The Creative Shoofly Podcast
An exploration of art and creativity with Thomas Beutel
Episodes
In this episode I explore a productivity method for creativity called Scrum for One.
Links
- Scrum for One by Dustin Wax
Photo credits
- Rugby player image: Hassan Omar Wamwayi
Hello and welcome to the Creative Shoofly podcast. I'm Thomas Beutel. This podcast is about the creative process. In it, I explore ways to avoid creative blocks and procrastination.
If you're a fellow multipotentialite, someone who has ma...
In this episode I collaborate with artist Michael Tarnoff to make self-portraits inspired by Chuck Close.
Links
- O'Hanlon Center for the Arts
- Michael Tarnoff's Instagram
- Chuck Close Website
- Wikipedia Entry for Chuck Close
- Procreate for the iPad
- Interlude music: https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2017/13/1497796312321798
Michael's Self Portrait
Thomas' Self Portrait
Original Photos
Thomas: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome t...
In this episode I explore Artificial Intelligence and some of the issues around artists using AI in their creative process. I hope you will enjoy hearing and thinking about these issues.
Links For Further Reading and Viewing
In this episode I talk about how I use mind maps and why I find them liberating. Mind maps are an important part of my creative toolbox, but my mind mapping process is a bit different from the traditional form. I hope you will enjoy hearing about it.
Links mentioned in this podcast
A Writer's Time, by Kenneth Atchity
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Mind Map Examples
My original mind map...
In this episode, I'm continuing my improvisational experiment that I call You And I Make A Thing. I invited my friend Tara to come up with a theme or project that we could do together. I hope you will enjoy hearing about our project as much as we did doing it.
Links mentioned in this podcast
Tara’s SoundCloud album: My Favorite Things, Sacred and Secular Seasonal Music
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
In this episode, I speak with my friend Mercedes about the duel that takes place between the many inner voices that encourage and discourage us as artists.
Links mentioned in this episode:
The B0ardside - http://theb0ardside.com/
Transcript:
Hello and welcome to the Creative Shoofly podcast. I'm Thomas Beutel.
This podcast is about exploring the creative journey as an artist. And in this episode, I wanted to try something new an...
In this episode, I chat with my friend, Doug Gorney about the joy of making art. What I appreciate about Doug is his passion and warmth on the subject. I think you'll really enjoy hearing about Doug's creative journey.
Music Credit:
Reflection Flow by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/58328 Ft: Javolenus, Rocavaco, Si...
In this episode I learn about my blind spot and how to respond to it.
Music Credit:
Reflection Flow by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/58328 Ft: Javolenus, Rocavaco, Siobhan Dakay
Links mentioned in this episode:
...In this episode, I identify the killjoys spoiling my creative sessions and talk about what I did to defeat them.
Music Credit:
Reflection Flow by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/58328 Ft: Javolenus, Rocavaco, Siobhan Dakay
Links mentioned in this episode:
My guest Rayne Dowell and I have a conversation about highly sensitive people (HSPs) and how they approach creativity.
Music Credit:
Reflection Flow by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/58328 Ft: Javolenus, Rocavaco, Siobhan Dakay
Links mentioned in this episode:
Hi, it's Thomas. I'm continuing to explore the concept of multipotentiality and in this episode, I have a conversation with author and creativity instigator, Melissa Dinwiddie. and we talk about what it's like to be creative when you have so many different interests. I learned some new things in this conversation, and I think you'll enjoy it too.
Music Credit:
Reflection Flow by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a...
Hey, it's Thomas. Welcome to Episode 4 of the Creative Shoofly Podcast. In this episode, I'm doing something a little bit different. I have invited a good friend of mine, Robyn Penney, to have a conversation about being a multipotentialite.
This term was somewhat new to me and I learned a lot in this conversation with Robyn.
I really enjoyed having this conversation. And I hope you'll like it too.
Music Credit:
In this third episode I explore why I haven't been creating much in the past weeks and how I'm getting back to creativity.
-Thomas Beutel
Music Credit:
Reflection Flow by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/58328 Ft: Javolenus, Rocavaco, Siobhan Dakay
Books mentioned in this episode:
Welcome to the second episode of my podcast! In this podcast I explore the principle of There's More Than One Way To Do It, and how that helps me get around creative block.
-Thomas Beutel
Music Credit:
Reflection Flow by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/58328 Ft: Javolenus, Rocavaco, Siobhan Dakay
Books mentioned in t...
Welcome to the first episode of my podcast! In this podcast I explore the role of not knowing in the creative process. I'm finding that as I practice letting go of what I know, the process of creating art becomes easier. I hope that you might find something in this podcast that you can use in your creative process.
-Thomas Beutel
Music Credit:
Reflection Flow by Doxent Zsigmond (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Common...
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