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AP News Radio
Harris pledges support for African innovation in Ghana
"Vice president Kamala Harris pledges a new era of partnership with Africa during a trip to Ghana Tuesday. Speaking from a monument commemorating Ghana's independence from colonialism, she says the U.S. is committed to strengthen its partnership with Africa. America will be guided, not by what we can do for our African partners, but what we can do with our African partners. Harrison visions of future propelled by African innovation. We must invest. In the African ingenuity and creativity, which will unlock incredible economic growth and opportunity. The vice president is on a weeklong trip that includes visits to Tanzania and Zambia. I'm Julie Walker.
AP News Radio
Prince Harry in court for privacy suit against tabloid
"Prince Harry is in court for a privacy suit against a tabloid. Harry's in the high court in London as the lawyer for a group of British tabloids prepares to ask a judge to toss out lawsuits by the prince Elton John and several other celebrities who allege phone Tapping and other invasions of privacy. The hearings, one of several lawsuits Harry, also known as the Duke of Sussex, has brought against the media. This one is expected to last four days. Harris presence at the court is a sign of the importance he places on the case the high profile individuals are seeking damages for misuse of private information against associated newspapers. Charles De Ledesma, London
AP News Radio
In Ghana, Kamala Harris 'excited about the future of Africa'
"U.S. vice president Kamala Harris, who is greeted by school children, dancers, and drummers, as she arrived in Ghana for the start of a weeklong visit to Africa intended to deepen U.S. relationships amid global competition over the continent's future. Ghana is one of the continent's most stable democracies that Harris is arriving at a time of severe challenges for the West African nation. What an honor it is to be here in Ghana. And on the continent of Africa. On behalf of the president and our entire nation, we bring you greetings, Ghana's economy, among the fastest growing in the world before the COVID-19 pandemic faces a debt crisis and soaring inflation that is dropping up the cost of food and other necessities. As a further statement of the long and enduring and very important relationship and friendship between the people of the United States and those who live on continent of Africa. I'm Sarah Napa
AP News Radio
Vice President Harris' trip aims to deepen US ties in Africa
"Vice president Kamala Harris is traveling to Africa this weekend to deepen U.S. ties in the region. During her weeklong trip, vice president Kamala Harris will be working to deepen and reframe U.S. relationships in Africa. It's part of the administration's effort to counter China's growing influence around the world. And in Africa, China has led huge infrastructure and telecommunications projects, but a National Security Council spokesman says China's interests in the region have been selfish. While the U.S. is trying to help Africa deal with a spate of challenges. The vice president's trip includes three nights in Ghana. Two nights in Tanzania, and one in Zambia. There's a lot of anticipation about her trip with Harris being the first person of color to serve as a U.S. vice president. I'm Jackie Quinn
The Trish Regan Show
Liberal Takeover: My Chat With Dave Rubin
"I'm not sure he gets another four years at this point. If he does not run again, who are they going to put up? I mean, have they got a bench that's even worth looking at? I think Kamala Harris would be worse if you can imagine worse for the Democrats than Hillary Clinton. And who else am Gavin Newsom, his track record in California would scare the heck out of any other normal American. I don't know who they got. Well, it's interesting because one of the things I've been talking about on the show right now is that the bench that's starting to coalesce on the Republican side is pretty solid. You know, whether you like all these people are not the idea of Trump, desantis, Vivek Rama Swami, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo. These are interesting qualified for various reasons people. Now, someone that's on the left may hate all of them, but there's a track record for these people, all of them. The people on the left right now, you're right. I mean, Kamala Harris was polling basically at zero in her own party when she got out when she was originally running against Joe Biden, you know, a couple of years ago. So that's one thing. But the other thing is they have almost nobody. I mean, are you going to put Pete up there? He's highly unqualified even to be transportation secretary. It was a diversity hire. They basically admitted it. We want the first gay transportation secretary. I don't know what your sexuality has to do with your ability to figure out which way roads are supposed to go, but okay, fine. They don't have much and the fact that, you know, most of us seem to think it would be going towards Gavin Newsom is so insane. And I sort of think so too, but it just shows you what is going on on that side of the aisle.
The Officer Tatum Show
Is It Racism If It's Black People?
"All right, so again, I was talking about racism and racism is not a huge problem in America, Carl. Why are you talking about this stuff? Because it's so important for us to deal with all of this woke crap that is going on. In the United States and how the left is trying to usher in a lot of their Marxist ideas through using critical race theory by using trans people by using gay people by using diversity, equity, and inclusion. By using SEL, if you teach children like these children at this particular school that they are oppressed and that there are oppressors and that they should be so hyper focused on race, what do you expect them to become? They're gonna start behaving like victims and that's exactly what I hate to see. So when I see headlines like this, they do grab my attention. So again, here's a quote from Mark Harris. The Sacramento attorney and he's the district DEI inclusion monitor only in California. Only in California. Well, I take that back. Maybe in New York as well. All right, but it says here in and I'm quoting from him. I've been on an emotional roller coaster today. This is the third time we've had perpetrators of a racially motivated incident. Identified as African Americans. Question is it racism if it's black people? That's the question I'm throwing out there. It's pretty bad when our kids, for whatever reason, think that it would be popular for them to have a negative depiction of our own. Is it possible they have a negative depiction if indeed they do, is it possible they have a negative depiction of our own as you say mister Harris because they've been taught that we're pressed that we're victims by people on the left.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Did Grandpa Joe Just Fall Off the Airplane Steps Again?
"Biden fell off the steps again yesterday when he's coming off an airplane. Did you see that? The picture of him in The Rain looks like he slipped. I am, I'm telling you, they got to stop letting him walk up and down the steps of the plane. He's going to break his neck. I am really worried about it. I'm not kidding about that. Let him go on through the jet bridge like the rest of us peons do when we get on a plane. He doesn't need to go up and down steps. He's going to hurt himself.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: Half the World Eats With Their Fingers
"Did have the world eat with their fingers. You got Africa. You got India. You have the Middle East. So for me, she sounds like she's a bit racist herself. Yeah, her little, she's got her little pinky finger up in the air with her little soap. But I'm just telling you they're going to go after him and they're going to go after him. They're going to go after him and after him and after him. There's no way around this. We have to accept it. And they want Trump. So my question to you is, do they want Trump because they think he can he's going to lose or he can lose to Biden or do they want Trump because they love covering Trump? Let's be honest with you. For many media people, the Trump candidacy and presidency of 2016 to 2020 was more fun than they've ever had.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Start Making Joe Biden Use the Jet Bridge Instead of Stairs
"And finally Tyler from South Carolina. At least run desantis can put together a complete sentence can ride a bicycle without tipping over and walk upstairs without falling down. I think Biden fell off the steps again yesterday when he's coming off an airplane. Did you see that? The picture of him in The Rain looks like he slipped. I am, I'm telling you, they got to stop letting him walk up and down the steps of the plane. He's going to break his neck. I am really worried about it. I'm not kidding about that. Let him go on through the jet bridge like the rest of us peons do when we get on a plane. He doesn't need to go up and down steps. He's going to hurt himself.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Gov. Ron DeSantis: Bringing Accountability to BLM Rioters, Fauci
"We need accountability and we're working in Florida to bring that with our grand jury with Joe's public health integrity committee that he's formed, but I know they're looking into some of this in Washington in the House of Representatives. And we need a full accounting. We need to know about the gain of function research. We need to know everything about the lab leak. We need to know about the role of Doctor Fauci and all of this to make sure that he is held accountable. And we just need to resolve that we won't let it happen again. You know, when they said 15 days to slow the spread, it turns out, you know, people like birx and Fauci, they never intended just 15 days. That was just a basically marketing to try to get people to buy in initially. And it's true. Once it started, it was hard to break out. I mean, we really had to drag the country out of this, and we were getting incoming every step of the way for the businesses and the schools and all that. And so the plan was always, I think, to have it longer, and I remember in April of 2020 at one point, someone was saying because they were criticizing Florida, Georgia, some of the states who were reopening quickly. And one of someone asked Fauci and he's like, they're like, when is it going to be okay to reopen? And he said, when there's no cases and no deaths, well, the problem is, with a respiratory virus, you can never have no cases. Are you kidding me? It's just so that basically said the default is locked down and you have to prove somehow that you can open, which is not attainable. And so that was a huge, huge red flag, and I think every step of the way, they would always try to do things to condition your behavior or control your behavior. And that's why they were telling things like noble lies because they wanted you to behave the way they wanted you to behave,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Sources Claim That Ron DeSantis Ate Pudding With Three Fingers
"New York magazine, Margaret Hartman, headline. Ron DeSantis eating pudding with his fingers will end his 2024 bid. She writes Ron DeSantis has been hit with a fast art with a food related accusation so weird it may end his 2024 presidential bid before it officially starts. The Daily Beast reports that according to two sources, the Florida governor once ate chocolate pudding with three fingers. This article in a New York publication says politicians are human beings who need to consume food and water in order to live just like the rest of us, but they should really consider only taking in sustenance alone in a darkened room. Just to be safe. Chris Christie is forever the governor who berated a guy while clutching an ice cream cone. The only thing most people remember about senator Amy Klobuchar's 2020 presidential bid is that she was accused of eating salad with a comb. I mean, this is a serious argument. That they're making. Ron DeSantis being a messy eater eater is a disqualifier. Now what's fascinating is I know this doesn't surprise you. The elitist of New York magazine doesn't even consider Ron DeSantis military career.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Could Glenn Youngkin Surpass Donald Trump & Ron DeSantis?
"I think I could be wrong. This is going to come down to Trump or desantis. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who's really well politically connected. And he says, I'm telling you Glenn youngkin, Glenn youngkin, Glenn youngkin. Don't minimize the way he can resonate with the American people. But unless there is a late surge and hey, it can happen. Just ask the Furman paladins. You can post a big come from behind win. In sports and in politics, but it seems like it's going to come down to Trump or desantis. And I mean, this is a true headline. Ron DeSantis eating pudding with his fingers will end his 2024 bid. The pundits are now predicting doom. For Ron DeSantis.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
The Daily Beast: DeSantis Ate Chocolate Pudding With 3 Fingers
"The bombshell report yesterday. Over at The Daily Beast, there are two sources, not one but two sources that say that on a flight on a private jet somewhere, governor desantis, 8 a container of pudding using three fingers, not just one finger, not two, but all three fingers. And I've done a lot of goofy things in my life. I admit I've never eaten pudding with my fingers. I just wolfed down a Saint Patrick's Day cupcake. Actually, don't tell anyone. I ate two. I'm gonna be in the doghouse with Rachel over at PhD weight loss and nutrition. Once in a while you cheat a little bit, good thing is I know what to do when I go off the wagon and I cheat a little bit, but it was good. But you eat cupcakes, and those aren't easy to eat. 'cause the icing gets on your nose a little bit. I'm not kidding you. That was serious reporting. Sources say Ron DeSantis is a messy eater. And he ate pudding using three fingers. You know, do you realize how badly they want Trump to be the nominee? And I've concluded that this is what they're thinking. They want to take desantis out of contention. They want Trump to be the nominee because they think that Biden can beat Trump.
AP News Radio
Biden hosting Irish prime minister on St. Patrick's Day
"President Biden will host Ireland's prime minister on this Saint Patrick's Day. First Irish prime minister Leo varadkar and his partner will attend a breakfast with vice president Kamala Harris and her husband, then President Biden holds a bilateral meeting with the prime minister in The White House Oval Office, Biden infrared ger head to the capital for a noontime lunch with congressional leaders, hosted by the Friends of Ireland caucus, later Biden will host a White House reception for varadkar. Biden plans to visit both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland this year, the 25th anniversary of the U.S. brokered good Friday accord, which helped in sectarian violence that had raged for three decades over the issue of Northern Ireland unifying with Ireland or remaining part of the United Kingdom. Biden, who often speaks of his Irish heritage, has declared march Irish heritage month, and is even dying the self lawn fountain green. John of water Washington
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Trish Regan: The Connection Between Canceling Tests Scores & CRT
"I mean, you think about Columbia University. My Alma mater, by the way, saying, okay, you don't need the SAT anymore. Well, part of that is because it's rooted in this CRT, which came out of a lot of academia, specifically law schools, critical race theory, which suggests that you're never going to get a fair shot in this country. If you happen to be born black. And so we need to somehow correct this. And the idea is, well, if we have more people that we allow into these quote unquote Ivy League schools, they'll get that stamp of approval, which will enable them to be on a certain course in life. And the only way may be because unfortunately, and this gets back to some root issues to quote Kamala Harris, rue issues, we got education systems in so many poor minority communities that are beyond messed up Chicago, Compton, out in California and New York City. I did a story years ago about how kids were getting passed from grade to grade all the way to 12th grade. They couldn't read Mike. I mean, this is a problem. And so the answer is somehow, okay, well we're going to just get rid of SATs because we can bring all these people in and I think they're afraid of lawsuits because what about the poor kid who, you know, whose parents immigrated here from India or the Philippines and has been studying his tail off for years and years and years and gets a perfect score on the SAT and straight a's, but that child because he's from Asian descent may not be able to get in. They're preparing for this. There is an agenda. They think they can fix it this way with handouts with college degrees. And the truth is you can't because it goes back to something pretty simple. We need to do a better job organizing at the local level to ensure everybody's got some kind of access to opportunity. We don't do that. When you see Lori Lightfoot out in Chicago, thank goodness Chicago voted her out,
The Eric Metaxas Show
'Why So Many Christians Have Left the Faith' With Michael Brown
"Are ate more books. You know, people say that about me and it's like, no, no, no. That's not true of me. But you, there are certain people that I don't know how you do it. But this one, the title, it's very provocative title. And again, brand new book, why so many Christians have left the faith. So let's talk about it. I have my theories. What do you say? First, let's recognize there is a problem. You know, there's some say, well, if the true Christians, they won't leave either way, a lot of people are dropping out. Prominent leaders have dropped out fully apostasized, pastors, worship leaders, cemetery professors, don't believe the Bible anymore. We hear the stats about profession Christians dropping at a rapid rate in America, young people dropping out of church. So there are lots of different reasons. There are some who say, look, look, Eric, Jesus prophesied that there'd be an anti falling away. And this is just the expected falling away. Well, it's a falling away. There's no question that it's happening. But to just say, well, it's the final thing. There's something we can do about it. No, I don't believe that at all. And for sure, there are a number of different factors. And what I do in the book Eric is I try to break down all the different factors because everyone has their own story. Each person has their own story. And I try to shoot why this is happening and then how we can address it. So for example, one of the big issues, you've got a great book about atheism. One of the big issues is that the new atheists that really sprung up about 1516 years ago. Bestselling book, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dunn. What happened was the memes, the quotes, the ideas, the mindset of those books kind of trickled down to the general public. So that 12 year olds are talking about I'm not going to listen to a Bronze Age God and some antiquated book and everyone thinks the Bible is hateful and bigoted and so on. So the sentiments trickled out,
The Officer Tatum Show
The Process of Data Points
"All right, let's get back to the processing of particular statistical data points. You know, you can always talk about disparities. And it's funny because when the disparity is in favor of the minority, nobody thinks it's a problem at all. And it's not worth researching they're looking into. And I would argue that sports and entertainment disproportionately black people are dominating. But that's not a bad thing if minorities are a dominating disproportionately in certain fields. You know, and I would argue these left is that look at Planned Parenthood, why is it that more black people more black women have more abortions than anybody else? Per CAPiTA. Why? Disproportionately, black people are having more abortions. Disproportionately, black people commit more crime. Disproportionately, blacks kill whites versus whites killing blacks. Disproportionately black people representing represented in a criminal justice system and in the prison system. Can you explain that? that's what when you see those disproportionate numbers, people like to back off of it and go make excuses.
The Officer Tatum Show
Redlining; Fact or Fiction
"Show. Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, ladies, welcome back. No, don't do it. Ladies and gentlemen, general ladies, welcome back to the officer Tatum show. I wanted to excuse my talking. I talked to my guy in the background. So but I wanted to welcome you guys back. I was doing some research and my producers really been helping me do this because I hear people complaining about redlining. And I'm going to be honest with you, I don't understand redlining as much, but I do understand if the left is saying that it's racist is probably not and they're making an excuse. Some of what I've read and understood from redlining, you know, it's weird to me because I need to understand it a little more and I think when I research it over the weekend, I'll get a good understanding. The baseline of what I'm seeing is that they're Corning off areas and isolating black people in certain geographical locations. And the thing is is that I just have to say this. It's like, why is it an excuse that when you put black people in one area, it turns into dust and people act like that's the government's fault. It's like, well, they made all the black people living in this one area, and it's poor, and it doesn't have resources. It's like, well, wait a minute, to me, that sounds worse. It sounds like if you put black people in one area, they don't know how to sustain themselves. That's what it sound like to me. They sound like to me that because black people are poor, they can't clean up after themselves. They can't clean their own house. They can clean the streets. They can not kill each other. It's like, what are you actually saying? But I'm going to do more research on the red line thing because I want to understand people use it all the time. And I know that there's an argument on both sides, right? I can bring somebody on here that I swear before God that red line was the problem was the cost of all the problems that black people would go through in America and I could bring somebody on and say, red line is a complete myth.
The RELEVANT Podcast
"g. harris" Discussed on The RELEVANT Podcast
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I don't know if you knew. He got into the laundry room. That's how cocaine bear got started. I will say this. It doesn't really matter what the product is. They will just find things that it can do. Whatever the product is, they're just like, well, did you know you could probably shave with it? And you know what I mean? And like, can you? That was a beauty of a good infomercial. It was clearly a product that had one intention. One intended use, but they just find random things to do with it. I have this spray insulation. And you can build a boat out of a screen door if you fill the screen door with our spray insane. It's like, wait. I'm not good at it. This was a product invented for a very singular industrial purpose that we happen to fall upon the patent of. Did you know that you can probably tar your roof with it? You know what I mean? That was the strategy. It's fine. Just random things you can do with it, you know? There's the clapper. I mean, that's a classic clap on clap off the clapper. Play the clip. Presenting a way to make life a lot simpler. But clapper, turn on a light as you enter the room. Turn off the TV. Without getting up. Turn on the music. Just about anything. Turns things on and turns things off from anywhere in the world. The clappers easy to use. The great thing about the clapper one underrated invention too, it was basically like an early Alexa or Siri or whatever. Limited functionality, but the same idea. You know what I mean? I'm not getting up, I'm just gonna, instead of shouting, I'm just gonna clap and some device is gonna do my best. Did you ever know anybody who had one? No. I had one for a new ad one, and it's very cool. Was it just lights or like? He had his bedroom rigged. It was like, we're there for sleepover. And then he did the double clap. And the lights went out. And I was like, okay, that's the coolest thing I've ever experienced. Did you ever mess with him in the night and just clap repeatedly just to mess with him? No. Okay, well, you wasted a good opportunity because that was the purpose of the clapper. You could have been like watching a movie with him and then just started clapping at the end. Oh, sorry, bro, I didn't know. I didn't know. You know, the lights start flickering. But seriously, it's an early Siri or you know what I mean? Same idea. I'm surprised they weren't more prominent because it seems like a very useful invention. Joshua powers said every Ron product and a kip Lauren says the life alert ones, of course. I found that I can't get up. The ronco food dehydrator Jake Alger said he says, just said it and the studio audience yells. Forget it. Remember those? Okay, I'm glad I forgot we were even talking about this today, but I was on, I don't know if this is a little aside, but it's going somewhere. Trust me. I don't know if you guys experience this. Have your Twitter algorithms got really weird and are serving you like a lot of just random shocking content or is that just I'm seeing fights all of a sudden? I'm getting an insane amount of fight videos and just like outrageous videos in my Twitter scrolling. Anyway, I was scrolling this morning and somebody posted a commercial that was from like the early 90s in New Zealand. That was a seat belt commercial, okay? And they're like, I've been looking for the tweet was like, I've been looking at this video for years. It starts off as a PSA about wearing seatbelts. It turns into hereditary. I don't know if you guys have seen the horror film hereditary, but this is a very infamous car accident scene in there. So I was like, all right, I'm in, I'm watching this. And sure enough, it is a family driving. You know, one seat belted the other knot, okay? But it's pleasant, it just, they get into a head on collision, okay? It shows a person fly through the windshield in slow motion and smack onto the wind. Like remember when Michael hits Meredith, there's that shocking shot of like a body hitting the windshield, and then it reverses and plays the body shooting through the windshield. I mean, absolutely horrific. Like kids are crying. Then it fades to black and you're like, okay, that was intense. That was deeply upsetting. That it fades back in and they're zipping up the body bag. And with so in crying over it and you're like, good lord, I get the idea. Let's buckle up here, but this was a hard R commercial PSA infomercial thing from the 90s where they just played a little different, even with the fallout and can't get up. I don't want to see, I don't want to see like an elderly person literally on the ground in agony holding their hip. You could just tell me a better another use for the product, but that's, you know what I'm saying? I feel like they used to be a little bit more comfortable being upsetting on these things. I mean, magic games. And every game, there's a local PSA for don't drive drunk that has a very similar scene to what you described except a child is involved in her teddy bear flies through the windshield and is laying on the ground with broken glass all around it. And then they use the discretion, at least at least they left a little to the imagination. I didn't need to see the body fly through the air and smacking the windshield. Like show me a metaphor. That's a tense. Yeah, I mean, give me the give me the teddy bear metaphor. That's all. That's pretty tired. Yeah. All right, well, there's a lot more of that came from. You can go check them out if you check our mentions Avril and podcast on Twitter. Okay, sorry for this week's. All right, well earlier in the show, we got talking about Jesse's passion project. His screenplay for Yellowstone 2002 set in the early aughts. The angst written early aughts with decorative denim and swooping hair and lots of black Chuck Taylor's just everywhere, you know? What
Revision Path
"g. harris" Discussed on Revision Path
"That online? Sure. Well, you could go to my website, it's Ali on a Harris dot com ALL EA. Dot com. And I'm also ayanna Harris everywhere on social media. So you can find me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, even tumblr. TikTok. You can find me all those places, Ariana Harris. All right, sounds good. Well, Ariana Harris, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show. I think that just the work that you're doing is so inspired and really I think driven by your own particular creative passion. I mean, you know, as a kid that grew up reading a lot, like, you know, reading competitions and all that stuff. You know, there is just such an importance on children's books that I think sometimes kind of gets lost in the shuffle. And so the fact now that we have so many black artists, especially like yourself that are creating the books with authors that children are gonna read that are gonna help shape them into becoming the people of tomorrow, I think it's just such an amazing and inspiring thing and your work is just so beautiful and I'm so excited to see what you do next. And like I said, we'll put links to your books in the show notes. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. And thank you so much for having me. This was great. I really enjoyed this. Big, big thanks to eliana Harris, and of course thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about alyana and her work through the links in the show notes after vision path dot com. Revision path to sponsored by brevity and wit. Brevity and witt is a strategy and design firm committed to designing a more inclusive and equitable world. They're always looking to expand their roster of freelance design consultants in the U.S., particularly brand strategists, copywriters, graphic designers, and web developers. If you know how to deliver excellent creative work reliably and enjoy the autonomy of a virtual based freelance life with no non competes, check them out at brevity and wit dot com. Brevity and wit, creative excellence without the grind. Revision path is also sponsored by hover. Building your online brand has never been more important and that begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with hover. With best in class customer service, free who is privacy and more, hover is there to help you bring your online dreams to life. Go to hover dot com forward slash revision path and get 10% off your first purchase. Revision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio located in Atlanta, Georgia. Our executive producer is Maurice cherry and our editor and audio engineer is RJ basilio. Intro voice-over is by music Andre with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts are courtesy of brevity and wit. If you liked this episode, let us know. We're on social media on Instagram and Twitter just look for revision path, all one word, or you could follow us on Spotify. You can follow us on Amazon music. You can even leave us a rating, a 5 star rating, and a review on Apple podcasts. You can even call and leave us a voicemail message. Remember our hotline, the number 626-603-0310. It's also in the show notes. As always, thank you so much for
Revision Path
"g. harris" Discussed on Revision Path
"Major. And they told me, they'd say, you should join women who draw. It's a really great website. It's basically a database of women illustrators and you just put a piece of your work there and you see your name and different things about your identity and then people go there and look for artists. And I was like, okay, cool, I'll do it. So I uploaded my info and not too long after that I'd say months, my first agent, James burns, he said, hey, I like your work. Is there anything that bright can do for you? And I was like, you gotta be kidding me because it's actually bright was the agency that I was looking at when I was starting to plan, sending out my artist's postcards and the fact that he found my work on women who draw and then reached out to me was absolutely amazing. So from there, I said yes, and I've been represented by bright ever since. What are artists postcards? What's that? It's like a calling card or something, some sort. Basically, yeah, you put a strong piece of art. It could have different themes. It could be seasonal or, you know, just whatever piece of art that you like most. And you put that on one side and then you put your information, your name, your website, on the other side, and you send it to art directors or agencies. Basically, if they like them, they keep them, and they keep you in mind for projects. Okay. So you kind of use that to sort of like shop yourself around a little bit. No, I didn't even start. I went on, I put my stuff. Women who draw. And they came to you. Okay. Okay. And what are those benefits of being repped by an agency? I would imagine this sort of just takes a lot of the admin stuff off of your plate. It does, it really does. That's what I like most because contract stuff that goes through them, they have people who specifically work on contracts. So I could go to my agent, even about payments or deadlines and they could talk to the publishers in the company's or my behalf. It's just great having someone in your corner who knows the field better than you do. And then all you can do is just draw and get paid. I love it. Look, well, I mean, that's the dream for all creatives to be able to have that the freedom to do that. Like just do your work, get paid and not have to worry about all the in between stuff. So that's great. Yes, yes. It's definitely a blessing on definitely grateful to work with them. It's really awesome. And now you've got a couple of books that are coming out a little bit later this year, right? Yep, yep, I have two. The first is good things. I'm where I agree. And that's a picture book about a boy named Malcolm, and he lives with his dad and I believe it's in Harlem. That is grandma and his dad actually passes away. So he has to learn how to take care of the plants that his dad left him. And it's a really good book about grief and about plans too. I got to illustrate a lot of plants because Mariah is a amazing plant doctor in New York City. So there's that book and I also have these both come out in August. I believe the first of all is so there's also recipe for change, which is by Michael C Platt and he is pretty young. I believe he's in his late teens or his teens, but he's a chef. It's a cookbook and I illustrate different foods in different scenes based on the civil rights movement. And each of the recipes align with the scene and so you have a recipe and a story and a portrait and it's really, really educational. So I have those two coming out in August. Nice. Are they both available right now for pre order? Because I want to put links to them in the show notes. So people can check them out. They're about to be recipe for a change is actually about to be open for pre order in the first week of February. And I'm still waiting on word for good things. Okay, well hopefully by the time this comes out, which will be right around mid to late February. We'll hopefully have links to both of those. We'll certainly mention them as well. Awesome, that sounds great. Yeah. So how do you stay motivated and inspired, like with your work? You know what? I just think it's a part of my personality. I'm really self directed. I have a lot of family support, especially from my mom. And there are certain things that I just want to see on the world. And I went and I want kids to be able to see themselves in books and that just that drives me, that's always the thing that pushes me. So I have no lack of passion or drive that always pushes me. Do you have a dream project of sorts that you'd love to do one day? Oh my goodness, I feel like I have a lot of dream projects. I'm always into little known stories of figures that we definitely should know about, but we don't. So I love picture books that have to do with subjects like that. But I'm also interested in going back into animation. I'm not leaving picture books, but going maybe into the visual development part of animation, maybe character design and maybe one day, art directing, that would be amazing for animated series. That would definitely be a dream for me. That would be. Amazing. Like, is this a series that you create yourself? Oh, I'm open to it. I didn't even think of that. But now that you say it, yeah, that would be great. It could be, it could be existing too, but anyway that I could art direct or do character design that would be a dream. What do you appreciate the most about your life right now? I just appreciate being able to use the skills that I've worked on. I guess I could say gifts to just be able to use them to help people learn and just give them material to look at just new books and being able to help kids read and learn new things that's just a blessing and I never would have thought that this would be what I do as a career, but I absolutely love it. I love being able to sit down with my room and just draw and then actually have it turn into a book and it's a thing people see on bookshelves. That's just amazing to me and I'm just forever grateful for it. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years like, what kind of work would you like to be doing? It's definitely more picture books. I could see myself. I guess along with the animation thing that I just mentioned, I could actually see myself working on this series. But other than that, I could see myself doing more commercial work, kind of like what I did with pentagram. And I actually last year, I illustrated a gift card for target. It was a Christmas gift card. I can see myself doing more of that more brand work. But yeah, those are the things I could see in the future. Yeah. Oh, nice. We just had Dominique Brown. She has a company, a lifestyle company called domo Inc and she has a collection. Part of her, I think, yeah, part of her collections at target now for black history month and she also did a few cards for American greetings. I think it's a car company. She did some cards for them too. So I could totally see her work in that vein. That would be great. Thank you. I would love it. That would be so great. Well, just to kind of wrap things up here, where can our audience find out more information about you and your work and your books and everything? Where can they find
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"You can't. I do have some writer friends that are using it just for like character sketches. Like it helps them to take the character that they're writing about to visualize it. So they'll do it for that purpose, but they're not going to take that and then go to a designer or an illustrator and say, I made this on mid journey. Can you touch this or can you do XYZ like, I would imagine some people will go that route. Don't do that, but I can see some useful applications of it. Yeah. As long as it doesn't get too like the person creating the picture book, I mean, come on. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. It's like if there is a way to do it without stealing other people's work and styles, then that would be interesting to see. But I just don't like that a lot of the different programs are stealing other people's work. And not even paying them for it. They're just taking, oh, I like this person's style, so I'm just going to plug it in. Yeah. Well, I know Getty is suing. I think they're suing staple diffusion. Because one thing that's stable diffusion does, and I guess all of these algorithms or AI things do it is they'll take the watermarks too. So Getty images always has that big rectangular watermark across their picture. And so there are like AI generated images that have malformed versions of that. And Getty's like, I don't think so. You got to pay us for that. Yeah, exactly. And there's this thing going around on Twitter, people were saying, oh, maybe you should plug in Disney and see what happens. 'cause yeah, you can feed stuff to it to make it to make it better, but to what end is this going to come from? 'cause I'm starting to see applications of folks using AI for music, for example. I think Google has this beta program out now where you can give it a couple of phrases and have it generate music in a particular style. Which I know musicians will hate that, but it's interesting how far we're trying to take artificial intelligence in a way that subverts like human creativity. Exactly. And along with creativity, it makes you think of ethics too. Like where exactly do we stop? When is it okay? And when is this not okay? It's a bigger conversation. I mean, educators now are already having to deal with that with chat GPT. I've been talking with a couple of educators now that are just like, there's some are still trying to wrap their heads around it. Others are already changing their syllabi to say like, don't do this. And we're starting to see school districts and stuff crack down on it because students and this is, you know, to a point where in an educational perspective, this is really dangerous. Students don't know the difference. No. They don't know the nuance or the particular human parts of this. They just see it as like, oh, this can do my homework for me. Yes. Yes, you're so right. It's really something. It's really something to say. It's so many new developments and short amount of time. Technology. I saw this while going through your instagrams, I was doing research, but you even got to draw Will Smith in front of Will Smith. I did. It was crazy. Because the folks that Harriet's bookshop, they contacted me and they were like, hey, we're having this book tour stopping in and we were just wondering if you'd work with us in setting it up. And I was like, oh my God, of course. So as I was working with them and getting everything set up and working with working with possible drawings, I was like, okay, something's up because one this is like this project is really rush. It's going really fast. So I feel like this is someone important. And I don't know who this is. And then I emailed them and they were like, yeah, so we figured we'd let you know what's actually Will Smith and this is Will Smith's book. And it's like, oh my goodness. So they were like, okay, so people from Westbrook. Yeah. So they're like Westbrook is going to call you and they're going to ask you to do a portrait. And you're going to say yes. Okay. Okay, I'll say yes. And I actually had to meet with them and send in past sketches to see if they approved and then they told me, well, we're going to show this to will. See if he likes it. And I was like, oh my God, you're going to show it. You Will Smith as just will. Okay. So they showed it to Will Smith. They showed it to will, and he liked it. And I ended up sketching him in front of him at the event. And it's funny because I didn't get to finish the sketch because the whole day was actually pretty hectic. But I was able to give him a drawing that I did. And I actually have the process video up on my Instagram too. And I was able to give that to him. And he's like, wow, that's definitely me. And I was like, I know. But it was great to just be able to say hello and shake his hand and say thank you and just to see how it went in person. It was just amazing. That was an amazing day. Is he like Philly royalty? Yes. Without a doubt. I've always been curious about that because I mean so much of, of course, is his early story has been about, you know, in west Philadelphia, born. You know, like, we all know that, but they're like, I think so much of his professional career has been wrapped up in Hollywood in California. Like, I was just curious about that. Oh no, he's definitely royalty. And when actually before he got there, it was just tons of people. There is even a guy dressed up like him in his fresh prince days. Really? Striped shirt on this side. They're like, oh, we walked so far to be here. There are people from the Carolinas, I think, they were just waiting for hours and he pulled in and people were just listening. 6 ABC was there. They're like, fresh prince returns. He's definitely, he's definitely fully royalty, no doubt. Wow, nice. Yeah. Now, you're represented by the bright agency, and the bright agency reps a ton of animators, artists, and authors. How did you go about getting representation? And what are the benefits for you as an artist of being represented by an agency? It's funny. It was actually pretty serendipitous. My friend, love is wise. They're illustrator. They're really amazing. We went to college together. We both went to URL. They were illustration
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"Within our licensing, so they do the patterns that go on clothes. Or that go on different products. They're just so many different ways you can go or like me you could go into picture books. Or you could do comic books. And they're just so many different ways you can go. And it kind of sounds like you can, I guess, maybe once you get further along on one path, you can maybe sort of bounce between others. Like if you're doing picture books, maybe you can also do editorial illustrations or something like that. Exactly, yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of leeway. There's a lot of leeway because some people can look at your work and be like, you know what? That will work over here. Do you want to try it out? Like that happened with me. Someone from, I think it's called the Phoenix international. They had a they're making a graphic novel about Ida B wells. And they're like, do you want to work on this? I know it's a comic book, but and I know that you do picture books, but do you want to work on it? And I said, sure. And I ended up doing a graphic novel, but yeah, that's definitely how it happened. You could just kind of jump from style to style. And I would imagine your process probably still mostly stays the same, even if you're doing these sort of different types of illustration. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much stays the same. You're right. No, I'm curious to get your take about AI generated art. That's a discussion that has really popped up, I'd say within the last, I don't know, I'd say four to 5 months, particularly once people, people started using what was the app called lens? Yeah. And they started making those AI generated avatars and putting them out there and everything. And I don't know, the discussion around it, I think, has been so interesting because I've heard from artists that are like, I hate this, this is theft. I can't believe this is happening. You know, that sort of thing. And then I hear it from like the average lay person that is surprised for two things. One that the art looks kind of nothing like them, which I mean, yeah, like you had a computer do it like that. That makes sense. But then secondly, there are more perturbed that they had to pay for it. Oh, yeah. They're like, you paid money for that? I wouldn't get you gave them how much money and I would see people on Twitter and stuff. Searching around, trying to find a free alternative because they didn't want to pay lens. I think it was like $8 or $10 or something like that. So when I found this Chinese SAP called me too and I could do it there for free and all this stuff. From your perspective as an artist, mid journey, stable diffusion, all these, you know, kind of AI generated art, algorithms, and apps and stuff like that. What are your thoughts on all that? I have so many thoughts. First of all, well, just I guess the bottom line. I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan because some people want to use it to replace working artists. I saw this big thread on Twitter with this guy who used, I think he used stable diffusion to make a picture book. And everybody was getting one of them about the picture book because all of his characters, they weren't consistent. It just didn't look right. Oh yeah, 'cause I saw that. I think he also used GPT to write the book. Yes, that's it. That's it. And yeah, I'm not a fan because it is theft because it needs other people's work at least stable diffusion goes. It needs other people's work to create art. So why don't you just actually pay an artist to actually do the art instead of stealing the work to make something out of it? Also, I feel like using AI, you're not really being an artist, you're more being a client because the AI is doing the work. You're towing it what you want it to do. Instead of you actually actively doing it. And I know it's less work to tell software to do what you want, but the process is the biggest part of making the art. And you're taking all of the process out of it. There's a friend of mine. He's an art director at an ad agency, and he's been trying to he's been like learning mid journey. I've been posting the results on LinkedIn and stuff. And it looks nice. I find that I find that the AI art has a particular it's a look. Style. It's a particular look. Very stylized heavy shadows. All the art kind of looks the same. Regardless of who the subject is. But like it's been taken a class, like apparently people have written classes about how to ask the right prompts to get it to do the right thing. And it's like, it's so interesting seeing how far people are willing to take it. I think just to sort of see what the possibilities are. Yeah. And I kind of think it's like, well, there are so many ways that we can use AI that would help or make our lives easier, but I just don't think that that's the best way to go about it. It's like, why don't we use AI to figure out our taxes or do or do the work that we don't feel like doing like having to do bookkeeping or something like that? But the actual art part that it really takes a human to do, like you're taking that away, it kind of, I'm not really a fan, but hey. Yeah, it's so interesting. At least from what I'm seeing people trying to do. I think it does unlock some people's creativity that doesn't necessarily have the skill to maybe take the idea that they have in their head and really draw it or even spend money to get someone to draw it. So they'll say, oh, well, let's see what AI can do. I saw, I think this was on TikTok. Someone had done a race bent Addams family. Where The Addams Family is all black. So then they had all of the Gomez and Wednesday and morticia, et cetera, it's like, oh, that's interesting. And then you look at all the comments that are like, somebody needs to take this to Netflix. I'm like, Netflix already has. Both the movies and the new series. Not saying that they couldn't do this, but I think when people see that, one, I don't know if they're under the assumption that the person created it, but two, like if they were to take it to that extra level, that's when you gotta get humans involved. Exactly. And you were talking about the level of skill. That's so true because I think people want to avoid, I'm going to say this but like the ugly phase. When your work doesn't look that good when you're still learning, but you can't avoid it. To make good art, you have to make bad art first. So, you know, that's also why I'm not a fan. But yeah, you kind of skip over that phase where you're just learning the materials, learning if you work on a computer, you're learning the software, you skip over that to try to make art that's presentable. And
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"Really great program, but I did not enjoy it one bit. I thought I wanted to do, but I got there and I was like, I don't really enjoy this. Like, I thought I did. I mean, I did well, but I was like, no, that's gotta be something other than this. I could do. Yeah, I can imagine I've been when I went to school, for example. I went to study computer science computer engineering at first because I wanted to be a web designer. Okay. Now granted, this was like late 90s, early 2000s. So web design was not, I don't want to say it wasn't a profession, but it certainly wasn't one that you could, I think, really study in a lot of schools, like most schools just didn't even have a curriculum for it. And I remember taking it that first semester and talking to my adviser about it, and he was just like, oh, the Internet's a fad. You don't want to, you don't want to get into that. Nobody's going to be interested in that. And he's like, if that's what you want to do, you should change your major. And so I did change my major, but you like went even further, you completely transferred schools. I did. I'm pretty sure everyone thought, I don't know that I was a little bit crazy because they're like, you're at temple, you're at a great art school. What are you doing? I had a really chunky scholarship that is not throwing away, but yeah, it's like, I need something more creative, so I actually ended up looking at other schools and I found university of the arts. And it happened to be on the other side of broad street. Temple university is on north broad, and university of the arts is on south broad. On the other side of city hall. So I looked them up and I saw that they had an animation program and I was like, I think this would be really great. And I said my mom down as like, listen, I have something to tell you. And you're like, what is wrong? And I was like, I want to go into animation. She's like, oh, oh my God. Okay, that's fine. Just figure out how to apply and we'll just go from there. So I went to the open house, I applied, and I actually ended up getting a bigger scholarship there than I had at temple. Wow. Look at you. Who knew? So I ended up at University of the arts and as an animation major and that's where I graduated from. How was your time there? Oh my goodness. I loved it. It was different from temple because number one, it's smaller. It's private compared to temple which is public and it's bigger. But it's smaller, but it's right smack dab in the middle of center city. So right on the avenue of the arts, it doesn't have a campus. It's just within everything. Within center city. So when I got there and I got to the dorm and everything, which is basically like an apartment. And it was kind of culture shock because you have to learn how to navigate, is kind of like living as an adult quote unquote, even though you're in college. So it was just interesting to having to meet people again because I transferred so I didn't get to go to orientation. So I had to like meet people and it was really great because I always kind of liken it to a fame, like the school and fame because you are has so many different majors. It's just such a comprehensive arts university. So it has musical theater and fine arts in film and photography and then I tell people it's like fame because we would sit in the dining hall and then people would just start singing and dancing and everything and just be in the midst of that. But it was a really great time just so many creative people so many things to do so many great professors. It was really awesome. I enjoyed it. I made a lot of great friends still friends with them today. And now do you feel like you're really sort of prepared you once you graduated and got out there working as a creative? Yes, definitely. Because it allowed me just going there to take different types of classes. I had my animation, my core classes, but I was also able to take film classes and I learned a lot in those and just the things that I learned within my film classes, it directly applies to how I see illustration just like my point of view. And I also took illustration classes and actually my illustration classes, that made me realize that I really wanted to go into illustration more than animation. So for sure, definitely, definitely. Yeah, I can imagine that kind of environment because there's so many one, there's so many different creative disciplines happening at once, but then also, like you mentioned with that lunchroom example, you're getting to see people exhibit their craft like you have the possibility and the potential to go into anything else just by getting inspired from being in that environment, which I think can sometimes be a lot different when you're at like a traditional liberal arts school because you're so locked into your major, you know? Yeah. Definitely. I agree. Yeah. And then as you said earlier, you know, after you graduated for your early career, you kind of started out with just, I guess, freelancing, like starting out on Etsy, seeing if you had a market for it and then that's sort of where things took off. But you said you sort of started professionally in 2017. So what were those first two years like? After you graduated from you arts. They're really interesting because I did things on Etsy. I was starting to build an audience on social media, but I was also doing commissions for friends and family members. So there are some people who really like, hey, can you do this cover because I have a book coming out. So I do stuff like that. Yeah, so I did a lot of commissions. I even taught senior citizens how to paint. I was going to assisted living places and you would have little paint and sip nights. And that was fun. That was interesting. I also do stuff like that. And I actually closer to 2017. I illustrated a book. My cousin worked within the school board of the Philadelphia school board and she was working with someone who had a company that had to do with the school board and she wrote books. So she was looking for illustrator and my cousin was like, hey, my cousin is an illustrator. You might want to check her portfolio out. So she did, and she checked my portfolio out and she liked it. And she was like, hey, can you illustrate this book for me? So that was actually my first experience illustrating a book. And I absolutely fell in love with it. And actually that was the main experience that made me want to illustrate books. Nice, nice. Yeah. Now, you've said that there's, you know, we talked about this before we record it, but you said there are a lot of different paths when it comes to, you know, kind of illustration as a career and that you can make it lucrative. It sounds like, you know, for you initially, you kind of tried out a bunch of different things like you were teaching senior citizens. You were doing Etsy, you were doing commissions, like what are some of those paths that people can take if they're looking to pursue illustration as a career? There are a ton of different paths. I guess just thinking about my major. I was an animation major. So most of my classmates they ended up going to animation route. They also illustrate, but they're within story of the animation, so they come up with the storyboards. They come up with the plot points. They do stuff like that. And then I also have friends that are animators now. So you could definitely go that way within illustration. I know people who illustrate commercially. So they do different advertisements or they work with brands like Google or apple or Adobe. I know people who work
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"Just sketch things, whatever comes to mind, whatever I think fits the story best. And then I send it back to them. The editor and the art director go over it and then they come up with feedback and notes and then I revise and then usually it's a bunch of revisions just a cycle of revisions and then I go to final art, I start to add color sometimes I do rough color just I just place colors around and then they give me the go ahead and then I kind of fix that up and then it's another cycle of revisions and then after I finish the final color, I usually go over it again and then that's it. It's a long process but it's totally worth it. And you mostly work with the editors that's interesting. For some reason I thought you would be working more closely with the authors and it's like their words and everything. I know and usually when I started I thought that would be the case too but no I worked directly directly with the art director and then the editor usually it's both of them together for my last couple of books. I talked to the author the authors after the process it's really funny. I usually don't talk to them not unless it's through the editor. Yeah. And I would imagine the authors are, I mean, do they like that process, I guess? I don't know, I guess that's not really for you to decide, huh? Not really. Usually, I guess they rely on the editors for that. So they said, if they have things that they want me to include, if they have reference photos or other things like that, they send it through the editor and then I work from there. Interesting, interesting. I guess well, I guess with the authors writing the book at that point, they're like, look, you got it from here. I mean, I guess it sounds like you know the authors are happy with it. You know, I would imagine that would be kind of awkward if you do all this illustration for the book and the author's like, I don't know. If this is really what I wanted for the book. Yeah, oh no, that would be so awkward, but I would work with it and then I'd get it to a place where we're all happy, but yeah, they leave it up to the editor and the art director. I'd say for one of the books it was actually an early reader and it was about Jeffrey holder that the actor and Broadway star I actually had to go through a lot of revisions for that one to just to get it to a place where the author was happy with it. It wasn't that she wasn't happy with the art, but it was just a certain kind of feeling that she wanted because he's from Trinidad and she just wanted it to have that homie like bright feeling just like Caribbean feeling and it took me like a few revisions cycles to get there but I got there so she was happy with it. Well, to that end, like when you're illustrating for a book is it more about trying to accurately convey the story or is it about making something like you sort of just mentioned making it more visually appealing? It's both because you want the reader and usually the reader as a kid. You want kids to be able to know what they're looking at and to feel something from the book. So it's usually my job to get it there to get it accurate enough where they know who they're looking at just by the parents, but also it's up to me to make it look good enough in terms of color and mood so that it really affects the readers. Well yeah, I mean like you said it's a picture book so the picture has to be sort of the primary focus almost it sounds like. Right. You know, aside from that Jeffrey holder book you mentioned was there ever like a particularly like challenging illustration you had to create for a book where there was like technical or just getting the look and feel right? Oh my goodness, yes. It was actually my first picture book called the journey of York and that was more of a I'd say it was more like an oil painting type style. It was way more realistic and it had a lot of different landscapes and all the people had to look really real. So it took a lot of work to get it to a point. Where it looked right. So it had all these different locations in the Pacific Northwest and all this vegetation and all these people and it was just a lot of going back and forth with my art director Lori. And it took a lot of research too. They actually sent me a book and I do not remember the name of it, but it's somewhere in my bookcase and back with me. But they had to send me a book and it had a lot about the clothes that they wore during that time. And it also had some examples of the places that Lewis and Clark went because it was basically about the enslaved man that went along with them. He was basically the brains of the operation alongside with sacajawea. So it was just a lot to that artistically. Now I want to get more into your work in your career. There's some really dope things that you've done that I want to talk about. But before we get there, let's learn more about you. Now you're originally from Philly, but you were raised in south Jersey, is that correct? Yes, yes. So I'm Philly born my parents are both from silly and I was raised in south Jersey about 20 to 30 minutes away like northeast. So silly is really important to me and yeah, as raised in south Jersey and in a very, very close knit family. Yeah, it was a pretty, pretty cool bringing the town where I was raised in is predominantly black and I mostly went to Quaker schools growing up. And for those that aren't familiar with Quaker schools, it's basically Christian, but they believe that the light of God is in everyone and they don't have like worship services. They just sit in silence for it. For a little bit of time weekly, they're known for just very rigorous academic programs. So I went to quicker schools for K through 12 kindergarten all the way through 12th grade. And it was really an awesome experience. Did you do a lot of drawing as a kid or as a teenager? Oh yeah, I've been drawing forever when I was when I was a little when I was like a toddler. I would just scribble in all of my mom's legal pads. I would just every single page I just scribble and turn the page scribble turn the page scribble. And then she'd go to work and then take out her legal pad and then all of them were just covered in scribbles. When I got a little older, I would always doodle into a church programs. And by the time I got to middle school, I would keep a sketchbook with me. And my mom and my grandma was like super supportive because they'd always, they'd always be like, did you remember to bring your sketchbook? Always remember to sketch. And I would just sketch everything that was around me. And in high school, I was more of an academic type kid, like I was very math and sciencey. So I didn't really take a lot of art classes, but I always kept that sketchbook next to me. Now, that's interesting you mentioned that about being kind of more math and sciencey, but also into drawing and art, is that kind of what's initially pushed you into architecture at temple? Yep, that was it. Because I was into math and science, but when I was trying to decide what to do, I was like, I need something with an artistic bent. And I thought that would be architecture. So I got into temple. I was in their honors program actually, and I was also accepted into their architecture program at their Tyler school of art, and it was, it was a really,
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NFL Live
"g. harris" Discussed on NFL Live
"Plays in NFL history. Let's take a look back. It is 4000 built in the gulf, 22 seconds remaining. I mean, I'm saying, no penalties. I mean, will you guys feel like you've laid it when you're feeling I'm scared, will you feel? We had you. We had you, man. Hang on to your hats. Here come the Steelers out of the huddle. I mean, we try to get
Uncommon
"g. harris" Discussed on Uncommon
"Did anything on your own. But it's hot it's really it's really challenging. But you kinda wanna his. You have that hard work gene. You now i can do it like i'm gonna win. I'm gonna start my own and that with mechanism. Having you know other other partners. I just so much more rewarding to do it with other people and you know if you wanna if you wanna go fast go alone of you wanna go far go together. I think that statements are true. Yeah as you just can't sustain it when you do things i mean maybe some. Some people can't but i was. I was in wired that way. Yeah you end up blowing gasket pretty much you really do. Yeah like. I said hardworking. Ethos that you have it. Also maine's the econ- recognize when you're about to blow augusta so it's only when you finally blow the gasket that you realized that it was to thaw has been blown the gasket has been but it's interesting you mentioned the economic thing and my dad Greek families that you've got to do a profession so i did accounting accounting and finance at uni and i think i lost it Couple years until i got back into the media space. Did you work in that field. After yes i was like A saudi bank and finance did an accounting internship fucking high went into saddam. Trading disk space loved that love the environment. The sales environment bought it was so intense. It never ever stop because machen step. Stop like i'll be could be up at six. Am and up until one am because the us open was happening so it was just. It was yeah it was not tenable and then then i got into sort of sales selling services to those people and then i realized because my my now wife and kyw fan of the business was working at pay. Wc and a few independents like tabuchi group. She's a creative director and We started this podcast. we would dislike. Maybe we should selling these subsystem people and sort of from that. That's how it started. That's how started. Yes you know likely you saying before having someone to work with. I could not do what i do without her. And vice versa on sommese. It's just not possible. It's amazing that you guys can work together. I know that's a lot of people. Say that and you guys specialize. You tick talk right. Yeah a lot of i mean. That's how i sound brennan. Brennan channing. Take talk awesome. Yeah like tick talk here is fairly nice and like it is in the us but it's Yeah social and influence. Take talk is i just want to be known as the take tokai over the next going to serve you well. Yeah 'cause it's gaining ground on it's it's quite not stasi like campaign returns. And so that's like you were saying before about just having that thing demetri martin campaign is like you just nailed it. Things going just got through that stage of lost couple of months with an that thing as tick talk because without that you know the so many areas that you can specialize in. I don't know what would have made us different. Otherwise it's hard field to define yourself. You know what i mean. It's totally having that expertise. Everyone needs it you. Yes you intrigued by this episode. If so go to al foot up on the website and A double a. dot com. They're all dot com. Really give you an insight..
Uncommon
"g. harris" Discussed on Uncommon
"Dc area yet. Politics is like the driving. We'll have fire is. I was just thinking. Affaris facts from the district site maybe like eighteen miles sixty miles while does not far at all. No it's not that far. Wow okay i mean that makes a lot of sense. Along by the the other thing. I did when lasting. Because i love this conversation about do we emulate or go against their parents. My parents were not into into sports. And all right. So when i had kids like my entire weekend is dominated by shepherding. My kids back and forth to sports and or if they're in like a rec league. Something that i could coach. 'cause it's not it's not like a A select league or travel league that have far better coaches that do that for them run. What if there's anything. I can coach. I'm always gonna coach. i'm always gonna. It's like a priority on my weekends is where it's where they. They had no interest like a of times they would go to my vance. They do something else really so terrible parents but it just. I just remember thinking like where my kids are going to be. Don't every game. They're gonna play sports always again. You know they're gonna play more than one sport and i'm like all in on a sunny bad. That is your kids will probably grow up and be like like autumn. Wanna ever have anything to do until they burnt out on sports. My kids don't play sports. Yeah so what do like yoki. It's obviously play soccer. You mentioned what else do. I play baseball. Okay baseball's begin neo-nazi on track. Okay in any particular is baseball big there. I know it's obviously like australian rules. And then there's cricket and rugby is is there also is baseball. Have any popularity there. It's dead us. Sports like where our religion here in australia is. So if you can't consume i fell if you consume cricket will soccer or rugby. You're watching some other sort of sport and because everyone's got the cable here centrally and al system is foxtel. Which is you know former fox system. Basically watch everything so you've got. Espn you've got everything. So if i would to rank it. I would say it's basketball. Probably you'll your football. What does the nfl then a hard split one between baseball and hockey like one of those creeper sports a hockey rink round the corner for me growing up there was quite big but i definitely think bosc bowl is the number one sport here by far the so..
Piecing It Together Podcast
"g. harris" Discussed on Piecing It Together Podcast
"Out points west production. Produced by david rosen in las vegas..
thebuzzr pod
"g. harris" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
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thebuzzr pod
"g. harris" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
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thebuzzr pod
"g. harris" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
"Of here within a year and i did but i totally think it depends on the artist as to whether or not i would say yes. I wouldn't do it. Just because i want to be in stadiums or i don't know i just have certain experiences i really value my quality of life and i want to work with people where i really believe in the music and i like to around the person i work with but i know other artists. That would say oh. Yeah absolutely if so and so asked me to sing. I would just do it. I hope i'm not that not that simple or that comes into those qualities. Come through in in your music honestly really do so you call yourself folk and roll. That's right. I've never heard that. Explain it yes. So i mean i feel like a lot of what i did especially In austin with the seven p span. Is i consider myself a folk singer. Because i'm very open about my political beliefs. I love woody guthrie one of my heroes my i feel steeped in like the full songwriting tradition in using your music music to be more than just entertainment but to bring people together and I'm happy to play at political events. Like i really consider myself a folk singer but it's rock and roll when it's with the band then i really like rock and roll imagery you know skulls and black and the stuff that the metal guys would use a or tom. Petty was just funny. I guess if tom petty came out now that he'd be rock and roll. or would he be vulcan. Roller would be like americana. I don't don't know you know. Of course it was rock and roll when he came out. But but so i love the. I also love the rock and roll spirit. I just feel like both so fokin. Role became the way that i used to to describe what i do. So who in rock and roll influenced you rogue one. Tom petty for sure. Linda ronstadt yellow. My gosh yeah. Absolutely linda ronstadt. What a what a powerful presence. Mac to i. I consider fleetwood mac rock and roll. That was a big part of my life. I liked bad bad religion that recipe for hate record. That came out a while ago. I'm sure there's more i could. I could think of early early. Two thousands kind of alternative rock. I loved a lot of that stuff. Yeah well as an activist. What was your thoughts on rage against the machine. You know. I should know more about rage against the machine than i do. I know tom. Morello is a supreme bad ass. I mean talk about someone that's used his voice for for good. I was mean. I was born in one thousand nine hundred ninety so you know. I do think it's funny when people It seems like within the last couple of years or just now made aware that there are political band are them funding. I saw somebody posted tweet. Which i thought was great. Which is what machine did you think they were raging against like fair question fair question the next were gonna listen to snow white knuckles That's about addiction. Yeah it is our or our surpri sobriety. Well i guess both I wrote that song about four months into my. I guess i would say i. I try to get sober several times. But this was when. I really gave it a shot and i had After my second arrest. And i don't know how i was able to. I don't really have a strong memory of writing this other than i remember. I was at the medical office. The doctor i worked for had it loves music and had a bunch of guitars in the office. And i remember staying. Had this idea. And i remember staying late and writing it on one of his guitars and then playing at scottsville brunch which was hosted by john d graham and scrappy jan nukem jeff plankton horn In seila and it was hosted at the time at this place Since shutdown called strange brew which was a twenty four hour coffee shop on one side across from the community college and the on one side. It was a music venue where sometimes they would have shows from ten o'clock in the morning till ten o'clock at night and it was pretty close to a recovery. Hang so i would. Just i i would spend all day. They're drinking coffee and listening to music and one of my favorite things was as gospel brunch. Did they had on sunday and it was a fundraiser for the food bank and they would often invite artists to come up and play a song if they saw him in the audience which there is. You never knew who you're going to see in the audience like chuck profit would show up during south by southwest. Ray bonneville a really cool folks can russell had mentioned earlier So they started inviting me up to sing harmonies or to play a song and this was the song i started playing at the gospel brunch. And it really kind of connected me to the audience. That i felt like i was looking for an austin when i first moved there but couldn't find like i knew that there are fans of patty griffin and nanci griffith and townes van zandt. I just didn't know where they were. And i was kind of in a little bit of a hipster scene which i knew i was like. I'm not cool. I'm i'm a total nerd dork. You know the hipster kids are never going to see me as cool. So where are the folks that are ended this type of music and it turns out that you know. Of course the cactus cafe but strange brew another one of those places and that really led to my band forming may being able to sell tickets to a show where people were coming. That were just my friends. It feels like that was a shift and of course it was aligned with my sobriety as well. I love the lyrics. Never thought i could be free agent since a lot not just snow white knuckles at he. 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thebuzzr pod
"g. harris" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
"Well now that you've told me a bit about what was behind the song. The video that you did in the black and white comic was a tv in the darkness coming over the tv. It all makes sense. I'll make sense a great video. Thank you that was done by a guy. No-name benjamin violet. Who's extremely talented in One thing i really like about whether it's hiring a graphic designer or a a musician i liked to give them just the tiniest bit of inspiration ideas like this is kind of where my brain is going and then let them completely wrong with that because the reason i hire them is because i like what they do and i i was shocked at how accurate that video was damning down to the point where i mean benjamin's never seen me in my underwear and my bra and like that's exactly what i look like totally blew blew my mind but i do know that benjamin is aligned with wanting wanting to create a bigger discussion about mental health in an in the united states in and he also deals with depression so he knows what it's like to be in that space which is another reason. I thought he was perfect for that video. So both albums are are are they about your personal struggles of addiction recovery mental health. I think so. I mean before me went into make red rescue. I played for eighteen years without ever putting out a record. And so before. I made that record. I got together with the producer cross and he was like just give me everything. And i've been playing really regularly with the band and we had you know a bunch of songs that made it that i sent him that. We've been playing regularly at a residency. We had but it was interesting. At the time. I remember going like I feel i feel weird that the song is that gonna be on the record and then it turns out he was right. His his perspective was right. I still think you know i. I love records that are intended to be listened to from beginning to end that. Tell a story. I know i live in a time. Now where it's definitely about the single Barrages not the way. I i wanna make records. That's what i like to consume. And that's the goal. And i think craig was able to see even more than i was the story that evolved out of these songs. Now just definitely great actually a lot of artists who've been doing a single route but an this is an honest comment last night. I was thinking the last three yards. That i spoke to know for us. And they're doing great things like you are. Are all going the album brute this year. Wow interesting maybe it's gonna come back ever know so you had a incredible view and immediately toured. What was it like all of a sudden being in the limelight. Like that touring with that. Does that trigger something. I mean it was incredibly exciting in a lot of ways because i grew up in a relatively small town in texas. And there's so much of the world in waco. Yeah there's so much of a word wacko owes right. I mean glacier. Shaver had this great. You know wacko from Wake that didn't have a k. in okay waco texas. It's all good. Yeah it's it's usually famous for a lot of very negative reasons. But there's a couple named chip and joanna who've come in and completely Kind of redone it and given it Some shine which is great. But yeah. I mean there's so much of the world i hadn't seen. I always had this feeling even when i was young that my relationship with music was going to open a portal that would allow me to see the world to meet people that i would never have met if it wasn't for music so all of a sudden i mean within your you know. My one of my major dreams was to be able to sing with emmylou harris that happened. You know i We hung out with carlene carter and she was fantastic. I got to sing a woody. Guthrie song with billy bragg. I mean all this crazy stuff happening. It was honestly just because i was there. I think it's woody. Allen says he you know ninety eight percent of life is just showing up so that you know seeing the world was exciting and i love being in a supportive role i love seeing harmonies and i got to do that every night with mary. What was scary for me was relearning or maybe for the first time learning how to build a set as an opening. Act when you walk in and pretty much. There's a lot of difference right. These people either don't know you're going to be there or they do know you're going to be there but they just wanna see the main act they came for it also depended on where we were in the world like in some countries. They felt like oh. This is great. You know. I get to discover a new artist and other countries. It was more like you're taking up the time that i should be listening to marry. And so there was kind of a resistance. That i had a breakthrough and for me banter is very difficult. And that's why. I love playing with the band because we kinda go from one song to the next coach you know. Let's all clap for the fiddle player. I mean something great. I create a lot of energy with the sound. I had to create a story with my speaking words in between the songs and that was so challenging for me and i felt that i was just struggling so much that i did end up in quite a serious depression in near breakdown. When we were in the netherlands and mary and michaela the violin viola player said. We'll just sing with you on stage. We'll figure out a song that we can play together and that way if the audience sees that we're supporting you maybe it'll help and it did. And that's why. I gave me a lot more confidence. Yeah that's the main background vocals is something you really love to do. It's my favorite thing to do. I prefer it to being a even really. Yeah i love being a supportive role in using my voice in ways that i would never put into my own writing or at least i have it so far and i i just love being part of a team i saw i saw on your website. You've done backgrounds for quite a few artists. Is it something that you're open to if an artist would contact your with an interest. Oh absolutely yeah. I mean right. Now i'm working on making my second full length record and so i you know. I'm obviously going to see where that takes me. But mary was asking me this the other day. She was like how you know. What is your ambition like. Like how come you if you got asked to sing with blah blah blah. Would you do that and it really depends on the music. It depends on the music and it depends on the person. Actually one of the things that catapulted me into quitting my day job was i got called by an artist named kevin russell. He was in the boards. Now he's in a great band called shiny risk which has as always had some some of the best vocalist As background singers. And you dance. It's a really fun. Gig and i love all those people and someone left the band and he asked me if i would be interested in being in the band but i couldn't because i had the day job and that was the catalyst the made me go. I knew i was going to have to say notice something that was going to inspire me to quit the job and that was at the invitation to be in that band and with figure out how to get out.
thebuzzr pod
"g. harris" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
"Wow be so good. They have to notice you. What's our buzz. Dot com on the banks of the greater river. High above the alert gorge this is the buzzer podcast. Indie music new releases. Industry insiders out of the box conversations with guests from the north from the west coast to the east coast to cross upon an from down under and now here shame. Hey y'all i'm shay. This is the honor india. Show welcome and enjoy up so fifty first music history facts from june. The first david bowie releases self entitled debut studio album in nineteen sixty seven. They released two singles from the album. Rubberband and the laughing gnome. The failure caused bowie his record contract with duran records. Who dropped in april nineteen sixty eight. We meet two thousand and eighteen grammy nominee jamie harris today. Her debut album red rescue was one of the top american albums that year. The congress has sessions sophomore album released january and incredible release and a stripped down version of red rescue. Jamie has earns a moniker. The next queen of american afo by many industry watchers we chat about everything and anything on the show former music life experience as women immu- set in prison reform and chai..