CREATIVE 4 LIFE with Gordon Meier

Face it (and with a mask on!) - we’re all doing a LOT of coping these days.
The COVID Pandemic has brought the globe together in near isolation, and now... things are started to loosen up as we start getting out.   
While many took on new creative endeavours as the our time inside increased, a lot of us need something now, as we have to face....OTHER PEOPLE AGAIN.  

Luckily, there’s no end to Creative Coping exercises - and most are enjoyable, some even edible!   And I’m sure you’re already doing a few, for that simple fact.  

So here’s how it works....

Creativity as

• a distraction tool (to avoid stress)
• a contemplation tool ( lead to questions /  problem  solving)
• a way of gaining confidence & resilience 

Trying new creative activities benefits

• positivity 
• deeper self-awareness

Regardless of skill level, all these creative actions and intents are producing positivity in our minds and bodies - which resonates all around us.

Face to face & group activities most are beneficial, but online / self taught also have positive benefits.

New creative learning & activities more beneficial then repeated activities.

Emotional benefits from a single hands-on experience.

ITS ALL ABOUT MAKING

Play
Music
Art & Craft
Cooking 
Writing & Reading 
Practicing Spirituality - Meditation
Organisation

From “Siddhartha”...
Pondering deeply upon sensations / emotion & turning sensations into realizations.

We sent out a message into the universe that we are open for business, ready to connect.   We do it for pure joy.   

It’s permission to do and be that self we love.    

It’s creating the life that you want.  

Love x  Love = More Love

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As we are now starting to open up globally,  cinemas return with the dynamic and nostalgic shared experience only a movie theatre can bring.    

The combination of image & score can affect us so deeply, it’s no surprise we hold the movie-going experience so dear to our cultures.    The creativity derived from the onset of the moving image has been astounding & so extraordinarily influential on how we tell stories.

So powerful are these creative gems, they become inseparable from their scores, can be recognized with one line, and immediately felt emotionally with a 10 second clip.   

John & Gordon talk about the influence of film on their Creative processes and way of thinking creatively.  Each choose 1 film which forever changed the way they viewed film, understood story, heard scores differently and simply rocked their world. 

John has chosen the 1985 John Hughes classic “The Breakfast Club” to discuss his relationship to the experience of the film and how he finds Creative influence in its story and characters.  

Gordon has selected the shockingly dark and deeply emotive “Blue Velvet” (1986) by David Lynch, to discuss the larger picture of what affects our world, our relationships, transformations and the beauty found in life.    The Creative influences are endless when you have David Lynch directing and writing,  and Angelo Badalamenti creating  the atmospheric and mood altering score. 

Gordon discusses meeting with Geena Davis (Disney Parks Ambassador) and how her Geena Davis Institute is changing the faces we see on the big and small screen, as well as those responsible for creating the stories.   “If she can see it, she can be it” is the mantra that has expanded beyond bringing more women into visibility in all walks of life - but to the multitudes of diverse people who are under-represented today.   

Please take a look at all the amazing work the Geena Davis Institute is doing & creating!
https://seejane.org/

We sent out a message into the universe that we are open for business, ready to connect.   
We do it for pure joy.   

It’s permission to do and be that self we love.    

It’s creating the life that you want.  

Love x  Love = More Love

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Welcome to the g’mango show where Gordon & John chat about the Creative Life and bring some insight to some of life’s most pressing questions.
If you know the show, welcome back & you may have some pressing questions for us after that opening statement!

We were searching for a topic & found some answers, by simply asking “how”?
How do you stay Creatively Motivated?
What causes roadblocks in Creativity?
Can you simply run out of ideas? 

What is Leading you?  Schedule?  Cost?  Efficiency?  Micro-Management?
Or are you waiting to be told from “Upper Leadership” how to proceed?
If you are suffering from a lack of Free-Flowing Creative Juice, you might want to avoid the aforementioned Leads & Leaders. 

Be open to life, curiosity, spontaneity and THE MOMENT. 
Vulnerability is your strength and guide to exploration and Creativity.  
And you might find something out about yourself as well.  

GO BE CREATIVE!

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Welcome to the g’mango show! 

We recorded this the day before the Indy 500, a major annual event in our home town of Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Especially exciting as fans are able to attend with masks at a percentage of the full capacity. 

But MOST EXCITING is that John has a comedy song that is gaining a lot of streaming and airplay and whose story centres around The Indy 500 and a girl named “VENUS”.      

We’re hoping this song will become an annual favourite in Indy and for race fans everywhere!

Check out the song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNd51puSnnA

Gordon is grateful for the opportunity to be a panel judge for a LEARN WITH LEADERS Innovation & Imagination Bootcamp. 

The online workshop brought together high-school aged students from around the world to work on group projects and exercise skills on Creative Confidence, Collaboration & Thematic Focus.  

These young adults were so impressive and was a real learning experience with many insightful questions.  

Shout out to Cheryl Chi for the inclusion and amazing conversation!

Find out more about Learn With Leaders on the website:
https://learnwithleaders.com/ciibootcamp

John asks Gordon about some of the Creative projects he’s worked on in NYC and Hong Kong.

We hear from Gordon about how he used his Creative and Artistic skills for a Doc Martens promotional event. 

Also we find out about the formation of Art Sunday in Hong Kong (2009-2010), and becoming a Creative Connector to build an art community.  https://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/accessing-and-making-art-in-hong-kong/

We sent out a message into the universe that we are open for business, ready to connect.   We do it for pure joy.   

It’s permission to do and be that self we love.    

It’s creating the life that you want.  

Love x  Love = More Love

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CREATIVE 4 LIFE !
GO BE CREATIVE!

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We’re always here to chat about inspiration and creativity, but we’re also here to listen. 

Here’s Athena song list & videos below:

Crazy Train
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FVovq9TGBw0

Quote Unquote (Travolta)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwRnBS3hmwA

Higher Ground
3:01"Higher Ground" Stevie Wonder 1974YouTube · WestLAGuy27 Dec 2012

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZySqMlEuSQ

Close To You
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU

Tunic (Song For Karen)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=reSOp1domrU

Folsom Prison Blues
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wG0fS4DoGUc

So What
9:07Miles Davis - So What (Official Video)YouTube · MilesDavisVEVO20 Oct 2010

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Our very special guest this episode is LA native & current Hong Kong resident Jameel Haiat.   Jameel is a Creative, in every sense of the word,  & living that life to the fullest.    
We chat with Jameel about his Creative roots and how he has survived while following his artistic passions. 
Life can be challenging & Jameel has had a lot to overcome, but he has empowered  himself with his experiences (positive & negative) and his determination to follow his many creative drives wherever that inner voice leads.    
LA.  New York.  Shanghai.  Hong Kong. 
Poetry.  Production.  Art.  Imagineering.  

He’s been there, done it and lead the way... his unique way.
And the journey is what Jameel finds to be the most important part for any Creative.  
Break out of your comfort zone and explore the world. 

Join us for this enlightening, engaging and inspiring deep dive into the Creative Life of Jameel Haiat.    

You can find more about Jameel and his newest book of poetry,  “Life Edited”, on his website / blog:

https://www.jameelhaiat.com

And follow him on Instagram: 
@jameelh1

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The song “13 Ghosts II” is from the album “Ghosts I-IV” by Nine Inch Nails and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US. 

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Green Skin Mango formed in 1992. 

Our music was one of the first shared online music, back in 1992, in the earliest version of online music sharing.  

We also got our music online and sold some MP3s. 

But the global reach of this podcast in just 4 months / 13 episodes is astonishing.  We’ve  reached 11 countries on 5 continents.  

We’re not influencers or anything near that.   
Its all grass roots for us.   As its always been.    

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Welcome to Podcast 13!

Your Everyday Creative Thinking.

My favourite number is 13.   
It’s been lucky for me.   
But I’m sure a lot of other numbers have been too.   
Yet, I choose to focus on 13.   
Isn’t that how life is?  

Where & what you focus on becomes your perception of life.    
When you think your way through daily life, are you fixed in the outcomes?   

Creative thought brings a multiverse of possibilities and less fixed expectations.   

Keeping an open and creative mind to the greater process can lead to a more connected reality, in the now, and unforeseen potential in the future.   

Trust Creativity!

And if you are reading this, the first 3 people to send us this message “NIN Oscar WIN” (via our website, Facebook, Instagram, email...) ... we’ll send you a t-shirt!  

These are the stories of our ambitions, our creative experiences, our creative pursuits and the dots that connect our creative lives with other people and places.  

Being Creative is not only solving problems, but asking questions.   Some of those answers are only found by acquiring the skills needed to solve these problems.   And sometimes you meet people along the way that help with your success and point you in a new direction.    

Over the past 3 decades our hosts (John Witcher & Gordon Meier) have lived a life of creating and collaborating all over the world in art, music, design, comedy and literature.  

The quirky creators and collaborators from the band & brand Green Skin Mango share with us their, dreams, schemes, visions and reflections from their life of making their own unique mark in life.     

And though the struggles are real, the rewards for doing & sharing is always its own reward and an opening to another opportunity to create. 

Most importantly, we want to support and inspire everyone with any creative aspirations to listen to that voice in their head & do it!   

Go Be Creative! 

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Create Now For Later

How do you create? 

What is your method?  How do you approach the blank page?

Are you creating for now?  

Or for the future?

For an audience that hasn’t even been born...

John & Gordon open up and chat a bit about their processes & influences. 

We get interesting insights on how John crafted and modelled some of his superhero characters in the “Danger Club” series.   

In a revealing discussion of Gordon’s painting processes, we learn what used to be an immediate reaction of reflection on the world around, has turned into a long view of documenting the eventual change of humanity in our daily lives.   

“20 years after doing the show (“Subdivisions” 2002, @Kimberly Venardos Gallery NYC) the reality of what I was painting is coming into existence.  And I always knew that would happen.  Yes, this is now how my work plays out.  This is how it all makes sense.  But you didn’t get it off the bat.  Your were just looking at paintings by this 29 year old artist.  But really it was the 40-something person inside me that was saying these (paintings) aren’t even going to be out of the oven and ready to serve for another 20 years... when the actual world catches up to them... and the malls are falling apart and the economy has to shift because this was never sustainable to begin with.  Contact Vince or Ali at Meow Wolf... they’ll fix up that old shopping mall for ya!” -Gordon Meier

Music & Score Ep12

Green Skin Mango: “Green Skin Mango” (John Witcher / Gordon Meier)

Mangosteen: “Rappongi Sweat”; “Nikko 2001 (Crover); “Invisible Like 2”; “Phantom 1”; “HoKme”  (Gordon Meier / John Witcher)

“09 Ghosts I”;  “14 Ghosts II”;  “29 Ghosts IV”

“Discipline”

The songs listed are from the albums “Ghosts I-IV”  and “The Slip” by Nine Inch Nails and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US. 

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Trent Reznor.  Atticus Ross.  Nine Inch Nails. 
The epitome of risk and danger in music along with continued growth.
It’s why the eyebrow is raised when you hear the band that wrote “I want to f*** you like an animal” is doing the score for a beautiful film by Pixar Animation.
It’s also why, this year, they are nominated for an Academy Award for this film.
Oh, and also for  David Fischer’s historical and timely film “Mank”.
And why they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year as well. 

From the first note of their debut album “Pretty Hate Machine” to balling my eyes out in the theatre during “Soul”,  Nine Inch Nails has been a huge influence on our music, our culture, and our creative drives.    
As well, they are able to relate with those very lonely, isolated and dark moments that many of us feel.  It’s a comfort not found in the desire to be depressed, but in the revelation we are not alone.   The empathetic nature of Nine Inch Nails is profound.   It’s found primarily in the music, but also in the poetry of lyrics.   

Taking breaks are necessary for rejuvenating your spirit & creativity.
It also gives you time to reinvest in yourself and take a long view of your creative path.
Upon returning to the podcast, we decided  to be more open and dive deeper into our passions for future podcasts.   We stand by the work we’ve done, obviously, but we were nervous about becoming too “topical”.   Creativity thrives on change and inspiration, listening to that voice inside,  and is related to the world surrounding us.   So while we may not be covering the evening news, the politics of the day, or saving the planet from environmental disaster... we are very aware of the world and we feel it.   
We’re vulnerable souls.  
Music, art, film, literature - we can feel it very deeply.   
We could spend many more episodes talking about so many aspects of NIN and how they have positively affected our creative lives and how we view and relate to ourselves and emotions.... And maybe we will.   It’s our g’mango show.  

Stay Vulnerable & Brutally Honest!

Our gratitude and thanks to Trent Reznor for putting some of his work onto Creative Commons & allowing us to to use these works to share, non-commercially, with our listeners.

1  Ghosts I-IV
2  Ghosts I-IV
7  Ghosts I-IV
13  Ghosts I-IV
14  Ghosts I-IV
22 Ghosts I-IV
24 Ghosts I-IV
32 Ghosts I-IV
33 Ghosts I-IV
34 Ghosts I-IV
36 Ghosts I-IV

“999,9999”
“Discipline “
“Lights in the Sky”
“The Four of Us Are Dying”

The songs listed are from the albums “Ghosts I-IV”  and “The Slip” by Nine Inch Nails and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US. 

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails
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