Leopold Vasquez talks Breaking Comfort Zones, the Purpose of Life and the Sound of Art

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

1. A Refined Tone – Mic Test
2. Talking to Bluster
3. Rain influencing Leo’s Mood
4. Growing up in Washington Heights 
5. Mad Hills and Parks
6. A Nice Diverse Community 
7. Being a Wild and Curious Kid
8. Playing with Fire and Getting Torched
9. Kids say the Wildest Shit
10. Biting Cousins 
11. Drawing anything in Motion
12. Leo was the Weirdo of the Crew
13. Had a Producer Vibe to Him 
14. Getting Lost in the Uptown Caves
15. Dark Days (Film)
16. Lenape Indigenous People
17. Finding Arrow Heads
18. Manhattan Center For Science and Mathematics
19. Dominican Republic
20. Super Curious and Embrace Diversity
21. Don’t Questions Yourself
22. Knowing the Difference 
23. Utilizing your Cultural Microscope 
24. A Child of Immigrants
25. That’s how New York is…
26. Fraunces Tavern
27. Long Before You Got Here
28. “You’re not going to Christopher Columbus this shit…”
29. Art is a Time Cheat and Cheat of Time
30. How do we preserve New York history?
31. Retna
32. BlusterOne
33. Shepard Fairey
34. The Peralta Project
35. Christies Auction House
36. “We can all enjoy colors…”
37. Whitney Museum 
38. Andy Warhol
39. Jean-Michel Basquiat
40. Jackson Pollock
41. Diego Rivera
42. Frida Kahlo
43. Problems, Solutions and Lives
44. Demystify the facade of the art world
45. Spiderman
46. Marvel
47. DC Comics
48. Infinity Wars
49. Two Cents on Black Panther Movie
50. Soul II Soul
51. Marcus Garvey
52. Being a Social Scientist
53. Breaking Comfort Zones
54. Culture Shock 
55. Knowledge of Self
56. Clark Atlanta University
57. Sullivan County Community College
58. University of Southern Mississippi
59. Full Sail University 
60. Amon’s Story
61. OutKast
62. Creativity is Problem Solving
63. Seeing the Sight Unseen
64. No Point or Purpose to Life
65. Empowering the Disenfranchised
66. Meeting his Ego for the First Time
67. Jim Rohn – How To Handle Your Ego
68. Losing loved ones
69. “Having cried yet but I want too…”
70. Akeelah and the Bee
71. Creed
72. Ready to Cry
73. Terrible Memories
74. Real Life is Not Instagram
75. It Ain’t All Good
76. Get Flipd
77. Hard Dopamine Hits