Pushing Boundaries: Dany Green's Imaginative Mosaics in Art

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Rob Lee
Welcome to the truth in his art. I am your host, Rob Lee. Thanks for listening. Please continue to share, subscribe and tell your friends about this podcast. Today, I have the privilege of being in conversation with a self-taught, mixed media artist whose unique approach pushes the boundaries of traditional mosaics. Her art practice works to jump the gap between the literal and the imagined.

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Rob Lee
Originally from the Philadelphia area and now is based in Washington, D.C., this artist has exhibited work philatelic curatorial art of Noise and strength. Morse Invitational Gallery. Please welcome Danny Green. Welcome to the podcast.

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Dany Green
Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. I'm really excited to share the magic of mosaics.

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Rob Lee
Yes, like magic. I love it. And notice all of the hand gestures I was making. I want it to really be a conductor in that point. So we'll see.

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Dany Green
I like it. I also use my hands, but I feel like no one will know.

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Rob Lee
No one will know. No one will ever know. Like, I had a podcast earlier. I had a visual aid that they pulled out, and I was like, No one's going see this. They're like, Oh, right. So again, thank you for popping on. And before we get too deep into the conversation, I'd like to open it up with something that's either very invigorating for some or very terrifying for others.

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Rob Lee
Can you tell us about you? What is the Danny Green story?

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Dany Green
Okay, so thinking of that, I need to ask you one small questions. Are you asking for a bit, Daniel Story, which I feel like is everything from the beginning to like 2018. Then there's the Danny story. You know, I changed the name.

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Rob Lee
Okay. So that's a that's a that's a first. Let's look. Let's do like like like chapter ten of the Daniel's story. Right? And then let's do that bridging. Like, that's the that's the the prequel, if you will, to the day. Yeah.

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Dany Green
If I wrote a book, maybe if it gets more interesting, I will. But basically, I'll start with high school. So I was in Pennsylvania. That's kind of where I grew up, the suburbs of Philadelphia. And I was going to bury myself out like a typical high schooler. And I had a lot of nerd friends. And like, I decided to join robotics because a lot of them were in it and they invited me to be in it.

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Dany Green
And we did. I was not a math and science person, though, so of course I'm on the media team that worked for me. I did the filming. We had like a little vlogs and then I did the website. And then from there, I decided to go to American University and say film, because I was like, This fits what I'm interested in.

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Dany Green
I like this. Let's continue it. This might be my thing. And so I go to American University. I'm studying film. I end up going to Prague for film, which was a lot of fun. And I was around a lot of people who were like Super in the film. A lot of Americans in my specific classes. But then I was in a school that had people from all over the world, and that was actually where I discovered that.

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Dany Green
I don't think I'm a filmmaker, unfortunately. I felt like I like it. But this is not me. And I had a minor of graphic design and when I got back I decided to like really lean into that and take more classes, get serious about it. And I was actually able to graduate early. So I decided that in that last semester I made this deal.

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Dany Green
Parents, I said, I'm going to spend this time getting an internship, doing my own thing, you know, doing my own, like, like learning how to do, get signed, watching more YouTube videos because I had only had that minor on last minute and yeah. And I was also a barista. So I mean, yeah, I don't know. I think you go into.

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Rob Lee
More questions now.

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Dany Green
But yeah, I mean, basically just bring us to more present day. I couldn't find a job, unfortunately. Classic story of a graduate. New graduate. I went back home to Philly suburbs like was still trying to figure out work design had a couple side jobs I worked like a perfect 21, had some internships and then finally I got a job back in D.C. I come back, I'm excited, and then I move into a house with a bunch of partners.

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Dany Green
So that's kind of where I started to get more excited about art because I was always doing mosaics on a side and like other crafts, but it was always just like a hobby, I would say at the time, but I would say was even less than half the time because I wasn't as committed. I was probably making a mosaic of like two times a year at that point.

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Dany Green
So when I moved in the house, I remember a bunch of artists. They were like, Let's do a show. We'll do a show at Colony Club, which is now something else, but it's on Georgia Avenue and we went upstairs, we had a little show and I was like, I like this. I've never done an art show. I'm into this.

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Dany Green
So I decided to like actually kind of get into it and invest in materials for the first time, like actually spend, I don't know, I spent $100. I mean, I spent money on it. And then that is kind of where it all took off. I also started my Instagram at the time because and I didn't like push my Instagram, you know, my, my art Instagram.

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Dany Green
I just decided that would be a safe place where I could post a bunch of art stuff. That's when Dani was birthed.

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Rob Lee
Yeah, but I went from Robert to Rob Lee. Have been I think I've been Rob Lee a lot longer than I've been to Robert. If I'm being honest, I think I spent the last 14 years being Rob Lee.

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Dany Green
And I hate to admit it, I don't know if you can relate, but it's part of his branding. Part of it is a little bit of branding.

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Rob Lee
But no, that's that's legit. And I think with it, it's not for me, it's having this notion of being on. But yeah, definitely branding. Definitely branding this there would probably say this or what Robert say this.

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Dany Green
Nice of a separation in a way though and one.

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Rob Lee
2%.

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Dany Green
Because I think that's why I started a new Instagram is I didn't want to I was starting to post it on my regular Instagram, which, you know, it was just a regular person Instagram, you know, I'm posting dinner at, I don't know, Fridays or whatever. And then, but I started this one because I wanted to have a safe place where I didn't have to like I could post things I knew were ugly or like not cool.

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Dany Green
And I've seen a ton of pictures of my work at the time and not feel weird and not feel pressure like only like my friends or mom like was following at that point. And what ended up happening is I actually like met a lot, started connecting with other mosaic people.

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Rob Lee
So what is it about mosaics that really brought you in that really caught your attention initially because you know, you can be anywhere in the art world, but you're here in Mosaic. So so tell me about that.

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Dany Green
I'm obsessed. I'm fully I'm only in two feet in, but basically so I'm from the Philly area. And when I was in high school, we had to do like a capstone project. And a lot of people decided to do like I'm going to volunteer at a some of my friends did like a cat adoption place or something or basically community service or some kind of like thing.

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Dany Green
And I don't know, I was like, I'm going to make a mural for the school and I just felt like, so Philly is one of the mural capitals in the U.S. and I had just gone to Isaiah's Gaga's Magic Gardens, which is in Philly, and it's basically a courtyard in a building covered in mirror and broken bottles and discarded like bicycle wheels and all those, like, found objects.

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Dany Green
And like but it's basically a mosaic because it's a lot of tile and mirrors and glass. And I loved it. So I was like, I'm going to do that. But in my school and try to basically kind of like I like basically put it out there as me trying to connect Philly culture, the Pennsylvania kind of history into my school.

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Dany Green
So that was my first mosaic which was like four feet by eight feet and I was just using broken bottles and mirrors that I found. And then like tile that I got from like a tile store in the area. So that's when it all first first started.

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Rob Lee
So I read that you break things, you put them back together again in an attempt to establish the gap between the literal and imagined. I wonder what sort of things you broke as a kid. Which sort of things that you make as a child?

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Dany Green
That's a hard question, cause I was that clumsy kid. I mean, I broke things. I broke myself. I spilled things. Like my mom always told this funny story where I guess I decided I was going to roller skate in my apartment to serve people for dinner. I guess like at one point go in the kitchen and they just hear a bunch of like cracking, breaking.

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Dany Green
And I'm like, I'm good, I'm good. But I, I mean, I think for me, like that phrase of like I break things and put things back together really comes from me. Like, feeling like it puts together everything in my interests of, like wanting to break down, you know, the film aspect, like breaking down clips and creating a narrative and breaking down drop zone, which is like, I can't.

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Dany Green
And then breaking that down and then putting it back together to create something that's more readable and it communicates something like a message. And now I'm breaking glass and and so I think, you know, I've always been doing that in a way. You know, I and and one man I was I just came to me is I in high school, I actually took a random like elective that they had, which was 3D expression, which I was I didn't even know what that meant.

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Dany Green
But basically one project, I mean, the first project you had is go to a third floor spiral and objects, which I think I just had one at home, like a VCR and I'd say Take it apart. And then I made a shoot. So he had us take it apart and then make something new. And I think I was just so amazed by that.

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Dany Green
I do feel like that stuck.

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Rob Lee
So and I want to move forward on this question because I think it connects. So it's not about the best tools, the resources. And I found that your pieces, as you touched on there, you know, it's sometimes includes like found materials. And I know for like podcasters, there are people who have terrible mics, who do great podcasts and people who are terrible podcasters have like the best gear that money can buy.

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Rob Lee
So do you define your work? If you define it, do you define your work to be closer to alchemy or more so, making something out of nothing?

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Dany Green
Oh, interesting. I mean, obviously alchemy sounds way cooler.

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Rob Lee
As a clearly an anime reference too, by the way.

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Dany Green
That feels like the writing. But I think I think for me, like I, I just think like I started from materials, like I didn't have a lot of money. I didn't have ability to buy things. So when I did have the ability, after I got my first job, I feel like I was like, Oh my God, like all these colors, like, this is exciting.

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Dany Green
But then, like, I realized that it was holding me back in a way, it was actually making my work worse because I wasn't. I didn't have the same boundaries and I could just go out and buy a sheet of red glass if I wanted that color. Whereas before I would kind of have to be creative and make do and be like, okay, what do I do?

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Dany Green
And I notice that I actually as I'm making, I'm working all over the board. I'm, I'm, I'm moving around. I'm not having an idea and I'm moving linear. I'm putting a little bit here, putting a little bit there. And I did, I started doing that because I knew I might run out of certain colors or certain pieces. And so it was my way of kind of allowing myself to have that creativity and that spontaneity.

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Dany Green
So I think when you have these restrictions and sometimes you even need to put those restrictions on yourself, you are able to make something that's so much more interesting and push yourself in a way more an interesting way than just like coming up with an idea and then making it makes the process more interesting.

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Rob Lee
I like that you answered two questions in that piece right there. So shout out to you. I like that. I like that. I definitely with Z. I think when I feel like creatively stifled, I definitely tap back into that of, All right, let's take our questions. Let's just free jazz it as it were, and improvise and do that whole thing.

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Rob Lee
And that leads to kind of better conversations, richer conversations versus I'm going to ask this question now and that that or even in the materials that I'm using, like I might not have this microphone, I might use a livelier mike, I might use a different mixer, I might record at a different venue. And I'm trying to get sound.

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Rob Lee
I'm trying to be a audio creative, but in a in a different way where that makes it more interesting. Like I'm coming in with this kind of nervous energy of, Wow, I am surprised I actually got this interview done. And then that way, you know.

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Dany Green
Right, right. I mean, I think it allows you to really I don't know, like tap into that low energy because you're really having to be present, like you're being forced to to focus on what's happening and not just kind of like how you want things to go. I feel like with my art, like I, you know, there's always a bias.

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Dany Green
I don't think that's a bad I have a vision, but like I know that spontaneity is kind of sometimes where the magic happens. I think there's this is a place for both. It's like you have to keep pivoting and you feel like things are getting stale. That's when you throw in some some chaos.

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Rob Lee
So let's peel back to onion a little bit. Yeah, I hear that there are different secrets or different ideas that creatives, regardless of discipline, that they kind of share. Like, you know, I've heard that, you know, we're all afraid, you know, that's that's a thing. So what would you say is that kind of secret or a unifying trade between most creative people?

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Dany Green
I, I think that I just feel like creatives are those people, like see something or they go somewhere and they're there. They have this thought of like, I want to do that. Like, I'm going to do that. I'm going to go home and make that or I'm inspired. I'm going to incorporate that. And I think that sometimes people see art as was the abstract work.

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Dany Green
I hear that thing or that phrase where people say, Oh, I'm gone. I could do that. You know, I could do that. But I think the artist, the creative person actually is like, I'm going to do it, you know, I'm actually going to do it. And I think that's kind of what happened with me and my mosaics. I saw eyes as a guardian.

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Dany Green
It wasn't in a egotistical way, but more just like, I want to learn how to do that. I want to figure that out. I want to try that. That looks cool. And I feel like artists just don't stop doing that because I think being creative is just inherently human. And it's like, I know it's like it's like us artists.

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Dany Green
We just don't stop doing that. Kids do it.

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Rob Lee
It's one of the things that I think is using that as a question I ask on occasion of like tapping back into that like childhood or that childlike creativity because you didn't have those parameters when you were a kid. It was just like you were left to do whatever you were doing. It's like, Yo, Batman is going to be green this day.

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Rob Lee
I'm going to do whatever I want. And as you get older, you have either your own insecurities, your own fears, your own sense of accomplishment, even some in some instances or even adults or even other kids saying, That's stupid, I don't like that. And it just kind of compounds, but I like to tap back into it, you know, by having those kind of like childlike moments of, I'm just going to do it and make it simple, right?

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Rob Lee
Where I'm going to talk to somebody that's interesting like yourself and it does interesting work like yourself and see if that, that sparks something in my head that maybe pops up in a later podcast. I may reference you in a later point, I guess, you know, so how do you tap back in to some of that kind of childlike or that childhood sort of creativity and inspiration that's there?

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Dany Green
I think that for me, like my whole process, I think in like is literally me is trying to be a younger version of me, trying to tap back into that magic I had then. I think it's just a process of me aging down. I'm like taking what I mean, I am doing we we've all age, we know what we know, but just kind of return to that.

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Dany Green
And I, I, I think that when I was a child, it's not only me just being fearless, but I also think it's like you just ask questions automatically, like, what if you don't? You don't automatically judge that question or like rethink that question. And it's me allowing myself to think those thoughts or had those feelings not judge them immediately, at least, and just understand, you know, my mind is a private place and my studio is a pride of place.

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Dany Green
And even though social media exists, I don't need to post everything I make. So sometimes I do clay in my studio, right? I just, I don't know, like right now I was messing with a little bit of like resin and bottles and broken things. I'm thinking like deconstructed mosaic. So I just threw some, like, broken bottle into resin and it hardens.

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Dany Green
I put more resin on top for more pieces and it looks weird, it looks like trash, but I think it's interesting and I'm not going to judge it because I don't have to post it. Only I know and I guess now, you know and everyone else.

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Rob Lee
Yeah, I was. I was waiting for you to come to that conclusion, so. Thank you. Thank you. Have another.

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Dany Green
Beer.

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Rob Lee
Oh, no, no. We're not going to ask for it. I want to make sure that is asked for. We need visual reference of it. It's fine. It's fine, it's fine. It's so it's funny. Again, you've given me even more questions. I have like so many rapid fire questions.

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Dany Green
Or if I answered the question, sorry, I think I lost it.

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Rob Lee
No, no, no, no. You're doing great, because you only have one real question left. Oh, and now you have like ten rabbit fired questions, though? No. Yeah, I hate to say it. It's just so tell us about it. And I did this backwards, but intentionally backwards. Tell us about the mosaic sighting part of your process, of your creative process.

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Rob Lee
I mean, I would imagine, yeah. Breaking glass I don't know what the most exciting part of your process.

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Dany Green
The I think that's what everyone thinks and I what has happened is it's become immune to me. And I only notice that when other people are in my studio or they're with me while I'm making and I'll break like a plague, and they're very startled and I'm like, right, right, right. That is normally an uncomfortable, scary moment when you've broken a bottle, you've broken the glass by dropping it.

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Dany Green
But for me, it's it's a Tuesday, you know, is is a regular day. And I think for me, the most fun part I enjoy is literally gluing the glass and I think is because it's very meditative. I get in this flow and there's this part in the middle of making it just so exciting when you're just gluing and you're just like, Well, I don't know.

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Dany Green
I'm just responding very intuitively to the colors and the shapes and the pieces and I don't know, writing is just not. I think writing for me is just the beginning part of the process. Like I'm getting my materials, but I shouldn't buy other people. They're always like, I want to come break things and be stressful. And I'm like, I don't know, is this stressful?

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Dany Green
Even the break things I think it causes people stress.

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Rob Lee
So yeah, I want to I want to break things. I want to come to a place and just like us, let's just see what what we get. When I break things, it works in a certain array. It makes me uniquely me. I mean, I was this I had a, I had a person had been on a podcast. They were looking for portrait sitters or what have you.

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Rob Lee
And I was like, Yeah, what you do, this painting of me is going to be your best selling piece. So I don't know if she's she's working on it currently as we speak, but I'd like to now I'd like to talk a little a little on occasion.

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Dany Green
I hope so. I've always thought about doing that, like making pieces inspired by other people. I've only done a few. One person is is that unfortunately. But I mean my it's something old but in other words, my sister and I just feel like I'm nervous about doing more because I'm worried that they will have some kind of attachment like one, and it doesn't do well or it turns out bad.

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Dany Green
And then I'm like, Look, it's nothing personal. That would be an experiment.

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Rob Lee
There is a bit that a few people know of, and this will be maybe the first. Maybe the second time I said this on air, I wanted to do a podcast in-character as a really hoity toity pretentious artist, I want to interview myself and just do the dubbing. And one of my friends is like, you know, end up being your best downloaded episode and you get to be in this character for forever.

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Dany Green
I feel like that's what I'm.

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Rob Lee
Going to do.

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Dany Green
That's a good idea. That's a good idea.

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Rob Lee
It's just me, like in black hair, like an overcoat, tiny glasses, big scarf. It's ridiculous.

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Dany Green
I like it. I think it could be interesting that that's a great real. Now that would be like a close up on tick tock. And then you're like, none of the other five cats are like that because.

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Rob Lee
Literally no one cares. Otherwise. So with that, I want to thank you for all of the good stuff that we've talked about. Now it's time to indulge these ridiculous rapid fire questions. These are all over the place. They're fun, though.

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Dany Green
I'm ready. I'm used. Embarrass myself. I was in robotics. Yeah.

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Rob Lee
See, that was one thing I want to mention. I almost went into robotics. Actually.

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Dany Green
I recommend recommended. This is a great choice.

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Rob Lee
That was what I was interested in. And then I decided to go into analytics instead of, Yeah, I was going to go to University of Miami for robotics now.

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Dany Green
Well, I don't know what the university would be like, just the club, but.

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Rob Lee
I mean, I was just going to wear a lot of linen shirts. I didn't become a drug dealers. Fine.

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Dany Green
It's a lonely.

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Rob Lee
Place. So D.C. and Philadelphia. Right. Those those are your your touch points, right. How do you define home? What's home for you?

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Dany Green
Oh, at this point is D.C.. I mean, I know. I know that's like sacrilegious, but I, I mean, if you ask me, like, oh, where should I go in Philly? I don't know. I don't know if I have any advice. I mean, because I laughed at, I guess, 18, but like I went back for a little bit, but I don't know it at all.

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Dany Green
I still feel connected to it, but I feel like at the same time I'm not. If I moved back to Philly, I would have some culture issues, I think, because I, I'd drop something seems to be D.C. and then I'd have to come back.

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Rob Lee
So you dropped a few just.

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Dany Green
A little ra, you know.

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Rob Lee
A few jobs.

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Dany Green
Those guys are rapid fire.

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Rob Lee
I just feel like the Philly cheesesteaks are drying up because you said that. So.

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Dany Green
No, Philly is a great city.

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Rob Lee
Yes, I'm working on a series of interviews up there currently. I'm back and forth to Philly every two weeks for interviews.

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Dany Green
I big fan. I was just there this weekend. So I'm I'm a big fan, but I don't fit in anymore. I, I have to readjust.

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Rob Lee
Where are you more likely to get this? This is off. And I think maybe it's more than purely breaking things right in kind of. So maybe in the the idea portion of it, maybe in the the writing down ideas sort of sort of piece of it. Where are you more likely to get work done in a diner or cafe?

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Dany Green
Oh, wow, that's tricky. I think I'm going to go with I'm going to go with the cafe only because tapping the great brisket, the honest truth is I like working so well, but that's like not an option.

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Rob Lee
How do you take your coffee?

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Dany Green
Black. What was sugar? Okay, I just. Sugar. I used to be a barista, so I used to do all the fun things. But to be honest, I just like regular drip coffee and then the end of the day.

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Rob Lee
So I got three more questions. One of them is going to one. One might date you, right? One might be a good way of dating you, but it's going to be really funny.

00;26;08;16 - 00;26;09;05
Dany Green
I'm worried.

00;26;09;23 - 00;26;17;29
Rob Lee
So I'm going to ask the other ones first. What is a song that's on your ratchet playlists? Everyone has a ratchet playlists. I don't care what anyone says. Everyone has a ratchet playlist.

00;26;18;11 - 00;26;36;04
Dany Green
I think it's just integrated, you know what I mean? And then you have to skip that song. You're like, Oh, right. Recently I've been obsessed with Bad Bunny, and then I found one of his older songs. So I've learned he's kind of like become more pop. Yeah, some other songs are a little more, Whoa, well.

00;26;36;29 - 00;26;37;14
Rob Lee
Okay.

00;26;38;07 - 00;26;38;24
Dany Green
He's fine.

00;26;39;10 - 00;26;41;22
Rob Lee
If you wrote an autobiography, what would the title be?

00;26;42;17 - 00;27;05;20
Dany Green
Oh, I have been asked this before. That was in like 2013, so I don't know what it be the same, but then it was I have an idea because I always had a lot of ideas. But I mean, these days, I don't know, maybe, maybe it would be like maybe my little catch phrase, break things then back together.

00;27;06;03 - 00;27;09;20
Dany Green
So hopefully one day do I don't know. I'm hoping things get more exciting.

00;27;10;07 - 00;27;28;04
Rob Lee
I mean, maybe this will be a chapter and maybe this interview will be a chapter in it. You know, it's now this is the one this is the tough one there. So this is finished, this lyric. Oh, no, I know there are two songs that come to mind that uses this lyric and it relates to your work.

00;27;28;29 - 00;27;34;18
Dany Green
Okay, to finish it correctly or I'm finishing my work.

00;27;35;29 - 00;27;42;15
Rob Lee
I'll give you that. You can finish it your way. Oh, but if you can't think of who the, if you can't think the rest of the lyric, you can name who said it.

00;27;43;04 - 00;27;44;04
Dany Green
All right. Okay.

00;27;44;17 - 00;27;47;07
Rob Lee
Okay. Broken glass everywhere.

00;27;47;29 - 00;27;48;09
Dany Green
Please.

00;27;48;10 - 00;27;51;19
Rob Lee
I know. I know you know it. That's that's the funny thing about it.

00;27;51;29 - 00;28;06;15
Dany Green
Oh was everywhere and pick that up because you're going to fall down and belt out ones with that cut up my hands but I broken glass everywhere moved very slowly I don't know.

00;28;06;27 - 00;28;16;13
Rob Lee
I'm going to do the more recent version of it. Actually, I have another one after this broken glass everywhere. If it ain't about the money puff, I just don't care. Yeah.

00;28;17;04 - 00;28;18;10
Dany Green
I do like it.

00;28;18;19 - 00;28;19;16
Rob Lee
Amazing action there.

00;28;20;05 - 00;28;23;08
Dany Green
You're asking the wrong person. The memory question.

00;28;23;17 - 00;28;27;05
Rob Lee
I'm sorry. I thought it was. I thought it was very apt. That was an apt question.

00;28;27;17 - 00;28;30;08
Dany Green
I mean, I hope that's the case. I like that.

00;28;31;11 - 00;28;34;29
Rob Lee
That is that is the lyric actually from I think Nobody Hold Me Down.

00;28;34;29 - 00;28;37;09
Dany Green
I do know a thing and I'm sorry.

00;28;38;10 - 00;28;56;14
Rob Lee
And I believe the original was what is it, a, I don't know, Grandmaster Flash and Furious five, a lot of old person know what I'm saying. This is this is this one is last less less really stupid, but it's less. What are you, punchy or creamy? Peanut butter? Which one do you prefer?

00;28;56;26 - 00;29;00;18
Dany Green
Creamy Iowa foods and. No, Paul.

00;29;01;23 - 00;29;03;07
Rob Lee
Okay, no, Paul weren't the same actually.

00;29;03;09 - 00;29;15;06
Dany Green
They're in the same room. I mean, I would eat the crunchy as you should I prefer and I've really in the peanut butter lately studio snack of the now.

00;29;15;25 - 00;29;32;01
Rob Lee
I dig it so with that that's all I have I want to thank you for being on this podcast and I want to invite and encourage you to tell the fine folks about where to check your work out, where website, social media, all of that good stuff. And tell me about your pop free life.

00;29;32;06 - 00;30;06;19
Dany Green
Thank you. I will. I should honestly tell more about my food preferences and scare people. They will judge me, but you can find me on Instagram is where it's the most like up to date stuff. Danny Am Green Day, NY m g r e and no eat the n. Don't get confused. My website is Danny Green spelled the same way, you know, but with no m in the middle and I think I might start working on my tik tok but that's not a thing yet, so just be on the lookout.

00;30;06;28 - 00;30;14;07
Dany Green
I am teaching a class at shop, maybe C on the 23rd. If you'd like to get a ticket. There's only five seats left.

00;30;14;26 - 00;30;38;15
Rob Lee
Well, there you have it, folks. I want to again thank Danny Green for coming on to the podcast and sharing her story with us and telling us about her work and the inspirations that are baked into it. And for Danny Green, I'm Rob Lee, saying that there's art in and around your city. You just got to look for it.