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Another Thursday Podcast, an ocean apart for art!
• Ron loses the first minute of footage because he was eager with the mouse and cut it accidentally. He was clapping “Hello!’ and Emma was waving saying “Hi Ron”. Then Edgeworth compliment Ron on his morning painting still taped to the easel. Ron talks about the Free Art Frees Art booklet he’s designing for print so he can hand out to people on the street. Edgeworth grabs a pen and paper and begins notetaking.
• Ron asks Emma how she wants to be included in the booklet. She tells him to take whatever he wants off her website.
• Ron grabs great images from 4K video.
• Emma went to Camden last Saturday and handed out free art! She’s officially in the plan!
• She ran into a lady there and talked about Art Brute.
• “The Damned” used to play around Camden. They were punk pioneers.
• Originally, Art Brute picked the naive artists from mental institutions. Now it’s more widespread under the Outsider Art umbrella.
• Free Art is literally “outside” art.
• Edgeworth shows the The FAFA Fanzine to give away at Camden.
• G. Boy died. Edgeworth gave Zombie a G. Boy Blond card to lay at his memorial.
• G. Boy used to superglue spikes to his head.
• Speaking of super glue… Ron shows his Oil QRs. Four of them will hang in a gallery. in Cooperstown, NY. One leads to his website, one to our movie, one to the Camden Market Free Art Man and the last one a video call for help finding walls for Rose and him to hang their collaborations.
• Emma uses superglue for collage and sticks her fingers together.
• Further brainstorming on the booklet.
• Individual pages, OffGridLife claymations.
• Ron steals Edgeworth’s design.
• Edgeworth makes the point that Free Art Frees Art should be consistent, like for branding.
• The quote game.
• “All human beings are latent geniuses.”
• Emma didn’t listen to “Johnstone Chats”.
• Emma talks about how good at math chimpanzees are. Edgeworth thinks chimpanzees are predominantly left-handed. Parrots too. They’re left clawed, or winged.
• Then Ron comes out of nowhere with the video about two teams playing with a ball. Check it out.
• Edgeworth thinks we can use that to our advantage somehow with Free Art Frees Art.
• The Sullivan Nod!
• “There are no heroes in art.” And Emma flexes her art history and theory muscles.
• I mean she really flexes!
• The church was the main patron of the arts. Then the merchants came and wanted attractive wall hangings. Now comes the individuality in art. Rich folks want the portraits of themselves, wife and kids... Call in the illustrators! The concept of the artist as “superartist” or “hero” starts to develop at that time.
• DaVinci wanted to lift art out of its “craft” label. Make it more “intellectual”.
• Well done Emma!
• “A living dog is better than a dead lion.”
• A low bar says Edgeworth, “Well, at least I’m not dead!”
• Edgeworth is doing less Camden days, however, each day is getting better. He wants to get one video finished, and have new work to give out at the next Camden. Very ambitious!
• Edgeworth briefly shows his crypto social site art.
• He wants to load up on Steem, Blurt and Hive so his influence is greater on these social media crypto sites.
• Edgeworth wants a million Blurt power.
• Edgeworth and Emma are lucky to have a stream of humanity flowing by in Camden
• Emma gave away seven prints at Camden
• She went to an exhibition at Highgate Gallery to see the work of a surrealist painter.
• Edgeworth exhibits a new poster about the lie about him in a book by Ted Kessler.
• “A bit of base!”
• Edgeworth will come out on top. He’ll do loads of work decrying the shady author.
• “Problem” and “opportunity” are the same word in Japanese.
• Edgeworth is no assistant!
• The New York Times was a positive publicity for Edgeworth.
• Edgeworth reads slower than he can talk.
• Emma is an avid reader. She is a walking encyclopedia.
• Black Francis and Pixies coming on tour. Ron thinks he should stop by Camden.
• Edgeworth exhibits a painting by Black Francis. He’s going to clear out a space in the studio and hang it for future musical inspiration.
• Stuckist Charles Thomson, not Pixie Thompson, signed it.
• Live from Crouch End!
• Edgeworth saw the Pixies play last year.
• Kurt Cobain and Nirvana were influenced by The Pixies.
• Frank Black: “Teenager of the Year”.
• Ron plans on stopping in Amherst, MA on his way to Boston to do Free Art Frees Art.
• Ron will film his Free Art Frees Art tour.
• Talk about the weather
• Cezzane didn’t know enough to get out of the rain.
• Black Ivory members share a mutual acquaintance who is getting rid of stuff.
• The mutual acquaintance has to levitate to move about the house.
• Ron talks about how he’s reaching out for a gallery or museum to show Rose and his collaborations.
• Rose’s first droning job as post-retirement plan.
• Social media crypto, will it catch on? A lot of keys to manage.
• UK have been doing taxes for 1,000 years. No tax dodgers in England.
• “In art, as in life, the CV stands for ‘Correctly Vetted.”
• Or “Corporate Validity”
• “About” pages are too generic.
• Confusion destroys the attention span.
• Ron must concentrate on the color scheme of the pamphlet he’s designing.
• Edgeworth tried to sell breakable unbreakable glass.
• Talk about how art historians use artists’ lives to make themselves relevant. Even if they have to lie. Interpreting an artist’s meaning without the artist’s input is fine, but a bit disingenuous if out to make a profit. Some debate.
• Hokusai, the Art Crazy Old Man
• Blurt technicalities that neither me, Edgeworth, and definitely Emma, know nothing about!
• In 8th grade, Ron campaigned to become the people’s choice class “mooch”. He lost.
I Nominate Emma to be the Official Historian of Black Ivory. 2026. Oil on paper, 18 x 24"