Creative Walks: Recent Episodes
Pedro Bonatto
The Creative Walks podcast with photographer and musician Pedro Bonatto features daily thoughts about creativity, art, science and culture, recorded during walks in search of inspiration.
Thoughts on my experience of doing a diary entry every day for a year.
I mention on the episode an app (for iPhone and Mac only) that I used for this journaling experiment. It’s called Day One, and you can find it here.
Thoughts on going through old ideas in a sort of creative archeological dig.
This episode refers to the exercise described in episode 86.
The podcast is back! In this episode I talk about my year off, and the process I am going through to get back to creating. My hope is that the exercises I did for myself can bring some tips on your own creative journey.
Also, this podcast will be weekly now, and a bit longer, but always talking about creativity, art, and the process of creating.
I hope you find it useful and enjoyable.
Thoughts on the opportunities and traps of collaborating with artists and companies on creative projects.
Thoughts on how to remain creative in times of division, high emotions, and fanaticism.
Thoughts on project visualization, setting goals and understanding the meaning of productivity in art from both an economic and creative point of view.
My thoughts on visualizing creative projects using a tool I just discovered called Milanote.
Thoughts on our understanding of luxury and what is “essencial” in light of the current pandemic.
The longer you wait to get a project started (usually because you want it to come out perfect), the more conditions you put on what “perfect” means.
Thoughts on the effectiveness of masks, their symbolic meaning in the West and market forces influencing behavior changes.
Thoughts inspired by a recent quote posted on Twitter by David Allen, creator of the GTD methodology.
Thoughts on creating work that you want to be hired to do and projects to pursue during quarantine.
Check out Penn & Teller’s video that I comment in this episode:
https://youtu.be/y4U-kHdXgz0
Thoughts on an idea presented by Tim Ferriss and Tony Robbins on how to frame difficult situations.
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
George Orwell, 1984.
In this episode I discuss the movie Agora by Alejandro Amenábar starring Rachel Weisz, with some thoughts on skepticism, science and inspiration.
Thoughts on meditation and its relationship with other meditative states (in art and sports).
Thoughts on travel, finding your ideal home and what that could mean on a broader sense.
Thoughts on catastrophes and my reading of a passage by Marcel Proust about the subject.
Thoughts on investment strategies in your art practice according to 6 areas: education, gear, speed, production, marketing and savings.
Reviewing my experience going for a master’s degree for art in Canada and some things to think about if you are considering it.
A thought experiment about some good elements of religiosity and how it would be applied to a secular institution around art and science..
Thoughts inspired by recent news about Bob Iger stepping down as CEO of Disney and how successful people find purpose and motivation.
Thoughts on regret, learning how to forgive yourself and creating artworks inspired by that feeling.
Thoughts on re-watching the movie 'The Truman Show' 22 years after its release and its relationship to today's surveillance technology and social media.
In this episode I talk about three seemingly different subjects of interest from last week: getting my DNA test results, snowboarding in Western Ukraine and visiting the city of Lviv, and how they all combine in one theme of going into a vision quest.
Thoughts on how our energy levels change depending on psychological influences compared to physical ones.
Thoughts on the power of speaking or writing down your personal story, the insights that come from reviewing what you went through so far, and how the stories we tell ourselves relate to your confidence levels.
This episode features a description of an exercise I did during my masters of creating a self-portrait, which I did reimagining my life represented in a city map.
Thoughts on framing art works, from fine art to advertisements, as portals into different worlds.
Thoughts on learning different kinds of art, strategies for combining online and mentorship, and my thoughts on graduate school (for art).
Thoughts on how we relate to different time horizons on our creative and personal lives.
Following up on the previous episode, here are some thoughts on getting unstuck based on my current sources of ‘resistance’.
This episode features my reading of ‘Air, and light, and time, and space’ by Charles Bukowski.
In this episode I discuss the strategies (and content) for learning as an adult and an artist.
In this episode I share some thoughts on how art can be seen as a call to adventure, as understood by Joseph Campbell in the Hero's Journey.
Check out the photograph I mention in this episode on the website www.pedrobonatto.com/creativewalks/019
This holidays I wanted to send a small gift to my listeners as a thank you for your support and sharing this creative journey with me. So I decided to send everyone who sign up a personalized signed postcard with one of my favorite fine art photos. Go to pedrobonatto.com/gift to get your postcard :)
Thoughts on making time to work through projects using pen and paper.
Check out www.pedrobonatto.com/gift
to get your postcard with one of my photographs.
This Christmas I wanted to send a small gift to my listeners as a thank you for your support and sharing this creative journey with me. So I decided to send everyone who sign up a personalized signed postcard with one of my favorite fine art photos.
Go to pedrobonatto.com/gift to get your postcard :)
Thoughts on looking to practices in other creative fields to get insights you can apply to your own artistic practice.
In this episode I talk about a very powerful tool to unlock your creativity called an ‘Artist Date’, created by author Julia Cameron on her book, “The Art’s Way”.
Thoughts on being somewhere between your comfort zone and out of control and how that edge applies to creative pursuits.
In this episode I talk about dealing with social media ‘inspiration’ and how you can use it to create a mood board of your creative desires, a map of your aspirations, and even your hidden wishes.
Thoughts on using the Getting Things Done methodology by David Allen for artists - Part 1 - Collect
and my reflections on what it means to shine “a bright ray of light into the future” from an artist’s point of view.
Here is the full quote:
“It wasn’t that he had forgotten the lesson Takuan had taught him: the truly brave man is one who loves life, cherishing it as a treasure that once forfeited can never be recovered. He well knew that to live was more than merely to survive. The problem was how to imbue his life with meaning, how to ensure that his life would cast a bright ray of light into the future, even if it became necessary to give up that life for a cause. If he succeeded in doing this, the length of his life—twenty years or seventy—made little difference. A lifetime was only an insignificant interval in the endless flow of time.”
— Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
In the second episode of the Creative Walk, I talk about the inspiration I got from a short clip from author and former SEAL soldier Jocko Willink about how to deal with difficult situations and one’s approach to problems.
This is the first episode recorded during daily walks in search of inspiration, the podcast features thoughts on creativity, art, science, and culture by photographer and musician Pedro Bonatto.