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  • S2E29: Shana Hagan, ASC, Cinematographer

    S2E29: Shana Hagan, ASC, Cinematographer
    Jul 16 2024
    This week the award-winning Cinematographer, Shana Hagan, ASC. In the words of fellow cinematographer Gretchen Warthen: “Shana is the biggest documentary female DP/Operator in the world… and one of the kindest DPs I have ever worked with on set. You would never know who she is in the cinematography world without looking her up.” Her work includes DPing the 1997 Oscar-winning Documentary Short BREATHING LESSONS: THE LIFE & WORK OF MARK O’BRIEN and shooting additional cinematography for the 2014 Oscar-winning Best Documentary Feature: 20 FEET FROM STARDOM. She worked on the Oscar nominated 2010 Documentary FOOD, INC., and DP’d the 2020 Oscar nominated Documentary Short: WALK RUN CHA-CHA as well as the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Award Special Jury Prize Winner - AFTER INNOCENCE and the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Award Grand Jury Prize nominee - THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES. Shana has firmly embedded herself in the industry. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, to parents Robert Hagan, MD and Peggy Hagan, a Girl Scout Camp Director and Troop Leader, Shana is the middle of three children. Her parents instilled many important values in her which have helped her throughout her life and career. As a schoolgirl, she became a competitive swimmer at the age of five through to her Freshman year at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where she attended film school. It was a natural career path for the enthusiastic young photographer who had already developed a keen eye for filmmaking. Shana was the ‘official’ family videographer with a curious mind, appetite for storytelling and a passion that grew as she established the foundation for her craft, opening doors and creating opportunities right out of school. Shana was the first woman to shoot on the hit reality series SURVIVOR and was nominated for an Emmy for her work on SURVIVOR: CHINA. She shot four seasons on NBC's PARKS AND RECREATION, was the 2nd Unit DP on Netflix’s ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and has shot commercial spots for Disney, Electronic Arts, Kohl’s, the US Army, Kodak, Verizon and others. Shana’s current scripted work includes the critically acclaimed, Peabody Award-winning series SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE for HBO and Fox’s half hour docu-comedy WELCOME TO FLATCH. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Peter, daughter Iris, two dogs and two cats.


    https://www.shanahagan.com/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0353248/
    Instagram: @shanahaganasc
    https://www.instagram.com/shanahaganasc/

    Shana's Playlist:

    "I love classical:
    • “Appalachian Spring” by Aaron Copland – so cinematic and nostalgic for summers on Grandma and Grandpa’s farm in Oklahoma.
    • Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals: 7 / Aquarium”
    • Vivaldi – “Four Seasons / Spring”
    I love world music:
    • Ali Farka Toure “Kaira”
    • Cesaria Evora “Sodade”
    • Buena Vista Social Club “Chan Chan”
    • The Chieftains “The Wind That Shakes the Barley / The Reel With the Beryle”
    More random faves and some new stuff too:
    • Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”
    • Bill Withers “Lovely Day”
    • U2 “Beautiful Day”
    • Coldplay “A Sky Full of Stars”
    • Bonobo “Recurring”
    • Khruangbin “Texas Sun”
    • Lord Huron “The Night We Met”
    • Radiohead “Big Sleep”
    • Black Pumas “Colors”

    Some favorite female artists in visual arts:

    "I absolutely love Dorothea Lange’s photography. Her work during the depression is some of the best documentary photography there is. See “Migrant Mother” and it’ll rip your heart out. also love Georgia O’Keeffe – did a doc about her years ago and was just in love with her story, her passion for her work, her friends (Steiglitz, Ansel Adams, etc). Would love to have a drink with her."


    Host: Chris Stafford
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  • S2E28: Irina Neascu, Botanical Artist

    S2E28: Irina Neascu, Botanical Artist
    Jul 9 2024
    The Romanian Botanical Artist Irina Neascu began her career in architecture and now her journey transcends academia, science, art and illustration. Irina says: “I approached botanical art to continue investigating the cultural landscape from a natural perspective of the reciprocal influence and fragile intersections between culture and nature.” Irina was born in Bucharest in 1982, the only child of Daniela and Mihai who are both economists. She attended the Architecture University in Bucharest, Romania where she graduated with both a BA and MA. Irina then earned a postgraduate MA in Fine Arts at Rome University of Fine Arts. Following her graduation, she turned to interior design where her name became an international brand, with exhibitions at various fairs and events throughout Europe. The main collections focus on bespoke upholstery and chairs, crafted with textile collage techniques and digital printing. Irina has worked on both old and new furniture, restoring and customizing items according to the specific needs of her clients. Her interior design collections include home accessories and furniture, in unique series or limited series. In 2016, Irina moved north of Bucharest to the Transylvania area to be closer to nature; hiking is one of her favorite activities. Here, she opened the Irina Neacșu Studio then founded an art school, Cembra School of Botanical Art and Design, where she teaches courses and workshops in painting, drawing, textile art or design and encourages creative knowledge inspired by nature and heritage. Irina is currently a PhD candidate at the Art University in Bucharest, and later this year she will be a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, History of Art Department. Irina lives in Brasov with her Weimaraner, Scala.

    Irina’s website: https://irinaneacsu.com/
    Instagram: @irinaneascu https://www.instagram.com/irinaneacsu/

    Some favorite feamle artists:
    Georgia O’Keeffe
    Rachel Ruysch
    Giovanna Garzoni
    Hillary Waters
    Jackie Mulder
    Christiane Fashek

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  • S2E27: Anne Blair Brown, Contemporary Impressionist

    S2E27: Anne Blair Brown, Contemporary Impressionist
    Jul 2 2024
    This week the contemporary impressionist Anne Blair Brown. Her work centers on intimate scenes inspired by local surroundings as well as travel in the US and abroad. She says: “My artwork starts in reality and evolves through my imagination. As an impressionist, I believe in a painting process that enables me to tap into my creativity rather than trying to copy and perfect. My goal is to invite you, the viewer, to connect to the painting such that you personalize the experience and use your own imagination to complete the story.” Anne was born in North Kingstown, Rhode Island and at the age of four her family moved to Tennessee. Her mother is Rachel Blair, a licensed clinical social worker and caterer, and her father James Brown is a financial advisor. She is the youngest of three children, she has an older brother and sister. Anne attended Saint Henry School and The Harpeth Hall School in Nashville followed by the University of Georgia, and Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville where she earned an Associate Degree. She began teaching art some 25 years ago and offers online courses and workshops for painters of all skill levels. Her in-person sessions take place at Bluebird Hill Retreat in Santa Fe, TN. Anne lives in Nashville, TN with her husband the impressionist & abstract artist, Trey Finney.

    Anne’s website: anneblairbrown.com
    Instagram: @ablairbrownstudio
    Facebook: anneblairbrown & anneblairbrownstudio

    Some favorite female artists:
    Haidee-Jo Summers
    Carolyn Anderson
    Ann Larsen
    Yer Za Vue
    Dawn Whitelaw
    Ivetta Lokhmatova

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  • S2E26: Colleen Laffey, Camera Operator

    S2E26: Colleen Laffey, Camera Operator
    Jun 25 2024
    Colleen Laffey is a camera operator whose credits include: Love is Blind, World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji, American Grit, Capture, Master Chef, Jersey Shore, The Bachelorette, Kings of Pain, Are You The One, and MotoMaidens. She has, she says, become obsessed with photography, it’s her drug of choice and gets in her flow state when she’s shooting. Colleen was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1960, the oldest of three children—she has a brother, Marty, and sister Maureen. Her mother, Dale was a homemaker, and her father Marty a bank loan officer. Colleen’s childhood was largely spent outdoors and when it came time to graduate from High School she chose to attend the Art Institute of Pittsburgh where she graduated with an Associate Degree in Photography. From there she began working in outdoor recreation as a still photographer, a river guide, video kayaker, ski instructor and ski patrol. She worked 4 years at WVPB, and chance opportunity to run camera on a large show changed the course of her career, and at the age of 44 she settled into the unscripted TV industry becoming a sought-after camera operator. Colleen lives in Fayetteville, WV, in a house she designed, and in her spare time she can be found mountain biking or whitewater kayaking.

    Colleen’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1837418/
    Instagram @cococam https://www.instagram.com/cococam/

    Colleen’s playlist:
    Talking Heads, A Naive Melody
    Restless, James McMurtry
    Counting Stars, One Republic
    I Don’t Know, Lisa Hannigan

    Some favorite female artists in visual arts:
    Annie Lebowitz, photographer
    Ellen Kuras. cinematographer
    Zaha Hadid, architect

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  • S2E25: Tanya Avchinnikova, Soft Pastel Artist

    S2E25: Tanya Avchinnikova, Soft Pastel Artist
    Jun 18 2024
    This week the Belarusian soft pastel artist Tanya Avchinnikova. Tanya’s love of water and its translucency is the focal point and inspiration for her art. She says: ‘I specialize in seascapes and landscapes – places where you can feel a deep unity with nature, and trying to capture the illusion of presence.’ Tanya was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1988. Her mother Elena is a nurse and she has a brother, Anton. Tanya studied music and began performing as a pianist from an early age so it was only natural that she would pursue a career in music. Tanya studied music at the Belorussian State Academy of Music and earned her Post Graduate degree in Performance at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire (Ekaterinburg) in Russia. She spent two years in China teaching piano at the Nanchang Normal University in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. In 2006, Tanya moved to the UK and earned her Masters Degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatorie. She currently works as a ballet pianist at the Performers College, which is part of BIMM University. She lives in Birmingham, England with her husband, the classical pianist Roman Kosyakov. Tanya is a Member of The Pastel Society and a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America.

    Tanya’s website: https://tanyaavchinnikovaart.co.uk/
    Instagram: tanyaavchinnikovaart

    Tanya’s favorite female artists:
    Mary Cassatt
    Michele Ashby
    Amy Webber
    Olivia Dunn
    Reisha Perlmutter

    Tanya’s playlist:
    Radiohead (or solo Thom Yorke projects)
    Kiasmos (or tracks by Olafur Arnalds)
    Puscifer (or The Perfect Circle)
    Tomas Dvorak (or his project Floex)
    Boards of Canada
    Aphex Twin
    Ulrich Schnauss
    Jon Hopkins

    Host: Chris Stafford
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  • S2E24: Ngoc Minh Ngo, Photographer & Author

    S2E24: Ngoc Minh Ngo, Photographer & Author
    Jun 11 2024
    This week the Vietnamese photographer and author Ngoc Minh Ngo. Ngoc was born in Vietnam in 1963 and grew up during the Vietnam War. Her father, Chau Minh Ngo, was a colonel in the South Vietnam Army and her mother Phi Truong became a nurse's aide after raising eight children. Ngoc was the sixth child—she has four sisters and three brothers. Despite enduring a brutal war, Ngoc describes her childhood as enchanting and beautiful. Her parents did all they could to protect their family and offer some normalcy to those troubling times by spending time on the beach. At the age of 12, shortly before the end of the war in 1975, the family were evacuated to the US and settled in Sacramento, California where, with the help of sponsors, they began a new life. Ngoc described herself as a very shy and reserved child but that did not hinder her development. She found her own way to the University of California, Berkeley where she earned a BA followed by a Masters of Landscape Design at Columbia University. After spending some time traveling to Japan and Europe Ngoc made her way to New York with a view to working in painting restoration. But after a chance encounter while working on a feature film she discovered her true passion was to be photography, so she learned black & white photography and developing. Ngoc's images have been published The World of Interiors, T Magazine, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Cabana, and House & Garden UK. She is also the author of five books: Bringing Nature Home: Floral Arrangements Inspired by Nature; In Bloom: Creating and Living with Flowers, and Eden Revisited: A Garden in Northern Morocco, The House of a Lifetime, and New York Green. She is currently working on a new book entitled Roses in the Garden inspired by her father’s death. She has, she says, always been independent and self-contained, paving her own way as a refugee and re-imaging her life as a reflection through the beauty of the images she creates. Ngoc and her husband, the photographer Julian Wass, live in New York. They have a daughter Lily who works in public health and is also a poet.

    Ngoc’s website: https://www.ngocminhngo.com/
    Instagram: @minh_ngoc
    https://www.instagram.com/minh_ngoc

    Ngoc’s playlist:
    "The Rip by Portishead (I love Beth Gibbons, both with Portishead and her solo work)
    The Spoils by Massive Attack with Hope Sandoval (I'm a fan of both Hope Sandoval and Massive Attack)
    Wildfires by Sault (A song about George Floyd that happens to be very catchy)
    Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez (Poignant song about her relationship with Bob Dylan)
    Purple Rain by Prince (bog fan of Prince for his fearless originality and incomparable talent)
    Halo by Ane Brun (Ane Brun is brilliant at reinterpreting other people's song in her inimitable way) Hope We Meet Again by Brit Marling (I love her folksy songs)
    La Rua Madureira (I love this French interpretation of an iconic bossa nova song)
    Paradis Perdu by Christine and the Queens (I love the way she combines one of the favorite songs of my childhood with a Kanye song and makes it completely her own)."

    Ngoc’s favorite female artists:
    Agnes Martin
    Anni Albers
    Ruth Asawa
    Hilma af Klint
    Kiki Smith

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  • S2E23: Paulette Pearson, Colored Pencil Artist

    S2E23: Paulette Pearson, Colored Pencil Artist
    Jun 4 2024
    Arkansas native, Paulette Pearson, is a colored pencil artist who captures whimsy and humor in her drawings. She creates work that she says ‘reflects a unique blend of artistic skill and storytelling,’ and has an eye for detail that harmonizes with originality, authenticity and depth. Paulette was born in Big Bear, California in 1982, the oldest of three children to Ben, an engineer and business/property owner, and her mother Paulette, an artist. She grew up on her family’s ranch in Arkansas and as a child, her New Orleans grandmother encouraged her artistic interests as she quietly amused herself not knowing that one day she would become a professional artist. It was journalism and the law that would initially appeal as a career; Paulette earned her BA in English from Lyon College, her MA in Journalism and a JD—both from the University of Arkansas, before spending over a decade as a magazine editor—first in Arkansas and later in Texas, covering luxury interior design and architecture. Paulette met her husband Rich in law school, and after spending time in Washington, DC, the couple moved to Dallas, TX where Paulette most recently served as the Texas editor for Luxe Interiors + Design magazine. Once commissions started to come in and stores picked up her work, she knew she could become the full-time artist she dreamt of being so she decided to take the plunge and return to the art that she loved. Paulette recently held her first exhibition in Austin, TX. By combining realism with imaginative elements, she says: ‘ I invite the audience to embark on a journey of discovery, where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur, and where every pencil stroke tells a story.’

    https://paulettepearson.com/
    Instagram: @paulettepearsonstudio
    https://www.instagram.com/paulettepearsonstudio/'

    Paulette’s favorite female artists
    Jamie Beck
    Bella McGoldrick
    Inslee Ferris
    Katie Rodgers
    CJ Hendry

    Paulette’s Playlist -The Beatles – My favorite band of all time. I especially love Yesterday, In My Life, Let it Be, Blackbird, Get Back… -Ella Fitzgerald – It’s A Lovely Day Today, Dream A Little Dream, etc. -Louis Armstrong – La Vie En Rose, Cheek to Cheek, What a Wonderful World, etc. -Pomplamoose – Les Champs-Elysées, Sympathique -Something’s Gotta Give movie soundtrack (Astrud Gilberto - Summer Samba (So Nice), Coralie Clement - Samba de mon Coeur qui bat) -Nat King Cole – Unforgettable, Smile -Billie Holiday – Blue Moon, I’ll Be Seeing You.

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  • S2E22: Flash Rosenberg, Visual Storyteller

    S2E22: Flash Rosenberg, Visual Storyteller
    May 28 2024
    Visual storyteller, Flash Rosenberg, is a self described 'Attention Span for Hire' who photographs, draws, writes and talks as a performer. Flash was the pioneering artist in residence for ‘LIVE from the New York Public Library’ for seven years, capturing live-drawings of literary discussions in real-time to create panels and animated summaries known as “Conversation Portraits Flash was born in Mt. Vernon, NY; one of three children—she has a younger brother and sister— to Marilyn, an early childhood educator, and David, a chemical engineer and rocket scientist. Her family moved to Delaware when she was four years old. Flash attended the University of Delaware where she graduated with a BS in Graphic Design as a Dean’s Scholar in Visual Communication. In 2011, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Her animations have been commissioned for Broadway shows. Her Main Stage stories for ‘The Moth’ have been broadcast nationally on NPR. “FlashThink Cartoons” were a weekly, online feature on the Conde Nast site, Archetypes.com. Flash has had an elaborate and original teaching career, specializing in provocative approaches to art, including workshops in Visual Humor, and a Perception Studies class conducted entirely in the NYC subways for Cooper Union. She lives in Harlem, NY. Websites: http://flashrosenberg.com/ https://www.archetypes.com/flash-rosenberg (http://www.nypl.org/live/conversation-portraitsInstagram: @flashrosenberghttps://www.instagram.com/flashrosenberg/ Flash’s playlist: Blackbird - The Beatles The Penguin - Raymond Scott Gymnopédies - Erik Satie Toc - Thom Ze Hot in Heere - Nelly Atomic Dog - Parliament Funkadelic Incense Peppermint - Strawberry Alarm Clock Sunshine Superman - Donovan Hava Neegila - Harry Belafante Oh Yeah - Yello Crazy Women - Jess Korman Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell Old Man - Neil Young Dust in the Wind - Kansas Another One Bites the Dust - Queen In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel Somebody I Used to Know - Gotye You Don't Have to Cry - Crosby, Stills & Nash The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground Gangnam Style - PSY Mustt Mustt- Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn Trigger Hippie - Morcheeba Computer Love - Kraftwerk Drumbone - Blue Man Group Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is - Chicago King Kong - BETTY Tubthumping - Chumbawamba Get Lucky - Daftpunk Happy - Daftpunk Technologic - Daftpunk Yeah! - Usher Calabria 2007 (Club Mix) - Enur (featuring Natasja Scream & Shout - will.i.am (with Britney Spears) Dare - Gorillaz Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz Walking and Falling - Laurie Anderson Super Bon Bon - Soul Coughing/Michael Doughty Ruby Vroom Paint Kiss From a Rose- Seal Here Comes the Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze Host: Chris StaffordProduced by Hollowell StudiosFollow @theaartpodcast on InstagramAART on FacebookEmail: hollowellstudios@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/aart--5814675/support.
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