Jurassic Unicorn: Recent Episodes
Rayce Bird
The creative journeys of two design professionals through the realms of Hollywood, UI/UX, Corporate America, Professorship, D&D, & many other curious trails.
It's the best time of the year - 🧙♀️🧛 Halloween, and what better holiday to celebrate the quirks, oddities, foibles, and whimsy that make us unique and interesting creatures 🧌🧟♀️?
Join Rayce and Bryan as they discuss a mutiny of conformity, an invitation of originality, and an unlocking of innovation as we embrace our inner weird.
Also dive into blacklisted emotions; considering the insights oft-avoided feelings teach us as we allow ourselves to sit and create in these profound moments.
Have a truly haunting Halloween 🎃
Rayce is headed across the Pacific to Osaka, Japan 🗾 this week on another crazy Universal Studios adventure!
Join us as he provides insights into producing these huge immersive attractions and his experiences being creative over seas.
Hear how the tenuous blending of chaotic American vision and structured Japanese execution can unleash unparalleled creativity, and how we can bring that productive tension into our own endeavors...
(...and also, Aliens 👽)
DALL·E 2, ChatGPT, Siri - will our insatiable drive for innovation get the better of us? Can human nature resist inventing its own replacement?
Rayce & Bryan discuss the controversial topic of artificial intelligence, and what it could mean when transistor-based organisms can out-think, out-create, and out-podcast us carbon-based ones!!
Hear how our most defining characteristic - creativity - must evolve to survive becoming second rate to the machines.
AI - humanity's greatest tool or our own undoing? You decide, but do it fast, because it's already here!
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⬆️,⬆️,⬇️,⬇️,⬅️,➡️,⬅️,➡️, A, B, Start!
Cheat codes, jackpots, skipping to the end - Rayce and Bryan discuss their experiences crossing the finish line, and how taking shortcuts robbed those moments of meaning.
Join the conversation about how our struggle filled journeys are essential, the critical ingredients that give our endings sweet sweet satisfaction.
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Professional teams, group projects, Dungeons & Dragons... Rayce & Bryan talk about their exciting and challenging experiences with collaborative design & storytelling.
Join us a we dive into the unknown, discover next level ideas, and stumble upon unexpected payoffs by harnessing our most valuable creative asset - each other.
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Hear the very first utterances that broke the silence as Rayce and Bryan share the origin story of "The Conversation"... including the compelling topics of dementia, vehicle maintenance, and Old Spice.
Finally learn the secret to unlocking your very own... OC... Jurassic Unicorn
(side quest - count how many times we use the word "conversation" and report it on Reddit).
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Writer’s block, creative stalls, perfectionism paralysis, no ideas, too many ideas… Rayce and Bryan share their experiences with the challenges of getting started & staying motivated.
Benefit from expert tips for breaking into the vault of inspiration including positive procrastination, distracted driving, and letting go of all expectations.
Join the conversation as we discuss creativity’s age old question: “Where to begin?” And why the struggle to answer might be the secret ingredient to our most innovative ideas.
In this Halloween special, Rayce discusses his creative fixation with fear and creatures. He walks us through his recent journey to Japan as art director for one of Universal Studio's infamous haunted attractions. Bryan spends a day oblivious to his immediate mortal peril, and then saves the day with a spectacular "dad" maneuver. Join us as we explore humanity's bone-deep fascination with fear, our craving of terror, and our insatiable hunger to be scared out of our wits!
Rayce and Bryan explore the many forms of creativity, what motivates it and how to make it count in this pilot episode for The Jurassic Unicorn Podcast. They'll also explore some interesting topics that may or may not include garage mixology, tooth extractions and the joys of growing up in rural Idaho.