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How To Be An Artist
by Brandon Dayton
A podcast that explores the question of art that expands beyond the canvas. How do we live our lives, commune with each other and build a world of generosity, collaboration and creativity? Discussions with artists that paint, make music and tells stories, and others whose mastery is in the mind, community, urban form or any other container that shapes who we are and what we have the possibility to become.Support H2BNA at patreon.com/h2bna
Episodes
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Step 38: Maybe You're An Artist
The final episode of How To Be An Artist. A recap of the journey and some conclusive thoughts. I also finally answer the question posed in the title. Read the Essay, Maybe You're An Artist on my Medium page: https://brandondayton.medium.com/maybe-youre-an-artist-76ea9e54f620
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Step 37: Arran Rogerson -- The Golden Shadow
Arran Rogerson is an artist, musician and co-host of the Golden Shadow podcast along with Alyssa Polizzi. In this episode we discuss Arran's artistic background and the urge to create, what the shadow is and the various methods and practices Arran explores for coming in contact the shadow, the...
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Step 36: Phillip Sevy -- Who Am I?
Phillip Sevy is a prolific artist and writer in the comic book world having worked on various titles and with various publishers such as Top Cow, IDW and most notably, Dark Horse as the artist on Tomb Raider and on the creator-owned title Triage. In this episode we discuss Phillip's experience...
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Step 35: Doug Wagner -- Writing For Yourself
Doug Wagner is a comic book writer with a career stretching back to Malibu Comics and passing through almost every publisher since then. Most recently he is known as the writer and co-creator of Plastic and Vinyl from Image Comics. In this episode we discuss Doug's career, finding his voice with...
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Step 34: Jason Young -- Show Them What They Can't See
Jason Young is the co-creator and co-writer of Pretty Violent with Derek Hunter and one my Draw Night chums. Today he returns to discuss psychedelics, meditation, if life is worth living and what Jason thinks the purpose of art is.
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Step 33: Chuck Marohn -- Why Cities Need Artists
Chuck Marohn is the president and founder of Strong Towns, and the author of the book by the same name. Chuck gives a brief introduction to the work of Strong Towns and then we discuss the myriad ways we shape our human habitat and how our human habitat shapes us. We discuss how humans are like...
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Step 32: Ben Simonsen -- Discovering Your Voice
Ben Simonsen is a master illustrator and concept artist that I've had the privilege to collaborate with from the earliest phases of my career. Ben and I discuss our early days working together at the legendary 8fish as well and his discovery of illustration as a career. We also the benefits of...
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Step 31: Peter Limberg -- The Call of the Daemon
Peter Limberg is founder and steward of the Stoa, a Covid-born "hill on the noosphere" where all the most interesting conversations on the internet seem to be happening. In this episode, Peter shares some delightful and energizing concepts for artists including the idea of the Daemon as an…
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Step 30: Michael Eliason -- The Home of the Future
Michael Eliason is a Seattle based architect advocating for housing reform across multiple dimensions. In this episode we discuss the various technologies, standards and systems that are quickly being adopted in Europe but are still seen as a novelty in the US. We discuss the German model of...
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Step 29: Jerzy Drozd -- The Forest Adventurous
Jerzy Drozd is a cartoonist, teaching artist and prolific podcaster. In this episode, Jerzy returns to talk about the art of podcasting among other things. We spend the first half talking about podcasting and Jerzy's podcast roll call including Lean Into Art and 4 million Years Later. We talk…
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Step 28: Jason Snyder -- The Mind...and Everything Else
Jason Snyder is an interesting guy to follow but hard man to describe. He is a self described doomer optimist, homesteader, memetic mediator and co-host of the Both/And Podcast along with Jared Janes. He also holds a PhD from Michigan State in Economics. In this episode we journey from the…
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Step 27: Gregg Schigiel -- How To Bake A Comic
Gregg Schigiel is a cartoonist, author and illustrator and creator of the graphic novel series PIX from Image Comics. In this episode we have a frank discussion about the realities and ups and downs of self-publishing and working with a publisher like Image. We also talk about how making comics…
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Step 26: Geoff Shupe -- Being Paid in Cool
Geoff Shupe is one of the artists that has shared multiple art communities with me. He's part of Draw Night SLC, but we also are the only two concept artists (that we know of) that worked both at EA Games Salt Lake and Disney Interactive. He's also wide ranging in his artistic skills, constantly...
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Step 25: Jeff Speck -- Walkable Cities
Jeff Speck is a city planner and walkability advocate who also happens to be the author and co-author of two of my favorite urban planning books of all time. In this episode we talk about Jeff's trajectory from Art History major to city planner, his convergence with the architecture firm DPZ and...
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Step 24: Dustin Hansen -- Growing Your Own Food
Dustin Hansen is a writer, illustrator and creative director with decades of experience in video games and writing credits that span genres. He's the author of Game On!, a brief history of video games, the Microsaurs series and most recently The Video Game Ate My Homework for DC Comics. He also...
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Step 23: Michael Bishop -- Reality Is Something That You Build
Michael Bishop is the human thrall of GWAR's Berserker Blöthar who also happens to hold a Ph.D. in Music Ethnography from the University of Virginia. As a teen, Michael was one of the early members of the Slave Pit, an art collective based out of Richmond, Virginia that gave birth to GWAR. In…
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Step 22: Ken Keys -- Animation Nomad
Ken Keys is a master animator and art director with a legendary career than took him from Saturday Morning cartoons with Hanna-Barbera, 2D feature with Amblin Animation, and 3D credits on Shrek, Iron Giant and Lord of the Rings. In this episode we discuss Ken's journey across mediums and around…
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Step 21: David Habben -- Discovering Your Artistic Path
David Habben is an illustrator and professor of Illustration at Brigham Young University. In this episode we discuss using values and intuition as a guide for your artistic path, as well as what it means to have faith in the path, escaping all the "shoulds" that can mislead you, and how finding...
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Step 20: Dave Durocher -- A Community of Healing
Dave Durocher is the executive director of The Other Side Academy (TOSA), a therapeutic community based in Salt Lake City, Utah. In this discussion Dave shares his history of drug addiction and crime that led him to serve over 15 years in prison before being accepted into Delancey Street (the...
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Step 19: Daniel Ingram -- Chasing the Shadow
Daniel Ingram is the author of Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (MCTB), a team member of The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium, and proprietor of the Dharma Overground. In this episode we discuss the impact of MCTB on my own life and meditation practice, the evolving landscape…
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Step 18: Christian Heidicker -- Scary Stories
Christian Heidicker is the Newbery Award winning author of Scary Stories for Young Foxes along with other titles such as Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower and Cure for the Common Universe. He also happens to be one my art chums from Avrec Art House (Check out Step 16 for the story of Avrec Art...
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Step 17: Tim Farrington -- The Wilderness of the Mind
Tim Farrington is the author of various works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction including the Monk Downstairs, Hell of Mercy, Lizzie's War and the Book of the Dead. Besides being a writing virtuoso, Tim is also a long time contemplative practitioner with a wealth of experience to share with...
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Step 16: Jacquelyn and Dallin Cerva -- A Place For Art
Jacquelyn and Dallin Cerva are film makers and the co-founders of Avrec Art House, a creative space for film makers and one of the art communities I had the privilege to be a part of. In this episode we get to hear the story of the founding of Avrec Art House, the challenges it faced, its...
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Step 15: Dani Jones -- I Will Look You In the Eye
Dani Jones is a bestselling cartoonist, illustrator, writer and an internet omnipresence. Her web comic, Everything is Going to Be Okay is one of my favorite things, and I am continually envious of Dani's inventiveness, productivity and courage as an artist and a human being. In this episode we...
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Step 14: Ethan Dayton -- O' Brother Where Art Thou, Part 4
The fourth of four discussions with my brothers. This one is with Ethan Dayton, a machinima artist, youtuber and the creator of Dr. Smite's Improv. In this episode we discuss the story of Ethan's discovery of being on the autism spectrum, how he made sense of the world before that, the challenges...
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Step 13: Derek Hunter -- What is Success?
I continue my discussions with the SLC Draw Night Pantheon with Derek Hunter. Derek Hunter is the prolific artist behind Pretty Violent from Image Comics and an animation designer with credits on Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors, Ducktales and the Netflix Original, Kid Cosmic. In this episode we...
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Step 12: Adrian Dayton -- O' Brother Where Art Thou, Part 3
The third of four interviews with my brothers. This one with Adrian Dayton, founder and CEO of Clearview Social -- a social media force-multiplier for professional firms. Adrian is an entrepreneur and social media specialist, with a particular expertise in social media for law firms. In this...
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Step 11: Sam Lotfi -- The Invisible Arts
Sam Lotfi is one of my favorite artists in the comic field today working on titles at DC, Marvel, IDW and Darkhorse, most recently including Last Stop on the Red Line with Paul Maybury. In this episode we talk a bit about his unique career path from his early experiences with acting to his time…
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Step 10: Miles Bukiet -- Modern Monasticism
Miles Bukiet is a meditation teacher with tens of thousands of hours of experience in ancient and contemporary practice and the founder of Dharma Gates, a non-profit focused on deep mediation training for young adults. Miles has made a particular study of monastic traditions and the forms they...
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Step 9: Jess Smart Smiley -- Finding Joy In Your Work
Jess Smart Smiley is a prolific cartoonist and illustrator with an infectious enthusiasm for the art of cartooning and storytelling. In this episode we discuss Jess’s health challenges, the importance of his work as a coping method, process, planning for the joy of work, faith and prayer, being…
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Step 8: Cameron Dayton -- O Brother Where Art Thou? Part 2
In this episode I continue my series of discussions with my brothers by chatting with Cameron Dayton, a writer, creative director and a transmedia specialist on some of the biggest games of the last two decades. His credits include early development work on Overwatch, creative director on Call of...
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Step 7: Lincoln Cannon -- Provoking a Communal Strenuosity
Lincoln Cannon is the Co-founder, former CEO and President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, as well as the founder of Thrivous. We chat about the day-to-day implications of Transhumanism, misrecognized religion, superstition and dogma, pragmatism and how to change the world. Sadly, there...
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Step 6: Damian Dayton -- O Brother Where Art Thou? Part 1
Today I start the first in a series of interviews with my four brothers, all of whom have taken an unconventional path in life. This chat is with my brother Damian who is a writer with Creatably (https://www.creatably.com/), which is kinda an advertising and video production agency but also other...
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Step 5: Spencer Holt and D. Bradford Gambles -- The Merc with a Mouth
The second in a series chatting with members of Draw Night SLC. Besides being the respective brains behind Food Hates You (foodhatesyou.biz) and Dungeon Crawler (dungeoncrawlerscomic.com/) Brady and Spencer (or is it Spencer and Brady?) are a creative team making all sorts of awesome stuff you...
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Step 4: Jason Young -- Should We Clone Neanderthals?
Jason Young is the co-creator and co-writer of Pretty Violent available from Image comics as well as a long time Draw Night chum. https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/pretty-violent In this chat we talk about how Covid-19 is effecting the essential artistic and communal function of coffee shops,...
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Step 3: Kohl Glass -- The Invincible Summer
Kohl Glass is a director and screenwriter with an eclectic body of work including Der Ostwind (an official Sundance selection), Dragonfyre, You May Now Kill the Bride and The Babysitter Must Die. You can see Kohl's reel here: https://vimeo.com/184959601 We discuss Kohl's journey of discovering…
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Step 2: Dustin Hansen -- It Takes 3 Generations to Make an Artist
Dustin Hansen is the author/illustrator of My Video Game Ate My Homework available from DC comics. https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/my-video-game-ate-my-homework In this episode we discuss how generous DC is with promotional support, the art of finance, comp culture, the various...
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Step 1: Jerzy Drozd -- Giving Yourself Permission
The inaugural episode of How To Be An Artist, where podcasting veteran Jerzy Drozd helps to send H2BNA gently aloft. We talk about the main idea for the show, maturing as an artist, embracing your shadow, sin, motivations for making art, sacred spaces and Jerzy's favorite moment of Miracle on…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast that explores the question of art that expands beyond the canvas. How do we live our lives, commune with each other and build a world of generosity, collaboration and creativity? Discussions with artists that paint, make music and tells stories, and others whose mastery is in the mind, community, urban form or any other container that shapes who we are and what we have the possibility to become.Support H2BNA at patreon.com/h2bna
HOSTED BY
Brandon Dayton
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