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This is Love

Seeing and Being Seen

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When artist Wilfrid Wood was looking for new people to draw, he got an idea - and put a call out for models on Grindr. When Theo Adamson saw Wilfrid's profile, he says “it just caught me in the right moment as being up for trying something new.” Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should a million you could probably do it you could have a lineup

0:44.1

or find or find the ten people in the world that look most like your partner and

0:49.5

line the ten of them up and you could still recognize your partner.

0:52.5

So it's a very fascinating thing to try and find out what it is in a face that makes it recognizable.

1:00.4

Wilfred Wood is an artist in London. He specializes in portraits.

1:04.3

I've tried drawing plants and cars and things, but I just get bored in minutes.

1:10.8

About eight years ago, when he was looking for new people to draw, he got an idea and put

1:16.8

out a call for models on Grinder.

1:19.8

Will you explain to me what Ginder is? I have this, it's like a dating. It's a dating app, but you can request specific things?

1:30.0

Uh...

1:32.0

That's a good pit of disgusting immediate normally, but which you know, I can't say that I never brushed paths with in the

1:50.0

nicest possible way, but I just discovered that it was possible to get models

1:55.3

via it and it turned out really useful in that sort of way because I you know there's lots of people you suddenly

2:04.9

discover are very willing or actually keen to strip off lie on my sofa and I

2:09.8

could draw them. What did you write on your post on grinder?

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