The final episode of Season 01 of New Creative Era is now available. (Apple / Spotify / Web)
On the Creative Life: Conversations Toward a New Creative Era by Joshua Citarella and Yancey Strickler
For the past few months Joshua Citarella and I have been hitting record on a weekly conversation about the emotional and practical realities of our creative experiences.
The project began with an initial goal of creating space to talk about the strategies we’ve used (successfully and unsuccessfully) to release our work. The first four episodes in particular go deep into what we’ve tried and learned.
As each week unfolded, our conversations went farther afield from the mechanics of releasing and deeper into why we believe this work is important, and what it will look like in the future. Our dialogue started with a focus on how, but became more about why as time went on.
The last three episodes found us pushing into our discomfort zones and learning new things in real time. Shows about what we wish we knew when we were younger, what a new creative era could look like, and why even have these conversations.
We're now turning our six hours of conversations into a physical and digital keepsake for listeners to own and collect.
On the Creative Life: Conversations Towards a New Creative Era packages the transcripts of our dozen conversations into a practical, accessible MFA-in-a-box. Topics range from building context around your work to platform strategy to creative economics, all explained through real life examples and practical tips.
Each edition includes:
- A dozen edited and transcribed conversations
- 6+ hours of audio
- Only 777 physical copies available
More releases we love
- Ester Freider is asking the hard hitting questions: is eroticism feminist, or conformist? Important + exciting addition to the growing collection of "girl theory" releases.
- A surreal, wandering, dreamscape by Rob Hogan that only a combination of poetry and drawings can create.
- A timely visual study on air travel, aviation design, and the weather as the ultimate power.
- Young artists turning how architecture reflects our identities into a serious point of study with this deep dive on aesthetics and social relations across the Caribbean.
- Kristel Brinshot debuts a collection of up-cycled, wearable JOY inspired by indigenous communities across the Americas. Painstakingly hand painted. Serious BLOOM energy.
- A zine of Hmong fashion by our collaborator and squadmate Tianna Lee.
- Old friend of the newsletter Lavisha adds to her growing catalogue.
Links we like
- How to Long Game. Something we wrote to ourselves this week. Caps lock is a truth unlock, btw.
- An essay originally published in PLAY zine is getting celebrated in this year's Best American Food & Travel Writing <3
- A conversation about how algorithms make everything the same between Carole Cadwalladr, Kyle Chayka, and Yancey.
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