Episodes
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Episode 73: Brevity also Need Art Support? Call (775) 235-2535
February 20th, 2020 | 48 mins 4 secs
art, challenge, chicago, creativity, death clock, huion, instagram, los angeles, lots of small things, making, push sticks, raspberry pi, standing desk, tablet, tara donovan, the trolley problem, touchscreen
No guest this episode! Just Taylor and Rob talking about Instagram Stories, trying more (and throwing away more) ideas, Tara Donovan, multiples, and push sticks.
Call us with your New Media Support Problems! Call 775-235-2535!
Taylor stands in the place where he cooks.
Rob counts the final countdown.Sean, you are missed.
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Episode 72: Preservation
February 2nd, 2020 | 41 mins 11 secs
art, bandersnatch, broken bones, challenge, chicago, creativity, cycling, d3, harry potter, hogwarts house, los angeles, magnet fishing, making, personality tests, photogrammetry, prostate cancer
No guest this episode! Just Taylor and Rob talking about injuries, personality tests, the Hogwarts House test, Bandersnatch, Instagram Stories, colmap, meshlab, magnet fishing and running over screws with your car.
Taylor hangs with a bad Hippo.
Rob resting witch face is so refreshing!You can check out our projects at http://projects.opposablepodcast.com
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Episode 71: Retrograde
January 11th, 2020 | 53 mins 36 secs
art, challenge, chicago, creativity, dungeons and dragons, homeless, houseless, industrial culuture handbook, las vegas, los angeles, making, manga, obamaphone, over the garden wall, performance, spk, srl
Ross Takehashi is our guest! Las Vegas in tha house! Ross is an an sculpture artist and art educator working in cast metals.
We talk about underappreciated art communities, houseless art makers, casting worms in bronze, animal preservation, taxidermy, cicada shell gundam models and lost sketchbooks.
Taylor pounds the pixels. Ross presses the FISH button. Rob rolls for damage to the
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Episode 70: Happy New Year 2020!
January 2nd, 2020 | 18 mins 36 secs
art, baby yoda, challenge, chicago, creativity, dawn song, fusion 360, javascript, linkedin learning, los angeles, making, star wars, white fragility
Happy New Year 2020!!!!
Thanks to all of our listeners and guests! No challenge this episode. Just a short thank you!
You say Nevada, I say NevAHda. Taylor is tuning up his Fusion 360 LinkedIn Learning Class. We also talk about Dungeons & Dragons, white fragility, and pacing ourselves--even when trying to learn a new thing.
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Episode 69: Breathing
December 20th, 2019 | 57 mins 42 secs
3d printing, angela sheehan, art, breathing, casting, challenge, chicago, creativity, drumming, expanded notation, franconia sculpture park, iron pouring, kay dartt, los angeles, making, music notation, retrograde, snork, snorks, tesla one way valve, whistle, wood
Kay Dartt is our guest this episode! West Virginia in tha house! Kay is a 3D fabrication badass so we're really excited to hear more about her work and see what she's created!
Rob puts the idle in paradiddle. Kay makes our weird bodies even weirder. Taylor toots his own horn.
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Episode 68: Future Nostalgia
December 7th, 2019 | 58 mins 47 secs
adobe spark, art, canned content, challenge, chicago, creativity, drill, interpretation, jen hofer, los angeles, making, motor driver, mystery, mystery guest, photography, poetry, sewing machines, translation
Jen Hofer is our guest this episode! Los Angeles in the house!
Taylor fondly reflects on future millennial-turned-boomer maladies. Remember back when our insect protein crumbs would get stuck in the keys of our keyboards?
Jen asks Taylor and Rob to make connections and draw conclusions.
Rob stitches 1846 to 2019.Thanks to David Picciuto for the Future Nostalgia challenge!
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Episode 67: Gridlock
November 19th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
art, bats, batteries, caves, challenge, checkers, chicago, creativity, exotic woods, jokamm, local business, los angeles, making, omer, radio, rf, sand, stand in the place where you live, utah, woodworking
David Picciuto is our guest! Toledo, Ohio in tha house! Gridlock is our challenge! Thanks to Liz from Blitz City DIY for tha challenge! We talk about about local businesses, making something through making mistakes, and "Art" (We sipped wine and held our pinky fingers in the air during this part of the discussion.). We got David's rule #6! We also sand in the place where we live.
Rob takes a trip down guano lane. Yikes. That sounds horrible. David's finishing moves are both infinite and... non-existant. Dude... Taylor puts the Living in living hinge.
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Episode 66: Marathon
November 7th, 2019 | 49 mins 6 secs
array, art, backups, challenge, chicago, creativity, fail2ban, files, fip, htpc, los angeles, mdfind, media center, nas, qnap, raid, raspberry pi, rsync, shucking, spotlight, storage, tarpitting, vpn
Rob and Taylor tackle the Marathon challenge! They dig into the complexities of data storage and archiving. We creative people who document our work in photos, videos, and text. It's a huge pile of digital stuff! We decided to converse three separate times as we tackled the worlds of atx, microatx, minitx, drive shucking, mdfind, RAID, NAS, DAS, VPN, and file recovery! Taylor got called a FIP.
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Episode 65: Soil
October 24th, 2019 | 59 mins 47 secs
adobe illustrator, art, challenge, chicago, creativity, design, distortion, electronics, emoji. fly, los angeles, making, poop, sugar, turntablism
Antonio Garcia is our guest! Chicago in tha house! Soil is our challenge! Thanks to Bamanya Brian for tha challenge!
Taylor puts his Panteras on one NPN transistor at a time. Antonio pays tribute to 16-bit fart jokes most American's didn't get to enjoy in 1987. Rob has his patience tested by a very chill fly.
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Episode 64: Vulnerability
October 7th, 2019 | 53 mins 9 secs
ants, art, challenge, chicago, creativity, electronic music, electronics, javascript, kampala, learning to code, los angeles, making, modular synthesizers, syllabus, techno, uganda
Bamanya Brian is our guest! Kampala, Uganda in tha house! Vulnerability is our challenge! Thanks to Antonio Martinez for tha challenge!
Taylor takes us on a chemically induced dive into surrealisms!
Brian hacks the system with light and radio!
Rob tackles function = toSyllabus(hangup, weeks, feedback) { //lots of work. }You can check out our projects at http://projects.opposablepodcast.com
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Episode 63: Scale
September 26th, 2019 | 53 mins 23 secs
3d scanning, art, baking, being wrong, bonneville salt flats, cast iron, casting, challenge, chicago, creativity, los angeles, making, nutraloaf, outdated, photography, scale, seasoning, tintype, trains, wet plate collodion
Antonio Martinez is our guest! Carbondale, IL in tha house! Scale is our challenge! Thanks to Deborah Maris Lader for tha challenge!
Rob shows some lurve to tha curve. Antonio shows how to train your basement. Taylor may have formed a new industrial band.
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Episode 62: Capital
September 12th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
art, casting, challenge, chicago, coins, collaboration, copper, creativity, electronics, group work, head, little free library, los angeles, making, money, printmaking, rhino, temporary services
Deborah Lader, artist and founder/director of the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative is our guest this episode! Chicago in tha house!
Capital is our challenge!
Deborah, Taylor and Rob dive into the joys of music playing and project longevity. Chicago Printmakers just turned 30! We also talk about working in groups (Shout out to the art-making and publishing group Temporary Services) and the creative power of collectivity.Taylor adds value. Deborah dreams with the fishes. Rob might have the cable you're looking for.
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Episode 61: Summer Road Trip!
August 5th, 2019 | 10 mins 52 secs
art, challenge, chicago, creativity, duck duck go, los angeles, making, road trips, summer, warping, wood
Summer Roadtrip! No guests or challenges this summer but we're well prepared for Back to School this fall! Taylor is headed to the Franconia Sculpture Park iron pouring residency in Minnesota. Rob is breaking his brain while building a vanity. We talk about Duck Duck Go, wood warpage and things going sideways.
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Episode 60: Five Questions
June 28th, 2019 | 48 mins 1 sec
art, baking, challenge, chicago, cooking, creativity, eating, gamedev, history, ideation, iron pouring, isometric, learning, los angeles, making, mapeditor, minecraft, new things, practice, questions, sade, sweden, technology, themes, tiled
Taylor and Rob ask each other five questions.
And they talk about the end, and maybe return of, artisanal desktop software. Finding and having your community really helps.
Also a shout out to Vance Maker, Tim Sway and the Reclaimed Audio podcast.
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Episode 59: Liberation
June 7th, 2019 | 57 mins 46 secs
adobe illustrator, art, challenge, chicago, chicago river, creativity, design, fair use, fashion, femdom, hannah arendt, los angeles, magnet fishing, making, maps, new models podcast, photography, sumptuary code, the great british baking show, workers cooperatives, zozo
Liberation is our challenge this episode! Thanks to Erin O'Brien for the challenge! Abigail Glaum-Lathbury is our guest this episode! Chicago in tha house! For nearly a decade Abigail produced a women’s ready to wear collection that showed during New York Market week and sold national ly and internationally. Her recent work takes the form of a counter-practice within the emergent field of critical fashion.
We learn about Abigail's educational platform and free online pattern library called Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute, (Project G.U.C.C.I.). Abigail also shares many great aspects of digital printing on cloth.
Rob puts liberation on the map or... maybe... the map on liberation?Abigail decouples us from failed business models. Taylor conjures the energies of chance and the rare-earths.
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Episode 58: Hashtag
May 24th, 2019 | 44 mins 38 secs
art, challenge, chicago, creativity, dance, dance movement therapy, federico tobon, hashtags, instagram, kickstarter, libra pondo, los angeles, making, rabbit holes, robocop, scifi, tantric sex, the great british baking show, unnamed reverse engineering podcast
Hashtag is our challenge this episode! Thanks to Federico Tobon for the challenge! We have no guest this episode. Just Taylor and Rob #putting #pound #signs #in #front #of #everything.
Taylor digs into dance movement therapy! Pretty cool stuff! Good job body!
Taylor pulls together the topics of USAmerican football to telephones to twitter in a way that no hashtag can.
Rob applies "social media strategy" to what he makes and it felt pretty meh. But #colorfulfashion IS pretty cool.Instagram is weird. Jorge, Deb Chachra, Molly Allis and Erin O'Brien are awesome.
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