In this 30th episode of the podcast Chris travels to Boulder, Colorado to visit his friend Randal Roberts. Roberts is a visionary art painter. They talk about Randal and Morgan's new house in the mountains near Boulder, Colorado, how they met at the Rootwire Festival, how Randal started painting and took advice from Chris, art school vs experience and workshops, growing up with Alex and Allyson Grey, travelling around the country for a year and then settling in Oakland, California, getting pushe...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 30
In this 29th episode of the podcast Chris travels to Boulder, Colorado to visit his friend Morgan Mandala. Mandala is a visionary artist. They talk about her new house with Randal Roberts, having natural spaces, moving to Colorado from Chicago, Colorado's art scene, visionary artists, origins of her artist name, the benefits of creating an art name, live painting, plain-air paintings in the mountains, collaborating with Randal Roberts, differences between female and male artists, the business of...
Sep 30, 2021•51 min•Ep. 29
In this 28th Episode of Chris Dyer's Podcast show, he goes to Colorado to interview his friend Vincent Gordon. Gordon is a psychedelic pop artist. They talk about living in Colorado and his roots in Chicago, the Colorado art community, building collaborations, how they met at the Chalice festival, getting into cannabis culture and propaganda, mainstream appreciation of cannabis, being framed by police as a young man, being a challenger, the visionary art community in Colorado, a forced pause, li...
Sep 29, 2021•59 min•Ep. 28
In this 26th Episode of Chris Dyer's Podcast show, he goes to Tennessee to interview his friend Ben Stewart ( @Ben Joseph Stewart ). Stewart is a musician and filmmaker for Gaia.com They talk about traveling around the world and getting established in Tennessee, how they met, interviews for Waking Infinity, Ben's travels to Montreal, timeless wisdom, Ben's Google video film Esoteric Agenda, Youtube shows and Gaia shows, Magic Plant with Pete Evans, the responsibility of influencing with art, the...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 27
In this 26th Episode of Chris Dyer's Podcast show, he begins his USA tour by interviewing author and speaker Charles Eisenstein. They talk about safety and humanity, avoiding death, quality of life, security and control, risk aversion, the internet of things and of people, the paradise of perfect control, using science to push ideologies, "V" questions, how to bring the spirit of the gift into the modern society, crypto-currency, the roles of philanthropy, the waste and side effects of green tec...
Sep 29, 2021•50 min•Ep. 26
In this 25th Episode of Chris Dyer's Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Ashley Spero! Spero (spero_art) is a visionary artist based in Asheville, North Carolina. They talk about Chris' family Quilmanà artist retreat, her art, channeling art and spirits from other dimensions, healing people with paintings, the difference between insects and cell phones, psychic abilities, alien tribes, painting on wood, painting with markers, art school, Asheville and the Blue Ridge Mountains, working ...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 25
In this 24th Episode of Chris Dyer's Artist Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Judea Star! Judea is psychic healer and sound healer. They talk about Cusco and ancient ruins, psychic and sound healings, sound bowls, psychic powers, views into shadow, visions of the future, helping ghosts to move on, the afterlife and perspectives on life after having died, visions from multidimensional aliens, soul retrievals, past lives, the oversoul, twin flames and soulmates, soul groups, planetary ...
Sep 29, 2021•48 min•Ep. 24
In this 23rd Episode of Chris Dyer's Artist Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend El Chimu! Chimu is a shamanic tattoo artist based in San Diego, California. They talk about how they met on Instagram and then how El Chimu came to Quilmanà, Peru to tattoo Chris, El Chimu's American and Peruvian origins, how he started creating tattoos, opening up his first shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, going to pow-wows and being inspired by indigenous dances and dresses, deciding to spread pre-hispani...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 23
In this 22nd Episode of Chris Dyer's Artist Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Conrad Florez! Conrad is a studio and street artist based in Lima, Peru. They talk about Conrad's roots, art in the neighbourhood of Callao, the influence of Entes and his graffiti crew DMJC, Conrad's studio in Miraflores, painting murals in the neighbourhood, how they met at Chris' solo show in 2013, Miami Art Basel, Spawn comics, Todd MacFarlane, Korn, Iron Maiden and when rock bands started to play in Li...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 22
In this 21st Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his rock star friend Miki Gonzalez! Miki is a legendary musician living in Lima, Peru. They talk about learning English, Peruvian culture, the neighbourhood of Barranco, how Chris' mother came to Peru, how they met in Wappinger's Falls, NY, surfing around Peru and the endless left of Chicama, Peruvian culture in the 1970's, moving to Cusco to be closer to indigenous culture, witch doctors and psychedelic drugs, mescaline, San P...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 21
In this 20th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Entes! Entes is a popular street and studio artist based in Lima, Peru. They talk about his new studio in Barranco, how they met at Chris' show at the Punctum Gallery, how Entes started creating graffiti with his soccer team, partnering with Pesimo, getting walls in Miami at Art Basel, opening the Museum of Urban Art in Lima, saving walls with epoxy, new mediums, oil paints and sculpting, getting sponsorships ...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 20
In this 20th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Psy Conscious (psy.conscious)! Psy is a psychologist and visionary artist based in the Miraflores neighbourhood of Lima, Peru. They talk about how they met, Visionary art in Lima, the Miraflores neighbourhood, going to Catholic school, studying communication and then psychology, discovering drawing and painting, the link between psychology and art, using psychology to heal humans, using psychadelic medicines, ...
Sep 27, 2021•54 min•Ep. 19
In this 17th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Antoine Tava! Tava is a pop artist based in Montréal. They talk about how they met at an En Masse jam, working as an animator and artistic director, getting inspired to go it alone as a working artist, quitting his 9-5 job, selling his condo and car to focus on art, working with Galerie LeRoyer, Station16 and European galleries, partnering with a Chinese multimedia company, cracking the Chinese art market, tra...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 17
In this 18th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Mauro Reategui (@visionary_art_by_mauro). Reategui is a visionary artist of the Amazonian jungle in Peru. They talk about how they met at the Temple of Visions Gallery in Los Angeles, growing up and making art in Pucallpa, studying painting with Pablo Amaringo, death threats from bad Shamans, the importance of working with a teacher for dietas, medicinal lessons, lessons in the darkness, learning to paint Ayah...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 18
In this 16th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his beautiful ex-wife Valerie Lambert! Valerie is an artist and spiritual healer from Belgium, but based in Montréal. They talk about why they divorced, moving from Belgium to Canada, living close to each other and Parc LaFontaine and staying friends, the history of cultures, Native American cultures, European and American consciousnesses, Visiting Maniwaki and connecting to the land, how they met on Myspace, meeting up, travel...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 16
In this 15th episode of the Chris Dyer's Creative Friends Podcast he interviews the glass-blower Oak Locoboro, who is based in southeast Quebec. They talk about Oak's name, growing up in Southern California, glass blowing, how they met, learning to blow glass, his signature glass chains, collaborations while glassmaking, Oak's Fukushima fish and Chris Dyer's fishbomb mural, messages in glass blown art, collecting art and figurines, sculptural influences in glassblowing art, getting quality mater...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 15
In this 14th episode of the Chris Dyer's Creative Friends Podcast he interviews his friend Make Noize, a street artist based in Montreal. They talk about his studio, French and English, how they met at Orkus skatepark, skateboarding, definitions of street art, playing with the environment, illegality in art, mentoring newcomers, spreading love and positivity, being taught to fear, Make Noize's collaborative art installation with Adida Fallen Angel, building bigger art projects and pushing limits...
Sep 27, 2021•46 min•Ep. 14
In this 13th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his friend Barry Walsh (@realcity_veteran71)! Walsh is a professional skateboarder and DJ based in Montréal. They talk about how they met, St Henri block parties, loft living, Barry's professional skateboarding career, skateboarding in Vancouver, the Richmond Skate Ranch, Marc Tison, the Big O, the Pipe Fiends book, saving the pipe, Cherry Bomb skateboards, Creation skateboards, Urban Ambush, the skateboard industry, '80's BMX ...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 13
In this 12th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his friend Auresia (@auresia)! Auresia is a musician based in Montreal. They talk about how they met, treeplanting, living together in Montreal, how Auresia got into music, hitchhiking across Canada and discovering Montreal, making her first album, the Reggae River music festival in California and discovering Reggae music, recording in Jamaica, Reggae's positivity, different flavours of reggae, dark forces of the music industry...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 12
In this 11th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviewshis friend Kevin Ledo (@kevinledo)! Ledo is a painter and muralist based in Montreal. They talk about Ledo's new studio in Mile End, his old studio at LivArt, how they met at En Masse, shared teachers at Dawson College, beauty in art, definitions of fine art, abstract art, projections for painting, irony in art and pop culture, living and working in Taiwan, working as a studio artist, switching to murals, brushes vs spray cans f...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 11
In this 10th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews the show's co-creator Ben Zion Jackson ( http://rawzion.com)! He is a filmmaker based in Montreal who has been Dyer's longtime video collaborator. They talk about skateboarding, kids, homeschooling, coming to Montréal, how they met at the Foufounes Électriques Skate Night, Ben's projects and career, making Chris Dyer's Artventures, relationship breakdowns, surfing in Canada, what it means to be Black, personal racial histories,...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 10
In this 9th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Leyla Ghobadi, aka Leyla is on Fire ((@leylaisonfire)! She is a multimedia artist and DJ based in the Plateau hood of Montreal. They talk about her studio and the Plateau Mt Royal neighbourhood, horror movie props and Halloween, the band Alexisonfire, Leyla's Persian heritage, Miami Art Basel, her path of becoming an artist, working in marketing, interior design, real estate and modeling, as well as pricing art...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 9
I n this 8th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews "En Masse" founder Jason Botkin! Jason is a muralist and studio painter based in Montréal. They talk about his studio in Hochelaga, his journey from the USA to the Alberta College of Art and Design, his dreams of becoming a professional snowboarder, divorce and a new commitment to art, Montréal, living in Japan and studying ceramics, gallery art, the En Masse project Jason founded, their show at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Mont...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 37 min
In this 7th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Adam Millward! Adam is a painter based on the south shore of Montréal. They talk about how they met, buying and collecting art, drinking beer and alcoholism, choosing sobriety, the Costa Rican party life, marriage and divorce, becoming an artist, the spiritual experience of painting, a serendipitous encounter with the president of Costa Rica, the business of being a full-time artist, changing algorithms and fig...
Sep 27, 2021•53 min•Ep. 7
In this 5th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Sloast! Sloast is a studio and street artist based in Montréal. They talk about Satellite Studios on St Laurent Blvd, art jams, the Montréal street art community, what Sloast means and the importance of artist names, they address gender questions, pronouns, queer identify and gender expressions in art. They talk about the mission of art, studying art history at McGill and NYU, activist professors, the Silence =...
Sep 27, 2021•57 min•Ep. 5
In this 6th episode of the Chris Dyer's Creative Friends Podcast we get to meet Sake, who has been most prolific graffiti artist in Montréal for the last 26 years. They talk about graffiti, the meaning of Sake, Instagram, climbing, being chased, Kings and Queens, murals and drawings, Sake products, stealing from stores, eating healthy organic food, cilantro and garlic pills, toxic spray paint, and then go on a deep dive into Sake's political perspectives of our current world; wrapping it all up ...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 6
In this 4th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Adida Fallen Angel! Adi is a skateboarding visual artist and multimedia creator who has travelled the whole world from his original home in Israel and is now starting a family in Montréal. In this wide-ranging conversation they talk about his identify, spiritual living and angels, music, traveling in Europe, Israel, California, New York, the Laurentian mountains and Montreal, working as a VJ, singing in the ban...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 4
In this 3rd Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Labrona! Felix is a legendary Montréal street artist now doing studio art and commissioned murals. After a fun skate sesh at the Big O, they settle in his studio to talk about painting trains, street art, his characters, travelling the world, LivArt studios, street art vs studio art and prints, galleries and dealers, evolving art styles, skateboarding and skate art. Enjoy!
Sep 27, 2021•55 min•Ep. 3
In this 2nd Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Germ Dee! Germ lives a free life of creation between the streets, pop culture and fighting the politricks of our world! They talk about how they met, becoming an artist, kidulting, skateboarding, punk, pop culture propaganda, comics, storytelling, graffiti, branding, making toys, Beautiful Losers, smoking weed, fasting, diet, his farm, getting shadowbanned on Insta, love and faith. Enjoy!
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of my brand new Super Awesome Podcast show! In this series I will be interviewing a bunch of my Creative Friends worldwide, starting with my local Montreal tribe! My first guest is both a visual artist and a musician, Danny Rebel who will tell us all about himself and his perspectives in life! He also made the music for the initial intro. Hope you will enjoy this pilot, and if you do, please subscribe to the channel to catch our future Positive Creators!
Sep 24, 2021•54 min•Ep. 1
