As We Art

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Speaker 1
One, two, three. Where he. Episode six.

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Speaker 2
Yes. Six. Good job.

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Speaker 1
Well, there. As we.

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Speaker 2
Art. Yay! This is a podcast where we talk about what we've created this week and what's inspiring us. And we want to hear from you. What are you creating? What's inspiring you?

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Speaker 1
Definitely.

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Speaker 2
I'm Candice, by the way.

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Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. I'm Monica.

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Speaker 2
One day we'll have this, like, down to an art, but not yet.

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Speaker 1
We're so glad you're here. Whether you're watching on YouTube or listening on the podcast. We're so happy you're joining us. Thank you. Yeah, we want to know, you know, what are you working on?

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Speaker 2
Tell us all the things.

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Speaker 1
All the things. Okay. How's this Mike? I feel like I just.

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Speaker 2
Feel like it's in a weird position this week. I keep, like.

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Speaker 1
I don't know. I think it's me. We actually are, like, so nonprofessional at this.

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Speaker 2
Totally. Totally.

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Speaker 1
Believe it or not. And we have we put tape marks on the floor so that the table stays in the same place, but our chairs aren't taped. The mics aren't taped. I'm like, man, we're winging it.

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Speaker 2
We're just going with it, you know?

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Speaker 1
But that's actually the whole point of why we started as we art, because we want to just learn as we go. We don't want to be polished and rehearsed. We don't have a script. We do this in one take. If you've been here, you already know that. But we're really glad you're here.

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Speaker 2
We're attempting progress over perfection. So.

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Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. That's like my whole life.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, my whole life is like, don't do it unless it's perfect. So.

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Speaker 1
Oh, that's not me. I meant I will never reach perfection, but I keep progressing, and that's fine.

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Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. My whole life is like, just don't do it because it's not going to be perfect.

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Speaker 1
So I'm glad we're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing the art. We're trying new things. We're being brave. I'm putting this podcast out there and, yeah, we want to know what it is you're trying out for the first time or what art you're creating.

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Speaker 2
Pardon my microphone swinging. I feel like I'm like, sticking out like a sore thumb or something today.

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Speaker 1
I like that idiom. I have some sore thumbs.

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Speaker 2
You do? I have sore thumbs. Monica.

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Speaker 1
Because I was in the glass studio cutting stained glass this week, and I had about four Band-Aids going at once because I didn't wear any safety gloves.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, good job on the protective gear there.

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Speaker 1
I like to feel the glass. I mean, I do wear gloves when I'm grinding and I do wear gloves when I'm soldering. But the cutting part I like, I don't know, I have more control. I feel like when I can touch the glass, feel the surfaces, feel my cutter going. It's worth it to me to.

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Speaker 2
Get those cuts when the glass catches. Yeah.

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Speaker 1
So I'm a little embarrassed because of all the marks from the Band-Aids on my fingers. But I'll just hide my hands today.

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Speaker 2
I wear one glove when I'm cutting on the hand that I like. Hold the glass with. This is my cutting hand and utensil. Hand but the hand I hold the glass with, I wear glove on. And I feel like that prevents most cuts for me. So. Oh, you know.

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Speaker 1
I handle the glass with both hands.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. So that way. But I'm not over here throwing it around with one hand. But you know. Yeah I just feel like that leverage hand is usually where the glass tends to go if you get cut.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Probably. Yeah I have it on both hands but yeah. We don't always wear the safety gear, and that's okay. I'll deal with the consequences. I cannot physically talk without using my hands. So my plan is already ruined to try to hide my hands. Okay, let's get started. Art. What? What did we do this week?

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Speaker 2
How about you go first? You want to go first? What'd you work on, Monica?

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Speaker 1
Can I just. Before I answer, I just noticed what you threw on, and I'm stoked.

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Speaker 2
Stoked? The brim says stoked. And I love this hat because, like, total, you know, late 80s, early 90s kid growing up, this is very nostalgic for me. But also, I tend to just have a, face that doesn't emote much. So it is very jarring for other people to see someone and a hat that says stoked when they're just sitting there totally blank faced.

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Speaker 2
So funny. It's kind of fun for me as well.

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Speaker 1
I love it, I didn't even think about that. The message on your hat might not match your facial expression, but.

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Speaker 2
This message does not match this owner.

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Speaker 1
I'm also wearing a hat today. Are you.

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Speaker 2
Sure? So as we Art hat Day, is it? I think tomorrow's a say something hat day. Oh my God, I love that movie. Hats from to Wong Foo. Thanks for everything Julie Newmar.

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Speaker 1
Great movie. We do say that line quite a bit because you have a hat collection.

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Speaker 2
I do, yeah.

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Speaker 1
Candace loves to wear a hat. I'm more likely to wear one when it's necessitated. No, when it's necessary.

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Speaker 2
There you go.

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Speaker 1
When the circumstance necessitates a hat, I am. I'm trying to sound smart. I'm not. You nailed it.

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Speaker 2
Not smart. Nailed it.

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Speaker 1
This is, rowing hat that I used to wear a lot when I was racing. I was a really active rower for years. But I was just exercising, which is also. I just realized I don't have glasses on. I have contacts on, so I wear glasses every day, but sometimes I throw on the contacts for certain activities, contact sports.

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Speaker 1
My heart goes out to all the other glasses wearing peeps out there that I cannot see without glasses. So if I don't have them on, I definitely have contacts or I'm blind, but I don't like how contacts feel. But if it's raining outside or I'm going swimming or doing some sweating, I'm going to want to wear contacts. Yeah, what are we to art?

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Speaker 1
Let's talk art. Let's talk about art.

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Speaker 2
What did you work on this week? What do you do to work on this week? It's so came.

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Speaker 1
Out okay, so I am I have an ongoing project of a stained glass window based on Aaron Douglass's art from the Harlem Renaissance. I mentioned it last week. I'm going to mention it in the next few weeks. And I had, true, I had drawn a pattern. I redrew that pattern trace three times to get it right. Because I will be honest, I started getting nervous.

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Speaker 1
I started getting nervous because this art will be hanging permanently in a library at a university. That's a big deal. This isn't stuff I can just goof off, throw around if I miss a solder line or for line. Isn't straight. Whatever. Like I care about the art that I make, but it's my own abstract, experimental vision.

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Speaker 1
This is a little different where it's still my vision, but I want it to be really precise. And the first pattern had, in fact, this is the first pattern that I showed last week, and I'm not. I changed up a lot of the lines because I wanted it simplified, but I brought it, to the podcast today because I wanted to show y'all a piece of glass that I found that I really wanted her to be holding.

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Speaker 1
And if you're just listening, you're like, what are you talking about? There's a figure of a woman holding up a big giant sphere, which I kind of pictured, like she's holding up the world. And I found this glass and cut this glass. It. Can you hold the pattern, honey? Thank you. And so it'll. I also extended my pattern when I read through it because I found this special piece of glass.

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Speaker 1
I realized if I use this original pattern, it cuts off a nice big portion of this beautiful art glass that I want to, showcase.

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Speaker 2
It is really, really pretty.

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Speaker 1
Is it really is. If you're just listening, make sure you look at our Instagram as We Art podcast, because if we add pictures to go along with some of these, so you can have a visual.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, it's fun to use your imagination, but then you can compare it to what the picture actually shows.

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Speaker 1
And once I found this glass and cut it successfully in one piece and I rearranged my pattern to accommodate, I decided to do the rest of the window in a black, white, and gray scale because I want this blue glass to pop.

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Speaker 2
It's really cool.

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Speaker 1
So I've cut a lot more. I've cut her dress and her body in the sky and some background, but I just wanted to bring that big piece of glass to the podcast today. Once it's all cut and secure, I'll be able to show the whole board to the world. But not yet. And then the other little thing I know.

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Speaker 2
Yep.

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Speaker 1
You can't say little.

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Speaker 2
It's so hard not to, Do you guys do that to.

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Speaker 1
Minimize, like, I just worked on this little fun thing? No, you sat there. You put effort, energy, passion into a project. We're trying really hard, Candice and I. Not to say we just did this or we made this little thing. No, it's not little. This took me hours. Yeah, yeah I really worked on our packaging because we've had some interest in our stained glass.

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Speaker 1
Thank you for anyone who has shown interest. We love that. It's such an honor to have our art in your life. It's truly amazing. Yep. But the packaging, the business card, I meant to bring one. I redid the label. It's like an art label with that will go on the envelopes of our thank you cards when we send out art for people that purchase it.

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Speaker 1
And since we've re posted some things on Etsy, it's nice to see that traffic picking up again. But we wanted to just polish up how, things get received and how it looks. So it was kind of that kind of it was really fun.

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Speaker 2
To make a great job. It looks awesome. It looks awesome.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so I cut glass. I worked on our labels of things. We send out. I read through that pattern. So yeah, the art this week might not sound like a ton to report, but I'm really happy with the progress and that's what counts. Yeah, progress.

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Speaker 2
And you made a lot of it. Like a ton of progress. I know it doesn't feel like it because you've been doing kind of the same motion over and over again with redrawing. And cutting is very repetitive and stained glass, but it's a lot of progress you've made.

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Speaker 1
It's awesome. And I'm having fun. Yeah. Which is like why we're doing this, staying in touch with our human side, being creative. It got me away from scrolling on my phone and into the art studio, and I just felt I just felt better every time. Every time I touch something creative, I feel better regardless of the outcome.

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Speaker 2
Me too.

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Speaker 1
Would you get on what you get up to?

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Speaker 2
What did you get? Where?

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Speaker 1
Where'd you get on Candice? What did you get up to this week?

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Speaker 2
A couple of things. So in the same vein as you remaking the, labeling and stuff, we have, as Monika said, a business card for Glass Over Teakettle, which is our stained glass business that has a QR code on it for our website that I took down over a year ago. So it leads to nothing, right?

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Speaker 1
We had a website.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, I took it down when we stopped, like taking commissions and stuff, and we needed a break.

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Speaker 1
We were getting a lot. It was overwhelming.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, we love art, but we like making art more. So for the making what we like, then having very specific things we have to stick to, it just makes it more fun.

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Speaker 1
And just to add to that, sorry to interrupt.

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Speaker 2
No, I'm glad you did.

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Speaker 1
We're not complaining. This is amazing. No, but there was like 6 to 8 months worth of work as a waiting list. And what that meant for us because we kept saying yes, is that we weren't making our own art. Yep. We were making art that other people were like, giving us specifics on what they wanted. So it felt really good to get those projects done, start fresh.

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Speaker 1
No more commissions. Took down the website, but now people are showing interest and stuff and things we have made, and we want them to be able to go and land on our website. But I, I thought you were just going to make like a landing page or whatever it's called.

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Speaker 2
Oh yeah. So what I worked on this week, Monica just gave it away. Here's a website. I put our glass over teakettle website up. I built it from scratch. I didn't put up. I didn't put the old one back up.

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Speaker 1
You're amazing.

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Speaker 2
But yeah, you could either spend, you know, two hours trying to figure out on WordPress how to put up a comingsoon page or just spend 3 to 4 hours actually building a website. So I went with option B and glass over teakettle.com is back up. It needs some tweaks. It needs some tweaks. I will admit we have to change some pictures because it's got a lot of old work on there.

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Speaker 2
And there's a few things we need to update pictures of us.

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Speaker 1
And I think the work you used for pictures from the previous website. So it's all.

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Speaker 2
Yes, it was things I already had pictures of.

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Speaker 1
So our glass artwork in the last three years isn't represented, but we'll fix that. We've made some really cool stuff, so we'll add. But it's a work in progress. We'll add to the website. But I'm so grateful you did that. That was a big thank you.

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Speaker 2
Thank you. My brain was fried after that. So, shout out to the people who are good at building websites because to me it's like mind numbingly difficult.

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Speaker 1
Difficult? Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for I couldn't do it at all if you said, here's $1 million, Monica, make a website, I'd be like, keep your money because I can't do it. I bet you could. No, but I'm very grateful.

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Speaker 2
Just make a website, post one picture. You're $1 million richer.

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Speaker 1
I know you did something else.

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Speaker 2
What else did I did? The other thing I did this week is I did a test print of the linocut I've been working on.

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Speaker 1
Drumroll please Bre.

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Speaker 2
So here's my test print and I am pretty stoked about the way it came out. I have, you know, a few things I need to clean up on here. I accidentally hit the roller on the paper when I was rerolling C oh.

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Speaker 1
I love that. It actually adds, authentic human touch. Like this wasn't designed on a computer and press print. You've made this yourself. I like that little ink.

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Speaker 2
Thank you. The others won't have that, but I didn't get enough ink on the shirt part, so I, you know, kind of pulled it up as I was printing and rerolled some ink on there and hit the paper and was like, well, this is a test print, so love it.

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Speaker 1
Can I hold it up to the camera? Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2
So that was super fun for me this week. A it kind of made me.

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Speaker 1
Incredible.

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Speaker 2
I have to admit. Like I was pretty happy with it. It turned out better than I had envisioned. So that is, it felt really good.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, that is awesome. And I love my own horn. Toot toot away. I love hearing that. And I love hearing you say that you had a vision of what it might be, and it's even better than you anticipated. I can see this. I want it on a t shirt on a bag. Like I love this image. So again, if you're just listening to the podcast, be sure and check out Instagram as We Art podcast because it will put a picture of Candace's big first linocut.

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Speaker 1
You've made one other.

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Speaker 2
This is yeah, this is this is only my second attempt at a at a linocut print.

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Speaker 1
So yeah, I'm impressed. It's awesome. I'm so psyched for you. That must feel good. And, yeah, we'll put pictures up of all the stuff worth mentioning for sure.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, it was really fun. So that's cool.

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Speaker 1
That's awesome.

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Speaker 2
Thank you. What's your inspiration for this week? Do tell.

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Speaker 1
Oh, this was a tough week I think in a this week. So this week was really hard. And it's ironic because I think in a in a previous episode, whether it was the last one or the one before that, I think I mentioned, we're so grateful for the warmth in our house, even though it's an old house.

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Speaker 1
And this week our heater started malfunctioning and we went sometimes long stretches of hours, sometimes overnight with no heat. It was a rough thing to go through. We were bundled up. Luckily we have amazing people who are over here trying to fix it and work on it and getting different parts and trying to make it work, and we're hopeful that it will stay running.

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Speaker 1
Again, definitely made us, I'm just talking about inspiration.

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Speaker 2
We were Laura Dern and Jurassic Park, where she's like, we didn't have enough respect for that power. And it's out now. And, that was us with the heat. I don't know that line.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. So funny with Jurassic Park. I don't.

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Speaker 2
Know that. Like, I think Laura Dern was probably my first crush, but I didn't realize what it was because I was like eight years old. But oh yeah, that's a good one. Laura Dern as Ellie Sattler hello.

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Speaker 1
She's an awesome character. Yeah, I just I don't remember like that moment in the movie, but I've only seen movie like twice where you've seen it 100 and twice. Yeah.

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Speaker 2
Oh yeah. Probably more like a thousand and twice, but yes.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. We didn't know what we were. I mean, we appreciated our heat. Yes, but without it, it made it much harder to function. And I had a lot of typing to do. I did a ton of writing. I didn't mention that with my art update, but I did a lot of writing. We got through the art and when it was cold it was harder, but we still did it.

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Speaker 1
So I was inspired, by fantasizing, moving to a warm climate.

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Speaker 2
It's a great way to get through no heat.

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Speaker 1
That's what I did. I'm like, nope, I want sunshine and palm trees and, New England can keep its winters.

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Speaker 2
I catch it later.

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Speaker 1
It's a lovely fantasy and we daydream a lot about moving. Yes, we are here right now, so we're staying in the present on this podcast. If you're new or if you forget, I'm going to remind you we don't talk about future projects, a future goals. Oh, shit. Now I need water.

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Speaker 2
Oh no. Monica is going to cough away from the microphone. Good job.

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Speaker 1
Okay, so we don't talk about, like, me getting off a client. Talk about the future. We don't do that here. See the podcast notes.

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Speaker 2
I know, it's like I'm going to just close off your throat.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. So we're sticking to the present. This is where we are. He is right now working again. Yay! We've had some other unexpected interruptions this week that we don't need to go into. But we are here. We're showing up and we're doing this as we are.

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Speaker 2
So I definitely had some, moment this week where I was thinking about a warm climate when I had to take my linocut and shove it under my butt and sit on it to warm it up enough to carve it.

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Speaker 1
Oh my God, it was like, oh God.

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Speaker 2
My fingers are frozen and I'm like, I need warmer weather.

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Speaker 1
So, oh my God, that's so funny. Yeah. Other inspo. Oh, Brenda shared with us. So last week we talked about trying something new that we've always wanted or being brave. And Brenda, she was like, I don't know if this counts as art. The answer is yes. Anything can be considered art. But she made her first loaf of bread from scratch today.

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Speaker 2
Brenda.

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Speaker 1
That was really fun to see that it's beautiful. It's like it's a pretty slow bread. So that was nice to know that other people out there trying new things and getting inspired.

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Speaker 2
Bread baking. So much fun to like if you really get into it it's awesome. I love bread baking.

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Speaker 1
Yeah you it takes patience. You have to measure very specific.

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Speaker 2
Yep.

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Speaker 1
It takes time to let it rise. It's not my forte but I'm very grateful when you get the urge to bake bread because I'm like yum yum, yum yum.

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Speaker 2
You're a very good baker. But yeah, bread is a whole different monster. So good job, Brenda, because that's awesome.

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Speaker 1
I'm a bit oh, for cookies and stuff. Yeah, I'll do that.

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Speaker 2
Monica can bake the most amazing things.

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Speaker 1
And but that's fast time without waiting for it to rise. Yeah. And I just I can kind of estimate the measurements.

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Speaker 2
No.

00:21:38:04 - 00:21:48:03
Speaker 1
Yeah, I do okay. Inspiration. I'm going to go with that. What about you, honey? What was yours? Candice trying not to call you honey on the podcast.

00:21:48:05 - 00:21:49:28
Speaker 2
Oh, that's okay. You can call me honey.

00:21:50:03 - 00:21:55:00
Speaker 1
Okay, sweetheart. What was your inspiration this week?

00:21:55:02 - 00:22:17:25
Speaker 2
My inspiration this week, honestly, was my my linocut print. It felt really good to, like, see something all the way through to fruition. Which the first time I read in a book, I was like, what the hell is fruit? And that doesn't make any sense. But it also just like, kind of made me fall in love with the process even more.

00:22:17:25 - 00:22:33:13
Speaker 2
And, it made me really excited to make other things. So that's a really fun place to be in, in your whatever art medium you're working with. When you get, like, really excited about it. And it is inspiring. So, that's mine for me.

00:22:33:14 - 00:22:37:26
Speaker 1
I love that to have an outcome that exceeds your expectations. Yes.

00:22:37:27 - 00:22:52:21
Speaker 2
That's inspiring. Yeah. I think my other inspiration actually I'm going to tack one on okay was not was is Monica and I every morning when we wake up we have a little ten minute dance party. Oh my God.

00:22:52:21 - 00:22:55:13
Speaker 1
So you're talking about this. Yeah. Okay.

00:22:55:15 - 00:22:56:28
Speaker 2
We do. We put the.

00:22:56:28 - 00:22:58:22
Speaker 1
First thing we did before coffee.

00:22:58:22 - 00:23:27:05
Speaker 2
Before coffee before. Yeah. We get up. We do all the things in the morning, feed the cats and then ten minute dance party 10 to 12 minutes depending on song length. But we've been putting on some, like, really up tempo 80s and 90s dance jams, you know, like, I don't know if anyone remembers the compilation CD Jock Jams that used to be on a, like, infomercial.

00:23:27:08 - 00:23:28:26
Speaker 1
Like it was now that's what I.

00:23:29:02 - 00:23:40:00
Speaker 2
Yes, that type of thing. Now that's what I call music. But it was jock jams and it was like all the shit you would hear at a basketball game, you know? Okay, like pump up the jam and dance.

00:23:40:00 - 00:23:42:00
Speaker 1
To that at the Teen Center in the 80s.

00:23:42:00 - 00:23:42:24
Speaker 2
So yeah.

00:23:42:25 - 00:23:43:13
Speaker 1
He was.

00:23:43:13 - 00:23:45:04
Speaker 2
A teen center.

00:23:45:06 - 00:24:10:11
Speaker 1
It was so amazing. It was briefly open like maybe a 3 or 4 year stretch, which was unfortunate because it was awesome. And this was the late, late 80s in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, New England. Yeah, it's it's in America. And you had to have a little ID card with your picture to get in, like, the school would make the felt very special.

00:24:10:14 - 00:24:31:09
Speaker 1
And there was at the is a building with like the downstairs had like, arcade games and beanbags and air hockey and stuff. But upstairs was where it was at because that was the dance floor. There was a DJ, and I'm not kidding, you like pump up the Jet. You just said that I can picture myself doing dance moves.

00:24:31:15 - 00:24:33:14
Speaker 2
Like pulling out the Cabbage patch.

00:24:33:14 - 00:24:45:17
Speaker 1
Kind of like there were kids breakdancing. I was doing. I can't even explain the dance, but I was definitely like, arch back, one hand up in the air. I don't know what it's called, but I was doing the moves. I was so into the teen center.

00:24:45:20 - 00:24:48:20
Speaker 2
That's called the Teen Center Rodeo and.

00:24:48:22 - 00:24:58:19
Speaker 1
I loved it. I love dancing, but to we do, we dance every morning now and it's like just so awesome to start the day like that.

00:24:58:21 - 00:25:00:01
Speaker 2
Yeah, it's really fun.

00:25:00:02 - 00:25:05:15
Speaker 1
Our cats don't love it because we are like jumping around the house, running around dancing. And the music's loud.

00:25:05:15 - 00:25:09:04
Speaker 2
Yeah, but they're like, we just ate. What the hell are you doing?

00:25:09:07 - 00:25:18:14
Speaker 1
It's. I'm glad you mentioned that. It is inspiring because, like, the 90s, in the 80s, dance jams, I mean, it brings back memories.

00:25:18:14 - 00:25:41:23
Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What does it bring back? Memories of other teen center. Oh, teen. For me, it brings back, memories of going to the roller skating rink, which in Utah was called classic skating. Okay. And since I was, like, more of a kid in the 90s than the 80s, it was rollerblading, inline skating.

00:25:41:23 - 00:25:42:29
Speaker 1
Not into, oh.

00:25:43:00 - 00:25:44:07
Speaker 2
Not roller skating.

00:25:44:10 - 00:25:45:22
Speaker 1
Oh, mine was all roller skate.

00:25:45:22 - 00:25:51:24
Speaker 2
It totally reminds me of, like, the neon roller blades going through the blacklight room. You know.

00:25:51:29 - 00:25:59:05
Speaker 1
That's. Oh, was it like a roller skating rink, like for the public? Yes. Yeah, but it had inline skating.

00:25:59:10 - 00:26:07:04
Speaker 2
It was all inline skating by the time I was there. I mean, you could rent roller skates, but sorry, only the old folks rented roller skates.

00:26:07:04 - 00:26:09:03
Speaker 1
That would be me.

00:26:09:06 - 00:26:25:00
Speaker 2
So, yeah, we'll just roller it around for one song every. Every day they would pull out this big ass, wooden ramp they had created that was like 18in tall. Yeah, that's very high. It was a small ramp.

00:26:25:00 - 00:26:30:03
Speaker 1
But I think that's half a foot and a half when you're two. That was huge. And then everyone.

00:26:30:03 - 00:26:35:02
Speaker 2
Would line up during one specific song and one at a time. Jump off this ramp.

00:26:35:05 - 00:26:37:00
Speaker 1
Oh my God, did anyone eat shit.

00:26:37:01 - 00:26:43:12
Speaker 2
All the time? All the time. I only ever did it once because I was so, like, afraid of being embarrassed if I eat shit.

00:26:43:15 - 00:26:43:28
Speaker 1
If you fell.

00:26:43:28 - 00:26:53:11
Speaker 2
But I landed it. It's an any and it. Yes, you landed it just one time I did it, I, I stuck the landing. I went and you didn't do it again. Say.

00:26:53:14 - 00:26:56:24
Speaker 1
What did you say? You went bolts. Oh. Landed on the bolts. Yeah.

00:26:56:24 - 00:27:01:19
Speaker 2
I don't know. Something in skiing or snowboarding. Skateboarding, skateboarding, whatever.

00:27:01:23 - 00:27:07:10
Speaker 1
Land bolts. We did not have a ramp at our rink. Ours was called skate. Skate.

00:27:07:13 - 00:27:08:07
Speaker 2
Nice.

00:27:08:09 - 00:27:35:06
Speaker 1
Shout out to Cape skate. This was amazing. This was in the 80s. And I think back now. And we're not mothers. We're aunties for the moms. Thank gosh. We we don't raise little humans. It's not our thing. But we appreciate all the parents out there doing that. But it's wild to think now nowadays with parenting and what kids have access to was so different when I was a kid back in my day.

00:27:35:08 - 00:27:56:23
Speaker 1
But in the 80s, there was a dedicated school bus at the elementary schools that 2 or 3 days a week I would get on it instead of it wasn't my normal bus to take me home. It was the Cape Skate bus, like 50 kids, 100 kids. There'd be more than one bus. So hundreds of kids would show up at Cape Skate, rent their roller skates after.

00:27:56:23 - 00:28:00:02
Speaker 2
School and after school activity. That was school.

00:28:00:04 - 00:28:18:28
Speaker 1
This was no, no, not school sponsored. Oh, this is not field trip. This was just instead of taking the bus home, sometimes he took the bus to Cape Skate. Oh my God, there were. No, it didn't. So no parents. There was a couple of high school kids with whistles that worked there and a DJ in a booth and some people behind the counter renting out roller skates with the bright orange laces.

00:28:19:06 - 00:28:29:01
Speaker 1
Nice bright orange wheels hot. And we would get I love orange and we would roller skate after school until our parents picked us up, picked us up after work.

00:28:29:01 - 00:28:29:16
Speaker 2
Wow.

00:28:29:21 - 00:28:53:14
Speaker 1
And like sometimes it'd be my mom picking people up. But sometimes I go home with a friend's parent that drove me home like, I think back now, we had no supervision. People were falling, people were skating. And I mean, I did not leave the rink the whole time, but it was all these 80s and 90s. Well, this is back in the 80s, but yeah, like Michael Jackson and Madonna and like whatever the pop songs were of the time.

00:28:53:14 - 00:28:57:22
Speaker 1
And we'd dance in the morning. Now I remember Cape Skate like, yeah, for sure.

00:28:57:24 - 00:29:22:09
Speaker 2
Yes, classic skating in Utah was like a free for all because it was also attached to, I forgot to mention this, a water park so you can spend half of your day going down waterslides and scaring teen lifeguards, and then the other half of your day, you could go turf it on a roller skating rink and bust your eyebrow open.

00:29:22:09 - 00:29:31:05
Speaker 1
So yeah, this was it was really fun to be a kid before the internet. I gotta say. It really was. It's so many things like this that weren't. But this is super fun.

00:29:31:08 - 00:29:42:18
Speaker 2
Never happen. Nowadays, there's no way a school would take you on a bus to a roller skating rink. I mean, even the little ramp they wheeled out for us, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

00:29:42:18 - 00:29:59:18
Speaker 1
Us. There's so many things now that are just deemed way too dangerous. But yeah, we all did it. Like. And there wasn't a problem. We all just skate around for hours and then went home. I mean, I stayed out there until. Unless they did, like, a shoot the duck contest, and I had to leave the.

00:29:59:25 - 00:30:01:00
Speaker 2
To shoot the duck.

00:30:01:00 - 00:30:02:03
Speaker 1
Shoot the duck.

00:30:02:05 - 00:30:07:06
Speaker 2
Shoot the duck to me is like the Nintendo game duck hunting. I don't. Okay, what? To shoot the duck.

00:30:07:09 - 00:30:25:01
Speaker 1
Shoot the duck. Oh, God. It's a roller skating trick. But they would have a contest at least once a week. So picture yourself roller skating. But you're squatted down really, really low. Like knees are to your chin. You're squatting down again, right near the floor going forward.

00:30:25:06 - 00:30:25:22
Speaker 2
Okay.

00:30:25:25 - 00:30:36:08
Speaker 1
But shooting the duck means you extend one leg out straight with your boot. Your roller skate toes up like wheels out. Oh, it's wicked heavy to try for.

00:30:36:08 - 00:30:37:19
Speaker 2
Strength I would die.

00:30:37:19 - 00:30:48:03
Speaker 1
And your hands can't touch the floor. And you see how far you can go. So you build up speed, build up speed. Then you crouch, squat, kick that leg out and hold it out. You could hold your leg with your hands.

00:30:48:03 - 00:30:49:19
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00:30:49:22 - 00:30:50:09
Speaker 1
But you're only.

00:30:50:09 - 00:30:51:27
Speaker 2
On hills with your balance.

00:30:51:27 - 00:31:13:02
Speaker 1
Oh, it's so hard to do. So I used to shoot the duck and cheat. Like, by practicing, I would. I would crouch and skate. I would put one skate out. Just my back wheels were going, like, touching the floor, but shoot the duck contest. It was whoever could last the longest, go the furthest with one leg up. I'll have to, get like, I still suck.

00:31:13:03 - 00:31:18:25
Speaker 2
Gates are so heavy, dude. They were just like a piece of steel stuck to the shoe.

00:31:18:25 - 00:31:36:01
Speaker 1
Oh my God. Totally. I mean, I was stoked watching other people do it, but they were wicked heavy. Wow. I'll put a picture on Instagram of the roller skating stance. Shoot the duck. And I don't know if that's a regional term, like maybe it was called something else in other parts, roller skating is making a resurgence.

00:31:36:01 - 00:31:42:13
Speaker 2
Yeah, I honestly have only ever seen that move in. We watched a documentary about, like, the.

00:31:42:13 - 00:31:44:18
Speaker 1
United States of America. Yes.

00:31:44:18 - 00:31:46:11
Speaker 2
So good. That was.

00:31:46:11 - 00:31:54:18
Speaker 1
Awesome. I love the roller skating that's coming back. And it's in Southern California particularly is, I think, where that I'm not sure.

00:31:54:18 - 00:32:09:20
Speaker 2
A lot of it was southern because it's very like, it's very much part of the black community in the United States. So that was amazing to see. I mean, some of the stuff that they can do moves those roller skaters. Oh.

00:32:09:22 - 00:32:31:04
Speaker 1
Yeah, I'm trying to I follow a few skaters on my Instagram, and I'm trying to think I think all of the ones I follow that skate regularly are black. So yeah, I, I don't know, I that wasn't the case on Cape Cod in the 80s, but we were all trying. But the moves are so intense and hard to do, and I have so much respect for people that can do those moves.

00:32:31:04 - 00:32:34:07
Speaker 1
Oh yeah. How did we get on this.

00:32:34:10 - 00:32:36:10
Speaker 2
80s and 90s dance music?

00:32:36:12 - 00:32:38:06
Speaker 1
Oh yeah, that is a good example.

00:32:38:09 - 00:32:41:27
Speaker 2
The jam took us way out of the way.

00:32:41:29 - 00:32:50:09
Speaker 1
So we're here talking about art and inspiration and this all counts. Yes. Of course any sort of movement is art, dance, sports.

00:32:50:13 - 00:32:57:18
Speaker 2
But also your experiences get put into what you make. So you love talking about them. And that's so funny.

00:32:57:21 - 00:33:12:29
Speaker 1
So tell us, tell us yours. Tell us your inspiration. Tell us what art you're working on, what projects you're doing. We want to know, if you post pictures on Instagram, can you hashtag them with as we Art or as we Art podcasts? We'll find them. Yeah.

00:33:12:29 - 00:33:19:06
Speaker 2
Or direct message them to us. And we'll check them out. We'll make sure we check the message requests.

00:33:19:06 - 00:33:38:20
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. We love it. So like follow share. We're trying to get other people to join this community just because it helps us to know that other people are tapping into that human side of themselves and being creative. We love hearing about it. So for sure, thank you so much for joining and being here.

00:33:38:20 - 00:33:47:22
Speaker 2
Yeah, thanks for joining us on YouTube and podcasting and all that stuff. We are so appreciative. Episode six we did it. High fives.

00:33:47:29 - 00:33:51:29
Speaker 1
Yay! That's it. We'll see you next week. Bye bye.