The Spark & The Art: Recent Episodes
Tucker Harley Brown
The Spark & The Art Creativity Podcast ran for 155 episodes and talked about the creative life: Interviews with writers, musicians, filmmakers and more.
The show is on permanent hiatus but I still talk about creativity obsessively and you can find me at:
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I’m your host Tucker and this week is an interview with me for another podcast called Every Speaker Has A Story. It’s a podcast made, and hosted, by Dr. Steven Vrooman. Steve is a professor Texas Lutheran University where is chair of the Department of English and Communication Studies and director of General Education. He’s also done a TEDx talk and published the Zombie Guide to Public Speaking. Steve’s a smart guy.
Guest casts was a concept I was playing with where other people would do an insight and inspiration episode. I wasn’t sure if they were going to be a regular thing or perhaps a Patreon subscriber bonus. I asked a few people to do some as an experiment and you are going to hear two of them today.
Ready? Here we go …
Thanks, David, I appreciate the time you took to put together an episode. I was reminded of the interview with David B. Goldstein TheSparkAndTheArt.com/74. David Goldstein’s book is about using your personality type to be your best creative self you can be.
Next up is recent guest Melissa Dinwiddie. I’ll be back on the other side to give a wrap this all up. So, here’s Melissa …
My wife just finished a garden path in the front of our house. She’s been planning it for the 11 years since we moved in. Just about an hour ago she got it done. She worked on it all day just to get the project out of her way. She posted it to Facebook and said “it’s not perfectly how I envisioned it but I still like it and more importantly it’s DONE” without even listening to this episode she practiced Intentional Imperfectionism and it made her feel fantastic.
Visit MelissaDinwiddie.com for more insightful episodes and a podcast. If you are a musician and are hoping to make a living with your music you should head to David’s website MusicianEtrepreneurHQ.com for great articles and a podcast and of course, sign up to find out when his new book comes out.
Thanks again to David and Melissa for putting together these episodes for the show and thank you for listening. And remember: You won’t get the art without the work and you won’t do the work without the spark.
Hello and welcome to the The Spark & The Art creativity podcast. Thank you for subscribing to our weekly podcast, where we alternate between interviews with creative folks from all different career levels and insight and inspiration episodes. All with the intention you’ll get what you need to get your creative projects started and, more importantly, finished.
I’m your host Tucker and this week is an interview with Crystal Salamon. Crystal is an artist who took a leap of faith a few years ago and did a print run of 2000 colouring books. The story she tells of what happened when she checked her sales the next day is filled with emotion.
Before Crystal started making colouring books she started off in University to be a doctor. During pre-med she took a single art class to, as she puts it “Get it out of my system”. I think you can guess how the story goes from there. Well, you can guess the ending at least. There is more school and ‘A boy’ and teaching and finding her self.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy today’s chat with Crystal Salamon
Get me on twitter @sparkartpodcast or by email Tucker@thesparkandtheart.com
Thanks for listening and remember: you won’t get the art without the work and you won’t do the work without the spark.
In today’s chat Melissa talks about her 15 year break from making art and how she came back to art because she was procrastinating while working at becoming a writer.
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/150 - I've been listening to the book This is Your Brain on Music - Dr. Daniel J. Levitin. It's about the science behind what happens to your brain when you listen to music and what makes it such a powerful thing in the lives of humans.
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/149 - Troy is a songwriter but as you’ll learn he does more than just write songs. Recording demos and working as a producer for other artists and more. Works well with our episode about Streams of Income.
- Links for this episode -
Troy Kokol - https://www.troykokol.com/
Jim Unger’s Herman - http://www.gocomics.com/herman
Sylvester Stallone’s Dog - http://www.snopes.com/stallone-sold-his-dog/
Colin James - http://www.colinjames.com/
MTV Cribs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Cribs
Socan - http://www.socan.ca/
Tom Cochrane - http://www.tomcochrane.com/
Tom Cochrane Life is a highway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo
Finger 11 - http://www.fingereleven.com/
Finger 11 Paralyzer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk6gZuPKRE
Pickup Truck - Shane Yellowbird - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqcKbGC4T1s
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/148 – The fact is I’d have to do all everything. My question was more or less "what should I do first?”
http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/147 - I’m taking away the piece on how to reframe my concerns about what others think of either me or my actions. My biggest struggle isn’t always finding the time to do something it’s when my brain justifies the reasons I shouldn’t do something based on what I think others might think. Thanks Jerusha.
Links for today's episode
Jerusha and her Studio - http://www.yogadown.ca/teachers--staff.html
Big Rock Singers Okotoks - http://www.bigrocksingers.com/
http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/146 - You can sell anything you want. The secret is to sell what other people want. I’m not going to get into the difference between selling what people want and what people need I’ll cover that in another episode one day.
http://thesparkandtheart.com/145 – This week we talk with Improviser, Actress, Producer and professional breath recording artist Rebecca Northan. In today’s chat Rebecca reflects on a yearbook quote and how it relates to her life now and the interesting work that actors do that you didn't even know were jobs.
- Links for this episode -
Rebecca Northan - http://www.spontaneoustheatre.ca/
Rebecca Northan Twitter - https://twitter.com/RebeccaNorthan
Rebecca Northan IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1720123/
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457419/
Kathleen Foreman - http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/utoday/september5-2013/drama-community-mourns-passing-of-respected-professor
Spiegeltent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegeltent
Blind Date Play - http://www.spontaneoustheatre.ca/blind-date.html
Kevin McCollum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCollum
HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonized_sales_tax
Vertigo Theatre - http://www.vertigotheatre.com/
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/144 - I got laid-off and I don't know how to feel about it.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/143 - We talk about what led Samantha Duff to start her own theatre company and specifically a family theatre with a mandate to ensure theatre is financially accessible to all.
- Links for this episode -
Goodger-Pink Productions - http://www.goodgerpinkproductions.com/
Samantha Duff & Holleay Rohm - http://www.goodgerpinkproductions.com/our-team.html
Mount Royal University - http://www.mtroyal.ca
University of Alberta - https://www.ualberta.ca/drama
The year of The Flood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Alberta_floods
Dan Gibbons Playwright - http://www.talesfrompartsunknown.com/?page_id=6
Ellen Chorley Playwright - http://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/theatre/nextfest-has-a-new-festival-director-multi-talented-ellen-chorley
Telus Spark Science Centre - http://www.sparkscience.ca/experience-telus-spark/
Jurassic Attack Monster Truck - http://www.jurassicattack.com/trucks.html
The episode where I talk about not understanding kids - http://thesparkandtheart.com/48
http://thesparkandtheart.com/142 – I'm not really sure how to describe this. Super power seems like it would be the main power but what is it when your power isn't the main thing? What if you are a brain scientist who wants to talk about brain donation and your audience starts to get uncomfortable. What if you have a cool role-playing podcast and need incidental music to enhance the mood?
- Links for this episode -
Griffin McElroy - https://twitter.com/griffinmcelroy
The Adventure Zone - https://t.co/qcmTtbx1BF
Chase Reeves - Chase Reeves thesparkandtheart.com/66
My Stroke Of Insight TED Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight
http://thesparkandtheart.com/141 – With over 900 audiobooks under his belt Sean Pratt is one of the most sought after book narrators today.
- Links for this episode -
Sean Pratt - https://twitter.com/SPPresents
British American Drama Academy - http://www.bada.org.uk/
Cabbages and Kings - O’Henry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbages_and_Kings_(literature)
Cabbages and Kings - Audiobook - http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Cabbages-and-Kings-Audiobook/B002V59Y3Q
Seasteading - Joe Quirk - https://www.seasteading.org/author/joequirk/
Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic - http://amzn.to/2niAk14
Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - http://amzn.to/2nNQ7ZI
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/140 - This week is another semantic exploration. This time about encouragement and appreciation.
http://thesparkandtheart.com/139 – Chris Barton is a Chef who’s restaurant creates a new menu each week. Chris recognizes the drain creating a new menu each week would be on him if he had to do it all alone. We talk about how important his team members are to both the creating of the dishes but also the success of the restaurant itself. We talk about the challenges of being in charge charge of this shared creativity and not wanting to say ‘no’ too often.
- Links for this episode -
Anew Table Restaurant in Calgary - https://www.anewtable.ca/
Mount Royal University - http://www.mtroyal.ca/
SAIT Culinary Campus - http://culinarycampus.ca/
Keep writing. Keep singing. Keep working with others. Keep building relationships. Keep doing it. Because that’s what you can control. You can’t control if you get a song on the radio. You can’t control if an artist decides to record your song. The only thing you can control is how good your skills are and how you nurture your relationships.
http://thesparkandtheart.com/137 – We talked to animator Andrew Ford a couple years ago and the theme of that episode was Reach your goal and keep learning. Andrew’s goal was to work at Disney and now that he’s done it you can hear how his philosophy hasn’t changed. Even after getting to Disney he still want to just get better.
- Links for this episode -
Andrew Ford - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatchewan-animator-andrew-ford-disney-1.3936095
Glen Keane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Keane
Milt Kahl - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Kahl
Eric Goldberg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Goldberg_(animator)
Mark Henn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Henn
Randy Haycock - http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Randy_Haycock
John Musker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Musker
Mari-Mac by Great Big Sea - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AT07v9V4-w
Patio Lanterns by Kim Mitchell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbSuEQXX2C0
http://thesparkandtheart.com/136 - Clutter is fine when you are using it all. A messy desk means you are there often and using things. But what about those boxes of old magazines for that collage you are going to make one day or that carton of video tapes for the family film you are going to produce. Not only are they taking up your physical space they are also taking up your mental space.
http://thesparkandtheart.com/135 – Jackie was a guest on the show a couple years ago as she had just finished up as lead animator on the film Book of Life. Her goal through everything she’s done was to one day work at Disney. Well, she made it and now we talk about if she feels like she’s ‘Made it’.
- Links for this episode -
Jackie Koehler - http://www.jackiekoehler.com/about-me-and-this-site.html
Jackie’s First visit - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/30
Matt Roberts (Disney) - https://about.me/gouletniac
Disney Internships - https://www.disneyanimation.com/careers/interns-apprentices
Emily Carr - http://www.ecuad.ca/
Nerd Corps - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHX_Studios_Vancouver
Animation Mentor - http://www.animationmentor.com/
http://thesparkandtheart.com/134 – Space gets filled. So does time. What you fill it with is up to you.
http://thesparkandtheart.com/133 – David is very busy as a musician, entrepreneur and writer but we talk about how he handles that workload and some things he does to help keep overwhelm at bay.
- Links for this episode -
David Andrew Wiebe - http://davidandrewwiebe.com/
Music Entrepreneur HQ - http://www.musicentrepreneurhq.com/
Jonathon Ferguson - http://www.longjonlev.com/
Django Reinhart - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt
Django Reinhart 3 hours of music -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szNJ6DqrqoA
Adrenalize - http://adrenalize.ca/the-band/
Deanne Matley - http://www.deannematley.com/
Vern’s Bar - http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/calgary+dive+music+lover+paradise/7828548/story.html
Maveen Kaura - https://twitter.com/1MKAURA
Using Your Power - http://usingyourpower.com/
http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/132 - I heard a quote earlier this week and I can’t find it anywhere online so I don’t know who said it or in what context but I’m gonna talk about it anyway because it got me thinking.
The quote was something along the lines of you can’t both breath in or out. Basically meaning you can’t do only one. You can’t only breath in. Your lungs can only hold so much. The oxygen is all absorbed and gets stale. Your lungs ache and eventually you breath out
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/131 - In today’s chat we learn about Amy’s path through business school, culinary school, art school and how she came to work with me at the large unnamed communications company here in Canada.
- Links for this episode -
Amy Pon - http://amypon.com/
Inktober - http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober
Macewan University -http://www.macewan.ca/wcm/index.htm
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology - http://www.nait.ca
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology - http://www.sait.ca
Alberta College of Art and Design - https://acad.ca/
80% Perfect t-shirts - https://tucker.threadless.com/
I don’t think we can know where our best talents lie. I’m only just starting to get my head around this so bear with me things may change over time.
This whole theory relates to how we perceive our talents and how others perceive them. What got me to thinking about it is my 8yo daughter was mentioning that she wasn’t good at math. She says it makes her head hurt sometimes to think about it. But when we talked to her teacher she said it was one of my daughter's strong subjects.
- Links for this episode -
Tanya Ryan's Instagram post - https://instagram.com/p/BORHQjugGiN/
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/129 - Nic Gregory is currently working with Disney publishing as an illustrator on a version of Sleeping Beauty. But before that he had his original hip-hop songs in rotation on Australian radio and toured as a professional wrestler and won two championship belts for his efforts.
- Links for this episode -
Nic Gregory - http://nic-gregory.squarespace.com/
Nic Gregory twitter - https://twitter.com/nic_xl
CTN Convention - http://www.ctnanimationexpo.com/
Plein Air art - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_plein_air
Fantasia (Disney) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_(1940_film)
Oatley Academy - http://oatleyacademy.com/
Minx Wrestling Highlights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA4J0JWC6I0
Nic XL Wrestling Highlights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZLKe-JFLIA
Nic doing art - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASf7fgVor5w
Stefan Franck - http://dark-planet-comics.com/
http://thesparkandtheart.com/128 - I prefer to think that Practice Make Progress. Practice doesn’t make perfect unless you practice perfectly and that doesn’t sit well with me. Practice makes permanent but that sounds so final like you’ll get to a certain point and be that way forever. Like a tattoo. But that’s not the way it works. You just keep getting better if you just keep practicing and finding your things to improve on.
Hello and welcome to the The Spark & The Art creativity podcast. Thank you for subscribing to our weekly podcast, where we alternate between interviews with creative folks from all different career levels and insight and inspiration episodes. All with the intention you’ll get what you need to get your creative projects started and, more importantly, finished.
I’m your host Tucker and this week is a follow-up interview with filmmaker Thi Vo.
In our last episode with Thi TheSparkAndTheArt.com/18 he had just finished up his crowdfunding and had gone off to Vietnam to shoot his documentary film about him searching for his birth father.
Today we talk about what’s been happening with the film in intervening time and when he hopes to have a final film.
He also tells the emotional story that sparked him into action to find his dad.
We also talk about the creative and curious things we did as kids that helped get him to where he is now. It’s not the first conversation like this on the show and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
Now, on to today’s conversation with Thi Vo.
Was there anything in today’s show that made you think of someone you know? I’d love it if you shared it with them. Who knows they may just figure something out about themselves and become a perfect human being and they’d have you to thank. Who are you to deny a friend the potential of perfection? The easiest way to share is to send the short URL TheSparkAndTheArt.com/127 the hardest way is to encode the url as morse code and set the bathroom light to flash in the coded sequence and hope your friend recognizes the pattern before they go crazy and smash the light fixture with their toilet brush.
If you want to get me I’m always available on twitter @SparkArtPodcast and if you want to connect with other creative folks you can come join us on Facebook. There are some great conversations happening on there you should totally come join us. Head to TheSparkAndTheArt.com/facebook and it’ll take you right there. Just hit the join button and I’ll let you in. I wanted the group to be private so we could have conversations that were a little more personal than you might normally have in a social media forum. So if you have any questions or work you’d like some honest feedback on come join us. We’re all very friendly.
Thanks for listening and remember: you won’t get the art without the work and you won’t do the work without the spark.
- Links for this episode -
Thi Vo - http://www.doublewhammy.co/
Made In Vietnam - https://www.facebook.com/madeinvietnamfilm/
Diageo - http://www.diageo.com/en-row/Pages/default.aspx
Twilight Tone Mahattan Transfer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10re2ggUHw
Hello World Short Film - https://vimeo.com/141692061
Curiosity. Problem Solving. Expression. Habit & Ritual.
- Links for this episode -
Jorge Gutiérrez Border Bang - http://www.gregorioescalante.com/border-bang/
Jorge Gutiérrez Interview - TheSparkAndTheArt.com/26
Habit & Ritual - TheSparkAndTheArt.com/85
Whitney Hess Interview - TheSparkAndTheArt.com/111
Dulcie Foo Fat Interview - TheSparkAndTheArt.com/123
http://thesparkandtheart.com/125 –
Jean-Michel has a line of silk scarves, leggings and now kimonos printed with abstract designs made from his photography. This is his most recent artistic project. He has had exhibitions of his photography as well as published art books. But he does all this on the side as an executive in the energy sector.
- Links for this episode -
http://byjeanmichel.com/
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/124 –Any art has the illusion of driving culture but really it is just crystallizing what is happening. It translates culture from ephemeral to solid. From feelings to words. From the observable to the understandable. The elusive to the tangible.
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/123 – Dulcie Foo Fat is a painter and in our conversation we talk about how she became an artist by default even though she was aiming to get into education. We talk about how crumbs of encouragement are all it takes to find a path. We talk about the importance having a supportive husband played in her success and at the end we talk about her daughters who I will most likely be also inviting on the podcast.
-Links for this episode-
Dulcie Foo Fat - http://dulciefoofat.com/
https://exshaw.ca/
http://www.calgary.ca/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational
http://www.juilliard.edu/
http://music.yale.edu/
http://www.umontreal.ca/english/
http://arcadefire.com/site/
https://www.banffcentre.ca/
http://www.raleigh-sound.com/new-album/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dudes
https://dojoworkhorse.bandcamp.com/
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/122 – Out of all of the books I’ve read I always get a little something. Usually about creativity and life’s journey since that’s what I’ve been most interested in. But I don’t think any have really captured it as well as The Neverending Story.
http://TheSparkAndTheArt.com/121 – Ash Thorp is a motion designer, illustrator, artist, and creative director and has worked on films like Ender’s Game and Total Recall and X-Men: First Class.
- Links for this episode -
Ash Thorp - http://ashthorp.com/
Prologue - http://oldsite.prologue.com/
Kyle Cooper - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Cooper
Danny Yount - http://www.dannyyount.com/
X-men First Class Opening Sequence - https://vimeo.com/48261400
Motionographer - http://motionographer.com/
Learn Squared - https://www.learnsquared.com/
Andrew Hawryluk - http://www.andrewh.tv/
None (short film) - http://www.ashthorp.com/none
Lost Boy (short film) - http://lostboyworld.com/
Ash Thorp - http://ashthorp.com/
Prologue - http://oldsite.prologue.com/
Kyle Cooper - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Cooper
Danny Yount - http://www.dannyyount.com/
X-men First Class Opening Sequence - https://vimeo.com/48261400
Motionographer - http://motionographer.com/
Learn Squared - https://www.learnsquared.com/
Andrew Hawryluk - http://www.andrewh.tv/
None (short film) - http://www.ashthorp.com/none
Lost Boy (short film) - http://lostboyworld.com/
TheSparkandTheArt.com/120 - Canadian Thanksgiving isn’t much different than what I can gather an American Thanksgiving is like. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, pumpkin pie. Personally I don’t like pumpkin pie. I really like berry pies blueberry is by far my favourite.
There’s no real story to thanks giving. No pilgrims coming to Plymouth Rock or anything like that. As far as I could ever tell it was just a to be thankful.
What the hell kind of summary is this Tucker?!
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/119 – Michael Grills has been a professional illustrator for nearly 20 years and has a very clear vision of what it means to be an illustrator: Rely on your foundation and serve your customer.
- Links for this episode -
Alberta College of Art and Design - https://acad.ca/
Spencer Goldade interviews - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/2 and http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/52
Spencer’s Site - http://www.monkeyslunch.com/
Bioware - http://www.bioware.com/en/
Modern Library - http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
Anne Handley: Everybody Writes - http://annhandley.com/everybodywrites/
PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Professional
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/118 – this week my review of Camp Festival of 2016. The Camp Festival is a two day conference with a bunch of speakers from all different disciplines who work at a very high level in the industry. These are designers who have worked on movies like the Iron Man trilogy or have worked at Google and Microsoft or have The New Yorker magazine, Nike and Sports Illustrated as clients.
- Links for this episode -
Camp Festival - http://www.campfestival.ca/
Globacore - http://www.globacore.com/
Joshua Smith Illustrator - http://hydro74.com/
Stacy Mulcahy - https://twitter.com/bitchwhocodes
Danny Yount - http://dannyyount.com/
http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/117 - Web designer Ross Barber-Smith only works with musicians and others in the music industry. This is because that’s what he’s really interested in. Ross went to the University of the Highlands and Islands Perth College in Scotland taking the Popular Music Bachelor of Arts program.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/116 – A man and a woman look at a rolling ball machine. The woman is an artist. The man is an engineer. They both are intrigued by the machine for different reasons.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/115 – Lorraine Harley has been active in arts and other creative pursuits for her whole life but she says it’s only recently that she’s really recognizing her talents for what they are. We talk about how her ‘jack-of-all-trades’ approach to creative work is an asset because she has a lot of fun with many different types of projects and mediums.
- Links for this episode -
Concours D’art Oratoire - http://ab.cpf.ca/actvities/youth-activities/concours-dart-oratoire/
JJ Johnston - http://www.thesparkandtheart.com/6
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/114 –
I’m your host Tucker and this week is a dream I had about 8 years ago.
I'm fairly certain that it was in The War Of Art where author Steven Pressfield said that dreams, especially those that you wake from with vivid clarity, are there for you to learn from. They are your subconscious share sharing wisdom with you. They are they are meant to be held within you so you can internalize and act on the message. So, you aren't meant to share dreams with others until the meaning has been accepted by yourself - or something like that. I can't find the part of the book where he talks about it. So maybe it's a different book.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/113 – A personal graphic novel about birthmarks and immigration and a blog to inspire kids to use their talents in drawing to keep them creative. Lana Lê.
- Links for this episode -
Lana Lê - http://lana-le.com/
Persepolis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(comics)
Maus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
Raina Telgemeier - http://goraina.com/books_smile.html
CeCe Bell - https://cecebell.wordpress.com/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/111 – Whitney and I talk about her starting out in computer sciences - and hating it - loving her writing major and how she stumbled on a course for Human Computer Interaction which lead her to her first user experience position. While the whole conversation is fantastic, I think my favourite part is the last 5 minutes where Whitney builds on how curiosity and creativity work together.
- Links for this episode -
Whitney Hess - https://whitneyhess.com/
Whitney Hess Twitter - https://twitter.com/whitneyhess
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/110 – Eva Hesse was a sculptor and ran into a bout of creative block and wrote to Sol for some advice. I’ve never read Eva’s letter but I feel I can get a gist of what she was saying. She was planning what she was going to do to get out of her creative block. She was thinking about how should could get passed her creative block.
- Links for this episode -
Sol LeWitt’s Letter - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eva-hesse-letters-sol-lewitt_us_562f79ede4b00aa54a4b18d8
Sol LeWitt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt
Eva Hesse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Hesse
Inspiration comes from the work - http://www.songstuckerwrote.com/podcast/57-inspiration-comes-from-the-work
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/109 – Dancer, teacher and bloom doodler Michelle Johnson. We talk about how she used drawing to help her through a difficult time while recuperating from a difficult surgery and how through the sharing of her images with her friends it lead to her creating and self-publishing a colouring book.
- Links for this episode -
Michelle Johnson on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/doodledblooms/
DoodledBlooms - https://www.amazon.ca/Doodled-Blooms-Coloring-Fantastical-Everyone/dp/152384440X
Texas Lutheran University - http://www.tlu.edu/
You’re So Crafty - http://youresocrafty.com/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/108 – this episode we talk about the three reasons to do anything. Acheivement, Acclaim and the Almighty Dollar.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/107 – In today's chat we talk to comic artist and illustrator Scott Kowalchuk. We talk about a lot of things including where he started and what he did to pitch his very first comic to the comic publisher image comics. It wasn't just a simple idea with a few sketches it was finished books. We also talk about the reason he is being much more calculated about the publishers he does approach and being very honest with himself about the projects he's choosing in the future.
- Links for this episode -
Scott Kowalchuk - http://scottkowalchuk.com/
Scott Kowalchuk - http://scottkowalchuk.blogspot.ca/
The Intrepids - http://scottkowalchuk.blogspot.ca/search/label/intrepids
Image Comics - https://imagecomics.com
Fort MacMurray - http://www.fortmcmurraytourism.com/
Fort McMurray Fire - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/the-fort-mcmurray-disaster-read-the-latest-weekend/article29930041/
ACAD - https://acad.ca/
Batman ’66 - http://scottkowalchuk.blogspot.ca/search/label/batman
Michel Fiffe, Copra Comic - http://michelfiffe.com/
Bruce Campbell - If Chins Could Kill - https://www.amazon.ca/If-Chins-Could-Kill-Confessions/dp/0312291450
Eckhart Tolle - https://www.eckharttolle.com/
The Power of Now - https://www.eckharttollenow.com/store/item/10/The-Power-of-Now--Paperback-
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/106 – It reminded me of the conversation I had with author Sean Williams In episode 62 about how getting ideas out was like a tube of toothpaste where it's easier to get out when the dry crusty bits are gone from the end and you can get that flow back. It wasn't a really good analogy then and I think I've done it even less justice this time around.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/105 – David is an author and Associate Professor of Management at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on organizational behaviour, creativity and innovation, and strategic leadership. But he started out wanting to be Jack Kerouac so you probably don’t want to miss how that happened.
- Links for this episode -
Malcolm Gladwell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell
Tipping Point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point
Todd Henry - http://www.toddhenry.com/
Lorem Ipsum - http://loremipsum.net/
Scott Berkun - Myths of Innovation - http://scottberkun.com/2013/ten-myths-of-innnovation/
Angela Duckworth - http://angeladuckworth.com/
Liz Wiseman - http://thewisemangroup.com/
Rookie Smarts - https://www.amazon.com/Rookie-Smarts-Learning-Beats-Knowing/dp/006232263X
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/103 – Entrepreneur, software developer and Musician Cory Smith. We talk about his start in computer sciences and the role his instructors played in nurturing the invaluable skill of learning how to learn. We also talk about connecting with others by telling your own story. As evidenced by his 10s of thousands of listens on his Soundcloud for raps about the tech world.
- Links for this episode -
S.A.I.T - http://www.sait.ca/
Grande Prairie - http://www.cityofgp.com/
GQ and King Dylan - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/afterlife/id203204250
DC Show and King Dylan - http://kingdylan.com/
TechCrunch - http://techcrunch.com/
Coffee Crisp - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Crisp
Coffee Crisp Commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOY7fGdCrBs
Traction Conference - http://www.tractionconf.io/
Nokia Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq9CQgZ3_sA
Roland FA-06 - http://www.roland.com/products/fa-06/
Jame Altucher Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-james-altucher-show/id794030859
Mark Maron of WTF Podcast & Charlie Rose interview - https://charlierose.com/videos/28036
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/102 - Knowing what a project isn't can be as important as knowing what a project is. Adding that perspective can help get unstuck and get started or finished.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/101 – Julie Geller has been writing and performing songs pretty much since someone showed her a few chords on a piano as a kid and now with the support of her followers on Patreon puts out a song with a video every month.
- Links for this episode -
Julie’s site - http://www.juliegeller.com/
Julie’s Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/juliegeller
Hey Girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0AFwYg604k
Raise Your Hand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wEGCYNiT5Y
We’ve Got Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qdZZ6-pt3s
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/100 – I’ve had the opportunity to be a guest on a couple podcasts since I started this podcast and the hosts of those shows were kind enough to let me re-publish them here as my celebratory 100th episode.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/99 – An interview with film and television composer Alec Harrison. I’d say Emmy Nominated composer but you’ll hear at the end of this episode why Alec doesn’t think that would be impressive or important.
- Links for this episode -
Alec Harrison - http://alecharrison.com/
SixDegrees post audio - http://sixdegrees.ca/
Calgary - http://www.calgary.ca/
Hooked On Classics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17dP0QvjsOU
Junkie XL - Tom Holkenborg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkie_XL
E.T. The Extraterrestrial - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/
Flock Of Seagulls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
The Rosies (AMPIA Awards) - http://ampia.org/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/98 – we talk about an article I read on Reddit by Amir Rajan about his success in the iTunes App store. The article is basically a how-to for working with Apple to have a successful game for iPhones and iPads. Amir’s success was in the range of $700,000 USD over the course of about 3 years.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/97 – Lorian is an elementary school art teacher in Florida during the day and does illustration for children’s books outside of work. In today’s chat we talk about a teacher who inspired her, her own passion for teaching and her work as an illustrator. Her passion is obvious and infectious and I can’t imagine any kid not being inspired by her enthusiasm for art.
- Links for this episode -
Lorian Dean - http://www.paperpencilplaystudio.com/
Publio Delgato singing with himself as a baby -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTHQNhKNI5c
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators - http://www.scbwi.org/
The Dot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mGeR4AQdM
Peter H Reynolds author - http://www.peterhreynolds.com/
Peter Brown Children’s author - http://www.peterbrownstudio.com/
Linda Shute - http://www.lindashute.com/Home/Welcome.html
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/96 – This week I tell you how to make sure your creative project turns out perfect: Never finish it.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/95 – Alexis is a writer specializing in advertising and has been working towards that goal since she was a kid. She tells the story of how she was inspired by some TV shows like Who’s The Boss as a kid.
- Links for this episode -
Alexis - http://www.alexisbronstorph.com/
Kraft - http://www.alexisbronstorph.com/#/kraftpeanutbutter/
Mio - http://www.alexisbronstorph.com/#/mio/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/94 – Sometimes we finish something and it’s the greatest thing in the world. We’re a genius and can’t believe people aren’t writing epic tales about our talents. Only to come back to it and wonder why we even bothered finishing in the first place. Sometimes we finish something and trash it right away because it just isn’t right. Sometimes we can tell something’s not right and simply move on. The point is that you can always find something wrong with a piece of work you’ve done.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/93 – Kelsey has always been interested in advertising but went to school for architecture and interior design. He tells about first using photoshop to create ads for fun and how he got an agency job based on a spec portfolio even though he had no training or real experience. And is now Creative Director working with brands like Kraft and Tim Horton's.
- Links for this episode -
Sid Lee - http://sidlee.com/en/Cities/Toronto
Aaron Draplin interview - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/80
Taxi - http://www.taxi.ca/
NAIT - Northern Alberta Institute of Technology - http://www.nait.ca/
Telus - http://www.telus.com/en/ab/index.jsp
Anvil awards - http://www.adrodeo.com/
MacLaren McCann - http://www.maclaren.com/
WestJet - http://www.westjet.com/
Douwe Egberts - http://www.decoffeecompany.com/
Geico Unskippable Ads - http://www.martinagency.com/work/unskippable
Stefan Sagmeister interview - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/24
You Are Not A Storyteller - https://vimeo.com/98368484
Kraft Teddy Bear Commercial - http://www.alexisbronstorph.com/#/kraftpeanutbutter/
Sia - Chandelier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjPBrBU-TM
Banksy’s Dismaland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismaland
Banksy’s Dismaland - pictures - http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/dismaland/
Tim’s Next Door Ad - http://www.alexisbronstorph.com/#/timhortons/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/92 – This week is different because I’m going to share some of what I do with my creativity. It’s a story I wrote based on a song I wrote called 'When It Was A Love Song'.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/91 – Creating your own problems has sort of a negative connotation to it. “I can’t really feel sorry for that person because they’ve created those problems for themselves.” That’s the drama queen sort of mentality. Drama isn’t the kind of problem I’m talking about. I’m talking about challenges to figure out and questions to be answered. I’m talking about figuring out what you can’t do and wondering how you can.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/90 – Chelsea is a User Experience Designer at Amazon and leads a team of designers working on the comments and other user engagement tools of the site. But she’s also a co-founder of a fashion and technology group where fashion designers and technologists collaborate.
- Links for this episode -
Amazon - https://www.amazon.ca/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=15121&creative=390961&linkCode=ur2&tag=spynoh-20
Poynt - http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/sprylogics-poynt-search-now-available-in-kik-app-515802171.html
BeauCoo - http://mashable.com/2013/09/03/beaucoo/#uD0rpA_UsPqr
Make Fasion - http://www.makefashion.ca/
EndevorArts Calgary/Archeloft http://www.endeavorarts.com/
MakerFaire - http://makerfaire.com/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/89 – Dreams are hard. Work is hard. Finding a path is hard. But what I love about the first lines of the song Give Up On Your Dreams by Seth Timbs are that just because you ‘give up’ doesn’t mean you stop. Maybe it just changes a little. Maybe you just pack’em up and get a new set.
- Links for this episode -
Seth Timbs - http://sethtimbs.bandcamp.com/
Oh, The places you will go - http://www.amazon.ca/Oh-The-Places-Youll-Go/dp/0679805273
Instagram’s Pivot - http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/08/instagram-a-pivotal-pivot/
Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
The Vomit Comet - http://www.livescience.com/29182-what-is-the-vomit-comet.html
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/88 – Adam Dreece is an indie author who is building a following for his The Yellow Hoods series of books which currently number 5 soon to be six. Previous to being an author Adam worked in high in the ranks of corporate IT as a software architect. The way Adam describes the transition from corporate IT to independent publishing is the universe just kept giving him larger and larger nudges until he couldn’t ignore them any more. So less than two years ago he started writing his book series. Yep two years 4 novels with another on the way.
- Links for this episode -
Adam Dreece - http://adamdreece.com/
Adam Dreece Twitter - https://twitter.com/adamdreece
C4 Winnipeg - http://www.c4winnipeg.com/
Imaginative Fiction Writers Association - http://ifwa.ca/
Calgary Expo - http://www.calgaryexpo.com/
Phil Donahue - http://www.biography.com/people/phil-donahue-9542194
Dad Was Right (Blog Post) - http://adamdreece.com/2014/10/29/dad-right/
When the walls fell - https://youtu.be/3-wzr74d7TI?t=42s
ADZO Publishing - http://adzopublishing.com/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/87 - Where To Start - Choosing a direction and prioritizing what needs to be done. This week's topic once again comes from the anonymous 1-question survey that pops up on TheSparkAndTheArt.com. The comment comes from someone in Canada and says "When pursuing a career in music sometimes knowing where to begin is tricky.”
- Links for this episode -
How Do You Start Something - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/1
Jellyfish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQTj_2mMfSA
Lady GaGa - http://www.ladygaga.com/
Coldplay - http://coldplay.com/
The Dave Matthews Band - http://davematthewsband.com/
Skrillex - http://skrillex.com/
Steve Aoki - http://www.steveaoki.com/
Roger Manning - http://www.rogerjosephmanningjr.com/
Chris Manning - http://salamandersound.com/
Andy Sturmer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Sturmer
Andy Sturmer - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1543833/
Maxime Goulet interview - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/56
Deanne Matley interview - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/86
David Andrew Weibe interview - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/16
David Andrew Weibe book - http://dawcast.com/the-new-music-industry-adapting-growing-and-thriving-in-the-information-age/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/86 – Deanne Matley has been singing since high school when she joined the jazz choir but didn’t pursue a professional career in music until more than 10 years later.
- Links for this episode -
Deanne Matley - http://www.deannematley.com/
Deanne Twitter - https://twitter.com/deannematley
All My Life - Kci & JoJo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvMT_mVbqw
Like I’m Going To Lose You - Meghan Trainor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-MBfn8XjIU&list=RD2-MBfn8XjIU
The Prayer Celine Dion and Andrea Boccelli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5VulNn3so
Liza Minnelli - Liza with a ‘Z’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW1WG3wrMZw
A Russian Lullaby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMA_q1YRKVc
Fast Forward Magazine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Forward_Weekly
Alberta Theatre Projects - http://atplive.com
V. C. Andrews - http://www.completevca.com
Mount Royal University - http://mtroyal.ca
The Artist’s Way - http://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/
The Freedom Journal - http://www.eofire.com/tfjoptin/
Tanya Ryan - http://www.tanyaryan.ca
Tanya Ryan Interview - http://thesparkandtheart.com/64
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/84 – Chris is a great example of someone using all their interests and skills to be fully creative. Chris talks about his path from designer to product manager. He also talks about his longtime interest in weather phenomena and relatively recent interest in photography and how he combined the two into his stunning series of aurora and storm photos.
Links for this episode
Chaser Con Canada - http://www.chaserconcanada.ca
Reid Timmer - https://www.facebook.com/ReedTimmerTVN/
Reddit - https://www.reddit.com
Frozen Bubbles - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIxIys1ABIGO1h-LU9cLUEA
Nerdist - http://nerdist.com/freezing-soap-bubbles-are-magical-orbs-of-awesome/
IFLS (I Fucking Love Science) - https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience
Adam Savage Twitter - https://twitter.com/ratzlaff/status/661295180083933184
CBC - http://www.cbc.ca/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/83 – You can’t actually make time. Time just happens and you sort of bob around in it. The only thing you can do is choose what to work on while you’re bobbing around. This choosing is the hardest part because it basically comes down to choosing between doing things for yourself and doing things for others.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/82 – Everything you see in an animated movie needs to be created by someone. From the dirt on the floor to the frying pan in the kitchen to the kitchen itself someone has to design it and that’s what our guest Betsy Bauer does for a day job. Outside of work does children’s books and other projects and we talk about her recent project, a fun colouring book about cats dressed as super heroes. We also talk about her work at Google creating Google doodles and how her getting the job all started with a retweet.
Links for this episode
Betsy Bauer - http://betsybauerart.com
Adobe Flash - http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/flash.html (Soon to be Adobe Animate)
Ringling College of Art + Design - https://www.ringling.edu
Paramount Pictures - http://www.paramount.com
Google - http://www.google.com
Digital Domain - http://digitaldomain.com
Legend Of Tembo - http://www.cartoonbrew.com/how-to/the-legend-of-the-legend-of-tembo-77114.html
Creativity Inc. - http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012
Super Dumb book of Super Cats - http://www.amazon.com/Super-Dumb-Cats-coloring-heroes/dp/151767283X
Ryan Lang - http://ryanlangdraws.tumblr.com
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/81 – What is the failure you’re so afraid of? What is failure for that matter? You get to create your own definition of failure. Nobody else can tell you when something is a failure because it depends on their definition of what failure is.
Links for this episode
James Cameron TED talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy
Andrea Beaty - https://www.andreabeaty.com
Rosie Revere - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie3Fb9dbCIk
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/80 – Aaron Draplin loves life and loves his work. From the daily activities of cleaning the house to the technical process of creating a logo or book design. He’s proud of his family and gives himself to everyone. That caring and pride shows in his work and you can hear it in our conversation.
Links for this episode
Aaron James Draplin - http://draplin.com
Mike Watt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Watt
Metallica - https://metallica.com
Square Mobile Payments - https://squareup.com/ca
Supersuckers - http://supersuckers.com
Reverend Horton Heat - http://www.reverendhortonheat.com
Until Red (now The Middle Coast) - http://www.themiddlecoast.ca
Old 97’s - http://old97s.com
Juno - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(band)
Bottlerocket - https://bottlerocket.bandcamp.com
Craig Finn - http://www.craigfinn.net
Son Volt - http://www.sonvolt.net
Tame Impala - http://www.tameimpala.com
Bob Mould - http://bobmould.com
Hüsker Dü - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hüsker_Dü
Bare Naked Ladies - http://www.barenakedladies.com
Arcade Fire - http://arcadefire.com/site/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/79 – What do people tell you you are? "You are such a good artist you should draw comics.” “You are a born dancer.” “You sing way better than anyone on the radio you mustn’t waste that talent.” That’s all well and good if you want to be a singer, dancer or comics artist.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/78 - The process Jonathan Ferguson followed for writing songs for his new album Telltale Heart, anonymity, how taking your art seriously doesn’t mean you have to take yourself seriously and the power of art to make you question and reflect on things
- Links for this episode -
Long Jon Lev - http://www.longjonlev.com
Jon’s first interview - http://thesparkandtheart.com/4
10 Inches of Snow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo
Barrage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XeB_eKnmls
John Butler - http://johnbutlertrio.com
Kim Churchill - http://kimchurchill.com
Jon Brion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca9ub9rpNK4
Howie Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca9ub9rpNK4
Bryan Adams - https://www.bryanadams.com/splash-getup
Bruce Springsteen - http://www.npr.org/2012/03/16/148778665/bruce-springsteens-sxsw-2012-keynote-speech
Gwar - http://www.gwar.net
Coffin Break - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIBqH3o_0jc
Beth by Kiss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkojuUSDO8
Andrew W. K. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccfbPQNMbg
Good Riddance by Green Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc
Mötley Crüe - http://www.motley.com
Daft Punk - http://www.daftpunk.com
DeadMau5 - http://live.deadmau5.com
ACDC - http://www.acdc.com
Paul Simon - http://www.paulsimon.com/ca
Jellyfish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish_(band)
Mr. Bungle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITEDFYdLHFA
Mumford and Sons - http://www.mumfordandsons.com
Nickleback - http://www.nickelback.com
Wayne Gretzky - https://gretzky.com
David Andrew Weibe - http://dawcast.com
Dave’s Book - http://dawcast.com/the-new-music-industry-adapting-growing-and-thriving-in-the-information-age/
Dave’s Interview - http://thesparkandtheart.com/16
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/77 -
If the work is more important than the art you know what is more important than the work?
The message. The why. The reason you do the work. The reason the spark goes from smile and excitment to actual act of bringing it to reality.
Links for this episode
Why the journey to your art is more important than the art itself - Thesparkandtheart.com/11
DavidGussak - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/art-trial
David B. Goldstein - http://davidbgoldstein.com
This podcast in iTunes - TheSparkAndTheArt.com/itunes
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/76 – David Gussak is an art therapist who has worked in prison populations for most of his career. We talk about what it takes to work with violent criminals and how, despite the many times he tried to leave the profession, it just keeps bringing him back.
Links for today’s episode
David Gussak - https://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/david-gussak-phd-atr-bc
Art Therapy In Prison - http://arttherapyinprison.com/?page_id=355
Art Therapy With Offenders - http://www.amazon.com/Art-Therapy-Offenders-Marian-Liebmann/dp/1853021717
Art On Trial - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/art-trial
Making Something Out Of Nothing - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/art-trial/201311/making-something-out-nothing
Homo Aestheticus - http://www.amazon.com/Homo-Aestheticus-Where-Comes-From/dp/0295974796
The Candy Man - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/art-trial/201504/the-candy-man-prisoner-paints-delectable-materials
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/75 – I read from my new ebook The Three Most Difficult Simple Things guaranteed to forever improve your creative work. It’s a long title but it’s a short book. But very helpful. You can download your own copy at TheSparkAndTheArt.com/ebook
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/74 – Today we talk about how understanding your personality type will help you in business & creative pursuits. We also talk about the importance of false confidence and the power of collaborative partners.
Links for this episode
David B. Goldstein - http://davidbgoldstein.com
Creative You - http://davidbgoldstein.com/book-creative-you/
Otto Kroeger - http://www.ottokroeger.com
Exit through the gift shop - http://exitthroughthegiftshop.com
Klaatu - http://klaatutheband.com/about/about.php
Carpenters - http://www.richardandkarencarpenter.com
Klaatu - Calling Occupants - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URM_5R-vWk
Carpenters - Calling Occupants - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/73 – So far there are two things I know about succeeding. Whether it’s succeeding at covering the cost of your project or succeeding to Madonna like levels. We talk about them both in this episode.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/72 – From art school and sharing gigs with Madonna to a marketing career and now creating a cartoon series - this is the awesome path and story of Richard Sirgiovanni.
Links for this episode
Richard Sirgiovanni - https://twitter.com/kartuneman
School of visual arts - http://www.sva.edu
CBGB - http://www.cbgb.com
Max’s Kansas City - http://maxskansascity.com
Madonna - http://www.madonna.com
Cyndi Lauper - http://cyndilauper.com
Bon Jovi - http://www.bonjovi.com
Ramones - https://www.ramones.com
Blondie - http://www.blondie.net
Talking Heads - http://www.talking-heads.nl
Bil Keane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Keane
Family Circus - http://familycircus.com/
Maurice White - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_White
Earth Wind and Fire - http://www.earthwindandfire.com/
Billy Idol - http://billyidol.net/
Jon Oates - http://johnoates.com/
Hall & Oates - http://www.hallandoates.com/
Roger Waters - http://rogerwaters.com/
Pink Floyd - http://www.pinkfloyd.com/
Johnny Rotten - http://www.johnlydon.com/jlhome.html
Sex Pistols - http://www.sexpistolsofficial.com/
The Grimps - http://thegrimps.com/
Townes Van Zandt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt
Ron Dante - http://www.rondante.com/
Jack Douglas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Douglas_(record_producer)
Aerosmith - http://www.aerosmith.com/
John Lennon - http://www.johnlennon.com/
Double Fantasy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Fantasy
John Boylan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boylan_(record_producer)
Boston - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_(band)
Keith Emerson - http://www.keithemerson.com/
Tony Bon Jovi - http://www.tonybongiovi.com/
heSparkAndTheArt.com/71 – I went to CAMP Festival here in Calgary. It was a two day conference filled with inspiration and awesome speakers. Here is a summary.
Links for this episode
Camp Festival - http://campfestival.ca
Stacey Mulcahy - http://thebitchwhocodes.com
Alon Chitayat - http://www.animishmish.com
Improv Canvas - http://www.improvcanvas.com
Yuko Shimizo - http://yukoart.com
Aaron Draplin - http://draplin.com
Field Notes - http://fieldnotesbrand.com
Neil Huxley - https://vimeo.com/neilhuxley
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/70 - Crowdfunding for authors, making friends with fear and moving into your stretch-zone. A very full episode indeed.
Pete Mosley - The Art Of Shouting Quietly - http://shoutingquietly.com/
Craft and Design Magazine - http://www.craftanddesign.net/
Indiegogo - https://www.indiegogo.com/
Sisyphus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
James Cameron - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron
Ted Talk - James Cameron - https://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/69 - I've recently started the official @sparkartpodcast twitter account I thought I'd give an update on the podcast and the new twitter account.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/68 – We talk about how, what I always assumed was, his relentless pursuit of perfection is in fact a relentless pursuit of ever increasing efficiencies in his creation process. We talk about what inks he likes and doesn’t like. The importance of making your tools invisible to you as the artist so they don’t get in the way of your ideas. We talk about how day job teaching comics as an art form has affected his work. And we also talk about how a day job, a comics career, a podcast and a family with two kids impacts his art (as a hint it has too do with the relentless pursuit of efficiencies I mentioned earlier)
Dan is very funny, very British and very insightful. I’m quite positive you will enjoy today’s chat with Dan Berry.
Links for Today’s show
Dan Berry - http://www.thingsbydan.co.uk
Dan Berry - https://www.behance.net/danomano65
Danbury - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut
Quimby the mouse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimby_the_Mouse
Chris Ware - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware
Jack Kirby - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby
Make it then tell everybody (website) - http://makeitthentelleverybody.com/
Make it then tell everybody (twitter) - https://twitter.com/MakeThenTell
Angoulême - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême_International_Comics_Festival
GiPi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipi
Tim Ferris - http://fourhourworkweek.com
Swan Mabie Todd - http://www.mabietoddpenlists.co.uk/page14.html
Platinum Carbon Ink - http://www.platinum-pen.co.jp/products/spare/ink/eink.html
Sailors Pigment Ink - http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/121399-sailor-kiwa-guro-or-aka-nano-pigment-ink/
Noodler’s Ink - http://noodlersink.com/
Drawn & Quarterly - https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/
Joe Matt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Matt
Plastic Forks - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11261511-plastic-forks
Tapping the Vein - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108058.Tapping_the_Vein
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/67 – What do kidnapped spacemen and a black-metal chef that sings vegan recipes have in common? They have found their voice - that one special way they communicate - and in turn have found an audience.
Links for today’s Show
http://www.club-mst3k.com/
http://fizzle.co/
http://veganblackmetalchef.com/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/66 – The power of choosing to be yourself and the journey it can take to get to the point where you can unashamedly just be who you are.
Links for this Episode
Chase Reeves - https://twitter.com/chase_reeves
Ice To The Brim - http://icetothebrim.com/
Fizzle.co - https://fizzle.co/
Corbett Barr - http://corbettbarr.com/blog/
Caleb Wojcik - http://www.calebwojcik.com/
Barret Brooks - http://barrettbrooks.com/
Steph Crowder - https://twitter.com/stephcrowder_
Father Apprentice - http://fatherapprentice.com/
Pat Flynn - http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/
Derek Halpern - http://socialtriggers.com/
Make it then tell everybody - http://makeitthentelleverybody.com/
Flipping the funnel episode - http://makeitthentelleverybody.com/2015/06/matt-diffee/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/65 - “You know what you should do?”, “Everybody is totally doing this right now. You should too.” who do you listen to and what is advice and what is guidance.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/64 – Yoga, the challenges of balancing the thing you do and business of the thing you do, why learning to take a compliment is to important and the art of creating a live music set. That’s today’s conversation with Tanya Ryan
Links for today's espisode
Tanya Ryan - http://tanyaryan.ca/
Cry for the Devil - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj1v0yafBE0
Duane Steele - http://duanesteele.com
Jake Matthews - http://www.jakemathews.com
Deanne Matley - http://www.deannematley.com
Almost in Love - http://www.songstuckerwrote.com/almost-in-love
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/63 - Just like a runner doesn’t just start running marathons. Film makers don’t start out making blockbusters. You can't expect to do your perfect work. You need time to play and experiment and try new things. Because in the trying you may find a new awesome combination that is a super fun passion.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/62 – Sean Williams is a novelist with over 40 books to his credit. He writes about 4 novels a year and has created his own series called Twin Maker as well as writing 6 novels in the Star Wars universe as well as one for Dr. Who.
Links for this episode
Sean Williams (Novelist, today’s guest) - http://seanwilliams.com
Sean Williams (Ethnomusicologist) - http://seanwilliams.org
National Novel Writing Month - http://nanowrimo.org
Dr. Who - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who
Wookiepedia - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Twinmakers - http://twinmakerbooks.com
Shaun Tan - http://www.shauntan.net/
The Arrival - http://www.shauntan.net/books/the-arrival.html
Steve Roach - http://www.steveroach.com/
PD James - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._James
Children Of Men - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men
Anne McCaffrey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McCaffrey
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/61 –
This week is insight and inspiration and we’re going to talk about titles, labels and how we define ourselves.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/60 – Why do creatives feel the need to justify their creative work? We explore this and many other topics in today’s chat with graphic designer and comics artist Ben Rankel.
Links for this episode
Ben Rankel - http://benrankel.com/
Archie - http://archiecomics.com/tag/fiona-staples/
Saga - https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/saga
Angoulême International Comics Festival - http://www.bdangouleme.com/
Ira Glass Speech - https://vimeo.com/85040589
Sidney York - http://sidneyyork.com/
Kurtis Wiebe - http://kurtiswiebe.com/
Alberta College of Art and Design - http://www.acad.ca/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/59 – Wether you learn to waterski, juggle, paint or fry an egg no skill is ever wasted. They all just wind up in your backpack to help you with your next project.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/58 – What is a Multipotentialite? Basically it’s someone who says "I can’t follow my passion because I have too many”. In today’s episode we talk with Emilie Wapnick who believes not everyone is meant to have one true calling. If you beat yourself up for bouncing from interest to interest Emilie will soothe your anxiety and let you know that everthing is going to be alright. Embrace everthing about yourself and move forward as a Multipotentialite.
Links for this episode
Puttylike - http://puttylike.com/
Metallica - Fuel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvF9PAxe5Ng
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o Misguided Angel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_llect3fI
Joe Harley - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/8
Renaissance Business book - http://puttylike.com/renaissance-business/
TEDx talk “Why Some of us Don't Have One True Calling” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJORi5VO1F8
Amanda Palmer - http://amandapalmer.net/
The Art of Asking - http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking
Tim Ferris - Amanda Palmer - http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/03/30/amanda-palmer/
Tip Of The Hat - http://tipofthehat.bandcamp.com
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/57 – Where does inspiration come from? Should you wait for inspiration to strike or just sit down and get to work regardless. You can probably tell from the title what the answer is going to be. Let’s see if you agree with me after you’ve listened.
Links for this episode
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/30/inspire-nine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-h4A7bF8wQ
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/56 – Maxime Goulet composes classical music for both the orchestral performances and the scores of video games. Not only has he created orchestral pieces around eating chocolate but he has scored game adaptations for titles like Shrek, The Amazing Spider-Man and Iron Man. We dig into where ideas come from and his desire to keep classical music engaging as more than just music by adding visual and edible elements.
Links for this episode
Maxime Goulet - http://maximegoulet.com/
Gameloft - http://en.gameloft.ca/
Video Games Live - http://www.videogameslive.com
A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech - http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0446404667/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=15121&creative=330641&creativeASIN=0446404667&linkCode=as2&tag=soiwr-20
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/55 - too ragged and all people can see is what's lacking. Too polished and audiences can't see the humanity. Finding that balance is the challange. In this episode we talk about how to make sure your work shows The hand of the artist
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/54 - Like most user experience designers Davidicus kind of wound up in the role and he tell about his interesting path to get there. We talk about his heavy involvement in the design and experience of the interface for the video game Guitar Hero. Davidicus is also a musician and we talk about how time has influenced his view towards making music.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/53 – Pepsi, porn and Jim Henson are all examples in selling out and holding on to your beliefs when making money with your creative work.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/52 – It’s been a year since this podcast has started and the first interview I did was with today’s guest, Spencer Goldade. A lot has changed in the year since we last heard from Spenny. One thing that hasn’t changed—and comes through clearly in this chat—is Spenny’s passion for creative work and his love of friends, family and colleagues.
- Links from today’s episode -
Spencer Goldade - http://www.Monkeyslunch.com
Post + Beam - http://www.postandbeam.is
Dan Hill - http://www.beardednerd.com
Andrew Tarrant (tresspasser ceramics) - http://www.trespasser.ca/
Scott Kawalchuk - http://scottkowalchuk.blogspot.ca/
Kyle T Webster brush download - http://www.kyletwebster.com/portfolio/brushes/
Derek Halpern Social Triggers - http://socialtriggers.com/
Fizzle.co - http://fizzle.co/
Joshua Earl - http://joshuaearl.com/
Lea Woodward - http://leawoodward.com/
Jonathan Woodward illustrator - http://jonathanwoodwardstudio.com/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/51 – Adulation is people saying you're great. Appreciation is a connection. Which do you want from your art?
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/50 – Today’s guest is building a company that helps others build robots. But while robotics has been a passion of his all his life it’s not the only career path he’s followed and trust me some of them are as far from robotics as you can get.
Links for today’s episode
EZ Robot - http://ez-robot.com/
Makerbot 3D Printer - http://www.makerbot.com/
Short Circuit (Johnny Five) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/
Blue Thunder - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086671/
Knight Rider - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083437
Dot Com bubble - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
Calgary parking Authority cars - https://www.calgaryparking.com/web/guest/photoenforcement
Ghana - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/49 – What do you need to be an animator? A Painter? A Writer? You probably have most of it already. You just need to do what you can with what you have.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/48 – How important is a partnership when making a career in the arts? When you are today’s guests it’s what makes it all possible. Stephanie is a dancer and Mark is a mind reader. It’s an interesting chat where we talk about why Mark doesn’t do kids’ parties anymore and Stephanie talks about what it takes to be a dancer and they both talk about the amount of work it takes to build and sustain a creative career.
Links for today’s episode
Blog - http://starvingartistsblog.com
Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/starving-artists-blogs-podcast/id962231194
Twitter - https://twitter.com/SArtsBlog
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/47 - What do derelict barns, extreme weight loss and cats dressed as sailors have in common? They are all in today's episode.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/46 – Jay started in IT (information technology) and after getting pretty far in his career decided to make a hard change. He didn’t just start auditioning and hope for the best though, he got coaching from some top names in voice acting.
We talk about his time in the technology world, what it’s like to meet a hero, his love of the Simpson’s and most importantly the power of a coach. I wanted to actually talk to Jay and not have it turn into us showing each other the kinds of voices we could do. It was really hard for me.
Links for today’s show
Jay Britton - http://www.voiceofjaybritton.com/
That Ford Thing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1YmUtrudnM
Rob Paulsen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbj01P96qM
Richard Horvitz - http://www.richardhorvitz.com/
Simpsons - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096697/
Animaniacs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YzTXxt9oOY
Ministry of Silly walks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/45 – As a creative person you’re probably good at making stuff. But if you want to earn money from your work you need to know who’s gonna buy it. If you want to do something big you need to know who is going to fund it. In today’s episode we explore these three pieces and how they work together.
— Links for today’s show --
Liz Stevens - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/44
Matt Ruby - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/42
My Songs - http://www.songstuckerwrote.com/born-to-the-world-ep/
My Kid’s Songs - http://www.ZanyZoo.ca
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/44 – Jim Henson created the Muppets. But he didn’t do it on his own dime and he didn’t get people to work for free. If you feel like you need a little insight into how to ride the line between making money without compromising your art you’re going to love today’s talk with Elizabeth Hyde Stevens author of the book Make Art Make Money as she follows the career of Jim Henson through his struggles with keeping his art while still making money.
Links for Today's Episode
Make Art Make Money - http://elizabethhydestevens.com/make-art-make-money/
Audible -http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Make-Art-Make-Money-Audiobook/B00IOTGGHK
The Art Of Money Getting - http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/The-Art-of-Money-Getting-Audiobook/B002V1JG06
Jim Henson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson
CTW - http://www.sesameworkshop.org/
Andy Goldworth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
Wilson’s Coffee Commercials - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxLyuw5bdyk
Capital I - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc1RfFYxZ2I
Cookie Monster Fruit - http://www.mjrcg.com/blog/2014/07/oppy-and-the-cookie-monster-want-kids-to-eat-brighter/
Lady Bug’s Picnic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9J7WcYtxI
Pointer Sisters - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pointer_Sisters
12! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZshZp-cxKg
Bud Luckey - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Luckey
George Lucas - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas
Star Wars - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars
Jorge Gutierrez - TheSparkAndTheArt.com/26
Mary Robinetter Kowal - http://maryrobinettekowal.com/
The War Of Art - http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/
Legend Of Bagger Vance - http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-legend-of-bagger-vance/
Shigiru Miyamoto - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto
The Power Of Habit by Charles Duhigg - http://charlesduhigg.com/the-power-of-habit/
Ira Glass 'Nobody Tells This To Beginners' - http://zenpencils.com/comic/90-ira-glass-advice-for-beginners/
Muppet Show Pitch Reel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KorhvVQRUM
Raffi - http://www.raffinews.com/
Baby Beluga - http://www.raffinews.com/store/childrens-music/baby-beluga#.VNGtmFXF_Mc
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/43 – What is your job. Not your job in the traditional sense. If your life is your job, does the work you do match the job description?
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/42 – Matt Ruby is a stand-up comedian who started in a rock band and now has a successful online sketch comedy show that takes shots at the technology world. He talks about finding that one thing that you can do well that no one else can and put it into action.
Plastics Hi Fi - https://myspace.com/plasticshifi/music/songs
Vooza - http://vooza.com/
Club Scale - http://www.clubscale.com/
The Onion - http://www.theonion.com/
SandpaperSuit - http://www.sandpapersuit.com/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/41 – The future is going to happen no matter what. What will happen in yours?
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/40 – We’ve talked before about the power of collaboration on the podcast but today’s episode is a wonderful example about when collaboration becomes more like a family. Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz recently finished showing their short film The Moped Diaries across the festival circuit this summer garnering them 10 Official Selections across the country.
Links for this episode
Tyler Nilson - http://www.mynameistyler.com/
Mike Schwartz - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1916835/
Scrubs - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285403/
The ‘Born To The World' Cameras - http://www.SongsTuckerWrote.com/Cameras
Tucker A Man And His Dream - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096316/
The Moped Diaries - http://vimeo.com/112398958
Slide The City - http://www.slidethecity.com/
Julie Taymor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Taymor
Spider-man - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/39 – Do you work a day job and have trouble finding big chunks of time to complete your projects? In today’s episode we talk about spare hours and how they can really help keep projects moving one little bit at a time.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/37 – Today’s topic may seem pretty obvious but for some reason we can still get discouraged when we’re not as good as we’d like to be.
Jeff Hunt makes tabletop games. Not just any table top games. Epic 250 piece games for 6 people to play for a couple hours kind of games. The craziest part is that he does it after his full-time job and it was the first game he decided to design.
In today’s chat with Jeff we talk about the design process starting at the mechanics and philosophies he wanted to put into the game, the importance of play testing and understanding player types. Also he tells what it’s like to pitch to game publishers for the first time.
Links From today's talk
Jeff Hunt - http://inspirationtopublication.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/guest-post-blind-playtesting-by-jeff-hunt/
Euro Games - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-style_board_game
Days of Wonder - http://www.daysofwonder.com/en/
Ticket To Ride - http://www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/usa/
Master of Orion - http://www.myabandonware.com/game/master-of-orion-1v5
4x Games - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X
James Cormier & Sen-Foong Lim - https://inspirationtopublication.wordpress.com/about/
The Steps (game design blog) - https://inspirationtopublication.wordpress.com/the-steps-for-board-games/
Harrison Bergeron - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
Rio Grande Games - http://riograndegames.com/
Essen Speil - http://www.merz-verlag-en.com/
Hans im Glük - http://www.hans-im-glueck.de/english/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/35 – When a project is over you have to decide if it’s reached an end or if it’s finished. Is it something you can come back to later if you want or are you just going to wipe your hands and move on.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/34 – Steve Ogden is a serial creative with a long string of projects behind him: A book of short stories, an animated short, online graphic novel and web comics. All of these while working full time in the games industry at Cyan Interactive on the Myst family of games and currently at Firaxis games, home of the Sid Meirs Civilization series.
In today’s chat we talk about the role childhood plays in grown-up creativity and how it influenced Steve's book of short stories. We also talk about the myth of ‘The Talented A-Hole’ and the importance of balancing artistic skill with technical skill.
All in all it’s a jam-packed hour and a bit so settle in and enjoy today’s interview with Steve Ogden.
Links from today’s show
Steve’s Website: http://steveogden.com/blog/
Steve’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/steveogdenart
Pinkerton Park - http://www.gocomics.com/pinkerton
Bill Watterson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson
Gary Trudeau - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Trudeau
Croaker’s Gorge - http://steveogden.com/croakers/
Moon Town - http://steveogden.com/moontown/
Calvin & Hobbes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
Walt Simonson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Simonson
Mike Mignola - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mignola
Firaxis Games - http://www.firaxis.com/
Myst, Riven, RealMyst - http://cyan.com/
URU - http://mystonline.com/en/
Animwatch - http://podlounge.com/podcast/the-official-animwatch-podcast
Rustboy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRms4B_iaSo
NPR - http://www.npr.org/
Flakes [animated short] - http://steveogden.com/flakes/graphics.html
Bully Entertainment - http://www.bullyentertainment.com/
Steven King - http://stephenking.com
On Writing - http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1439156816/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=15121&creative=390961&creativeASIN=1439156816&linkCode=as2&tag=soiwr-20
Neal Gaiman - http://www.neilgaiman.com
Headstones and Monuments - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0988570513/
Through the looking glass - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass
The Fifth Element - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/
Monument Valley - http://www.monumentvalleygame.com/
Blade Runner - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner
Dilbert - http://www.dilbert.com/
Scott Adams - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/33 – It’s been a few days or a couple weeks and you are moving along on your project like you haven’t done in a while. It feels great. You’re happy and you reach your flow state and time flies by in a blur you pack up for the night and sleep like a baby. Then the next evening with your talent in hand and your face lit up with smiles you head down to do it again.
Now for some reason … you got nothing. What do you do?
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/32 – Karyl Gilbertson is a web designer and dad who is creating a video game in his spare time. In today’s interview we talk about his little trick for getting to work on his project even when he doesn’t feel like it and how breaking his project into smaller chunks allowed him to get started without feeling overwhelmed.
— Links for today’s episode —
@Karyl - https://twitter.com/karyl
Arkaia: The Mysterious Island - http://arkaiagame.com/
New Harvest Media - http://newharvest.ca/
Bioware - http://www.bioware.com/en/
ACAD - Alberta College of Art and Design - http://www.acad.ca/
Spencer Goldade - thesparkandtheart.com/2
WordPress - https://wordpress.com/
PHP - http://php.net/
Drupal - https://www.drupal.org/
C++ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
Unity - http://unity3d.com/
C# - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)
Objective C - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C
JQuery - http://jquery.com/
JavaScript - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
Flash - https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/flash.html
Actionscript - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript
Unreal Engine - https://www.unrealengine.com/what-is-unreal-engine-4
Trello - https://trello.com/
Myst - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8CFun3nEw
Steam Game Market - http://store.steampowered.com/
Desura - http://www.desura.com/
Itch.io - http://itch.io/
Humble Bundle - https://www.humblebundle.com/
Mac Heist - http://www.macheist.com/
Kickstarter -https://www.kickstarter.com/
Steam Greenlight - http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight
Steam Early Access - http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Early%20Access/
Indie Game The Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhaT78i1x2M
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/31 – That curiosity that drove you in the beginning can sometimes stop you in your tracks or keep you in a comfortable place once you get to a certain level of skill. What do you do when your blessed unrest is feeling more like a curse?
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/30 – This week’s interview is with Jackie Koehler. Jackie is an animator and she loves what she does. She loves doing it and she loves learning about it. Most recently she just finished as lead animator for the character of La Muerta in film The Book Of Life. While she’s worked on some pretty high profile movies, even being nominated for a very prestigious Annie award as part of the team for The Amazing Spider-Man she doesn’t consider herself having ‘made it’ simply because there is still more to learn and more to do.
Links For This Episode
Jackie Koehler - http://www.jackiekoehler.com
Annie Awards - http://www.annieawards.org
Smurfs - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472181
OZ The Great & Powerful - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623205
Amazing Spider-Man - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470
Free Birds - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1621039
The Book Of Life - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2262227
Reel FX - http://www.reelfx.com
Jimmy Hayward - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hayward
Jorge Gutierrez - http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/26
QuickDraw Animation Society - http://www.quickdrawanimation.ca
Lion King - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/29 – You’re at the end of a project. You only have a few little things left to do. But for some reason you can’t get to it. Everything is suddenly more important. You are experiencing the … Fear Of Done.
Today’s episode we talk about what could cause the Fear Of Done and a simple tactic that may help you get over your fear.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/28 – Andrew Ford just finished his latest professional project as a lead animator on the movie The Book Of Life. His path to being an animator on feature films was somewhat winding but always with that final goal in mind. Once he reached that goal he didn’t rest on his accomplishments. Not only does he consider each scene he animates a learning experience he continues to hone his craft by taking animation courses on his own time.
Make sure that where you are going isn’t the end but simply a new starting point.
Links from today’s episode
Sheridan College - https://www.sheridancollege.ca
ReelFX - http://www.reelfx.com
Free Birds Movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RvyOjnyxk
Calvin & Hobbes Cartoon Strip - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
Herman Cartoon Strip- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_(comic_strip)
Emily Carr University - http://www.ecuad.ca/programs/undergrad/bma/animation
Get Good At Everything or Work With Others With Solveig Whittle - TheSparkAndTheArt.com/14
EA Games - http://www.ea.com
Two Bears Title Card - http://vimeo.com/47833370
ZanyZoo - http://www.songstuckerwrote.com/zany-zoo
Ola Birch - https://twitter.com/Fay_Moose_Art
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/27 – Are you still working on that thing? You know that thing you’ve had in your head all this time. That thing that is just about right but just needs a little more work. You know, that thing.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/26 – Jorge Gutierrez is the writer and director of the animated movie The Book Of Life. This movie is just the latest in a long line of animated creations and projects he’s worked on and while he jokes that it may be his last movie I’m certain that this is not the last you will hear of today’s guest Jorge Gutierrez.
Jorge Gutierrez - http://www.super-macho.com/
Book Of Life Movie: http://www.bookoflifemovie.com/
Stuart Little - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164912/
El Tigre - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805837/
Brad Booker - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095374/
Guillermo Del Toro - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868219/
Ray Harryhausen - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366063/
Cal Arts - http://calarts.edu/admissions/portfolio-audition/film-video/character-animation
Jules Engel - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257103/
Picasso Quote - http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30296-inspiration-exists-but-it-has-to-find-you-working
Maurice Nobel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Noble
Chuck Jones - http://www.chuckjones.com/
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/25 - I’m not saying telling stories isn’t important I’m just saying not everyone is a storyteller.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/24 – Stefan Sagmeister is basically a design legend. He has a career close to 25 years long and has won Grammy’s for packaging design for the Talking Heads and almost all the prestigious design awards there are.
We talk about the importance of money. We talk about the importance of doing personal projects. We talk about ‘celebrity’. We talk about his upcoming film The Happy Film.
Links from today's episode
FITC.ca
CampFestival.ca
The Happy Film - TheHappyFilm.org
Jesssica Walsh - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Walsh
The Things I learned - http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0810995298/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=15121&creative=390961&creativeASIN=0810995298&linkCode=as2&tag=soiwr-20
ICA Philidelphia - http://icaphila.org/exhibitions/1694/stefan-sagmeister-the-happy-show
The Jewish Museum - http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/news/story/6-things/
Steven Tyler - http://www.steventyler.com
Lou Reed - http://www.loureed.com/inmemoriam
http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/23 – If you never make a mistake you never make yourself better. In today’s episode I talk how making mistakes on purpose can help you out. I also ask if I can borrow your time machine.
Today's interview is Luke Black. Luke is a writer/producer working in Toronto, Canada. He has spent a large amount of time pursuing his passion of making films (he estimates about 15 shorts so far). One of his most recent ventures as producer has landed a spot at the Toronto International Film Festival.
We talk about how after spending so much time having fun making films with his friends, his desire to more fully understand the film industry has lead to an almost two year focus solely on the business side. And how he’s itching again for the creative side of the work.
We also talk about the value of your own time. We often feel we need to thank or compensate those that help us with our projects but we can forget that our time is valuable as well. Luke said: “You are worth something. Don’t sell yourself short. Your time and effort is worth something.”
Thanks for listening and remember you won’t get the art without the work and you won’t do the work without the spark.
Links From Today's Show
Chris Turtle - https://twitter.com/chris_turtle
Candian Film Centre - http://www.cfccreates.com/
Norman Jewison - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Jewison
TIFF - tiff.net
What Doesn’t Kill you - http://www.tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/programmes/short-cuts-canada/short-cuts-canada-programme-4/what-doesnt-kill-you
Life on Juniper - http://vimeo.com/99495614
CQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2QSuxXrKzU
Luke twitter - https://twitter.com/alukeblack
Luke’s website - http://prettyokaypictures.com
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/21 - How does not making a decision actually equate to making a decision? How can you move forward even if you can’t make up your mind? Today’s podcast contains a quick solution to helping you get past the decision paralysis.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/20 - Today’s guest is Canadian Writer, Director and producer Mark De Angelis. After Mark spends his day writing for other people’s shows he comes home and works on his own projects. And not just small projects either. Mark has finished two seasons of his web series Bill and Sons Towing.
In our chat we talk about the challenges of doing such large projects basically on the side. As well as how he works with others to make his vision come to life.
Links to things mentioned in the show
Ron James Show - http://www.ronjames.ca/
Bill and Sons Towing - http://www.billandsonstowing.com/
Courtney Gilmour - http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4bd815c28b/bikini-calendar-bill-sons-towing-ep-4
Charles Ketchabaw - https://twitter.com/cketch
Nicholas Campbell - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132757/
Sonja Smits - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810500/
Jane Eastwood - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247720/
Colin Mochrie - http://www.colinmochrie.com/
Jonathan Torrens - https://twitter.com/TorrensJonathan
Bill and Sons App - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/bill-and-sons-towing/id553723024
TheSparkAndTheArt/19 - Is it sometimes hard to know why you are creating things?
In today’s episode I tell you why making things you enjoy first can be a very helpful mindset for keeping yourself going.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/18 - This week’s episode is an interview with Thi Vo. Thi is a film maker, actor, graphic designer and Wipeout contestant (he made it across the red balls) We didn’t talk about his Wipeout appearance on the podcast but you can find a link to the episode in the show notes at TheSparkAndTheArt.com/18. He has finished a short film about family violence and is in the process of editing his feature documentary Made In Vietnam. It’s a film that documents Thi's journey to find the birth father he never met because he and his mother escaped communist Vietnam when he wasn’t even two years old.
We talk how he came to decide to make a feature length documentary while still working full time as a visual designer. We talk about raising budget through crowd funding and government grants. The importance of collaboration in filmmaking and end with a quick chat about the design of his favourite car.
I think my favourite quote from this talk is “I believe life is about experiences. If you can’t experience new things what’s the point?” Some may hear this quote and think bungie jumping or skydiving. While those are some pretty fun experiences I think what he was saying was try anything. Try making your movie. Try writing your book. Try that thing you want to do because at the very least you’ll know if you want to do it again.
Wipeout Canada - Episode 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-8KU3STgVE
Made in Vietnam Film
https://www.facebook.com/madeinvietnamfilm
I love you, Isabel
http://vimeo.com/66681402
Song from short film
http://www.joannaborromeo.com
American Virgins (Gettin’ In)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBeNxl25XC0
Vo Vietnam - Martial Arts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_martial_arts
The Lady In Room 6
http://nickreedent.com
Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
http://csif.org/csif/
NSI - National Screen Institute
http://www.nsi-canada.ca/2013/06/new-in-this-weeks-nsi-online-short-film-festival-i-love-you-isabel-and-my-black-capped-angels/
Nissan GTR
http://www.gtrnissan.com
GTR Design Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Yyo5s9HgQ
Gundam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUArcaaTuS0
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/17 - Collaboration is a tricky thing but the more you collaborate the bigger the rewards.
In today’s podcast I tell the story of Jason Webley who with the help of a group of his musician friends sold out an 800 seat theatre and raised $11,111 in two hours on Kickstarter. Collaboration is a tricky thing but when it works it’s magic.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/16 - This week’s interview is with David Andrew Wiebe from DAWCast.com a musician, songwriter, podcaster and music entrepreneurship educator. David grew up in Japan but moved back to Canada for high school where he started playing guitar. Since then he has gone from playing 3 hours a day to just sometimes. Spent 12 years pursuing music as a career only to give it up to pursue more traditional entrepreneurial endeavours. But has recently found that the two paths are combining to create his current path.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/15 - Everyone is creative. That is isn’t a belief I have. That isn’t something I have faith in. That is something I hold as fact with in me. Everyone is creative.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/14 - Solveig started as a programmer at AT&T moving on to eventually become a Windows product manager at Microsoft and now is a teacher and musician. Known now online for her work in the music marketing circles as well as her music she is currently working on her third album.
We talk about rock operas, music as performance art, how music and other creative work is like being in a startup, how writing music and writing software is similar and whether creativity can be taught or not.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/13 - What is money for? Should you write ‘make money’ on your list of goals for your creative project? What is my favourite quote on the topic of money and creativity? I’d tell you here but there isn’t enough room. You may as well listen to this week’s episode to learn why Money is a tool. Not a goal.
http://www.TheSparkAndTheArt.com/12 - This week’s interview is with Chris Seth Jackson of HowToRunABand.com but what we’ll learn is how after about 4 years of providing great content and value to musicians he’s decided to move on to a new venture.
We talk about why he’s made that decision as well as many other topics like:
- The importance of money.
- The importance of multiple streams of income.
- Finding the balance between original songs and cover music.
- MVPs (minimum Viable Products) and building a business based on
solving a problem rather than building a full solution and hoping
people buy it after and how that relates to funding albums.
Chris also mentions a book called Die Empty - Check Out The Book
We also talk briefly about his podcast Work Hard, Rock Harder where he interviews musicians who make their living solely as a musician. - Listen Here
Chris also shared a link to his new automated gig booking service. So, if you are a musician and would like someone to help manage the booking of your shows for you be sure to follow this link for more information (The price is very, very, reasonable):
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/11 - Having a completed project is all well and good but if you weren’t inspired by the process there is a good chance you won’t continue. In today’s episode we talk through the 3 main points of my family’s creative philosophy based on the two interviews I did with my mom and dad.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/10 - Songs That Matter is the theme of today’s podcast. Carolyn Harley (my mom) has been writing songs for almost 40 years. In this conversation we talk about what’s kept her writing, why despite having written almost 600 songs she considers herself a ‘Late Bloomer’ and the healing power of music and Songs That Matter.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/9 - I use checklists to speed up the things that are repetitive and have a lot of steps but when it comes time do actually start creating things do you think I still use them?
Find out in this 2 min episode of the podcast.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/8 - Do you know what you are going to do when you retire? Do you know someone too focused on work and earning to fully enjoy life? Today’s podcast is Joe Harley who at the age of 50 decided to learn how to play bass guitar and nature photography now lives a happy, busy and fulfilling retirement.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/7 - This is the last episode in the first series where I talked with people I work with. It’s been a lot of fun and in this episode I share some nice comments I’ve received. I haven’t received any bad comments otherwise I probably would have shared those too.
I also talk about how I fight with feeling like a show-off. I like doing things like singing and I’m fairly good at it. But when I do it in front of people I can feel like they are thinking “Look at that guy … showing off.” I then share some thoughts about why I think those feelings are fading.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/6 - John Johnston is an accomplished improvisational actor and business analyst. In this week’s episode we talk about the importance of constraints on the creative process. He tells a lovely story of going to theatre school with Kevin McKidd of Grey’s Anatomy. We also talk about the similarity of building software and putting on a performance. Plus some bonus talk about Harry Potter and I use the word ‘conflated’ when I didn’t mean too.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/5 - I tell a story of what I think George Harrison would have done had he decided not to pursue a career in music after the Beatles broke up.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/4 - Jonathan Ferguson is a Singer-Songwriter from Calgary who works with me at my day job. We talk about songwriting, Jonathan’s passion for the Beatles and Nirvana.
Here are three Jonathan Ferguson quotes I like from the Interview:
- “The Beatles may have made some people more globally conscious but it
wasn’t a song that they made or an album they made … It was the
Beatles themselves.”
- “I don’t think about whether something is Folk or Rock or
Pseudo-Iranian-Dance-Pop. Whatever comes out … comes out.”
- “I have to like [the song] … But I’d rather someone else like it.”
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/3 - This episode is about how I was becoming paralyzed by the notion that I had to turn all of my projects into businesses and how I found a way to simplify so I could get unstuck and start making things again.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/2 - In this episode Tucker talks to Spencer about the difference between art and design, how his views on taking every project that comes along has changed and the role money plays in doing creative work.
TheSparkAndTheArt.com/1 - How do you start something? You just start. That doesn't mean you finish right away though. I've been starting this podcast for about 8 months now. Now, it's finally here.
You can learn more about The Spark & The Art podcast as well as it's host Sean Harley [Tucker] at TheSparkAndTheArt.com
This is a test episode of The Spark & The Art podcast. It is basically my Born To The World EP with a silly intro and outro. It is the first time you'll hear the new Spynoh Creativity audio mnemonic. Fun.
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