Blah Di Da

Blah Di Da

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Blah Di Da episodes

  • How I've been able to pay the rent writing poetry
    It's been a 30 year process. I'm not as outrageously talented as other social media poets out there. But just plodded along.New poetry collection 2023:
    • WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST
    UM' self help book for creatives:
    • UM
    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:
    • Confetti Tornado
    Find me:
    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    15 min
  • Honouring my 8 year old self's decisions to make books
    Honouring my 8 year old self's decision to make booksNew poetry collection 2023:
    • WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST
    UM' self help book for creatives:
    • UM
    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:
    • Confetti Tornado
    Find me:
    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    8 min
  • Have faith in shit ideas: from 200 views of a poem, to half a million (with the same poem)

    I mucked around with TikTok for 4 years before I had a breakthrough. One idea inititally only had 200 views. I reposted it a few years later with now over 500000 views. Here's what happened, what I did.

    New poetry collection 2023:

    • WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST

    UM' self help book for creatives:

    • UM

    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:

    • Confetti Tornado

    Find me:

    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    10 min
  • Limiting myself creatively to free myself creatively
    I've had a weird week where my TikTok account moderately exploded after 4 years of playing around with poetry on that platform. Here's what happened.UM' self help book for creatives:
    • UM
    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:
    • Confetti Tornado
    Find me:
    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    10 min
  • I often make my brain to ask itself: what would legs do?

    My legs have taken me to heaven and hell. They've got me into and out of trouble. They're inhabited with a pure spirit.

    UM' self help book for creatives:

    • UM

    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:

    • Confetti Tornado

    Find me:

    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    9 min
  • Making art while working a full time job: art before the horse
    It's tough eeking out art that is (naturally) adventurous in spirit while simultaneously having it crushed by people determined to wear their work costumes and talk in blabber in workplaces that (have to) pretend to care. Here's some of my experience.UM' self help book for creatives:
    • UM
    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:
    • Confetti Tornado
    Find me:
    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    11 min
  • Half baked ideas I've been playing with
    I've been rolling around some thoughts this week. I'm just not sure how they will grow yet.UM' self help book for creatives:
    • UM
    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:
    • Confetti Tornado
    Find me:
    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    10 min
  • Creatives need breaks to be improve

    I'm managine my time better. I've been writing without immediately posting it. Holding onto ideas for 5 days. While feedback can have a purpose for putting together some of my work, the constant feedback loop was starting to take me off course. So I'm learning to not post stuff right away and actually give myself whole days off writing. It's been super helpful.UM' self help book for creatives:

    • UM

    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:

    • Confetti Tornado

    Find me:

    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter

    • darbyhudsonart.com

    • Instagram

    • TikTok

    13 min
  • Great art lets you see the world for what it is

    Re-watching the Sopranos 20 years made me remember what great art can be. And great modern art isn't public, in a gallery or found on social media. It's found in weird texts between friends.

    UM' self help book for creatives:

    • UM

    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:

    • Confetti Tornado

    Find me:

    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    10 min
  • Road Trip to free up creativity
    Just a little talk to myself on getting unstuck through movement.UM' book, a self help book for creatives:
    • UM
    My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:
    • Confetti Tornado
    Find me:
    • Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter
    • darbyhudsonart.com
    • Instagram
    • TikTok
    10 min

About Blah Di Da

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Darby Hudson talks about the 'creative process' and muddling through life.