The Chronicle

Moving to two episodes a week we have our first guest in some time. Jason Mcnamar is an accomplished texture artist and modeler who's work can be found in both summer blockbusters and netflix originals. He is currently living in Japan and took the time to share his life story with us and insights on his industry.

#davetrippin #theinterstice #podcast It's official we are moving to two episodes a week for the podcast. And we've got a lot to talk about in this one. It has now been three weeks since finally giving the full productive effort to creating the amount of content that I feel fits the standard necessary to grow and do this who creative thing full time. On that note I discuss a recent success, that while not necessary to keep me working as I have, feels great and is extra fuel on the fire. We then go into an in-depth discussion of randomness and its benefits as they pertain to different types of systems. I am still reading the same tome of a book 'Antifragile' and it keeps yielding thoughtful insights I'd like to share. There's more and it's hard to track it all so buckle up buckaroo we got a good episode for you.

After so much time away I finally got back to Tokyo. I think it's been over two years actually but there I was back in the ol.. I don't know if there's a nickname for it. I got a chance to meet up with a subscriber who's become a good friend over the years. His story was amazing. For anyone who is determined to carve their own path through life he is a great guy to model yourself after. We talk a bit more on photography and my failing to produce as much as I could from the visit but then we switch gears and get into a discussion of the Lex Friedman Ray Kurzweil conversation that occured recently. Really fascinating stuff on artifical intelligence and in what year was can expect it to pass the turing test. It's not nearly as far away as you might think.

Hormesis and Post Traumatic Growth, these are nearly completely new terms to me and they're both great for considering the idea of healthy stress. That's our opener for this episode but then we get into some juicy history details. I saw a clip on reddit of soldiers who had shell shock and it made me think of warfare and its evolving impact on us and our understanding of it in greater public consciousness. Then as I like to do sometimes we go on a rant about one of my favourite authors Terry Pratchett. The man is a pure gem and I never get tired of discussing his impact on writing and my life.

Let's get down to business shall we? Life has once again booted me in another direction. At a glance it is rough and difficult. At another glance it's really quite awesome and perhaps more than any other time in my life the end result will be entirely my responsibilty. I wanted to be free, here is the chance of a a lifetime to do so. But that's not all. I have recently been encountering a number of AI art generators and the implications for the coming creative future are far reaching and paradigm shifting to say the very least. I focus on a technology called Midjourney and how I can see it impacting enough of different creative viens. I'm back. I'm back for good. Let creation flow!

Let's get to it EP.59. We are a little leaner this epsiode. For whatever reason I had a few less things to discuss. Perhaps a sign I need to crank up the adventure in my life. No biggy. I'll do it. That doesn't mean though what is here was not worth the talk. I have been reading and I have been watching a lot of great media recently which informed a lot of what comes up in this episode. Particularly a book called 'the name of the wind' known for being foundational as some of the best fantasy ever written and endorsed by Ursula K Leguin herself. More contempoarily I have watched 'The Shrink Next Door' starring Will Ferrel and Paul Rudd, an absolute master class in great story, suspense and art. To go back in time a little we finish the podcast on the topic of Don Bluth the director I've discovered who directed all of the major dark animations I enjoyed as a child. We turn over some rocks and we find some fascinating things.

Joseph Keating is a fascinating man. Managing to develop a skill-set that expresses both his understanding of technical fields alongside the artistic is no simple task. We dicuss the kind of thinking that goes into creating the inside of retail stores as well as a his philosophy with it is for himself as opposed to a client. This was a good one. It may be the longest I've recorded to date.

I'd never been to anywhere in Japan more south than Kobe until very recently. I finally got a chance to go to Hiroshima for the purpose of filming a wakeboarding tournament taking place there. Come August our studio is filming a major tournament in Kyushu so this was a great opportunity to see what the realities on the ground were for filming this kind of content. Being there gave us a chance to go to the war memorial museum which remembers the tragedy of the nuclear bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. It was a challenging and useful experience, totally unique. I thought I knew how I felt regarding the bombing. This gave a much clearer reflection for me to consider my thoughts regarding it.

Alan is a friend who I've met since moving to Kyoto. This man has skill. When you look at his body of work it is self evident. Crisply composed and tuned to some of the best colouring you've ever seen, Alan is a pure pro. I particulary enjoyed in the course of our conversation getting into how Alan described his style having a melancholic quality to it. A quality which we both agreed does fit the Japanese aesthetic very well.

Adam and I grew up together on Vancouver Island. It has been incredible to reconnect with him and discuss the absolutely mad path that he has taken through life. Like myself he was bit with the desire to seek out new horizons but where my path took my to Japan, his took him all over the world. There is so much to Adam's story that we cannot nearly cover it in this one episode but that does not limit its scale. Adam started his career assisting the UN in Zimbabwe which offered him a totally new sense of life and culture. He would then go on to assist in the Syrian crisis in a role which would see him allocating resources and working the execute the particulars of plans laid out for aid.