Fantastically Terrible Podcast Ep20: Great EurAsian Jam Session

The Great EurAsian Jam Session

Today we’ll discuss the long relationship between Asia and Europe. Let’s start with one obvious and overlooked fact – Europe and Asia are the same continent. There is no division except in the stubborn teachings of western textbooks. We’ve been trading, marrying and inspiring each other for many millennia. The East is not exotic and strange, it’s familiar and part of our shared history. We’re all neighbors…we just happen to live a little further east or west down the silk road.

We’ll look at the impact of Alexander the Great, the Han Dynasty, the Roman Empire and the Mongolian Empire on that famous free trade superhighway known as the Silk Road that ran across Eurasia. East and West have always influenced each other in a cosmic jam session of art, ideas and inspiration. So lets bring down the barriers and turn up the sound.

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Japonisme

The influence of Japanese artists on Impressionist painters…

Claude Monet’s Nymphéas, 1915

Claude Money_Water-Lilies-and-Japanese-Bridge_1897-1899

Van Gogh’s La Courtisane, 1887

Van Gogh’s Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887

Claude Monet’s La Japonaise, 1876

Edouard Manet’s Emile Zola, 1868

Utagawa Hiroshige (1857) | Van Gogh’s, *Bridge in the Rain* (1889)

Utagawa Hiroshige’s *Sudden Evening Shower on the Great Bridge near Atake* (1797 – 1858) | Van Gogh’s Bridge in the Rain (1887)

Mary Cassatt’s *The Letter* (1890-91) | Kitagawa Utamaro’,’s *Seyama of the Matsubaya, Kamuro Iroka and Kukari*, from *Six Jewel Rivers* (1793)

Character/Creature of the week

This week’s Fantastically Terrible Character or Creature is Christopher Pike from “Star Trek”. He was portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter in the original Star Trek pilot, but left the show when it was initially rejected. So, how do they bring him back as a promoted fleet captain (so far, so good), but he’s been left paralyzed, disfigured and unable to speak (rough!). Spock manages to outsmart his superior officers and helps Pike get back to Talos IV where he can live the rest of his days, “unfettered by his natural body”. I’m not sure what that means, but you could describe death as a state of being unfettered from your natural body. For Pike’s sake, I hope not. I’m sure Spock would find that “highly illogical”.
Here’s to possibly the only actor in TV history who played a character that was maimed, disfigured, lived in multiple timelines and parallel universes, and transcended his physical form…all without ever showing up on the set.