003 - Josh Boston
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08/02/19 • 171 min
Josh Boston is a designer living in Portland, Oregon USA. He likes turtles.
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0:00 - Intro
9:00 - Interview Start: What should the intro music be?
11:30 - Portland & The Simpsons
13:00 - How Josh & I met
15:00 - Growing up in the middle of Missouri
16:15 - Josh & Kevin’s Bromance
19:30 - First memorable piece of design
23:15 - First experiences with the internet
24:30 - Rudimental Drumming
25:15 - Ol’ Town Road Story & Hip Hop’s Influence
29:15 - Learning basic web design
31:45 - Old online design portals
33:30 - Seth Ericson
35:00 - Being young & dumb
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36:40 - Meeting Michael Cina
41:00 - Moving to California
42:45 - Gary Benzel/Green Lady
44:30 - Getting better at design
48:00 - Wanting to switch careers
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51:15 - “It’s not easy to be creative for a living. There’s peaks and valleys and there’s times when you’re kinda numb or you maybe had a good year then a bad year. I’m not trying to say this in a negative way, but it’s not discussed as much publicly. I think it’s discussed a lot in one-on-one coffee meetings, but you’re not seeing it from the stage in design conferences.” 51:48
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52:00 - Working at Lambesis
54:00 - The luster of working on big brands
57:00 - Alex Bogusky
1:00:00 - Working then and now
1:01:00 - Seasons of being a creative professional
1:03:15 - Big agency work-life / Missouri / Back to California
1:09:00 - Basic Agency
1:11:00 - Ego & work
1:16:00 - Original content
1:21:00 - Working at CPB
1:23:00 - Working at W+K
1:25:00 - Working on a 6 month project that never got made
1:29:00 - Creating separation from your hired work
1:34:00 - Working within restraints
1:36:30 - Going independent
1:40:30 - Loving being laid off
1:44:00 - Throwing a recess party in a loft
1:47:00 - Freelancing means you need to be good with your money
1:49:00 - Starting up an agency
1:54:00 - Doing work that solely pays the bills
1:56:00 - Rules for social media
2:00:00 - Know where your money is going
2:02:00 - Jocko Wilink
2:03:30 - Throwing your back out
2:07:00 - Taking youth for granted
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2:08:45 - Freelancing
2:11:30 - Success without social media
2:15:00 - Brain Pickings / Maria Popova
2:16:30 - Mike Cina Great Discontent Interview
2:21:00 - Designers who merge their personal life with their work
2:24:00 - Cultivating taste
2:28:00 - Studios with only one style
2:29:30 - Be careful when criticizing younger creators
2:37:30 - Designer Radar: Braulio Amada, Brian Collins, Tobias Van Schneider, Mike Cina
2:44:00 - Compare/Contrast with Michael Eastman podcast
2:45:30 - The benefits of knowing design
2:46:00 - Outro
Josh Boston is a designer living in Portland, Oregon USA. He likes turtles.
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0:00 - Intro
9:00 - Interview Start: What should the intro music be?
11:30 - Portland & The Simpsons
13:00 - How Josh & I met
15:00 - Growing up in the middle of Missouri
16:15 - Josh & Kevin’s Bromance
19:30 - First memorable piece of design
23:15 - First experiences with the internet
24:30 - Rudimental Drumming
25:15 - Ol’ Town Road Story & Hip Hop’s Influence
29:15 - Learning basic web design
31:45 - Old online design portals
33:30 - Seth Ericson
35:00 - Being young & dumb
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36:40 - Meeting Michael Cina
41:00 - Moving to California
42:45 - Gary Benzel/Green Lady
44:30 - Getting better at design
48:00 - Wanting to switch careers
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51:15 - “It’s not easy to be creative for a living. There’s peaks and valleys and there’s times when you’re kinda numb or you maybe had a good year then a bad year. I’m not trying to say this in a negative way, but it’s not discussed as much publicly. I think it’s discussed a lot in one-on-one coffee meetings, but you’re not seeing it from the stage in design conferences.” 51:48
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52:00 - Working at Lambesis
54:00 - The luster of working on big brands
57:00 - Alex Bogusky
1:00:00 - Working then and now
1:01:00 - Seasons of being a creative professional
1:03:15 - Big agency work-life / Missouri / Back to California
1:09:00 - Basic Agency
1:11:00 - Ego & work
1:16:00 - Original content
1:21:00 - Working at CPB
1:23:00 - Working at W+K
1:25:00 - Working on a 6 month project that never got made
1:29:00 - Creating separation from your hired work
1:34:00 - Working within restraints
1:36:30 - Going independent
1:40:30 - Loving being laid off
1:44:00 - Throwing a recess party in a loft
1:47:00 - Freelancing means you need to be good with your money
1:49:00 - Starting up an agency
1:54:00 - Doing work that solely pays the bills
1:56:00 - Rules for social media
2:00:00 - Know where your money is going
2:02:00 - Jocko Wilink
2:03:30 - Throwing your back out
2:07:00 - Taking youth for granted
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2:08:45 - Freelancing
2:11:30 - Success without social media
2:15:00 - Brain Pickings / Maria Popova
2:16:30 - Mike Cina Great Discontent Interview
2:21:00 - Designers who merge their personal life with their work
2:24:00 - Cultivating taste
2:28:00 - Studios with only one style
2:29:30 - Be careful when criticizing younger creators
2:37:30 - Designer Radar: Braulio Amada, Brian Collins, Tobias Van Schneider, Mike Cina
2:44:00 - Compare/Contrast with Michael Eastman podcast
2:45:30 - The benefits of knowing design
2:46:00 - Outro
Previous Episode
002 - Michael Eastman
Michael Eastman is an artist working with a camera.
4:00 - Dude
5:00 - Big Lebowski/Jeff Bridges/Weed
8:50 - St. Louis slow to change visually
11:10 - Rate of Urban Renewal in STL
14:45 - Beginnings as a photographer
15:05 - “A lot of times when I went out and photographed my mantra was, ‘If I were aware of what people 150 years from right now were interested in, then I would photograph those things. They’d be significant records; historical records. And a photographer, unlike many artists, is really part historian. What they’re doing is recording a reality in time, that changes. So that was meaningful for me to see these changes and to record them. To do a portrait of a place.” - Eastman
17:30 - Why did Eastman get into photography in the first place?
19:10 - College years/Entering the workforce
23:10 - The attraction of photography
24:00 - The Daybooks of Edward Weston
24:30 - First Photographs as a “Photographer”
26:45 - Emotion in photography
27:03 - “What you feel about a photograph is transmitted, translated, communicated into print.” - Eastman
28:45 - Photograph things that you have feelings about
29:25 - Ansel Adams & Others
31:40 - First photo jobs
38:39 - “When I started, there was all these voices in my head. There were critics, gallery owners, museum curators, my parents, their friends – there was a Shakespearean chorus of naysayers telling me I couldn’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t do it. Those voices propelled me.” - Eastman
40:25 - Relating Michael’s Story to the concept of Anti-
42:00 - Eastman’s First Show at Washington University
44:40 - Maintaining an attitude of incompleteness
49:00 - Sitting on your work for awhile
50:00 - Knowing William Gass
54:30 - Shooting Forest Park & showing them to Gass in his last years
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58:15 - Reinvesting back into yourself
1:00:00 - Commercial vs. Fine Art Work
1:00:15 - Shooting Nudes as Landscape
1:06:00 - Finding success in fine art later in life
1:09:00 - Success is the most difficult thing for an artist to overcome
1:11:05 - Vivian Maier
1:12:50 - Lee Friedlander
1:13:50 - Gaining a national reputation with commercial work
1:20:00 - Low overhead = more freedom
1:21:00 - Learning about studio lighting
1:22:00 - Shooting on location
1:26:00 - 9/11 & No Work
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1:29:00 - Overview of Eastman’s fine art work
1:33:00 - The importance of printmaking
1:40:00 - What Eastman’s working on now
1:46:00 - When photography became recognized in the art world
1:49:00 - Agoraphobia
1:52:00 - Childhood fears
1:54:28 - A Ghost Story
1:57:30 - Composition/Framing
2:04:30 - Originality
2:06:00 - Cuba
2:07:00 - Buena Vista Social Club
2:08:00 - Traveling to Cuba
2:11:00 - Isabella's Two Chairs
2:14:00 - Havana
2:17:00 - Book sales lead to gallery openings
2:19:00 - Traveling photo show
2:21:20 - The Price of Everything
2:23:30 - NOLA and Current Photo work
2:25:00 - Forest Park Retrospective
2:30:00 - Leaving instagram
2:32:30 - Waking up with something to do
2:33:30 - Feeling mortal
Next Episode
004 - Syd Suntha
Syd Suntha is a chef, co-owner of Ballyhoo Hot Sauce and overall hustler.
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4:00 - Syd/Suntish
6:00 - First time we met
7:30 - Get in the Van - Henry Rollins
8:00 - Hanging out backstage
9:45 - Getting into the music industry
11:45 - Going to live shows nowadays
13:30 - Finding & makes music before the internet
16:30 - The problems with instant access to niche content
22:00 - Leaving normal jobs to work with bands
24:30 - Growing up as a Sri Lankan in St. Louis
25:30 - Embracing what made him different
26:30 - Tour managing Adair & Jon Oakes
28:30 - Pivoting career
29:00 - Cooking with Bert McCracken of The Used
30:00 - Kitchen Confidential
30:30 - Culinary school
33:30 - Tipping culture is bullshit
37:00 - Rockwell Beer doesn’t do tips
39:00 - Authenticity in pricing
42:00 - Restaurants and hard costs
46:00 - Vote with your dollars
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48:00 - Moving up to Seattle from L.A.
50:00 - Working at Skillet
52:00 - Food Trucks in Seattle
58:30 - Starting up Bread & Circuses
1:00:00 - Behind the name ‘Bread & Circuses’
1:03:00 - Putting a restaurant inside a brewery
1:06:30 - Leaving Bread & Circuses
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1:07:00 - Starting up Ballyhoo Hot Sauce
1:11:00 - Owning a product vs. owning a restaurant
1:15:00 - How Ballyhoo is more than just ‘Hot’ Sauce
1:17:30 - Brands collaborating with other brands
1:18:00 - Syd’s ‘Seattle Street Food Cook Book’ saga
1:23:00 - Wanting to do more collaborations
1:25:00 - Limited editions can’t be forced
1:25:45 - Psyence Fiction - Unkle
1:27:00 - Bape
1:30:00 - Head Automatica Limited Edition Dunks
1:32:00 - Wanting and buying a military hummer
1:35:00 - Syd’s parents
1:36:00 - Drinking in St. Louis
1:38:00 - Syd’s Dad’s drinking history
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1:42:00 - Sri Lankan influence
1:49:00 - Future of Ballyhoo
1:52:15 - Standing out from the competition
1:56:00 - The politicizing of everything
1:59:00 - Syd’s success motto
2:00:00 - Outro
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