Practice Practice

This week, we're joined by artist/cartoonist/friend Allyssa Yohana, who assigns us their "All in on a Silly Thing" exercise: a framework for giving oneself permission to commit to a pursuit that feels  silly, embarrassing, or frivolous. We go deep (prepare to hear the word "deeply" a lot) on what it means to lower the stakes for creative production.

This week's practice: Choose a silly thing to throw all your weight behind. Draw faces on all your bananas. Put googly eyes on 100 pompoms. Write some fan fiction! Whatever you do, really do it. See where it takes you.

Allyssa Yohana is an artist and visual storyteller currently spending time in a tiny New England town working on projects in visual storytelling for children and young adults. They studied photography and video at SVA.

Some of their favorite things: The Peanuts, macaroni & cheese, Nancy Drew books, The Shaggs, & a matinee movie

https://www.allyssayohana.com/

https://www.instagram.com/allyssary/

In this episode, we're joined by friend and marine biologist Xena Brooks, who introduces us to her One Second a Day practice. We chat about gamification and process-oriented habit-keeping. Listen til the end for bonus crab facts!

This week's practice: Take a one second video every day, choosing a meaningful moment to capture.

Xena Brooks is a global citizen and published marine biologist. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she now lives and works in Sandefjord, Norway.

The 1 Second a Day app Xena uses: https://1se.co/

In this episode, we're joined by artist Lily Moebes, who introduces us to her system of Studio Debriefs – a practice for documenting sessions of creative work.

This week's practice: Debrief your creative practice at the end of each day.

Lily Moebes is a Brooklyn-based artist working in textiles, printmaking, and painting. She has been a resident artist at organizations including the Textile Arts Center, Museum of Art and Design, Drop Forge and Tool, and has had her work featured in exhibitions in New York City, DC, and San Francisco. She graduated with a BA from Barnard in 2015 and is currently an MFA candidate at the Parsons School of Design.

Instagram: @lolmoebes

https://www.lilymoebes.com/

In this episode, we talk candidly about Getting Things Done. In our creative practices, how do we make steady progress and hold ourselves accountable? What role does motivation play? How can we navigate procrastination?

Recorded in winter of 2021.

Following our segment on practicing bedtime, we turn our attention to the practice of rising and (optionally) shining.

This week's practice: implement a morning routine

Recorded in the fall of 2020.

Part 2 of 2 in our segment on bedtime practices.

This week's practice: implement a bedtime routine (and solve some bedtime woes! Hint: melatonin is bae)

Recorded in the summer of 2020.

Note: at 6:13 we have an audio issue, but the sound comes back at 7:00! Apologies *we're new to this* 

Ah, the dreaded bedtime: the practice that sustains all other practices. A daily source of recovery (ideal world) and anxiety (real world). In this episode, we discuss bedtime woes and wishes.

This week's practice: implement a bedtime routine (or... think about implementing a bedtime routine). Part 1 of 2.

Recorded in the summer of 2020.

In our inaugural episode, we start with the basics: what is practice? What things do we practice? What does practice mean to us? And who are we, anyway? 

This week's practice: take a daily walk.

This episode was recorded in the summer of 2020.