Field of Streams

Does your outer match your inner? When it comes to the work you're producing, is it playing for your heart or for the algorithm? In this episode, I dig into what it means to find your line of compromise.

This is an audio reading of the post "Live your vision" originally published on May 20, 2022. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/vision/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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In the 90s, Pablo Escobar imported four hippos for his personal zoo. After his death, the hippos flourished in the jungles of Colombia and four hippos grew to 170, now dubbed the "Cocaine Hippos". Inspired by the story of how they're looking to sterilize these hippos, I wrote about "Thought Hippos" which are the invasive thoughts in your brain, and created a guide on how to identify and eradicate them. Fun!

As mentioned in the episode, there is a behind the scenes video that goes with it. It talks about how I wrote the post and is just PACKED with juicy hippo info.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-hippo/

Pablo Escobar's Cocaine Hippos story:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pablo-escobars-multiplying-cocaine-hippos-will-be-sterilized-in-colombia-180983316/

This is an audio reading of the post "How to Sterilize a Thought Hippopotamus" originally published on November 27, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/hippo/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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Did you know that from 1896 to the 1930s, there was a traveling show that purposefully smashed locomotives together - head on - for the entertainment of massive crowds? It got me to thinking about how smashing two ideas together can be just a fun, and you can never quite predict what you'll get from the wreckage.

Atlas Obscura story: For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staged-train-wrecks

This is an audio reading of the post "The Gentle Art of the Art Smash” originally published on May 23, 2022. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/smash/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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Inspired by a study into why teaspoons disappear in office settings, today I dive into what 'teaspoons' represent from a philosophical standpoint and why we should leave our soul drawer open. Come on, listen to my theory!

Watch the behind the scenes companion video that goes with this episode and talks about the study and themes of the post. Links to the study can also be found here: https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-teaspoons/

This is an audio reading of the post "The Teaspoon Drawer of the Soul" originally published on October 16, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/teaspoons/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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Comedian, Norm MacDonald, once attempted to calm Larry King's fear of not existing by telling the story of Nabokov and a photograph - a photograph which showed a time where Nabokov did not exist. What does it mean to exist? Are photographs proof of life and why do we need the reassurance of existence anyway? Let's dig into it.

Watch the Norm MacDonald and Larry King interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=370&v=7kbBIWnVjpA&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1

This is an audio reading of the post "Is Exposure Existence?” originally published on May 16, 2022. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/exist/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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Inspired by an Eckhart Tolle technique, in this episode I do a deep dive into the question: "Will my next thought be my best thought?" Well, will it? Let's discuss. 

Watch me talking about the inspirations and themes of this episode on Behind the Streams video, here: https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-next-thought/

This is an audio reading of the post “Will my next thought be my best thought?” originally published on September 4th, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/next-thought/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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I don't know where self-hate comes from, but I do know that it poisons your soul. Today's episode identifies how to recognize you've been poisoned with self-hate and self loathing, and suggests some "antidotes" for attempting to neutralize the poison. You've got this!

This is an audio reading of the post "Self-Hate Poisoning FAQ" originally published on May 9, 2022. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/poison/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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Ideas form in your brain. Your brain instructs your body to turn those things into reality. Those ideas become actual and real and in a burst of excitement, you send those things out into the world to find their futures. Without you. You have no control over how they - your art - will be received. You must let these parts of your brain go and be interpreted by others as they will interpret them. That's the joy of making stuff. Your art works are like your children. Let them find their way!

Watch me talking about the inspirations and themes of this episode on Behind the Streams video, here: https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-brainescape/

This is an audio reading of the post "Parts of Your Brain and Out There, Without You” originally published on July 24, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/without-you/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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In which I go to Scotland to see "LIVE! Justin Hawkins Rides Again...for the first time" on tour; Thom Yorke and The Smile exploding my brain (also LIVE!); and wander around Glasgow feeding on art. Welcome to Art Safari 2024. Let's talk open heart doors, art, bulletproof fragility and how awkward I can be around rock stars. Fun episode! Take a listen. 

Companion Video to this episode here.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-heart-hawk/

This is an audio reading of the post "The Heart and the Hawk" originally published on March 26, 2024. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link. https://www.jumpinthestream.com/heart-hawk/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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The inspiration for today's little gem came from a story I stumbled upon about a man in Melbourne, Australia, who walks around carrying a giant papier maché carrot. Everyone calls him, wait for it, The Carrot Man. 

The Carrot Man
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/12/melbourne-fitzroy-carrot-man

Watch me talking about the inspirations and themes of this episode on Behind the Streams video, here: https://www.jumpinthestream.com/behind-the-streams-carrot-god/

This is an audio reading of the post "The Dangling Carrot of Destiny” originally published on November 20, 2023. Additional creative inspirations can be found at that link.
https://www.jumpinthestream.com/carrot/

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About Field of Streams
This podcast provides audio readings of The Stream newsletter's main feature. The Stream is written by Janeen McCrae, and aims to provide a weekly dose of personal essays and creative inspirations that'll get you revved up to 'make the thing.'

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