Chatty Crafties Podcast

This week on Chatty Crafties: Angelica Norton: Landscape Designer, Mother of 2, and binge-crafter vs. Amber Moreno: career-averse Personal Organizer, Mother, of 1 and serial procrastinator. Will one out-craft the other? Will questions and answers clash in a heated discussion while the a/c remains off to minimize background noise? Will it all end up on the cutting room floor? We're pitting host against producer this week for a very special episode.

This podcast invites listeners to peer into the lives of our guests' creative processes, inspirations, and machinations. We hope to excite those who assume they aren't creative and support those who may have forgotten that they are.

That's Jon. Drummer, dad, distresser of doors, and assembler of beats. Musically, he goes by Flameburger Jonesies, but if you want to dabble in real estate with the man behind the mix, look up Jon Chambers at Realty Austin. Jon joined us to chat about parenting, inspiration, collaborating, his art process of choice, and your word of the day, "palimpsest." Definitions and more coming right up in this week's episode.

That's Bianca. She introduced me to computer games, AOL chatrooms, showed me how to straighten my hair, and how to dance to R&B while watching BET's Midnight Love. She has a trumpetous laugh, an impressive set of skills, and her craft room is always a disaster, which speaks to her boundless energy for creating new things. She joined us to talk about dance and appreciating projects long after they're done.

That's Aaron. Improvisor, writer, and reluctant physicist with the voice of a news castor. Stay tuned for a human interest story about the cult of improv, building realities, and how to play nice with other grown-ups.

That's Matt. Also known as Berm and Swale. Landscape designer, synthesizer fanatic, and creator of many a transcendent meal, this week he stepped out of the kitchen and joined us to chat about his architectural appetites, sobriety, and his personal antidote to creative stagnation.

That's Kate. Storyteller, writer, actor, and yarn-worker. Kate is a powerful orator, and she assembled the team that gave birth to Testify, Austin's monthly storytelling show. She sat down to chat about building a creative institution, shaping stories, savoring the dynamic exchange between a performer and audience, and knitting in public.

That's Cole. You may know him as Purple Bastard - his musical alter ego.  If you're like us, you know him as drama department royalty from back in the 90's, when we all met in high school. These days, Cole's a family man, substitute teacher, and a keeper of a formidable beard. He stopped by to chat about writing comedy, slicing and dicing sound, and drop some his heady, slowed down grooves on us.

That's Genevieve. Therapist, Celebrant, soon to be mother-of-two...and my very first artistic rival from 1999. She joins us on our maiden voyage to chat about poetry, playtime and the sinister presence of artistic wounding. If you or someone you know suffers from such a thing, don't go away.