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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#243: Photographer Clay Patrick McBride

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome acclaimed photographer, visionary and professor Clay Patrick McBride to the Upper West Side! Clay breaks down the stories behind his brilliant images of Jay-Z, Kanye West, Allen Iverson, LeBron James, The LOX, Lil Kim, Fat Joe, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Metallica, Nas, Juelz Santana, Indian Larry, Norah Jones, among others. Clay discusses growing up two hours north of New York City in Sullivan County a metalhead prone to vices, living in the shadow of his brother, long in search of himself, getting clean, the support of his father, and the fateful day he picked up a camera and looked through its lens. We talk about his time in France studying impressionist painting, his return to New York City, where he spent a year taking self-portraits and ultimately saw into his subjects' eyes, and how he proved to Vibe Magazine, The Source and XXL that his work could live in their pages. Clay shares incredible tales about his legendary SLAM cover with AI, building the Oval Office for XXL's President Carter cover, putting the Red Hot Chili Peppers into the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band uniforms, and a light almost electrocuting Lil Kim while she bathed in a hot tub. We get into his philosophy behind the lens, on set, in the classroom, regarding legacy, editing, being present, digital vs. film, picture takers vs. picture makers, the imagery he has on his walls at home, and much, much more!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. As our

0:04.2

newsletter has shown, we have a lot of fans and a lot of places around the world. Yeah, some would

0:09.8

say too many places. Too many fans, too many places. Who would say that? You want to know what?

0:15.4

Those out there, you know who you are. You know who I'm talking to. Why are you pointing at me?

0:23.9

I have no idea what you're talking about, to be honest. I just love the fact that places like Dubai and New Zealand

0:30.6

and Australia and Toronto and other places in Europe have reached out to us to make live shows happen.

0:38.5

And I'm excited about all those things.

0:40.6

Yep.

0:41.4

But I do want to give a little love to our friends here in the United States,

0:45.6

places that you wouldn't think love, it's the real.

0:48.5

And let me make a personal plea for any fans in and around Oklahoma City to get in touch with us.

0:55.8

Oklahoma City, Jeff, I have a new and significant crush on the capital of the state of Oklahoma.

1:06.3

Why?

1:07.3

Well, I'm glad you asked.

1:10.1

Our brother Dan went there for a bachelor party. He went to go see

1:14.5

an Oklahoma football game and enjoy everything else that goes on around the greater Oklahoma

1:23.2

area. Yep. He had some Taco Buino. Boomer Sooners. And our friend Greg, Greg Mayo, also recently

1:31.3

flew down through Oklahoma City and spent a little time down there. And its formation and the

1:41.0

next 130 years just about of its history is not only fascinating, but bizarre.

1:49.7

And I'm not exactly sure what goes on there on a daily basis, but I think it would be awesome

1:58.9

if we went down there and played a show. I think it would be awesome if we had just this pocket of very rabid. It's the Real Fans in the middle of the Great Plains, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

2:13.1

Wait, I do want to bring up the fact that you are reading a book about Oklahoma City. Yeah. Oh, did I not mention that? No. It's called Boomtown. It's written by Sam Anderson,

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