Creative People Podcast

Have you ever had a brilliant idea just occur to you?  Those are rare and they are the ones to follow says today's guest, filmmaker Kyle Sawyer.  Kyle is one part of the duo Digital Sabbath and ones responsible for the Business Unual film series.  A series of films highlighting how local businesses are coping with all the struggles brought on by the pandemic.  

Kyle talks to me about the energy of film, how he uses his "ideas that occur to him"  as guiding lights through the process of putting together a film.  And how he uses creativity to sidestep potentially weak areas of a scene.  

Great chat, do it up.


watch the film series at:
https://www.businessunusualseries.com/

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This week we are getting into the thick of it with the writer of The Creativity Gene, Rose Gabler.  Rose tells me about her grandfather and how a cancer scare led him to dedicate his life to art and how that has rippled through generations of her family.  She talks about her own journey of writer her book and has the most perfect analogy for creativity.  Great chat, do it up.

https://www.thecreativitygene.com/
https://rosegabler.com/

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Music by DustyDecks

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This week I am talking with fashion designer Christina Harmer.  Christina is the woman behind KHAZ, a fashion brand out of Toronto. Christina tells me about the afternoon at the One of a Kind Show that changed her whole life. We connected about the frustrations of creativity and the peace of being in the zone. She tells me about remixing the classics and the work no one notices.  Great chat. 

https://www.khazdesigns.com/

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This week on the podcast I'm talking with Broadway Musical Director and Conductor, David Loud.  David tells me about his 34 years on Broadway, the magic of theatre and music "in the room" with someone.  He talks to me about working with some of the best, including Stephen Sondheim.   And how rewarding the teaching he's doing now is.

David tells me about the energy of being in the middle of everything while conducting on Broadway,  and how the best collaborating happens when everyone makes the same show.  We talk a lot about being grateful during the hardest things in life and David tells me about being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and the peace he has found since.  David is releasing his memoir Facing the Music in February 2022 be sure to check that out.  
Great, special chat this week.

Music by Guustuuv

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About Facing the Music:

https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Facing-the-Music/David-Loud/9781682451915

FACING THE MUSIC
By David Loud
"Beautifully written, filled with vivid details, braided with
love and loss and wit and the perspective of someone with
an utterly unique story to tell."
-- Lynn Ahrens, lyricist
(Ragtime, Seussical, A Man of No Importance)
Experience Broadway musicals from a new perspective – from the
conductor’s podium.
David Loud occupies a unique place in Broadway history. In addition
to his distinguished career as one of Broadway’s most respected music
directors, he originated three Broadway roles as an actor, including his
appearance in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary failure
(and cult classic) Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Harold Prince. In a
career spanning several decades, he served as music director for the original
Broadway productions of Ragtime, Curtains, Sondheim on Sondheim, The
Visit, The Scottsboro Boys, and Steel Pier, as well as revivals of She Loves Me,
Sweeney Todd, Company, and Porgy and Bess. And he appeared alongside
Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald in Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning
play, Master Class.
FACING THE MUSIC is David Loud’s poignant and hilarious memoir
of his extraordinary adventures conducting Broadway shows, rubbing
shoulders with John Kander, Fred Ebb, Audra McDonald, Stephen
Sondheim, Harold Prince, Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera, Roger Rees, Zoe
Caldwell, Marin Mazzie, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Garth Drabinsky, and
Barbara Cook, among others.
It is also a look at his path to the podium, from his one-of-a-kind
childhood (a stage-struck kid growing up at a school devoted to organic
farming and mountain climbing), to formative experiences at a New
England prep school and Yale University. His coming out as a gay man and
his diagnosis as a person with Parkinson’s Disease, combined with his
extraordinarily entertaining backstage anecdotes, make for a riveting look at
what it means to live, love, and make music in the rarefied air of Broadway.
“Luminous and surprising, an extremely honest memoir of a
life lived in the world of Broadway musicals, by one of the
theatre’s most gifted conductors. I can’t think of another
book quite like it.”
-- John Kander, composer
(Cabaret, Chicago, New York, New York)

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This week on the podcast I'm talking to DJ, experimental artist, and fellow millennial Sonja (https://www.instagram.com/sonja_online/) She talks to me about bleeding through your eyeballs for your dreams, doing things that scare her (like relocating to South Korea), and why she doesn't want to live in North America. ever again.

Sonja means business and her approach to her work is infectious and no-nonsense.  She tells me that in her minds-eye her creativity is a plant and has some extremely insightful/helpful things to offer from that perspective.  She's great, fantastic chat!

Music by Margareta
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2EujXLp3444r3ayjrmwM8L?si=cqBzmFc0RHucUpVMrg42fg


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Disappointment

I'm starting to realize that I'm going to have to accept disappointment -  because it doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere - and it’s everywhere.

For one - It's part of the process for our work.  Getting better at our craft is a road through disappointment.  Often, the things we create are not what we see in our heads and it takes time and practice to get it to where those two things match.  

And then you challenge yourself again, and the cycle starts over.  More disappointment ahead!  That’s the process.

But the burden is more than that.

Speaking bluntly, it’s people… they are going to disappoint you.  Not in like a heavy, let you down when you really needed them kinda way. (though...) 

But in aesthetic, in scope, in execution, in their capacity, or not seeing what you see, etc, and so on.

It's part of the loneliness that comes along with this life.  People you love won't get it.  Their efforts may not look the way you want them to or be as inspired as you like.  They may be silent expressions or express love in a way that goes under our "creative person" radar.

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This week I'm chatting and having some laughs with local illustrator and graphic designer Jon Kutt (The High Road Design) - Jon may draw from his adolescence for his art, but his approach is wise and mature.  Jon has learned some things and he tells me about how at 46 he came back to drawing, leaving bitterness behind and embracing "Titface" as his Mona Lisa.  It's a really fantastic chat 

https://www.instagram.com/the_high_road_design/

Music by BAEGEL

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This week on the podcast we're back in the studio with artist, Stephanie Scott - Stephanie is a mural artist and graphic designer.  We talk about the winding path of creativity and how she found her way through the false starts.  She tells me about how she approaches designing spaces in big buildings and how her dream mural is inspired by Ren and Stimpy - great chat, do it up.

https://www.stephaniescott.design/

Music by peerless

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Collections, why do people collect stuff?  What are the stories behind these collections?  And more importantly, who are the people?  Samantha Mashburn and the team behind the Mothball Prophecies aim to uncover these questions.

This week I'm talking to Sam about how her background in hair styling, love for family stories, and passion for antiques led the creation of her podcast.  She tells me about the things she's learned and her hopes for the distant, distant future!  Great one.  Do it up.

Check out the Mothball Prophecies, where ever you get your podcast.
https://www.themothballprophecies.com/

Music for this episode by Matt Large
https://open.spotify.com/artist/107WzwlsOTR6Nxnw2kPHd3

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A creative exercise to help us reframe our perspective and get back to making work that matters.

*Correction: misspoke when I said Andrew Lloyd Wright meant Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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