Don't Stop Believin'
Ginger and Jonathan discuss the interior struggles and rewards that go along with your creative practice. We discuss Ginger's transformative residency at MASS MoCA and the nature of frustration and breaking through.
Flow, what is it and how do we get more flow state in our creative practice
What does it mean to be in the "flow state" or "in the zone"? Probably the most common application is in the context of sports, but it's something we all experience and it's an important part of our creative practice.
Choirs of angels, shafts of sunlight
Part 2 of Why We Create digs in to the yin to process's yang: product. Try as we might, we can't ignore product altogether in our creative practice, nor should we! In this episode we explore what product can mean outside of the standard definition of a marketable
We Bring More To The Blank Canvas Than We Think
Ginger and Jonathan talk about the daunting task of facing the blank canvas/page/unmolded clay/etc. and whether we are really creating something from nothing. Talk veers into the quasi-metaphysical and things get weird... Wait, no.
Russian nesting dolls all the way down
Jonathan takes you on a magical journey of how he developed his creative practice, the obstacles he faced (including the ones he created himself) and what has sustained him through the years.
Now with 80-90% more monkeying around
There is no right way to go about building and sustaining a creative practice. Whether it's ten minutes at lunch or three hours on the weekend, working out of the garage or in the woods, the practice that works best with your specific life is going to be the most
Follow the fun. Keep going.
Ginger talks about how her creative practice has roots in the woods by her house and the natural world. We take a meandering journey -- through no fault of Ginger's -- following Ginger's path from exploring an interest in visual art to developing the full-blown
Who gets to call themselves an artist?
Ginger and Jonathan discuss the myths of who gets to be called a “real” creative, everything from tortured geniuses to fame to education. We go down six or seven tangential rabbit holes all of which provide pearls of unparalleled wisdom or at least some useful
Building the plane on the way down
Ginger and Jonathan Danz, a couple of creatives (creative couple?) push the Creative DoubleShot podcast out of the garage into the sunlight for the first time and fire it up. The Creative Doubleshot (never mind that we call it the Art Garden podcast, that was a long