Good Point Podcast

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://www.netflix.com/CancelPlan Alien Covenant on Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_covenant/ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 on RT https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/guardians_of_the_galaxy_vol_2/ Frank Costanza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gVi-kIVY4I Farewell Hulu, Hello Criterion Collection https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4293-farewell-hulu-hello-criterion-channel Tiff Bell Lightbox Theatre https://www.tiff.net/ David Ross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHk0XatMV6s Radical Candor, Kim Scott https://www.radicalcandor.com/ Loose Lips Sink Ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_lips_si

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 myth of the eight-hour sleep http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783 Google Brand Identity https://design.google/library/evolving-google-identity/ Samsung Frame TV http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/frame-tv/highlights/ Zoetrope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope The Horse in Motion, Edward Muybrige http://100photos.time.com/photos/eadweard-muybridge-horse-in-motion Who Framed Roger Rabbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDaNqSXxp0 Flintsones live action trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMnEbfzllso The Simpsons in Real Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XY9empMtY4 Fresco Cartoon https://www.royalacade

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 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk American Visionary Art Museum http://www.avam.org/ Robert Williams’ Juxtapoz magazine https://www.juxtapoz.com/ Alex Grey http://www.alexgrey.com/ Hima Af Klint, first abstract artist http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/hilma-af-klint-painting-unseen Visionary Art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visionary_art What is Folk Art http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/what-is-folk-art Amazing shaders https://www.instagram.com/p/BV4P1nHFZf-/?hl=en How toothpaste became popular http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/02/an_excerpt_from_charles_duhigg_s

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.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/the-gutenberg-bible-vs-the-jikji/ Brutally Early Club http://www.brutallyearlyclub.org/ Saul Bass http://www.artofthetitle.com/designer/saul-bass/ David Ogilvy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ogilvy_(businessman) Seth Godin http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/ Karim Rashid http://www.karimrashid.com/ Jeff Koons’ gift to Paris a ‘Poisoned Chalice’ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rubin-letter-koons-gift-paris-posioned-chalice-1038512 Art in Theory 1900-2000 https://www.amazon.com/Art-Theory-1900-Anthology-Changing/dp/0631227083 Clement Greenberg http://www.theartstory.org/critic-greenberg-clemen

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 https://www.chasingcoral.com/ The Good Family http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183569/ Culture Amp inclusion survey http://hello.cultureamp.com/diversity-and-inclusion Evgeny Morozov’s To Save Everything Click Here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13587160-to-save-everything-click-here Twitter and the Arab Spring https://mic.com/articles/10642/twitter-revolution-how-the-arab-spring-was-helped-by-social-media#.fZsEbq3WL Twitter flat user growth https://www.recode.net/2017/7/27/16049084/twitter-jack-dorsey-q2-earnings-2017 Facebook “move fast and break things”http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/facebooks-new-mantra-move-fas

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 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/valerian_and_the_city_of_a_thousand_planets/ History of Aspect Ratio (4:3 was an arbitrary choice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CgrMsjGk7k 70mm film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70_mm_film Jeremy’s Power Mac G5 http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.0_dp.html Really Bad Stop Motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8I9pRwptwU 15” Mac Book Pro with Touch Bar https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch Popular Screen Sizes (Rafael’s work) http://www.newrafael.com/popular-screen-sizes/ Helen Frankenthaler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He

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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale_attacks_on_humans Idiocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk Jack Reiger http://jackrieger.info/ Net Neutrality Day https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15960484/net-neutrality-day-of-action-protest Have fewer children to help the environment https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children The Innovator’s Dilemma http://www.claytonchristensen.com/books/the-innovators-dilemma/ Lean Startup http://theleanstartup.com/ Jomo, joy of missing out http://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/mind-body/wellbeing/2017-will-be-all-about-jomo/news-sto

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-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-full-length-video/29CC1557-56A9-4484-90B4-539E282F6F9A.html Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ Bill Gates’ home of the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-LV28Quqs Friendster https://www.wired.com/2013/02/friendster-autopsy/ Myspace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace Web 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Michel Foucault https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed Jeff Koons’ Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Jeff-Koons-1618123061745089/ Constan

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/Concrete_poetry Relational aesthetics https://hyperallergic.com/18426/wtf-is-relational-aesthetics/ Framed* https://frm.fm/ Electric Objects https://www.electricobjects.com/ Samsung Frame http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/technology/samsung-frame-tv-yves-behar/ Hard Rock Café http://www.hardrock.com/ C print https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromogenic_color_print Clayton Christensen, Customers Don't Simply Buy Products -- They Hire Them https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2016/10/04/clayton-christensen-customers-dont-simply-buy-products-they-hire-them/#5aef911b5cf1 Ikea frames http://www.ikea.com/us/en/cata

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/ American Psycho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY Bump http://bu.mp/ DLD conference http://dld-conference.com/ About.me https://about.me/ Humin https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/13/humin-the-app-that-organizes-phone-contacts-by-how-you-know-them-launches-in-the-app-store-today/ Variant Call Format VCF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Call_Format Eva and Franco Mattes https://0100101110101101.org/ Costanza Wallet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoPf98i8A0g Nikola Tosic http://tosic.com/ Klout https://klout.com/home Moo cards https://www.moo.com/uk/ Customer Relationship Management https://en.wikipedia.o

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-Town_Supermarkets Scott Galloway https://twitter.com/profgalloway Tech’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple https://youtu.be/XCvwCcEP74Q Amazon Go https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16008589011 Boar’s Head Ham http://boarshead.com/products/ham Coffin Apartments https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3743131/hong-kong-coffin-homes-pictures-size/ Palmer Luckey’s new drone startup https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/4/15738348/palmer-luckey-border-control-tech-startup Kalanick 2.0 https://www.recode.net/2017/6/13/15793732/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-leave George Bush paintings http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu

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-artist-richard-prince-selfies Death of the Author, 1967, Roland Barthes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author Tasman Richardson https://www.tasmanrichardson.com/ Ninja Tune Records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Tune Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Idol, BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074q0f Weird Al https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic Youtube stats https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html Richard Prince at Gogosian http://www.gagosian.com/artists/richard-prince Dana Shutz at the Whitney https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/arts/design/emmett-till-whitney-biennial-schutz.ht

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/kabaret.html Minority Report http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/ 2001 a Space Odyssey http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash Brave New World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World The Jungle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle Wall Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCctqbRrsBQ Borat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVRCyELQnSw Isaac Asimov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov Solaris, Stanislaw Lem https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95558.Solaris Speculative Everything http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/content/books/690/0

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.smestrategy.net/blog/what-motivates-your-people-to-do-their-best-interview-with-jeremy-bailey Amazon History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com#History Time and Motion Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study Amazombies http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3997864/Amazombies-Seven-seconds-item-filmed-blistering-12-hours-shifts-timed-toilet-breaks-Christmas-order-does-worker-elves.html Digital Taylorism http://www.economist.com/news/business/21664190-modern-version-scientific-management-threatens-dehumanise-workplace-digital Taylorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management Apple Genius

This week we discuss mentorship, searching for an elephant with a flashlight and eating glass while staring into the abyss. Tom Sherman, Exclusive Memory #9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3YpYWtoM4g Ai Wei Wei teaches at Universität der Künste Berlin https://www.udk-berlin.de/service/presse-kommunikation-der-universitaet-der-kuenste-berlin/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen-2015/chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-to-assume-einstein-professorship-at-the-berlin-university-of-the-arts/ Apple Park (Apple’s new headquarters) https://9to5mac.com/guides/apple-park/ Second City Comedy Studies http://www.comedystudies.com/index.php Upright Citizens Brigade (not fireman’s brigade!) https://ucbtheatre.com/ Vito Acconci, Seedbed (1972) https://www.moma.org/collection/works/109933 Susan Schelle (Jeremy’s first art teacher) http://susanschelle.ca/ First Break All the Rules: What the Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently http://www.gallup.com/press/176069/first-break-rules-world-greatest-managers-differently.aspx The Slade (W

This week we discuss nostalgia, Jeremy predicts a 90s comeback for web design and Rafael listens for Duchamp’s aesthetic echo. Southpark member berries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndI9vkgw_1Y Simpsons 100 Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo3fT0xPeHs Vito Acconci Dies https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vito-acconci-dies-77-941138 When nostalgia was a disease https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/when-nostalgia-was-a-disease/278648/ Carlton Dance GIF https://media.giphy.com/media/cyyac9sTiN7ji/giphy.gif Snap Spectacles https://www.spectacles.com/ Narrative wearable camera https://vimeo.com/76031372 Fluxus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus Daniel Pink, Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzHgN7_Hs8 Faceapp http://www.techradar.com/how-to/what-is-faceapp-how-to-use-the-latest-social-media-photo-app-craze Elon Musk’s next boring idea http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/28/technology/elon-musk-boring-company/ Thriving in the age of acceleration https://www.youtube.com/wa

This week we talk about getting muddy at festivals and connecting brains with computers Jan Robert Leegte http://www.leegte.org/ Daniel Temkin http://danieltemkin.com/ Upstream Gallery Amsterdam http://www.upstreamgallery.nl/ NamesCon http://namescon.com/ Festivals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival Resonate festival http://resonate.io/2017/ Rakia http://www.slavorum.org/rakia-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-this-drink/ Rosa Menkman http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.ca/ Rick Silva http://nicolassassoon.com/ Nicolas Sassoon http://ricksilva.net/ Seven on Seven https://sevenonseven.art/ River of the Net http://riverofthe.net/ Aaron Swartz at Seven on Seven https://vimeo.com/40651117 Ouya https://www.ouya.tv/ Unconference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference Edinburgh International Festival https://www.eif.co.uk/ Tod Barry book about performing in small towns https://www.amazon.com/Thank-Coming-Hattiesburg-Not-Quite-Biggest/dp/1501117424 Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) http://www.byobworldwide.com/ Meetup

This week we discuss Jeremy's lactose intolerance and Rafael’s allergy to artist collectives Peanut and lactose allergies http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/07/the-peanut-puzzle Internet surf clubs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing_club Nasty Nets http://classic.rhizome.org/portfolios/artwork/53981/ Arcangel Surf Ware http://www.arcangelsurfware.biz/ 640 480 (Jeremy’s first collective) http://theagyuisoutthere.org/everywhere/?p=2126 Neen http://www.afterneen.com/ General Idea http://canadianart.ca/reviews/general-idea-ago/ Colours of the Spectrum (work Jeremy made with Mimi Paige) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5CupNWm3g4 Louise Bourgeois http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-bourgeois-2351 Aids-3d http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/berlin-aids-3d/ Berlin Bienniale http://bb9.berlinbiennale.de/ DIS (collective) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIS_(collective) DIS magazine http://dismagazine.com/ K-Hole http://khole.net/ Fluxus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus ArtStars* interviews Tony Co

This week we discuss how McDonald’s could be considered the Dieter Rams of food. The Founder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2uz2XYkbo&t=94s Speedy Service System http://projectmanagementhistory.com/Speedee_Service_System.html White Castle Locations https://www.whitecastle.com/locations Harold and Kumar go to White Castle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwP5E15VzRM Tampopo (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_KctoG0bAE Genghis Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan Steak Tartare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare Myth of Mongol horse meat tenderized under horse’s saddle http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/dining/the-raw-truth-dont-blame-the-mongols-or-their-horses.html?_r=0 Hamburger History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_hamburger Ray Kroc https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/ray-kroc-mcdonalds-america/514538/ Modern McDonald’s problems https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2003-03-02/mcdonalds-hamburger-hell History of refrigeration https://www.pbslearn