Ashley Zelinskie is an artist into "space stuff." Behind an accessible, childlike joy for astronomy and the infinite wonders of planetary science and all things astro, is a deep desire to engage with hard science through the playful prism of artistic exploration and humble proximity intervention. Her works span a variety of media, from sculpture, canvas and print works, to digital art, VR, and holograms. Each artwork is created using cutting edge technology such as 3D printing, computer-guided laser cutting, satellite plating technology, and gaming engines. Her work focuses on visualizing data in abstract forms and finding new and interesting ways to describe complex ideas. On this episode, we discuss how her art, regardless of medium, not only responds to scientific efforts, but often inspires them.

Ashley’s work has been featured by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice, Popular Science, Space.com, and more. Her work forms part of the permanent collection of the US Department of State Art in Embassies Program, The Whitney Museum’s artport collection, and has been exhibited at Sotheby’s New York, ArtScience Museum in Singapore and most recently Art Center Nabi in Seoul. Zelinskie is a former resident of New Inc.—the New Museum’s Art and Technology Incubator—and the Shapeways x Museum of Art and design “Out of Hand” exhibition residency. A graduate of RISD, she has worked alongside NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Smithsonian and she is a member of Onassis ONX XR studio in New York City. She has a solo exhibition in November 2026 with Heft Gallery in NYC that is set to interrogate the tricky dichotomy between public and private spacefaring agencies, informed by her unique, up-close, hands-on experience.

Not many natural-born networking gurus go as hard as Gary Su, while somehow remaining so consistently sweet. Breaking onto the scene as the formative manager and "confidant" of the multi-award-winning musical prodigy Jon Batiste (The Late Show with Steven Colbert), Su (Gary-get it?), has since organically amassed a huge network of contacts, which DK Kim, an experienced marketing and sales professional, has since leveraged into a widely-read, bi-weekly newsletter and now, a new web-application, SugaryNYC. On this episode, the duo talks about connecting over fitness during the Covid years and how "everything in moderation" shouldn't just be a dreamy aphorism for busy New Yorkers. The deeper lesson is how Americans, regardless of their place of origin, must contend with the highly-pressurized mandate to consistently capitalize everything in their lives-from hobbies to human contacts. This has perhaps become normalized to the point of conscious erasure, but what does this mean for our minds, bodies and souls? How do we prevent one or all elements of this human trifecta from burning out? What does it mean to shepherd natural, superstar talents as well as artists who need a little more hands-on advocacy and support? DK Kim and Gary Su (Salty & Sweet respectively) share all they've learned about collaboration, networking, community building, events-planning, promotion, and a whole lot more.

Charlie Fisher is a European researcher, architect, and founder working at the intersection of community land trusts, regenerative land use, and decentralized governance. He co-founded Transition by Design, a cooperative architecture practice in Oxford, and spent over a decade building affordable housing infrastructure through the Oxfordshire Community Land Trust and the Collaborative Housing Hub. He's been a member of Dark Matter Labs, where he contributed to work on alternative property systems and commons-based landholding. In 2022 he co-founded OASA, a Swiss Association behind what's described as the first tokenized land trust in Europe — a 30-hectare regenerative living project in Portugal known as Traditional Dream Factory. He is pursuing (Fall 26) a PhD in urban affordable housing delivery from Oxford Brookes University. Why Charlie on Good Standing right now? Terms like "oligarchy" and "techno feudalism" have rightfully saturated the international lexicon, as wealth disparity swells exponentially in parallel with the rising cost of living. Millions of jobs erased, strained life in urban centers, the shifting nature of work, and the lack of affordable housing have collectively reached an inflection point. All "poly-crisis dooming" aside (or not), perhaps ancient models of shared land ownership are in need of a contemporary update?