Uh Oh! Vulnerability and Creativity 2023!
Added 2023-01-01 20:35:56 +0000 UTCIf you haven't heard it enough already, happy new year!
Sometimes reflecting on the past year and looking to the future year can be a little daunting. Sometimes you don't want to look down either of those holes--especially if some Big Life Events happened recently. I can certainly understand. Today I decided to be a little brave and do some reflecting and a little thinking (imagine that!) about what the next year might hold.
This one gets a little deeper, so I hope you don't mind hearing some very raw thoughts. Maybe it will help you, too.
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[Link] to the youtube art lectures mentioned in this podcast.
And the list of things I mentioned that I've been enjoying/consuming/appreciating lately:
- Replaying Portal and Portal 2 (this was my LIFE my everything my world when I was a teen on tumblr, so to replay it is making me feel many, many things).
- Warioware: Get It Together
- Mario Party for the switch
- Pokemon Violet
- watching Emily play Katamari
- also watching Emily replay Going Under (very cool indie game)
- rediscovering the pikuniku soundtrack
- the Miitopia soundtrack
- Mario Paint soundtrack
- finding all my old flipnotes (as well as all those I was inspired by) and rewatching those (and cracking up losing my mind with my roommates while watching them)
- actively using tumblr again (here's mine)
- reading a very long nbc Hannibal fanfiction --I've never been a big fanfiction reader, so to finally be reading a novel-length one for the first time in years, I feel some sense of deep excitement
- having over-the-head headphones! this is new to me and I feel so much cooler!!
- working on puzzles
- the library
- living with two of my best friends, and just feeling so thankful to be around them. They are such comforting and wonderful people, and I don't think I'd be in as good of a place if it was not for their presence in this house.
As always, I thank you for sticking around. I'm looking forward to seeing what this year holds for us.
-JG
Comments
You might be able to download after effects CS2 for free. Although, I found it difficult to find a purpose for it without footage to work with. Those art hist lectures sound interesting though
Avi
2023-01-30 05:00:58 +0000 UTCThank you so much for sharing this vulnerability Jamie. I'm also going into this new year with the intention on focusing on myself and my craft / creative process, i'm currently working on my degree so am putting so much of my energy into my work and have so much hope for the future. I also lost someone very important to me late last year, and it broke me. It still hurts when I think of them, but I'm also of the mindset of life can change at any moment. That is terrifying but also so exciting. Finding gratitude and love for what you have, and finding joy in the small things. Thank you again for this, it's really soothed my soul to know someone is in a similar place and mindset. - Laurie :)
Laurie Rees
2023-01-20 20:28:28 +0000 UTC'Not just mourning the loss of a person but mourning the loss of a future I thought I was going to have.' This resonates with me so deeply Jamie, because i'm going through something which feels like this also. Sending lots of love and strength your way, it's so tough.
Laurie Rees
2023-01-20 20:11:05 +0000 UTCthis podcast kept me company yesterday while i tattooed myself for the first time! heres to a pleasant 2023
Newtcookie
2023-01-14 19:06:36 +0000 UTCSending lots of love pal! I’m sorry for the heartbreak, that loss of a future you thought you envisioned is devastating. I went through that a couple years ago and it took me sooooo long to piece together that that’s why I was feeling extra bad over the particular breakup I went through. It’s hard, but blue skies are ahead and I know things are gonna look way way up for you!! Here’s to a year of rediscovering some creativity and putting together many, many puzzles. 💪
Avery Helm
2023-01-08 20:58:12 +0000 UTCLove hearing your life updates! I get to pay to be you bud via podcast and video hahaha
Leigh Ellexson
2023-01-08 20:35:08 +0000 UTCHey Jamie, I just wanted to say that I recently went through a very very similar situation as the one you described with your ex partner and even if it’s quite sad and I’m really sorry :( it felt really cathartic to hear somebody else experiencing similar feelings. Thank you for being so vulnerable, I can only assume it was a difficult thing to address. I love being here on your patreon, it’s a really lovely space. I hope the new year brings wonderful things and lots of enriching experiences for you, your friends and loved ones!! Ah, such is life man, the horrors are endless but so is the love, we need to remember that haha 🌸🥰🪺🌞🌷🍀🐾🦔🪲🦋🧣
Paula
2023-01-07 21:13:01 +0000 UTCI totally agree with you about resolutions - someone I follow on instagram (i'll find out their @ and drop it here when I find it) made a 2023 bingo card with their goals for the year and I thought that was so wholesome and achievable!! Blender is so fun once you get the basics down!! I attempted the legendary donut tutorial but kinda struggled with it until one of my friends started hosting a weekly blender class just for my art school friends - I wish I had access to those videos for you because I found the methodology she used to be so much more intuitive and "walking before you run". I personally have been through a creative drought for the past few months since taking on a full time job - it's been a major adjustment but I finally feel myself coming out of survival mode. I've been SO excited about Greek mythology again (I was late to the Hades game train but I'm fully on it, and especially since the Hades II announcement) and I really want to dig deep into that this year. I'm also empathizing with your desire to connect with people. This last year I let go of some very old friends (friend breakups are so hard) and I feel the space left behind. I'm looking forward to forging connections and finding community. I hope you too find that thing you're looking for. Happy New Year Jamie!
Morgaine Rae
2023-01-05 17:18:05 +0000 UTCHey Jamie! So good to hear your voice again in here! Happy new year!!! :3c I think your words hit close home, it's so nice to take a break after a long period of hard work, and these holidays helped me too to get my creative juices flowing!!!! I too have been enjoying WarioWare with friends, and also a game called Overcooked 2 for switch, I highly reccomended to you and your roommates, I think it'll be a blast!!! As for goals for this year, I am looking forward to finding a more balanced use of my time, energy and interests. I think between everything happening in the world and in my life, the thing I am looking for the more is balance. That might be an Avatar:TLA quote, we'll never know (teeheee) I am using (again) your 2021 daruma's to get some goals clear in my head and in my space! I filled the eyes of last year's just a few days ago, and your designs are truly gorgeous and helpful for me!! I wish you the best of luck for all this 2023!
nene ⁕ he/they
2023-01-05 11:13:56 +0000 UTCHappy new year! Sounds like connection and community are big things for your 2023 experience--I wish you luck!! I hope your creativity explodes this year :-)
Jamie Green
2023-01-04 17:39:45 +0000 UTCHey Jamie, happy new year! I listened to this while I was cleaning my room after a long period of taking a break from art, and it was really comforting to hear you talk about a lot of the things I had been thinking about myself while preparing for my graduating semester from art school. I think a major goal for me this year is to find a way to create a community and a team between my art friends and find a way to keep making art with them. Almost like creating an art collective, like an art version of a music group lol. I noticed that I get into art blocks after long periods of trying to make art in isolation, but my creativity resurges when I remind myself that I am part of an artist community of friends and I have things that I want to contribute. I actually have been in a longggg period of just focusing on my creative work, and now that I'm graduating, I feel like it's time to me to start searching for *love* because I really do miss that connection! It's kind of scary because it's so hard to meet people, but I am wishing the best for the both of us as we pursue our joy!
Maya Ruiz
2023-01-04 00:49:51 +0000 UTC
