Episode 27: The Biggest Nut
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about podcasting and nose whistling.
Show Notes:
1. Listener survey:
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3. A historic Los Angeles Ballroom.
Several years ago in a suburb of Los Angeles Sabrina and I started a conversation. We began at the high school where we were both students and became friends in fourth period, advanced art 2.
It had been over a decade since I had last caught up with Sabrina. Years she had spent traveling, publishing books and teaching. Years I had spent mostly in schools studying art and teaching. I had moved back to California to escape the cold of my third February in Chicago. Sabrina was visiting family... READ MORE
That's How the Light Gets In
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Summary: Sabrina reads a favorite poem by John O' Donohue.
Show Notes:
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.…”
1. The Question Holds the Lantern by John O' Donohue HERE.
2. Beannacht a poem written and read by John O' Donohue.
Episode 26: The Wisdom of Insecurity - A Conversation with Chris Johnson
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk to photographer and teacher Chris Johnson.
Show Notes:
1. CHRIS JOHNSON
Chris Johnson is a photographic and video artist, curator and writer. He is currently a full Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts.
Chris studied photography with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Wynn Bullock.
His photographic artwork has been exhibited in gallery and museum shows including the Smithsonian Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California. His video projects have been installed in numerous museums and art institutions.
Chris Johnson is the author of The Practical Zone System: for Film and Digital Photography; currently in its 6th edition. Chris was President of San Francisco Camerawork Gallery for 4 years and from 1999 – 2005 he served as Chair of the City of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission.
From 1997 to 2000 he was Director of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography. As a member of the Public Art Management Team for the Port of Oakland, Chris Johnson is Project Manager and originated the concept for the 8’ x 20’ Media Wall installed in the new baggage claim area in 2007.
In 1996 he created and produced a one-hour video piece titled “Question Bridge” that investigates class issues within the black community.
The current version of this project: Question Bridge:Black Males was produced with Hank Willis Thomas and a team including Kamal Sinclair and Bayeté Ross Smith. This project opened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 and at the Brooklyn and Oakland Museums.
Question Bridge:Black Males won the 2015 International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award and in 2016 was inducted in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.
In 2015 Aperture published Question Bridge: Black Males in America.
Most recently Chris created a major multimedia exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California titled “Who is Oakland?” and he is adding photographs and video to a site-specific augmented reality work called the Oakland Fence Project and his installation titled the Wisdom Arc Time Machine can be seen at the Exploratorium.
2. One of the pieces from the series of Polaroids documenting a breakup.
4. Alan Watts audio books.
5. More Alan Watts.
Episode 25: Leather Weather
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Summary: Sabrina recounts a truly epic thrift store trip and we dig into some life updates.
Episode 24: Where Art is Made
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about Sabrina's trip to a perfect farm and the features of a good creative space.
Show Notes:
2. Everwood Farms workshop leader Lynn Tanaka's website HERE.
3. Grand Designs episode about building rooms in trees.
Tell us about where you make art.
Episode 23: The Worst Painting You Can Possibly Make
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about some of their favorite art projects and assignments.
Show Notes:
1. This tomato.
2. Trent's "paintings I don't want to make". For this series I made a list of all the things I didn't want to paint and tried to fit as many of them into each painting as I could. The "stallion, sunset, single backlit wave" one is my favorite.
Tell us some of your favorite art projects.
Contact Trent here.
Episode 22: A Bow to Brené
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about getting started, getting in the arena, and about how much they like Brené Brown.
Show Notes:
1. How to type "é" on Mac. To get the accent over the "e" you type "option"+"e" and the type "e". HERE is a list of other accent recipes for Mac.
2. The following are two of our favorite Brené Brown videos. There are others on YouTube that are also worth watching.
3. Brené Brown's most recent book and audio book.
4. Some other great audio programs.
Episode 21: Coconuts and Containers - Things That Make Us Happy
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Summary: Trent and Sabrina take a moment to share some of the things that bring happiness.
Show Notes:
1. Cruising Music:
2. Trent's minivan - perfect cruising machine
3. Trentonreynolds.com "Book of Rick" series of paintings
4. Art supplies Sabrina is happy about
5. Art supplies Trent is happy about
6. The Container Store
7. Trent's container solution for miscellaneous screws
14. Trader Joe's coconut options you really need to try
Episode 20: The House of Lloyd
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk with artist and teacher David Lloyd.
Show Notes:
1. David's website: thehouseoflloyd.com
2. Temporary boob tattoo proudly worn as part of a breast cancer awareness campaign.
Episode 19: I Don't Know What I'm Doing
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about internal voices and not knowing what to do.
Show Notes:
1. What you should do if you find a fallen baby squirrel according to Wildlife Rescue HERE.
2. A squirrel rescue success story found this week on Instagram.
3. Sabrina's cross-fit list.
4. Demonstration piece for Trent's "mixed media portrait" class. Work in progress.
5. Work Sabrina made in the gallery last week.
Tell us about your internal voices or your experiences with not knowing.
What do you do when you're listening to Room in the Trees?
Episode 18: Breathe
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk to Vayu Odonnell, a talented actor and long time friend of Sabrina.
Show Notes:
Page from Messy Thrilling Life. The front door to the apartment in NYC.
Page from Messy Thrilling Life.
2. An interesting article about imposter syndrome HERE.
3. Headspace meditation app HERE
4. The Alexander Technique HERE
5. Fluid Flow HERE
6. Four brothers meditation HERE
Episode 17: Know it - Part 2
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Summary: Sabrina reads some passages from her first book, "Spilling Open".
Show Notes:
1. Pages from , "Spilling Open". Check them out on Etsy.
3. Quote of the week.
Episode 16: Know it - Part 1
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about what they know.
Show Notes:
1. Two books Trent refers to:
2. From Sabrina's 1997 journal:
Summer
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent discuss some of their favorite things.
A couple of Trent's favorite things:
Some of Sabrina's favorite things:
1a. Aziz Ansari's Madison Square Garden Standup Comedy special is on Netflix.
1b. Some screenshots of the subtitles from Aziz's special mistakenly paired to a nature documentary can be seen HERE. (Contains explicit language).
2. The apartment project in Madison Wisconsin.
3. Klarbrunn (lime) sparkling mineral water.
Tilapia pronunciation guide: ti·la·pia \tə-ˈlä-pē-ə, -ˈlā-\
Episode 15: Mealiffe
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk to Karen Ring Mealiffe, the high school art teacher who in many ways formed the foundation of the room in the trees.
Show Notes:
1. Karen Ring Mealiffe
2. Yearbook treasures from 93 & 94
3. Examples of Mealiffe's artwork:
4. Definition of duff: The buttocks or rump.
5. Highly rare object from Mealiffe's private collection:
Artist: Trenton Reynolds
6. From Sabrina's 92' & 93' darkroom play list: