet Family Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojtGHXsTXmU Bike sharing in China https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html?mcubz=1&_r=0 Browser wars https://www.wired.com/2009/01/awesome-infogra/ Mosaic brows...

This week Rafael and I get lost in Google’s increasingly large and increasingly subjective maze of products and controversies, Rafael almost invents a new musical genre and Jeremy neglects the emotional needs of his power outlets. Metrograph, Rafael’s new favourite local theatre http://metrograph.com/ Zabriskie Point, Michelangelo Antonioni http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066601/ Cancel Netflix https...

Yes the world is full of hate, but it’s also full of Cartoons! Rafael and I discuss the history, present and future of animation, cracking open the door to a land called childhood, a world where joy and laughter still reign supreme. Oprha’s Sleep Schedule http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/oprahs-sleep-habits-sevenminute-wakeup-window-and-five-hours-a-night-20151013-gk7wpr.html The m...

Hi folks! This week we try and get inside the head of the outsider artist. Rafael mostly redeems the term but Jeremy questions the tastefulness of a portrait of Ray Charles made from kidney beans. Tony Robins loves profanity (2:15) http://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Tony-Robbins-2016.html Coffee drinkers live longer http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40567047 Despacito, most watched YouTube v...

Heyo ear buds! This week we talk Koons, kitsch and outsourcing, Rafael interrupts Jeremy WAY less and we end the show with a good point we can both agree on: kitsch ain’t crass, it’s the acceptance of self! Ernest goes to camp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3jfepymQM Kim Dotcom http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/kim-dotcom_n_1221586.html Jikji, the first printing press https://bangnangja....

This week is all about scale. Rafael believes given twitter’s flat growth they should just give up and become a telegram utility and Jeremy argues artists should diversify to succeed like Get Out producer Jason Blum. The longest freshwater beach in the world https://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowUserReviews-g316030-d2233507-r157495758-Wasaga_Beach_Provincial_Park-Wasaga_Beach_Ontario.html Chasing Coral h...

This week we talk about laptops, the most important invention for artists since paint in tubes. Baby Driver The rise of movies about boys with good playlists https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/15948044/baby-driver-guardians-of-the-galaxy-soundtrack-marketing Dunkirk (Does not have Prince Harry but does have Harry Styles) http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/does-harry-styles-die-in-dunkirk.html Valerian...

This week we discuss waste, Rafael introduces the term the joy of missing out (JOMO) just as Jeremy finds out Rafael’s been paying our podcasting bills for Soundcloud, a talented company that did little to cut waste, now in financial ruin. Embrace JOMO! Whales in the Hudson https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/nyregion/humpback-whale-hudson-river-manhattan.html?_r=0 Whales eating humans https://en.w...

This week we talk Facebook, now 2 billion users strong. To quote Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker high on cocaine at a party in the movie The Social Network “We lived on farms and then we lived in cities and now we’re going to live on the internet.” Facebook 2 billion users https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/ Zuckerberg at D8 conference http://www.wsj.com/video/d8-facebook-...

This week we talk about the rise and inevitable fall of digital art frames, are they the netbooks of art? Daito Manabe http://www.daito.ws/en 92Y (not the YMCA and in Tribeca not downtown) https://www.92y.org/ Fluxus https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-fluxus-movement-art-museums-galleries Happenings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happening Concrete poetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co...

Raf says business cards are only useful at conferences and in Japan and Jez imagines a world where we rub our fingers together to exchange blockchain contact relationship management contracts – no one gets it. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Brutally Early Club https://www.nowness.com/story/hans-ulrich-obrist-morning-ritual Future Day 17, Frankfurt https://futureday.network Resonate http://resonate.io/2017/ A...

We discuss acquisitions, Raf names the 4 horsegallerists of the art apocalypse, and we both thoughtfully consider the merits of an App about nothing. Silvio Lorusso http://silviolorusso.com/ Rhizome animated GIF event https://timeframe.splashthat.com/ Amazon buys Whole Foods https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/16/amazon-whole-foods-future-of-grocery-shopping/ C-Town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-To...

This week we tackle appropriation, or as Rafael calls it, bullying. Everyone loves a fight. Sunday shopping in Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_shopping#Norway Astrup Fearnley Museum http://afmuseet.no/ After Walker Evans, Sherry Levine http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267214 Richard Prince, Instagram controversy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/18/instagram...

This week we talk about Science Fiction, Rafael’s love of classic sci-fi fantasy and Jeremy ruins all the fun by asking, is it now easier for us to imagine the end of the world than an alternative to capitalism? Norwegian Cruises http://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm? ID=1935 Wall-E cruise ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BQPV-iCkU Norwegian Kabaret http://ohemmabjorg.blogspot.no/2013/10/...

Jeremy & Rafaël talk about management & tech & art.

This week we discuss Amazon, Jeff Bezos in a robot Gundam suit and an ambient computing future filled with AI celebrity servants. Conservative movie star cowboys https://www.google.ca/search?q=conservative+cowboy+movie+stars&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA727CA728&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOh6rx_e_TAhUF7hoKHSuBCGEQ_AUICigB&biw=1519&bih=949 Jeremy’s episode of SME Strategy podcast http://www.smestrate...