The No Proscenium Podcast

Those of you who follow the world of experiential marketing have definitely heard of Giant Spoon, the full stack advertising agency that has put together some of the most talked about marketing activations of the era. Favorites of ours like SXSWestworld, The Last of Us premiere, or maybe our favorite thing ever: The Ink Hole puppet speakeasy for The HappyTime Murders. We talk a lot about production here, but we wanted to understand more about how these activations come into being from the client/agency side of the equation, and no one is better for insight into that process than Giant Spoon co-founder Marc Simons. Fresh off being named the most innovative ad agency in the world by Fast Company, we sat down with Marc to get a handle on the view of the experiential marketing world from his point of view.SHOW NOTESGiant SpoonCall Sheet March 2023Review Rundown for 3.14.23The Next Stage Summit 2023The Next Stage Pricing InfoNoPro Patreon

This week a special teamspeak episode of the podcast featuring the NoPro Staff including Leah Davis, Patrick McLean, Laura Hess, Blake Weil, and for the first time on the show Parker Sela, our associate producer.We recorded this a couple of weeks ago, chatting about what we’ve been going to see and experience with a touch of what we’re looking forward to.The conversation ranges WILDLY, but at around the 55 minute mark we get into a discussion and a description of artist Paul McCarthy’s White Snow for about 20 minutes. That involves discussion some pretty graphic imagery, and younger ears or those who just don’t want to get into sexualized material may want to hop ahead.So yeah, that’s an EXPLICIT tag. We’re so 90's.SHOW NOTESDoors Of DivergenceLiving PaintingsPOV: you are an ai achieving consciousnessPaul McCarthy’s WS White SnowInterconUA Blistering Case of SXSW FOMO (A NoPro Guide)Review Rundown for 3.7.23CALL SHEET March 2023

This week on the show our dear friend artist Nancy Baker Cahill is back for another enlightening conversation about digital art — both her work and the big currents that are shaping this constantly evolving world — from XR to working on massive public pieces that are immersive in a whole other dimensions, with stops along the way to talk about museum grade NFTs and incorporating generative AI into the work. SHOW NOTESNancy Baker CahillNoPro Podcast Episode 177: Nancy Baker CahillQuest’s Back Catalog Could Be A Knockout, But Meta Pulls Its PunchesImmersive Review Rundown for 2.28.23Hunt A Killer Reviews Round UpSXSW: Sport And Immersive: The Past and Future of Fan EngagementSXSW: Is This Really Live? Performance in the Age of XRSXSW: This is Not a Person Part 2