🔽🔽🔽ALL TIMESTAMPS LINKS AND MEDIA MENTIONED IN INTERVIEW🔽🔽🔽

In this episode I speak to my good friend, lecturer, and artist, Morné Venter.His art can be seen on Instagram: @velvetventer

This was one of those conversations that truly felt constructive - in that we both had fragments of understanding, but helped each other refine and expand our thinking - the whole thing felt electric, and I was buzzing with excitement by the end.

This episode is all about CREATIVITY and ATTENTION:

we talk about:

- Using habit to facilitate inspiration

- David Lynch

- The Great Plateau that all creative endeavors undergo

- The difference between choices and decisions in the creative process

- Our modern lack of attention and the necessity of boredom

- Why creative projects grip us

- Morne's artistic philosophy of MESS

- Artists and AI

- Why surprise is the currency of creativity

...and much, much more!

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🚨🚨🚨CONVERSATION FLOW

1 - Morne’s Background

2 - The Role of Art Galleries and the New Model for Artists

3 - Artists & AI

4 - Attention & Focus - How We Engineer Distraction

5 - Habit & Ritual When Making Art

6 - The Great Plateau

7 - Decisions vs Choices in the Creative Process

8 - Morne’s Artistic Philosophy of Mess

9 - David Lynch on Creativity

10 - Outro

🧠MEDIA, PERSONS AND LINKS MENTIONED IN INTERVIEWIn order of mention:

1 - A Short Film Written Entirely by AI - Austin McConnell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XO3q6MA668&t=3s&pp=ygURYXVzdGluIG1jb25uZWwgQUk%3D

2 - Tom Sachs - https://www.tomsachs.com/

3 - Viral Cellphone Video - Look Up by Gary Turk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY

4 - Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202

5 - Stephen Pressfield - Turning Pro: https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Pro-Inner-Power-Create/dp/1936891034The War of Art - https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Steven-Pressfield-ebook/dp/B007A4SDCG

6 - Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky - https://www.amazon.com/Making-Ideas-Happen-Overcoming-Obstacles/dp/1591844118

7 - Gamestorming by Dave Gray - https://www.amazon.com/Gamestorming-Playbook-Innovators-Rulebreakers-Changemakers/dp/0596804172

8 - Van Neistat - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5mPJA4y5G8Z6aNkY6AxgAw

9 - David Lynch on Creativity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFsBaa_MEzM

10 - Eraserhead - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/11 - Mulholland Drive - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/