009 - Blaine Deutsch

Blaine Deutsch is a designer, producer, painter, printmaker, cyclist, conversationalist, writer, and seeker of inspiration.

@tooktake

 7:30 - Working with Corey Rich

  9:00 - Climbing in Cinema

14:00 - Fred Beckey

17:00 - Living at altitude

18:30 - Growing up

21:00 - Indoor vs. Outdoor Climbing 

24:00 - Commercial Outdoor Photography

27:15 - Defining ‘Producer’

30:00 - First big gig

33:30 - Favorite gig with Nikon 

38:30 - Climbers are the anti-celebrity

42:00 - Filming Alex Honnold free soloing

44:30 - Dispelling the adrenaline-fueled thrill-seeker myth

52:30 - Working with Tommy Caldwell

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56:05 - “You could be a really enthusiastic baseball player but you’re never going to play in Wrigley Field. As a climber, you can go climb the Nose. If you’re a [cyclist], you can go ride Alpe d'Huez, the same route they ride in the tour. You can be in the same arena. And a lot of times you’re in the same arena with a pro right next to you and they’re just doing the same thing you are. They’re just having a good day out there.”

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57:30 - Kevin almost dying while driving thru a snowstorm in Tommy Caldwell’s Honda civic

1:01:00 - Estes Park

1:05:00 - Carlo Rovelli

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1:15:00 - Returning to St. Louis

1:19:30 - Working for your enemy

1:25:00 - Printmaking

1:28:30 - Sacrifice vs. Making Money

1:32:30 - Contentment

1:38:00 - Beekeeping & nature

1:48:00 - Making art in the future

1:51:00 - Blaine’s manifesto

1:57:00 - Respecting others 

2:01:30 - Robert Montgomery

2:12:00 - Jasper Johns

2:19:00 - Encaustic painting

2:21:00 - Meeting Leo Castelli in the Guggenheim   

2:25:00 - Outro