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Business of HYPE

James Jean

Business of HYPE

HYPEBEAST

Society & Culture

4.8789 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

 Illustrator and artist James Jean explains how he made the leap from comic book covers to galleries worldwide. 

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0:00.0

So this, what's the deal of this podcast?

0:02.8

So Hype East has a podcast.

0:05.0

It's been going on already?

0:06.3

Yeah, they have like 50 episodes, but I'm getting my own whole thing.

0:11.6

Oh, cool.

0:12.1

Yeah, and I'm calling it the business of hype.

0:14.9

Yeah.

0:15.9

So it's kind of like talking to people and like, you know, there's always the conversation of like you should go

0:23.0

out there and follow your dreams right right but then it's like how do I do that like okay I've done

0:29.4

it but like do I need a lawyer now do I need like copy chains yeah so I want to like talk to you

0:36.5

under the guys of like a young you, I interviewed a lot of like business owners, brand owners, fashion people, sneaker people.

0:44.3

But I want to talk to you under the guys of like, imagine you're speaking to a young artist who's like maybe found his look

0:55.0

he's not learning art

0:58.2

like he knows how to do art now he has his look

1:00.8

what do I do now

1:03.3

how do I get to your level

1:05.4

and I know there's easily

1:07.7

like you know I don't know

1:09.7

20 years how many years yeah don't know, 20 years?

1:11.6

How many years?

1:12.6

Yeah, 20 years.

1:13.6

Yeah, so there's like 20 years worth of steps in there.

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