Artsy Fartsy Things and Stuff!

Welcome to the seventh episode of “Artsy Fartsy Things and Stuff”, a conversational interview podcast about creative amazing people, doing creative amazing things…and stuff!

As you may or may not have realized, I did not post any new episodes last week. We opted to maintain solidarity with the #BLM movement around the country and posting any new content would serve as a distraction from the issues.

So this weeks interview features the amazing USA Today best selling author, Russell Nohelty. The conversation is intense, its creative, and he is a wonderful wealth of knowledge and creative flow. Russell is always moving and making and its hard to keep up, this interview was recorded back in April, so some of the things we talk about have already happened, and some of the things we talk about are happening right now.

Welcome to the sixth episode of “Artsy Fartsy Things and Stuff”, a conversational interview podcast about creative amazing people, doing creative amazing things…and stuff!

What would you do, if you were a professional writer, diagnosed with a brain tumor smack dab in the middle of the language processing center of your brain? What would you if a knowable early deadline was placed on your ability to achieve your creative dreams?

Well, that’s just what happened to my friend “Ian Blake Newhem”, a brilliant and successful professional writer for decades, whose career trajectory was detailed when an unwanted roommate decided to move into is brain. So rather than pack it in, he decided to push himself to his creative limits and write 12 books in 12 months before he is unable to write ever again!

Please enjoy this rollercoaster of a conversation, we dig into how he is moving forward with his project after being detailed with a global pandemic, the value of art and overcoming fears that threaten to kill the creative spirit!

Welcome to the fifth episode of “Artsy Fartsy Things and Stuff”, a conversational interview podcast about creative amazing people, doing creative amazing things…and stuff!

Amazing tattoo artist farmers in the mountains of West Virginia is what this weeks show is all about! In this episode I get to reconnect with a wonderfully talented entrepreneurial friend of mine from high school, who I haven’t spoken with in years.

I apologize in advance again, as the Internet connection during this interview was quite awful. It sounded much better when doing it when when I reviewed the recording. I will let you know however, I have since run a 100 foot ethernet cable to my office, so I am no longer recording the podcast over WiFi and its like night and day with the dropouts. I had to do some ninja level editing to clean this one up, I did they best I could…Its still great content and a wonderful conversation.

Enjoy!

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Welcome to the fourth episode of “Artsy Fartsy Things and Stuff”, a conversational interview podcast about creative amazing people, doing creative amazing things…and stuff!

Things are surreal as shit in this middle of this or any pandemic for that matter, this is my first, so its the only one I can speak about from a first person perspective and personally, I would have been totally cool if I had been able to go through life without ever living through a pandemic on this scale, but here we are…we are dealing with it, because well, we must…it sucks, but sometimes shit spirals out of control and we have to adapt and evolve.

So here we are, at episode four, and I am releasing new episodes about as fast as I can edit them, but it’s become a Wednesday thing, Wednesday is now the official release date, I will do my best to maintain that consistency for you.

In this episode of the show, we get to hang out and have a spirited conversation with Gil Nevo, a brilliant artist, commercial artist, branding expert and animator (even worked on South Park for 10 years)! I am a huge fan of him and his work. We get to talking about entrepreneurship in a pandemic and what that might look like in the future, as well as, making other creative cool shit, we also get a peak into some new animations he is developing.

Thanks for hanging with us!

Welcome to the third installment of “Artsy Fartsy Things and Stuff”, a conversational interview podcast about creative amazing people, doing creative amazing things…and stuff!

So far in the podcast, we have interviewed an inspiring Australian theater director/ performer in Switzerland, an amazing mentalist comedian from Denver and todays episode we are interviewing a brilliant Russian eccentric clown theater performer in the mountains of Europe named Igor Mamlenkov!

I’ve intentionally picked wonderful artists and humans from all around the world to begin this podcast series with a very open minded global perspective of what is going on during a pandemic in the creative communities.

I truly do hope you fall in love with this incredible creative human!

Welcome to the first ever full episode of “Artsy Fartsy Things and Stuff!”, the first podcast interview I have conducted in over 6 years! I am a little rusty, so please be kind, while I get back into the flow of this whole interview / conversation game.

In this episode I got to reconnect with an amazing rockstar of a human known to the world as, “Tom Greder”, an amazing itinerant theater artist, actor, director and inspirational creative human. He was born in Switzerland, raised in Australia; I met him in Barcelona and we collaborated on a project together many years ago in New Orleans…the dude gets around! lol.

He has a unique global perspective of life, comedy, entertainment and art. I don’t think you will be disappointed.

Personally, I wanted to also baby step my way back into the podcast world; interviewing amazing people I know in real life, who are real world friends and truly inspiring people. So, it’s perfect to be launching this episode with Tom, he is incredibly kind, a great communicator, a wonderful soul and just an incredible inspiration to anyone who has met him or experienced his work.

Also, please note, as you may or may not already know, we are in the midst of a global pandemic, and just about every responsible human on the planet has quarantined themselves; therefore, I am producing and recording these interviews through various streaming video services and the quality of both the audio and the video varies greatly with the quality of the various internet connections.