RIGHT-BRAINIACS!

RIGHT-BRAINIACS!

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RIGHT-BRAINIACS! episodes

  • How to be creative in lots of ways with Sara Oteri, Jess Wheeler, and Alita Harvey-Rodriguez

    On this episode I’m talking to three guests who have lots of fingers in lots of pies, showing that creativity can work in many, inspiring ways, and who are all showing Australia that being creative is for everyone.

    Jess Wheeler

    Jess is an internationally-awarded writer, creative director and current state head of AWARD School. Beyong ads, he’s been interviewed by Rolling Stone for building a ‘Lena Dunham Apology Generator’ and started an international incident between Ja Rule and 50 Cent with his Trump Googles idea.
    https://www.jessmakesads.com/

    Sara Oteri

    Sara is Executive Creative Director at Independent agency Akkomplice, self confessed greenie, and a Masterchef finalist. When she's not making ads, like the remake of 'No Worries Jan' for client Darrell Lea, she shows her 35,000 Instagram followers that eating incredible food shouldn’t cost the Earth, or your back pocket.
    Food: http://www.saraoteri.com/
    Work: https://akkomplice.com.au/

    Alita Harvey-Rodriguez

    Alita is known as one of Australia's leading customer experience futurists and the brains behind multi-award-winning application-based training and consultancy provider, MI Academy. She also sits on several industry advisory boards, including Girls In Tech Australia, Retail Global, Online Retailer and non-profit organisation, Retail ROI.
    http://milkit.com.au/

    TOPICS

    1. What is creativity to you?
  • Why are you creative?
  • What is a day in the life of a creative person like you look like?
  • Can creativity be taught?
  • How can we make creativity more important in society?
  • What is a right-brain tip for people?
  • Write a short story about a homing pigeon named Bert.

    • This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    38 min
  • The future of creativity with Alessia Castiglione, Madeline Catanese, and Tobias McCullagh

    With AI and robots becoming ever more present, we need to start thinking smarter about the jobs of the future. So, this episode feature three young creatives at the start of their careers: Alessia Castiglione, Madeline Catanese, and Tobias McCullagh talking about what the future holds for them, and why they are passionate about doing good for the world.

    Topics discussed:

    1. What creativity is to them.
  • Why they got into a creative professional field.
  • What makes something great creatively.
  • Somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn is an undiscovered planet that is inhabited solely by children. What is it called? How is it different to planet Earth? How is it similar?
  • A right-brain tip.

    • GUESTS:

    Alessia Castiglione
    Alessia is a creative/copywriter who has worked across a bunch of Brisbane's top agencies. She's the co-founder of podcast and site TBQFH.com.au (to be quite f*cking honest), is a Youngbloods co-chair and was recently shortlisted as a top 10 creative in B&T’s 30 under 30 awards.
    https://alessiacastiglione.com/
    https://tbqfh.com.au/

    Madeline Catanese

    Mads started her advertising career just over 4 years ago, working in account service. After completing AWARD School she realised that the creative department was where she truly wanted to be. and joined as a creative at The Royals this year. She’s like a modern-day Peggy Olson!
    https://www.madscatanese.com/

    Tobias McCullagh

    Tobias is an art director who whilst still rather fresh to the advertising industry is always exercising his little grey cells for new ideas. He's worked at Ogilvy and GTB and he sends me ideas all the day which are pretty bloody awesome.
    https://iamtobes.com/

    This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    28 min
  • Defeating self doubt with Shannon Crowe, Nicole Mandile, and Andrea McCannon

    Self doubt. It’s a part of many people that holds them back for expressing themselves to the full. So on this episode we’ve got three amazing creative people who face self doubt in the eye every day, and find ways to quiet it.

    GUESTS:

    SHANNON CROWE
    Shannon is one of the world’s most awarded advertising copywriters, passionate university lecturers, and proudest advocates of equality — but most (little) people just know her as Alfie’s mum.
    https://shannoncrowecreative.com/

    ANDREA McCANNON

    Andrea is an actor, presenter, voice artist, foodie, runner, lover of language and fluffy cats. As a performer she has over 20 years of experience across film, television, theatre and voiceover.
    https://www.imdb.me/andreamccannon

    NICOLE MANDILE

    Nicole is a Creative Director with over 20 years worth of stories from a career in advertising. She hopes 2020 will make us all kinder and more courageous; fearless in building a world where every single one of us belongs.

    TOPICS COVERED

    1. What is creativity?
  • How to fight through self-doubt.
  • What to do when faced with a problem.
  • How other people’s opinions can make you feel.
  • A right-brain tip to help you be more creative.
  • "If your pet could write an unauthorised, tell-all biography about you, what would its title be? And how would you make it a bestseller?"

    • This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    39 min
  • Following your passion with painter Josh Robbins, photographer Pete Ogden, and illustrator Luisa Grasso

    Today’s episode is about following your creative passion, with three guests who have found a new creative path as their lives have progressed.

    Pete Ogden

    Pete's career has been a series of detours. From a junior ad agency art director to a set designer at Pinewood Film Studios in London; then a long stretch in advertising as a Creative Director in Australia and New Zealand and finally, a right turn into landscape photography and distilling!

    Photography: https://www.thebrutalbeauty.com
    Advertising: http://cargocollective.com/oggy

    Luisa Grasso

    Luisa is a Melbourne based Illustrator and Graphic Designer.

    With a lifelong passion for art and an extensive background in Marketing & Administration, she is now focused on creating an impact in the design industry with her colourful and simplified designs.
    Website: www.lmgcreations.com

    Josh Robbins

    Josh is a former advertising creative turned Melbourne based visual artist who creates art in the space between the purely conceptual and the purely visual, a place of ‘conceptual modernism’ if you will. He has been exhibiting in Australia and abroad since 2009 with shows in Melbourne, Adelaide, Western Australia and London.

    Website: www.joshrobbins.com.au
    Insta: www.instagram.com/joshcharlesrobbins/

    This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    32 min
  • How creativity can help Black Lives Matter with Kevin Wilson, Yolanda Robson, and Jaynaya Winmar.

    This week, Kevin Wilson, Yolanda Robson, and Jaynaya Winmar discuss how creativity can help change the world off the back of National Reconciliation Week in Australia.

    Topics discussed:

    1. What creativity is to them.
  • How creativity can bridge cultures.
  • Some brilliant right-brain tips to help you be more creative and to support indigenous business.
  • And then some utterly increible responses to The Right-brain Workout question: Write a poem about a kangaroo covered in tattoos who likes to liberate animals from zoos.

    • Jaynaya Winmar

    Jaynaya is General Manager of Indigenous Engagement at the AIA Group. She’s a proud Noongar/Balladong woman from Quairading in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

    She has consulted on the development of strategic Indigenous Procurement Policies and Engagement Plans, for both state and federal governments, as well as previously being the AFL’s Reconciliation Action Plan Program Manager.
    She mentioned an amazing Noongar language production of Shakespeare. Check it out/support it! https://yirrayaakin.com.au/production/the-noongar-shakespeare-project/
    And also Buy From The Bush:
    https://www.facebook.com/buyfromthebush/

    Kevin Wilson

    Kevin is a Wongai man from the Goldfields region of Western Australia. He is co-founder of Nani Creative, a graphic design partnership specialising in design for projects promotion Aboriginal Tourism. Kevin also facilitates youth urban art workshops, establishing a link to young talent and exposure to the possibilities of creative career options.

    https://nani.com.au/

    Yolanda Robson

    Yolanda is a millennial, a coffee snob, current AWARD school student and a Wathaurong woman from the Geelong and Colac region of Victoria. After graduating from advertising in 2018 she now works for a consulting firm, helping to deliver on their Corporate Social Responsibility strategy.

    This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    38 min
  • Design and creativity with Josh Logue, Marcus Byrne, and Alex Lopez

    Design is all around us. But we often don't see it. Listen to three amazing designers in

    Topics discussed:

    1. What creativity is.
  • What design is and why it's so powerful.
  • They then answer a question from The Right-brain Workout whish is: Describe the latest dance craze, "Dunzing". Absolute gold in here!
  • Then they finish with a right-brain tip for all y'all.

    • Josh Logue

    Josh is a director, designer, and musician. He won an ARIA for conceptualising and directing Empire of the Sun’s ‘Walking On A Dream’ music video. He has directed more than 90 music videos (for Daniel Johns, Hilltop Hoods, The Living End, and many more).
    http://www.joshlogue.com/

    Alex Lopez

    Alex is an art director and graphic designer with over twenty years of experience. He has worked for a number of Australia’s biggest ad agencies as well as a heap of the biggest clients in the land.

    https://alexlopezcreative.myportfolio.com/

    Marcus Byrne

    Marcus is lead designer as agency Thinkerbell. He’s a multidisciplinary graphic design lead and Photoshop pro who brings ideas to life by whatever means possible. He has worked in most of the biggest agencies in Australia.

    https://www.behance.net/marcusbyrne

    Designer links mentioned in the show. Check them out!

    Neville Brody - The Creator of THE FACE and ARENA magazine.

    https://www.designboom.com/design/interview-with-graphic-designer-neville-brody-10-10-2014/

    https://www.famousgraphicdesigners.org/neville-brody

    https://www.dezeen.com/tag/Neville-Brody/

    Peter Saville

    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joy-divisions-unknown-pleasures-cover-the-science-behind-an-image-191126/

    David Carson

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1pQTuJfUi8

    Vaughan Oliver

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOhJtt3-hr0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlHMn4hHiQw

    We did a whole design podcast and never mentioned Helvetica!

    https://vimeo.com/286172171

    This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    41 min
  • How creativity can bring happiness and meaning to your life with Alex Wadelton

    What is happiness? What is meaning? Are they the same thing? Or is the search all we can do to find that elusive contentment?

    In this episode, rather than the usual format of me interviewing three brilliant creative people, I instead share a speech I gave for The Melbourne Advertising and Design Club, where I show how even a dunderhead like me has been able to use creativity to find a purpose... and how you can too.

    Every piece of work I talk about can be found on my website:

    https://www.stuffbyalexwadelton.com/

    This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    36 min
  • Making TV, documentaries, feature films, music videos, and ad campaigns with creative producers Denise Eriksen, Craig Griffin, and Sheridan Wadelton.

    Everything you watch on TV, online, or at the movie theatre is nothing without the producer’s who pull it all together to get it to you. That’s why today I’m talking to three amazing creative producers who have worked across TV, feature films, music videos, commercials, and much more

    Topics discussed:

    1. What creativity is to them
  • What helps fire their creative juices
  • A right-brain tip.
  • And they answer a question from The Right-brain Workout, which is the bizarre: "If aliens were to drop lines from the sky to catch humans like we catch fish, what would be the best bait?"

    • Denise Eriksen

    Denise is Co-Founder of Media Mentors Australia. They help creatives create. She’s also what they call an industry veteran which means she’s worked everywhere for bloody years and knows loads of people. Google her to find out more.

    https://www.mediamentors.com.au/

    Sheridan Wadelton

    Sheridan has worked on everything from award winning feature films, to music clips and short films, to local and international television campaigns, to content and activations. She has been executive producer of both production companies and advertising agencies.

    Craig Griffin

    Craig runs the production company The Directors Group, and works on a variety of projects. He was 2nd Unit Director of feature film Australian Rules and subsequently Produced Feature Length Documentaries including “Not Quite Hollywood” and “Such Is Life – The Troubled Times of Ben Cousins”. He also wrote, produced and directed the award winning Documentary Feature Film Uncharted Waters.

    http://directorsgroup.com.au/

    Here's a clip from the ABC TV show Denise mentioned, called Attitude. Check it out!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDr6EEwDjBQ&t=106s

    This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    35 min
  • Strategic creativity with 3 of Australasia's top advertising strategy planners- Mike Hyde, Danish Chan, and Zac Martin

    In business, creativity is nothing without the strategy to bring it to life. Today, I’m talking to three of the leading strategic planners in the advertising industry about they harness the power of creativity, and how you can too.

    Topics discussed:

    1. What creativity is to them.
  • How to judge creativity
  • Some right-brain tips for you
  • And they answer a question from the book The Right-brain Workout: "Describe in exactly thirty-seven words what the most inspiring thing was in the room you were last in."

    • In business, creativity is nothing without the strategy to bring it to life. Today, I’m talking to three of the leading strategic planners in the advertising industry about they harness the power of creativity, and how you can too.

    Danish Chan

    Danish is one of the most awarded creative strategists in the world, having worked on some of the most effective brands in the last decade. Today, Danish is a co-founder of untangld, a pragmatic brand and communication consultancy without the usual BS.

    untangld.co

    Mike Hyde

    Mike is head of strategy at M&C Saatchi Melbourne. He has held senior strategy planning roles at some of the most successful ad agencies in Australia including Clemenger BBDO, Y&R, and Cummins & Partners.

    mcsaatchi.com.au

    Zac Martin

    Zac is a Senior Strategist at advertising agency Ogilvy Melbourne. He writes about advertising nonsense at:

    PigsDontFly.com.

    This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    30 min
  • Creativity in COVID-19 with Jack Druce, Huei Yin Wong, and Yianni Agisilaou

    How have you used your time in isolation? Well, today I have three guests who have all put their time to creating something new with their creative skills.

    Topics discussed:

    1. What creativity is to them.
  • How they've used creativity in COVID-19 to make something pretty special.
  • Some right-brain tips to help you to be more creative.
  • Then some brilliant answers to the questions: Do ants always run, always walk, or jog? Describe a race between the members of a colony of ants.

    • Jack Druce

    Jack is one of Australia’s sharpest and most original comedians. His unique humour has lead him to headline shows nation wide, perform at Splendour in the Grass, comedy festivals all over Australia, as well as writing for Channel 10’s ‘The Project.’ He has begun writing a fantastic newsletter pondering life, the universe, and everything in between.

    https://www.jackdruce.com/
    Subscribe to his brilliant newsletter here: eepurl.com/cashn5

    Yianni Agisilaou

    Yianni is a comedian who tours all around the world, having performed regularly at the Edinburgh and Melbourne International comedy festivals With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic he has began performing successful live zoom shows which you may have seen on the news.

    https://www.ycomedian.com/

    Huei Yin Wong

    Huei is an art director who also makes things-that-are-not-ads. In 2019, her project ‘Bleached Coral’ attracted attention in over 20 countries (with even Kendrick Lamar’s creative director calling it FIRE) and is currently being exhibited in Tel Aviv. And her recent art piece “Lives and livelihoods” has seen her embroider falling stock markets on to face masks asking what’s more important: health or wealth?

    https://www.heyhuei.com/

    This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

    34 min

About RIGHT-BRAINIACS!

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Host Alex Wadelton leads a game show featuring an ever-evolving panel of four Right-brainiacs, where each panellist is challenged to answers a series of completely random questions with the most creative, entertaining, philosophical, world-changing, and funniest answers possible.