Artist Decoded: Directing Music Videos with Tim Mattia

Artist Decoded is a weekly podcast series created by emerging creative director and photographer Yoshino.

Tim Mattia is a director and photographer currently living between Los Angeles & London. Tim has filmed with artists including Coldplay, The 1975, Troye Sivan, Muse, Arcarde Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Deftones, Florence and the Machine, Jack White... etc.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• His experience moving to Los Angeles from London
• Artists losing their mystique because of social media
• Beautiful mistakes happening on set
• Writing treatments for companies and music videos
• Troye Sivan
• The 1975

www.timmattia.com

The Creative Justice of Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei, highly acclaimed political artist, has been on the forefront of many issues pertaining to refugees, political prisoners, and basic human rights.

“This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.”

— Ai Weiwei

It's increasingly important for creative minds to understand the grand responsibility we have to present social issues. Art is a messenger and artists are the foundational leaders in human culture. We each have our personal issues that we tangle with but what is amazing is that one's personal struggle isn't limited to oneself. Other people share in the struggle. Every one of us. 

One of the key messages Ai Weiwei presents time and time again is freedom. His work shines light on threats to human rights, victims of injustice and catastrophe, and those jailed or killed for their resolve in freedom.

We all want to be free. For fear to not override our lives. We all want to live to the fullest.

We as artists must understand our expression as a powerful weapon to fight for our liberation and the liberation of others. We can all take a cue from Ai Weiwei, and let our art speak for those who have no voice.

Zodiac Installation by Ai Weiwei in Prague, Czech Republic

Meditative Music: The Stepkids - Art of Forgetting

"Art of Forgetting" from The Stepkids album Troubadour http://stonesthrow.com/thestepkids | http://itunes.com/thestepkids Directed by Georgia Camera by Brian Close Original Animation by Georgia www.ggeeoorrggiiaa.com

Watch: Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present

"Our minds are cavernous, chaotic places. So much courses through them that has little to do with what is right in front of our eyes. We end up seeming ungrateful to where are. "

via The School of Life

"We need to be prepared for the weird way in which we align with the world and not berate ourselves unduly for our difficulties at doing justice to where our bodies and minds happen to be."

Artist Decoded: Alex Beck with "The Balance Between Art & Life"

Artist Decoded is a weekly podcast series created by emerging creative director and photographer Yoshino.

Alex Beck is an award-winning painter and illustrator who maintains a studio in Richmond, Virginia. He is known for his uncommonly versatile work in oil, acrylic, and gouache.

Beck was formally trained at Ringling College of Art and Design. He also expanded his training at the Illustration Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, The Masters Class at Amherst, Massachusetts, and The Art League of Alexandria, Virginia where he previously taught at.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Films
• The balance between life and creating art
• Art as a narrative told as a single statement
• Finding love within ourself
• Not letting a lack of technical knowledge detour us from creating work
• Creating a personal "vocabulary" with our work
• Giving back and adding value into other's lives

www.alexthebeck.com

Meditative Music: CFCF - You Hear Colours

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