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Archives for March 2015

Episode #026: Cate and Sam, Unlicensed Professionals Part 2 of 2

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Continuing our chat with the lingerie-clad vlogging comedians!

Last week, we began our chat with Cate Imperio and Sam Fairley aka the brains and the bras behind “Unlicensed Professionals” their rude, nearly nude, and boundary pushing weekly video show.

Cate’s story took up part one of our show and it was hair-raising–drugs, drink, Catholic school, rehab and band management. Now it’s Sam’s turn to tell her story and at the end, we get to talk to both of them.

They are regular guests on Dr. Susan Block’s TV show, NSFW! NSFW! where they are up for damn near anything.

You can follow their exploits over at Electric SEX Enterprises on Vimeo.

Topics discussed include:

Sam’s story growing up in Tahoe and her family
A brief mention of Reno by way of Burning Man
The Reno zoo, which sounds really depressing
Sam’s Catholic School experience
How Sam got to Santa Barbara
Why male roommates are better than girls
All about scabies
Cate and Sam’s dynamics
The DTease and how Cate wound up managing them
How the DTease may turn you into an erotic animal
Erotic awakening vs. UCSB’s hookup culture
Crying 4 Kafka and how Cate and Sam got on Susan Block’s show
Is it porn or is it art?
Going to the Adult Video Convention in Vegas and what they learned
Their AVN shwag
The upcoming year and new projects
Their boundaries and what they wouldn’t do

Here’s the band Cate manages (and performs with alongside Sam) the DTease:

Here’s the “You’ll Never Believe!” video we talk about (NSFW!!)

Find Unlicensed Professionals on the Web, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

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Listen to it on iTunes
Download this episode here

You can also follow me on Twitter
Or read my arts writing at http://www.tedmills.com
Or check out my art here (warning NSFW): http://tedmillsart.tumblr.com/

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Episode #025: Cate and Sam, Unlicensed Professionals Part 1 of 2

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Lingerie-clad vlogging comedians!

Cate Imperio and Sam Fairley have a NSFW weekly video series called “Unlicensed Professionals” in which they deliver a barrage of humor, criticism, pet peeves, and observation, all dressed in bra and panties and more (and sometimes less). A year in and they’ve got their weekly podcast down to a science, tackling
sex, sexuality, hyena mating, drawing with your butt, and other freaky topics like the Golden Globes.

Their persistence has paid off and they’re now frequent guests on Dr. Susan Block’s Internet TV show, where they are up for damn near anything, but always with sarcastic humor and wit. They DGAF, as the kids say.

Here’s a taster:

Unlicensed Professionals Preview from Electric SEX Enterprises on Vimeo.

And here’s their one year anniversary episode!

Unlicensed Professionals: 1 Year Anniversary Show from Electric SEX Enterprises on Vimeo.

I split this podcast into two parts, the first with Cate and the second with Sam (next week). It was an extra long discussion, and it was a nice dividing line, so be sure to check in next week. As you might guess the conversation is heavily explicit and contains many swears. Put in those earbuds!!

Topics discussed include:
Their first podcast
The problem with dressing as a guy
How the two met
The weirdest reactions to their act
Making fun of gluten free trends
Cate growing up in Long Island
How she maneuvered Catholic School
Cate’s family history and long convoluted drug history
Her very brief time in New Orleans
Pot smoking in NYC compared to Santa Barbara
How Cate finally quit drugs
Her “Bjork Swan” phase

Find Unlicensed Professionals on the Web, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

If you can’t see the embedded podcast above, here are other ways to listen:

Listen to it on iTunes
Download this episode here

You can also follow me on Twitter
Or read my arts writing at http://www.tedmills.com
Or check out my art here (warning NSFW): http://tedmillsart.tumblr.com/

Subscribe to our show on iTunes. Please take a moment to like us on iTunes and rate us!!!

Or for non-iTunes people out there, subscribe to our RSS Feed

Lastly, our theme tune is brought to you by Raw Vegan.

Episode #023: Deborah Lee Baker, Joaquin Howard, and Elmira Lilic (Live at MichaelKate)

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A live version of the FZ podcast at the Psyched opening

Howdy folks! Having presided over a few art talks recently at MichaelKate Interiors–a swanky furniture store in the heart of the FunkZone that also puts on art shows–I asked to turn the last one into a live podcast. The intro you hear is the usual, but the recording happened Friday, March 6, 2015 at the store, sitting on comfy couches with the three artists in the show: Deborah Lee Baker, Joaquin Howard, and Elmira Lilic.

The show, “Psyched” was curated by Jess Hinds, who, like Ms. Lilic is/was a model, and that’s how they met. All three artists are from L.A., and are tied to Ms. Lilic in a professional way…working in the same building. That’s how it happens, folks! One day you’re checking mail in the break room and the next you are hanging your work 90 minutes to the north.

Here’s a brief bio/description of each artist, but for the full deal, listen to the podcast!

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Elmiria Lilic works at the non-profit Playground of Dreams, paints and sells her cards on Etsy.

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Deborah Lee Baker has a PhD in Counseling Psychology and you can check out her paintings here.

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Joaquin Howard is a painter, songwriter, novelist, chef, photographer, actor, podcaster, jewelry maker and other things as well. He has a site here and a Soundcloud and Instagram.

 

Apparently, as you’ll hear, he helped write David Guetta’s new song “Listen,” sung by John Legend. Take a…listen:

Then finally, Bass Drum of Death!

Thanks to Jess Hinds and MichaelKate for letting me bring the podcast to their store! We’ll do this again sometime.

Here’s a few more photos from the evening:
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Michael of MichaelKate, Jess Hinds, Elmira Lilic, Deborah Lee Baker, and Joaquin Howard

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If you can’t see the embedded podcast above, here are other ways to listen:

Listen to it on iTunes
Download this episode here

You can also follow me on Twitter
Or read my arts writing at http://www.tedmills.com
Or check out my art here (warning NSFW): http://tedmillsart.tumblr.com/

Subscribe to our show on iTunes. Please take a moment to like us on iTunes and rate us!!!

Or for non-iTunes people out there, subscribe to our RSS Feed

Lastly, our theme tune is brought to you by Raw Vegan.

Episode #022: Maria Rendón

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Fine artist and former graphic designer

Maria Rendón recently finished her Masters at UCSB and has a new show up at SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery to prove it. Called “Missing Rib,” it’s a collection of her watery acrylic abstracts that float on the paper’s surface, and offer ghostly shapes that recall Francis Bacon and maybe a little bit of David Lynch or Picabia. Influenced by the Mexican surrealists, she left Mexico City to study at the Art Center in Pasadena.

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Topics discussed include
Missing Rib – the new show and the reference
Working with watery acrylic
That fine line beyond representational art
What to do with people’s interpretations
Her childhood as a young existentialist
The influence of Remedios Varo
Her transition to graphic designer, “a thinking illustrator”
What’s the division between graphic design and fine art?
The process of unlearning and turning off parts of the mind
Her working process
“I’m always in the middle of something”

Other people and things mentioned
Matt Mahurin
Phil Hayes
Dwight Harmon
Joel Nakamura
Gilles Deleuze on Francis Bacon
Nicola Tyson
Félix González-Torres

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Missing Rib is up through March 27, 2015, at the Atkinson Gallery.

She has a website here and her graphic design work is here.

Meanwhile, I will be moderating the artist talk at MichaelKate, Friday, March 6, called “Psyched Out” where I’ll be chatting with Deborah Lee Baker, Joaquin Howard, and Elmira Lilic.

If you can’t see the embedded podcast above, here are other ways to listen:

Listen to it on iTunes
Download this episode here

You can also follow me on Twitter
Or read my arts writing at http://www.tedmills.com
Or check out my art here (warning NSFW): http://tedmillsart.tumblr.com/

Subscribe to our show on iTunes. Please take a moment to like us on iTunes and rate us!!!

Or for non-iTunes people out there, subscribe to our RSS Feed

Lastly, our theme tune is brought to you by Raw Vegan.