Black Ivory Podcast 4.23.26. There’s a Bee Loose!

• Emma starts us off talking about a Grayson Perry interview, and I learn who Grayson Perry is.
• Getting married to a robot.
• A Japanese game where you get a ring and score points for marrying your A.I. boyfriend.
• Grayson Perry is a plagiarizer.
• Rich guys getting in a room together actually does have historical precedent.
• Big bee enters Ron’s studio.
• Edgeworth talks a bit about anarchyforart.com.
• Ron did ten paintings, Edgeworth did one painting, fifty times.
• Get the smudge correct with rubine red. Print in the evening, and the following afternoon, it’s just the right amount amount of wet and dry to get that smudge with a glue brush. Other colors behave differently.
• Edgeworth continues show and tell with the game “Guess the Country”. He reads his Camden cards that he made for visitors on the street who don’t speak English. We have to guess which language he’s speaking.
• Edgeworth manages to make all the languages, besides German, sound the same.
• When is Ron’s next free art ungig? Try the college again for different people.
• Ron reads the “Anarchy For Art Manifesto”.
• The bee makes an appearance at time 15:53, right above the word “ugly” in my painting behind me. Watch for it! Ron thinks it’s a carpenter bee.
• Make Art Great Again
• Can you copyright a phrase?
• More copyright law from artist brains
• Is the blockchain on Steemit, Blurt and Ecency forever?
• Edgeworth has a series of Steemit and Blurt Blond cards.
• How to buy Steem, Blurt, Hive?
• New York State laws aren’t crypto friendly.
• Should we delegate on the social crypto sites?
• Getting Edgeworth to post on communities on social crypto platforms
• More about Grayson Perry and his social commentary, especially how he thinks working class people get dressed up to go out on the town.
• Rose’s welding adventure
• The Finger Lakes as New York State diamond in the rough for art and music.
• People moving out of New York State
• Illegal dealings in California
• Corruption is everywhere
• A long talk from artists about markets and monetary policy, which basically ended in “We’re poor. Our opinions are fun, but don’t matter squat”.
• United States “health insurance” is the largest tax on the working class.
• Emma’s Dad says “Yes” to National Health, and “No way” to the U.S.A.
• Edgeworth stumps Ron on a question about no-fault injury and medical expense compensation.
• Rose wants Ron to knit. Ron wants to make 20 grand in crypto so Rose can retire early, knitting.
• Edgeworth found a cache of crypto currency videos.
• Edgeworth shows us his new Heckel’s Horse and Heckel’s Horse Junior idea.
• Edgeworth talks about making a series of work illustrating a sentence from his manifesto.
• Emma inspires a member of the upcoming generation at her workplace.
• Edgeworth didn’t go to Chatham this week, so busy he is with the Camden work.
• Free cardboard in Muswell Hill
• Finishing up with financial dreams of the future. Ron wants 20 grand per year. Edgeworth wants to be rich. Emma already is.
• No galleries.
• Emma ends with yarn bombing!