Check out an interview with yours truly in the latest Hip Tranquil Chick podcast. Kimberly Wilson, host of Hip Tranquil Chick, interviews me about Creative DC and about living life creatively and “off script.” Since my photo’s posted with the interview, I figured I might as well post it on my own site, too… that’s me and the famous Cosmo at left.
Listen to the interview (note: clicking this link will cause a .mp3 audio file to start downloading to your computer).
Read the show notes on Hip Tranquil Chick (from this page, you can click the pink “podcast” icon to listen to the interview).
I ramble in places, but hopefully there are a few useful nuggets in there for people.
Funny aside: when Kimberly and I were chatting before the show, we discovered that we’d both been voted “most likely to host a talk show” back in school. Maybe a CreativeDC podcast is next…(cue dramatic “to be continued” music).
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LOVED IT, AMANATHANYETSKI KARSTENEWSKY! YOU GO GIRL! XO YOU KNOW WHO AKA THE MURALIST
spelling correction: Amanthanyetski
You were very composed and had some great things to say about creativity in everyday life as well as in the arts. It was a great interview.
One thing struck me and that was that so many people in the world and in our area are working hard at menial and labor intensive jobs for survival of their families and their lives. Many of the things you said do not sound like they would be relevant to them. You and many of your friends and family (myself included) are privileged to be among those who can take the time and energy to look for and participate in creative enterprises as part of their lives on a regular basis. We need to step back a bit and realize just how fortunate we are.
You were very composed and had some great things to say about creativity in everyday life as well as in the arts. It was a great interview.
One thing struck me and that was that so many people in the world and in our area are working hard at menial and labor intensive jobs for survival of their families and their lives. Many of the things you said do not sound like they would be relevant to them. You and many of your friends and family (myself included) are privileged to be among those who can take the time and energy to look for and participate in creative enterprises as part of their lives on a regular basis. We need to step back a bit and realize just how fortunate we are.
9:45 PM
This is an extreme example, but some of the first American music ever created was sung by slaves working in the fields – arguably the least priveliged Americans there have ever been. I don’t think that creativity is solely the domain of those with free time in their schedules. Creativity is all around us and one shouldn’t assume that the working poor have no place for creative endeavors – indeed, I’d argue that throughout history, more creative works have come from the working poor than from the idle rich.