Three Podcasts Worth A Listen

If your new to podcasts and want to give them a try or your looking for something fresh, these might be just the thing. You’ll find the one’s I’ve picked are centred around interviews with successful creatives/entrepreneurs and how they got to where they are today. 

Ear Biscuits 

Hosted by two guys Rhett and Link who have a pretty popular YouTube channel, they’ve interviewed so many of the big names on YouTube and a few other creatives. Each episode is at least an hour long and so they take the time to really go into detail with each guest. Sadly they’ve stopped making episodes but there’s such a big selection on iTunes it’ll keep you going for sometime! 

The Lively Show 

A weekly podcast that discusses every aspect of lifestyle from career, relationships to personal habits. Blogging is a running theme throughout each episode, looking at the future of it as well as interviewing some current successful bloggers and entrepreneurs. Episodes range from 20mins to 1hour so perfect for a long listening sesh’ or a quick tune in.

Filler: A Creative Industries Podcast 

My favourite one on this list. The two guys that run it are creators themselves, and the shows got such a good vibe. Mostly held in a coffee shop in central London, they get a lot of photographers, entrepreneurs, video makers and even community architects (who knew that last job role even existed!). I always come away from each episode feeling like my mind has been opened to new ways of thinking and being, definitely worth a listen.

One to look out for: One Piece Of Advice 

Yes I can count, but this is a little extra one! Only one episode has been released from this last piece which is why I don’t think it truly counts. But after listening to a bit of the first episode, they seem to be on the right track. Another podcast looking at creatives in the industry. This podcast seems less chatty than the ones above, with talking purely from the creative featured.

Happy listening!

Georgina 

Looking... Really Looking

For my photography project I needed to look at crowds, strangers and big cities. So off I went to Waterloo station where I wandered around and snapped away, hoping no one would ask me to turn the camera off! My goal was to experiment with capturing the journeys strangers were experiencing around me, I thought I’d share my outcome.

I love this long exposure effect you can create using a really slow shutter speed, it seems to capture the movement and flow of the train station so well. 

I decided to make everything black and white partly because of the photographer that inspired this shoot, but also because it appears to remove some of the clutter that colour can bring to a photo. It lets the eye focus on lines and angles that make a photo. 

Looking back at the photos it amazes me how little I'd paid attention to the station when visiting previously; the clash of old architecture next to shiny new flat screens. 
Even the shot above seems to have something interesting about it. The sign is nothing special and yet it's signs & directions like this that are a crucial part of the journey through Waterloo station and beyond. 
Since this photography project is all about 'the journey', these thoughts should all hopefully lead somewhere. But outside of course work I'm going to try and appreciate the smaller details around me when I'm out and about. It might make unexciting travel that little more exciting. 

 Georgina 

Consuming and Creating

Getting that balance between consuming creative things and then creating yourself is pretty tricky huh. 

It’s so easy to soak up all of those creative juices from other people - perhaps from the artwork you saw, or a video that got you thinking, or just something someone said that stuck with you. But it’s what to do with all those ideas that’s the problem. It's so easy to let them sort of wash over you.

I watched this video recently (link to her channel here), and in it she mentions that to really process anything she's seen, she needs to create something. I'd never thought of the creative process like this before, I think she's completely right. 
It's pretty similar to the idea that to stay inspired you just need to create, to experiment without any fear of doing something wrong. 

Even writing this post has started something off. It’s made me sit down and think about what I want to write. I may have re-writen sentences a fair bit, and it took me a bit of time to get going. Still, it’s forced me to put something down and out of my head. It should help me to gain more of a balance between consuming and creating. 

What do you think? I'd love to hear.

Georgina