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Art and Science Punks
Rob Stenzinger and Kate Shields Stenzinger
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Episode 73: Riding the LEGO Highs
Art and Science Punks
09/03/19 • 59 min
This week Kate and Rob discuss our experiences playing with LEGO bricks both growing up and as parents with kiddos into LEGOs. Also: how we feel about creativity and LEGO. Also also: buying our latest round of Legos via Mercari.
This week's art and science picks: one about a planet getting reclassified, the other is a sort of 3d animation.
Related Links and Resources
- Lego - Wiktionary
- lego | Mercari
- Townhouse Pet Shop & Café 31097 | Creator 3-in-1 | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
- Volkswagen T1 Camper Van 10220 | Creator Expert | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
- BRIANMAY.COM || THE OFFICIAL BRIAN MAY WEBSITE
- Pixar's Zoetrope and how animation works | The Kid Should See This
- Hello Kitty Mega Bloks Cruise Ship 10930 ToyGenie - YouTube
- Strong Bad Email #98 - Stupid Stuff - YouTube
- Interactive Children's Museum | The Works Museum
- Kate's Science Pick: Is Pluto a Planet? Nasa Administrator and Brian May Reignite the Debate | Digital Trends
- Rob's Art Pick: Freequences, a 'caketrope' animation by Alexandre Dubosc | The Kid Should See This
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- Professional Coaching, Talks, and Workshops for Teams, Couples, and Individuals

Episode 72: Current Creative Projects
Art and Science Punks
08/19/19 • 52 min
This week Kate and Rob discuss each of our latest summer projects, with a really good shared project announcement, also 2019 goals check-in. Also: Fish Quest Complete. Also also: we are clearly nerdy punks for enjoying all this goal talk.
This week's art and science picks: one about our home galaxy, the other is a new (to us) source of creative videos.
Related Links and Resources
- Kate and Rob now offer: Professional Coaching, Talks, and Workshops for Teams, Couples, and Individuals
- Guitar Fretter - A game for memorizing the note positions on guitar and bass
- How old is the Sun? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
- Kate's Art Pick: The Art Assignment - YouTube
- Rob's Science Pick: NASA - NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision via: Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) / Twitter
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Episode 71: Fish Quest and Solar Oven
Art and Science Punks
07/28/19 • 48 min
This week Kate and Rob discuss making decisions about pets and animal companions. Also: a quest for a fish has begun. Also also: making a solar oven is a fun craft that's less dangerous than it sounds.
This week's art and science picks: one about toasting sugar, the other is appreciating music from video games.
Related Links and Resources
- National S'mores Day Fun! Solar S'mores Snack - Kids Activities | Saving Money | Home Management | Motherhood on a Dime
- Yummy Fun with Pizza Box Solar Oven Smores! ⋆ Take Them Outside
- Kate's Science Pick: The science behind a perfectly-toasted marshmallow - The Verge + Science in the woods.: Marshmallows
- Rob's Art Pick: MegaGRRL - Portable YM2612 VGM Player | Hackaday.io + OverClocked ReMix: Video Game Music Community
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Episode 70: Summertime Memories
Art and Science Punks
07/08/19 • 54 min
This week Kate and Rob discuss nostalgic summer fun and what they do as a family for new summer experiences that hopefully the kiddos will look back with their own nostalgia. Also they ask about one another's Summer-jam-tunes. Also also: imperfection, not all the summer experiences are Instagram moments, both the ups and the downs.
This week's art and science picks: one about how we humans perceive color, the other is one of our favorite kinds of tape.
Related Links and Resources
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime (Official Video) - YouTube
- Climate of Minnesota - Wikipedia
- Kate's Art Pick: Over 40 Painters Tape Games and Activities - A girl and a glue gun
- Rob's Science Pick: Color Think Tank - How Do We See Color? + How Humans See In Color - American Academy of Ophthalmology + How we see color - Colm Kelleher - YouTube
- Sim Daltonism
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Episode 69: Enthusiasm for Outer Space
Art and Science Punks
06/17/19 • 54 min
This week Kate surprises Rob with the topic of SPACE. Kate and Rob talk about being enthusiasts curious about space, rocketry, interplanetary travel. Why do we explore space? Why was this topic a surprise? It's all in the show.
This week's art and science picks: one is a feed of fascinating stuff getting created and the other is a creative process tip from David Bowie - a way to mix and mash up your own ideas.
Related Links and Resources
- Science Comics: Rockets | Anne Drozd | Macmillan or via amazon
- International Space Station | NASA
- Era: Space Telescopes
- StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson - Science, pop culture & comedy collide on StarTalk w/ astrophysicist & Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-hosts, celebrities & scientists. : StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- NASA
- Moon mass mystery: Astronomers unsure what's embedded in the center of the moon - CNN
- Turns out this one is not the sweaty video as mentioned in the show but it is about area 51: Megadeth - Hangar 18 - YouTube
- Whereas this one: Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due - YouTube
- Ask Smithsonian: How Does a Satellite Stay Up? | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
- Can an artificial satellite stay in orbit forever? - Space Exploration Stack Exchange
- Hackaday Podcast Ep22: King Of Power Banks, Great SDR Hacks, Sand Reflow, And Rat Rod Mower | Hackaday
- See Starlink’s “Space Train” Before It Leaves The Station | Hackaday
- NASA - NASA's Utilization of Global Positioning System (GPS) | NASA
- Andy Weir Archives - StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson : StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Kate's Science Pick: How Its Made - YouTube
- Rob's Art Pick: Creative process cut-up technique in this short video clip of David Bowie
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Episode 68: Where Do I Write Stuff Down?
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06/03/19 • 52 min
Kate and Rob talk about how Kate wants to find a new note taking tool, what she's currently using and how she'd like it to be better. Rob has lots of questions. :)
This week's art and science picks: one is a brief podcast and the other about charming shrinking plastic.
Related Links and Resources
- Evernote
- OmniFocus for Mac - The Omni Group
- Scrivener | Literature & Latte
- TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook
- Apps/Tomboy - GNOME Wiki!
- DEVONthink, professional document and information management for the Mac and iOS
- Pinboard bookmark service
- Firefox by Mozilla
- Microsoft OneNote
- Drafts. Where Text Starts.
- Kate's Art Pick: A Childhood Hit: Shrink Charms Made From Plastic Packaging
- Rob's Science Pick: The Compiler, huge advancement in computer science by Grace Hopper, covered in a great and brief podcast. BBC World Service - 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, Compiler, Grace Hopper - Wikipedia
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Episode 67: Comics
Art and Science Punks
05/11/19 • 50 min
Kate and Rob talk about Kate's comics, what caught our interest in being comic readers, making comics, and attending Free Comic Book Day.
This week's art and science picks: one is an algorithm making music and the other about bees.
Related Links and Resources
- Art Geek Zoo Comics
- Free Comic Book Day
- Jack Kirby New Gods: Artist's Edition HC | IDW Publishing(publisher) Jack Kirby New Gods Artist Edition Hard Cover: 9781613779453: Amazon.com: Books(amazon listing)
- Wolverine: Origin Premiere (Hardcover) | Comic Books | Comics | Marvel.com(publisher) Amazon.com: Wolverine: Origin (9780785183846): Paul Jenkins, Bill Jemas, Joe Quesada, Andy Kubert: Books(amazon listing)
- The Source Comics and Games!
- Kate's Science Pick: How to make a bee watering station | SA Garden and Home
- Rob's Art Pick: Neural network generating technical death metal: RELENTLESS DOPPELGANGER \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ - YouTube(live stream of the music) [1811.06633] Generating Albums with SampleRNN to Imitate Metal, Rock, and Punk Bands(academic paper) Nun de la parte Del, mas Deilha (la Máquina) | DADABOTS(album created by the band that was the sample source after the neural network output this new music)
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Episode 66: Planning Mind
Art and Science Punks
04/23/19 • 44 min
Kate and Rob talk about Kate's ideas, tips, and overall style of planning in what might become a multi part series. This time we focus on how she plans a travel event for and with the family.
This week's art and science picks: one is a trusted office supply the other is about a crashed space craft.
Related Links and Resources
- Kate's Art Pick: Sharpie Color Markers! Amazon.com : Sharpie Electro Pop Permanent Markers, Ultra Fine Point, Assorted Colors, 24 Count : Gateway
- Rob's Science Pick: Lunar Lander (not the game): This Is the Stunning Picture Israel’s Lunar Lander Took Right Before It Crashed - Motherboard... Israel’s Lunar Lander Has Crashed on the Moon - Motherboard... Private Lunar Landers Are Coming, and They’re Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before - Motherboard
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Episode 65: Water Parks
Art and Science Punks
04/02/19 • 51 min
Kate and Rob talk about our experiences with water slides, some impressive water slides around the world, and science about water slides. Also: how it's difficult to traverse the house without surprising Kate.
This week's art and science picks: one is a stage special effect the other is about living in low gravity.
Related Links and Resources
- The Physics Behind Waterslides
- The Physics of Water Slides: The Science Behind the Thrill - Samsung C&T Newsroom
- Putting the Water in Water Slides - How Water Slides Work | HowStuffWorks
- Water Slides | PBS LearningMedia
- Kate's Science Pick: These Scientists Want to Pay You $19,000 to Stay in Bed 2 Months | Fortune
- Rob's Art Pick: Pepper's ghost - Wikipedia Pepper's Ghost: Behind the Scenes - YouTube
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Episode 74: Starting a Business
Art and Science Punks
10/08/19 • 54 min
This week Kate and Rob discuss starting a business and how it began with Kate training for a 10k run. Also: it's a bit meta that Kate's coaching couples who start businesses. Also also: metaphorical rodeo clown.
This week's art and science picks: one about measuring gravity, the other is a sort of chill creative challenge.
Workshops
Kate and Rob announced they are working on worksohps for couples, more details and dates coming soon.
Workshops out now: Craft your own fun way to approach creative challenges like #Inktober, NaNoWriMo, and more in Customize Your Next Creative Challenge available on Gumroad and Skillshare.
Help your design process by unpacking your ideas, questions, and findings into a flow of steps all about understanding your user experience in Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate available on Gumroad and Skillshare.
Coaching
Book time with one of us to explore coaching, we're here for you from anywhere you are and have our specialties too. Kate works with partners looking to achieve big goals and sustain big love, and individuals embarking on ambitious change at any career age or stage. Rob works with product makers and leaders to build research empowered teams, be agents for positive change, make meaningful products and navigate big career choices.
Related Links and Resources
- Coach Kate
- Coach Rob
- Coaching Training Alliance
- Kate's Art Pick: Instagram #igbagfest2019, sewsweetness on instagram
- Rob's Science Pick: A black hole has probably just been spotted swallowing a neutron star | Science News
- What is an Interferometer? | LIGO Lab | Caltech
- What is LIGO? | LIGO Lab | Caltech
- LIGO - A Gravitational-Wave Interferometer | LIGO Lab | Caltech
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