Whitney Hoffman, Andrea Ross and I have launched The Thinking Out Loud Podcast. The show will feature conversations about community, communications, relationships, media in all its forms and personal and professional projects.
2009.07.20
Raul Colón on creative inspiration and exercise
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’ve just finished an interview, shut off your gear and packed it away while you’re still talking to your guest when you realize that what’s being said is fascinating and should be heard by others.
That’s precisely what happened to me when I sat down with Artist/Illustrator Raul Colón at AJL09 a few weeks ago. So, I unpacked my audio gear, reconnected it all, pressed record and held the microphone up to Raul and basically re-created the conversation we’d just had — and it was just as interesting the second go ’round.
If you work or play in a creative space, you should hear what Raul has to say about arming yourself with inspiration and exercising your creative muscles.
MORE RAUL COLON: Click here to listen to Raul Colón talk about illustrating the intersection of two lives in one event, getting excited about a book project and striking the balance between fact and fantasy.
2009.07.16
John Cleese: radio interviews beat television interviews
I happened to catch the first ten minutes of Jian Gomeshi’s interview of John Cleese (rhymes with ‘cheese’) on this morning’s edition of CBC Radio’s Q. The interview opened with Mr. Cleese pointing out how much more he enjoys radio interviews over television interviews noting that on radio, the interviewer and interviewee can follow each other’s non-verbal cues and that puts energy into the interview; radio caters to the conversation and relationship. In contrast, television interviews cater to the visual technology, with the people sitting at odd angles to accommodate the viewing audience, making the interviews more “sticky”.
Certainly, as far as media on the web is concerned, when an interviewer is able to limit his or her focus to just managing a microphone and becoming engaged in a conversation, the results are far better (and more interesting) than trying to become engaged in a conversation while keeping someone in frame.
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