Met up with Leopold Vasquez or Leo in midtown to talk about growing up in Washington Heights, being a wild curious kid, the cultural microscope, demystifying the facade of the art world, being a Social Scientist and empowering the disenfranchised.
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Show Notes
- A Refined Tone – Mic Test
- Talking to Bluster
- Rain influencing Leo’s Mood
- Growing up in Washington Heights
- Mad Hills and Parks
- A Nice Diverse Community
- Being a Wild and Curious Kid
- Playing with Fire and Getting Torched
- Kids say the Wildest Shit
- Biting Cousins
- Drawing anything in Motion
- Leo was the Weirdo of the Crew
- Had a Producer Vibe to Him
- Getting Lost in the Uptown Caves
- Dark Days (Film)
- Lenape Indigenous People
- Finding Arrow Heads
- Manhattan Center For Science and Mathematics
- Dominican Republic
- Super Curious and Embrace Diversity
- Don’t Questions Yourself
- Knowing the Difference
- Utilizing your Cultural Microscope
- A Child of Immigrants
- That’s how New York is…
- Fraunces Tavern
- Long Before You Got Here
- “You’re not going to Christopher Columbus this shit…”
- Art is a Time Cheat and Cheat of Time
- How do we preserve New York history?
- Retna
- BlusterOne
- Shepard Fairey
- The Peralta Project
- Christies Auction House
- “We can all enjoy colors…”
- Whitney Museum
- Andy Warhol
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jackson Pollock
- Diego Rivera
- Frida Kahlo
- Problems, Solutions and Lives
- Demystify the facade of the art world
- Spiderman
- Marvel
- DC Comics
- Infinity Wars
- Two Cents on Black Panther Movie
- Soul II Soul
- Marcus Garvey
- Being a Social Scientist
- Breaking Comfort Zones
- Culture Shock
- Knowledge of Self
- Clark Atlanta University
- Sullivan County Community College
- University of Southern Mississippi
- Full Sail University
- Amon’s Story
- OutKast
- Creativity is Problem Solving
- Seeing the Sight Unseen
- No Point or Purpose to Life
- Empowering the Disenfranchised
- Meeting his Ego for the First Time
- Jim Rohn – How To Handle Your Ego
- Losing loved ones
- “Having cried yet but I want too…”
- Akeelah and the Bee
- Creed
- Ready to Cry
- Terrible Memories
- Real Life is Not Instagram
- It Ain’t All Good
- Get Flipd
- Hard Dopamine Hits
