California Groundbreakers

About California Groundbreakers

We're a civic-minded, community-focused organization putting together moderated panels, interviews, discussions, events focused on cool people doing groundbreaking things and possibly causing earth-shattering change in California and beyond. Help us with funding to put on our podcasts and virtual events so we can keep informing, entertaining, engaging and inspiring you with the latest about what's going on in the great state of California. Send us a few coins or notes via PayPal to paypal.me/CAGroundbreaker -- and thanks for funding and listening to us!

Publisher

California Groundbreakers

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Sept 2016

Latest episode

1 Aug 2021

Latest episodes

95 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Aug 2021

   This Changes Everything #20: The Show Must Go On in Post-Pandemic Hollywood

   This pandemic has created a major upheaval in Los Angeles, the global hub of entertainment. We’re now used to streaming movies and TV shows whenever we want, and we’re finding new types of entertainment in places like YouTube, Twitch and TikTok. So what does the future hold for movie theaters, streaming services, film and TV studios, and the people who work for all of them, when this pandemic ends? Listen to two experts in entertainment and pop culture who tell us what types of things we’ll be watching in the future, how we’ll be watching then, and what that all means for one of California’s biggest economic forces, the entertainment industry. GUESTS * Gene Del Vecchio, adjunct professor of marketing at USC's Marshall School of Business, marketing consultant for the entertainment industry, and author of business books like "Creating Blockbusters" - https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/gene-del-vecchio * Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at USC, writer/editor of 20 books about media and popular culture, and co-host of the podcast "How Do You Like It So Far?" - https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/henry-jenkins PODCAST PLAY-BY-PLAY * 0 to 6:15 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers, and this episode * 6:15 min - The biggest changes that Del Vecchio and Jenkins made in their entertainment consumption during this pandemic * 10:30 min - Are movie theaters going to survive? * 17:40 min - How the movie experience, and types of movies, will change as more of us stop going to the movies * 23:10 min - What's the relevance of movie stars these days, and will Scarlett Johansson's "Black Widow" lawsuit against Disney change the way they're paid? * 31:25 min - How the rise of streaming video is changing TV production and the traditional TV and cable networks * 42:05 min - How GenZ's tastes in entertainment are changing the way Hollywood makes entertainment * 48:20 min - How social movements are hitting Hollywood (i.e., MeToo, PayUpHollywood, cancel culture), and are they causing significant change? * 57:25 min - Will Los Angeles remain the epicenter of entertainment, and will Hollywood still be "Hollywood?" * 1 hr, 30 sec - Del Vecchio and Jenkins' recommendations for what to watch this summer

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   1 Aug 2021

   This Changes Everything #19: How Technology Is Getting Better, Worse & More Dominant In Our Lives

   Silicon Valley has always been the global hub of technology, and in the past 18 months, it has made the tools that allowed Americans -- and the American economy -- to survive the pandemic. Right now, California’s tech industry is triumphant, and flush with profits. What will it do with all that money and power? And who, if anyone, can restrain tech, and its potential to dominate the way we live our lives? We talk with Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about what Big Tech and Silicon Valley are doing – and should be doing – when it comes to misinformation, consumer data, cyberattacks, dealing with Congress and the FBI, and more (https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cindy-cohn). PODCAST PLAY-BY-PLAY * 0 to 4:40 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers, and to this episode * 4:40 min - How Cohn has personally experienced the boons and the banes of pandemic-time technology * 7:40 min - With the Delta variant of the coronavirus on the rise, should tech be used to create vaccine passports and immunity passports, and for public health monitoring in general? * 14 min - How privacy and security of our consumer data gathered online has changed during the pandemic * 18:05 min - How the battle of the Feds vs. Big Tech will affect us * 25 min - "This is an example of everyone agreeing on a problem and rushing to a really awful solution" * 28:10 min - What the tech industry should do (or not) about the issue of misinformation vs. freedom of expression * 33:30 min - Can Silicon Valley protect us from ransomware, spyware and cyberattacks? * 41:30 min - Why California's "broadband destiny" now has a bright future * 46 min - Because we're more online now, how can we better protect our digital privacy and freedoms? * 50:30 min - Silicon Valley is always rising and falling -- how will it do this time post-pandemic? RESOURCE GUIDE * Electronic Frontier Foundation's tools for web privacy and security - https://www.eff.org/pages/tools * EFF's "How to Fix the Internet" Podcast - https://www.eff.org/how-to-fix-the-internet-podcast

3. 

   18 Jul 2021

   This Changes Everything #18: Redesigning the Art World

   California's arts institutions are dealing with budget cuts and revenue shortfalls due to the pandemic, and a reckoning with systemic racism in the art world. So what progress have they made in diversifying their staffs, their artwork, and their audiences over the past year? And will any of us ever look at art, and the meaning of it, in the same way again? We talk with two people who present great works of art to the public, but do it in very different ways. GUESTS * Thomas Campbell, CEO and director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and former CEO/director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (https://deyoung.famsf.org/Becoming-an-Anti-Racist-Institution) * Andre Jones, a.k.a. Natty Rebel, designer, muralist and founder/director of the Bay Area Mural Program (https://bamp.netlify.app) PODCAST PLAY-BY-PLAY * O to 4 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers, and to this episode PART ONE: Thomas Campbell * 4 min - Why Campbell, an Englishman who had a prestigious career in London and New York, decided to make the move to California * 7:40 min - How he views art in California, California art, and how we perceive it * 10:25 min - What Campbell learned about leading two top museums through two tough times in U.S. history * 14:20 min - How George Floyd's murder shaped Campbell's view of the art world, and his decision to create an anti-racist institution * 20:05 min - What should California's arts institutions be doing to create "blockbuster" exhibitions of non-white-male California artists? * 26:35 min - Diversifying museum staff and management - do they all need Masters and Ph.D degrees? * 31:15 min - How to make a museum's board of directors more diverse -- and still have a board that brings in the money needed to run the museum * 35:25 min - Using California's role as a technology hub to revolutionize art * 40:50 min - How the inaugural DeYoung Open brought in a new range of art and artists * 46:10 - What art institutions, and us art lovers, can do to support artists and make the art world more accessible PART TWO: Andre Jones * 51:20 min - What brought Jones from the East Coast to the Bay Area, and how his new home has inspired the way he creates art * 57:20 min - His approach to creating public art * 59:45 min - How the Bay Area Mural Program got started and is now expanding * 1hr, 2:25 min - How the events of 2020 made Jones take action as an artist and activist * 1 hr, 6:55 min - Is the new focus on diversity of art turning into more financial success for artists of color? * 1 hr, 10:15 min - Creating the new generation of artists * 1 hr, 13:40 min - Jones' recommendation for public art that really resonates today * 1:16:10 min - Jones' prediction for the future of public art in California, and how Californians can make that future bright RESOURCE GUIDE * Institutional Blog for the Museums of Fine Arts in San Francisco - https://deyoung.famsf.org/blog/category/1494 * Black Liberation Walking Tour in Oakland - https://www.blwt.org IMAGE CREDIT: "United We Rise" Mural in Downtown Oakland by Divya Bala (https://www.instagram.com/artbydivya/?hl=en)

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