Create Art Podcast

Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien head instigator of Create Art Podcast where we help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. I do this through commentary, conversations, projects, and interviews, and for 2021 I am doing webstreams for those who would like to watch versus just listen.

Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien head instigator of Create Art Podcast where we help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. I do this through commentary, conversations, projects and interviews and for 2021 I am doing webstreams for those who would like to watch versus just listen. Today I am talking about the benefits of networking for artists. The big take away from this is networking can grow you as an artist, provide opportunities to share your work, and provide you a way to overcome hesitancy to network. Networking is a mutually beneficial relationship that needs to be cultivated and nurtured in order for you to grow as an individual and an artist. I use my 12 years of networking skills from previous jobs to help individuals obtain the growth they seek.

• 5 Reasons Artists Need Connections : The Power of Networking

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Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien your head instigator at Create Art Podcast where I bring my 20 years in art and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. In 2021 I am rebroadcasting my former podcast KDOI Podcast here so you can catch up on what we have been doing for the past 4 years. KDOI Podcast was my first serious attempt at podcasting after spending many years just creating content without regard to the final product. KDOI started in 2016 and had 3 seasons until I closed it down in 2019. I wanted to make sure that these gems didn't get relegated to my external hard drives, so here you go, there will be interviews, commentary, and projects that you can do for yourself. Enjoy these rebroadcasts and Create More Than You Consume.

Ramon discusses the beginnings of Salsation Theater Company and their offerings at the time of this interview. We also discuss Word Up, our collaboration that produced a poetry reading combined with an improv contest that toured around the Chicagoland area for 2 years. Also discussed was our first paring with Salsa Sketch, a show that was created in 10 hours and performed in front of a live audience as a fundraiser for Salsation. Ramon discusses his entry into improv in high school and the effect it had on him.

Ramon took the Satanic Seven Question test and scored 6.5 points out of 7 points.

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Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien head instigator of Create Art Podcast where we help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. I do this through commentary, conversations, projects and interviews and for 2021 I am doing webstreams for those who would like to watch versus just listen.

In this episode I discuss the benefits of joining a group for your art practice. Do you want to improve your art and grow as an artist, then listen in as I tell of groups I have joined and provide articles that back this idea.

Benefits discussed

• Networking

• Benefits of Joining an Art Club!

• Creative Mornings

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien your head instigator at Create Art Podcast where I bring my 20 years in art and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. In 2021 I am rebroadcasting my former podcast KDOI Podcast here so you can catch up on what we have been doing for the past 4 years. KDOI Podcast was my first serious attempt at podcasting after spending many years just creating content without regard to the final product. KDOI started in 2016 and had 3 seasons until I closed it down in 2019. I wanted to make sure that these gems didn't get relegated to my external hard drives, so here you go, there will be interviews, commentary, and projects that you can do for yourself. Enjoy these rebroadcasts and Create More Than You Consume.

In today's episode, we discussed Heather Meyer's history of theater starting in acting and moving onto stage management, directing, and new play development. At the time she was working with American Blues Theater and with Veteran Art Project. She developed and directed my first play Green Curtain for the Ripped From The Pages project with American Blues Theater. She stresses the importance of telling stories and passing along those stories to new generations. This was a very enlightening conversation about our experiences in theater and as you can tell it was a conversation between two friends.

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

And now for our final (still optional!) prompt. Today’s prompt is based on a prompt written by Jacqueline Saphra, and featured in this group of prompts published back in 2015 by The Poetry Society of the U.K. This prompt challenges you to write a poem in the form of a series of directions describing how a person should get to a particular place. It could be a real place, like your local park, or an imaginary or unreal place, like “the bottom of your heart,” or “where missing socks go.” Fill your poem with sensory details, and make them as wild or intimate as you like.

Where is Sanity

I zigged when I should have zagged

The map I used was from three hundred years ago

And the gas station I picked it up in still sold leaded gas

So when I left the station, my car coughed tremendously

Like a tuberculosis patient waiting for their next treatment

I tried to phone a friend when I grew up

And started this journey of adulthood

Only to find out

She was a paranoid schizophrenic

That liked to chase her kids around the house

With knives drawn

Thinking we were spawned from the anti christ

Which turned out to be her husband

I tried talking with a man of so many letters

The alphabet couldn’t keep up

And as I talked with him,

His phone blew up with messages and calls

He didn’t hear a word I said

And decided I needed pills

So I pretended not to hear him

Or when the pharmacy called

All I am trying to do is get from where I was

To where you are

In hopes that you know the way

I tried people with smaller letters behind their names

One used my connections to get a better job

Another used my knowledge to help her clients dodge dui’s

So now I am looking at another person

With smaller letters behind their name

When I asked my doc where my motivation went

He sent me to CVS for a pick up

I’m wondering if he is going to be my dealer now

He didn’t give me a free sample

Aren’t you supposed to get the first hit for free

Think I’ll just lay back

And see if there are any hidden messages

In the vinyl records I play

That would lead me to where I want to go

Maybe there is something in the flat earthers podcast

Or in the teachings of Q’Anon

My brain isn’t that fried yet

I think its time for a little Tom Waits

Or maybe some Trane

They have kept me alive all these years

Maybe the deep bass whisperings of Ken Nordine

Or the absurdist stories of Joe Frank

I think I may have not listened close enough

To my dead heroes

And I may just need to reconnect that link

If you know the way to sanity

I’d ask that you not try to send it telepathically

The quickest way is not a straight line

I know that from my experiences with cartography

Just point me in the general direction

And let me know if there is a coffee shop along the way

I may need to fuel up

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

And now, for our prompt (optional, as always). This one is called “in the window.” Imagine a window looking into a place or onto a particular scene. It could be your childhood neighbor’s workshop, or a window looking into an alien spaceship. Maybe a window looking into a witch’s gingerbread cottage, or Lord Nelson’s cabin aboard the H.M.S. Victory. What do you see? What’s going on?

Window

As I lift myself from writing on this page

And temporarily escape from my self-imposed imprisonment

I step outside, just a few feet in the backyard

The left over lumber is piled up

Weeds are growing underneath and through

Trying to reach inside this home

I make plans to create a chair for the fire pit

That stands stoically in the yard

With the branches of fallen trees waiting to be burned

The rotting sill with cracked paint holds back the vegetation

Since buying this house I’ve never been able to open up the window

And allow fresh air to flood into the room

When my neck was fused with metal

I laid in this dungeon that spawns my creativity

And I would look out through this portal

Praying for relief from the choking on water

Praying for relief from the pain

I’d set up scenes with various objects

And take photos of them

With the light trying to brighten this space

That was my escape

That was something to focus on while I recovered

Alone

Scratching at the suffocating neck brace

Attempting to find a way to sleep while sitting up

Now I lay on the couch

With the tv on to provide background noise and distraction

And often I gaze out of this opening to the world

My soul crying out for adventure, travel, something new

Only to be met with rabbits, birds and squirrels

Eking their way through this world

Finding nourishment in the unkept lawn

I can hear my children play in the yard

And often I bury my head under the pillows

Trying to find the elusive sleep that night fails to bring

One day I will open you

Remove the glass barrier that is fragile

Yet it is a barrier I allow to confine me

One day you will be the instrument of my release

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

Our prompt today (optional, as always), is to write a poem that poses a series of questions. The questions could be a mix of the serious (“What is the meaning of life?”) and humorous (“What’s the deal with cats knocking things off tables?”), the interruptive (“Could you repeat that?”) and the conversational (“Are those peanuts? Can I have some?”). You can choose to answer them – or just let the questions keep building up, creating a poem that asks the reader to come up with their own answer(s).

Could I Care?

If I poured out the contents of my mind

If I told you what I really think about every day

If there was a way to convey in few words my feelings

Would you swipe right or left

Would you care to investigate

Would you allow yourself to be touched

How can we stay focused on one thing

How can I convince you to listen

How will you let me know you are listening

When will the bomb go off in my head

When will this current misery end

When will we embrace each other as friends

Is the search for enlightenment a passing dalliance

Is the search for answers an appropriate time suck

Is there a way that I can better communicate through the pen

Should I care more about what the audience wants to hear

Should I care that I hear crickets when baring my soul

Should I start over with something new

Could I care a little bit more

Could I care if you are troubled

Could I care to take the time to heal myself

Are there answers to any of these questions

Are there any questions I have forgotten

Are there any answers that I have missed that reside within me

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

In today’s (optional) prompt, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem inspired by an entry from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. The entries are very vivid – maybe too vivid! But perhaps one of the sorrows will strike a chord with you, or even get you thinking about defining an in-between, minor, haunting feeling that you have, and that does not yet have a name.

n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness—which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical, wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a place to land.

When Talking = Silence

I grow weary when discussing

The event I allowed to define my life

And after so many other events

That have had a larger impact

Have piled up due to living so long

And rubbing the preverbal rabbits foot

I am still alive

 When I talk about 1 in 6

Most people don’t know what that means

Because its not a “manly”

Things like this don’t happen to men

So I talk less and less about it

As the years go on

As the distance between then and now grows

The memory doesn’t fade

It just gets clustered in with new memories

That are colored by what happened

Its like the pain one feels after a breakup

That pain eventually is replaced by the next breakup

Eventually you ask yourself why there are so many breakups

When the search comes back on the event

That colored your choices

You either learn how to color again

Or accept that you will continue to color with the wrong crayons

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

Write a poem that parodies a poetic form that you dislike.

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                                                                So I dismiss it

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Hello friend, I am Timothy Kimo Brien, head instigator at Create Art Podcast where we help you to tame the inner critic and create more than we consume. Every year in April National Poetry Writing Month occurs, this is a challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days and comes from the NaPoWriMo site. When you participate you are given a prompt every day for 30 days and you can choose to follow the prompt or not. Each prompt has a commentary with it and a style of poetry that you may not be familiar with. I enjoy it because it stretches my creative muscles and helps me organize my thoughts. I also really enjoy a good challenge. There is also an opportunity to read other people's work as they post on their websites and for you to comment on their work, giving them encouragement or offering a suggestion. Care to join me on this journey?

Our prompt for today (optional, as always) is to write an “occasional” poem. What’s that? Well, it’s a poem suited to, or written for, a particular occasion. This past January, lots of people who usually don’t encounter poetry got a dose when Amanda Gorman read a poem at President Biden’s inauguration. And then she followed it up with a poem at the Superbowl (not traditionally an event associated with verse!) The poem you write can be for an occasion in the past or the future, one important to you and your family (a wedding, a birth) or for an occasion in the public eye (the Olympics, perhaps?).

Needle of Freedom?

We have stayed couped up

Like scared children for over a year

Searching for hope and comfort

From any snake oil salesperson to appear

Begging for a return to normal

begging to live our lives again

And then it happens

The voices are hushed

As we cobble together

Standing in lines to receive our release

We move with swiftness without question

To each station of our new cross

Willing to try anything

That we are told will bring us back

Some of us are raging like beasts

Trying to find a shorter line

Getting what we feel is ours

Before someone else butts in line

I Am the first of the family

To test my mettle with the promise

I am swept here and there

With the others assembled,

We are grateful to be the first

Since we are the most infirm

We are to be tested upon for those who are stronger

In case the liquid burns

We murmur our thanks to the nurses

And say a silent prayer to our own accepted deities

That this will return us to society

But this return that we so prize

We are reminded of the atrocities

That we have incurred upon each other

Soon we will be back to living

Like there was no yesterday

And the practices that keep us alive

Will be forgotten on the morrow

To reach out to me, email [email protected] I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation.

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