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Into The Spotlight
by Morley Kert and Ryan O'Connor
A podcast about bringing the creative process and creative people into the spotlight! We interview creators, artists and storytellers from all walks of life to learn about their stories, creative passions, and why they love to create! We also have discussion episodes about a range of topics about creativity, where we share our experiences and personal perspectives.If your creativity is a passionate hobby or a professional career, then this podcast is for you.Hosted by Morley Kert and Ryan O'Connor.
Episodes
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Episode 30 - Outdoor Adventure Photographer: Evan Ruderman
Evan Ruderman is an outdoor photographer based on the central coast of California. He is a photo assistant for acclaimed adventure photographer Chris Burkard, and travels the world taking photos of surfers, climbers, cyclists and other athletes at the most breathtaking locations on Earth. We talk...
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Episode 29 - New Season, New Goals
A new season is here with new goals and potential! Morley and Ryan discuss the projects they've been working on, how they manage their time to create new projects, how they stay motivated, how their creative process has changed over time and how they maintain a fresh perspective. Mentions: Tablo...
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Episode 28 - Ideas
This week, Morley and Ryan discuss ideas! - How they find us, what makes them compelling, how they change over the course of a project, how we put ourselves in the mindset to be inspired, creating inspirational settings, situations, and our strategies for tracking ideas over time. Mentions: CLAMP…
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Episode 27 - Empathy Through Creativity with John Kuiphoff
John Kuiphoff returns for a second conversation on the podcast! John is a maker, teacher, content creator and has just launched an online course, Glowforge For Beginners. We discuss the future of content creation, learning more through building an online course than he did in grad school, what to...
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Episode 26 - Why Not Be Artists?
For the first episode of 2022, Morley and Ryan talk about how we adapt to changes in circumstances and expectations, thinking bigger, and embracing ourselves as multi-dimensional creators. We also explore dealing with constructive criticism, accepting the undefined nature of the creative path…
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Episode 25 - The Art That Inspired Us Throughout 2021
To wrap up the year, Morley and Ryan talk about the top 10 things that broadened or changed our perspective about creativity in 2021: Ryan: Independent Film & FIlmmakers (Jim Cummings, Richard Linklater, Chloe Zhao, Gus Van Sant, Quentin Tarantino, Debra Granik, Duplass Brothers, David F.…
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Episode 24 - Creative Check-In: New Projects, Goals, Growth, Vulnerability and Favourite Artwork of 2021
In this wide-ranging episode, Morley and Ryan catch up on what we've been up to over the last six months, the new perspectives we have learned in that time, and our plans for upcoming creative projects. We had a great talk about Ryan's new writing project on Medium, Morley's recent maker…
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Episode 23 - Keeping it Interesting with Justin Oeffler - Bear Maked
After a brief hiatus, we're back with another amazing guest! Justin Oeffler is a maker, woodworker, and the video creator behind Bear Maked. Whether it's making a pen out of metal nuts, building a socially distanced Halloween candy cannon or cooking food in a Cricut mug press, Justin doesn't shy...
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Episode 22 - A Wild Ride with Vincent Ferrari
Vincent Ferrari is a woodworker, maker, entrepreneur, and co-host of Because We Make - a podcast about "making, creativity, and why we do what we do as makers and creatives". Just as he was getting his business off the ground, Vincent was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, and found out that he...
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Episode 21 - Painting From The Heart with Stephanie Bond
Stephanie Bond is a multi-talented painter and artist, whose beautiful artwork consists of sweeping landscapes, wildlife, and historic seaside scenes of the Gaspé coast. Her imagery evokes themes of nature, memory, and the significance of home. With well over 100 paintings completed and many more...
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Episode 20 - ViV Jewelry with Sarah Giffin
Sarah Giffin is the artist, designer, and jewelry maker behind ViV Jewelry. In 2019, Sarah started making jewelry as a way to escape the stress of university. Before long, she was enamoured with making colourful, unique pieces out of polymer clay, and two years later, she has built ViV into a...
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Episode 19 - Charcuterie & Chocolate with Chef Chris Parnell
Chris Parnell is a personal chef and entrepreneur based in Golden, British Columbia. From a young age, Chris knew that his passion was cooking. He has over 12 years of professional cooking experience, which includes The Fat Duck in London (a three Michelin starred restaurant) as well as…
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Episode 18 - Kevin Raposo: The Speedy Photographer
Kevin Raposo is a photographer, video producer, entrepreneur and educator with over a decade of experience shooting concerts, corporate events, sports, real estate and more. After earning his Masters in Media Production from Ryerson University, he went on to start Speedy Photographer - an online...
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Episode 17 - It Boils Down to Passion with Giaco Whatever
You might know him from the Maker Knife, the Kinetic Driver, or the Polycalendar. Maybe you've been watching his cinematic maker videos for years. No matter how you came across Giaco, one thing is clear - his passion, creativity and innovation shine through in everything that he does. In this...
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Episode 16 - Piece By Piece with Roxanne Brathwaite
Since 2018, Roxanne Brathwaite has been reimagining vintage furniture into one-off bespoke pieces through Hollis Newton, her furniture company. When the pandemic made it impossible to work in the upholstery shop, she looked into her past and revived a childhood passion - making miniatures. By...
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Episode 15 - Staying Curious with Kristen-Innes Stambolic
Kristen-Innes Stambolic is a video artist, animator and dancer. Trained in contemporary dance, Kristen's intimate knowledge of anatomy and movement shine through in her videos. This connection can truly be seen when she combines dance, rotoscoping and video effects to create videos that are…
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Episode 14 - Knocked Out of Your Comfort Zone with Charlie Kert
Charlie Kert is an arts educator, musician, skateboarder, and the founder of Little Fingers Music - a Toronto-based music school. He has released multiple children's CDs, a progressive folk rock album, developed and performed in an interactive rock operetta for children, and was a sponsored,...
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Episode 13 - The Visual Languages of Filmmaking and YouTube
This week, Morley and Ryan compare their approaches to creating YouTube videos versus creating films. This wide-ranging conversation covers editing techniques, cinematography, camerawork that has its roots in cinema but has been adopted by YouTubers, project scale, narrative structure, "hooking"…
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Episode 12 - The Awesome Journey of Assem Kroma
Assem Kroma is a storyteller, filmmaker, actor, teacher and researcher in the fields of new media, interactive and transmedia storytelling as well as virtual and augmented reality. He is using experimental filmmaking to explore new ways of creating connections with audiences, with techniques such...
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Episode 11 - Maker from The Tinkerage with Andy Pugh
Andy Pugh is a lifelong maker, creative and teacher. He is a one of the most supportive voices in the maker community, and seems to connect just about every maker across the globe. We had a great conversation with Andy about his story, how he found the maker community, the maker movement,...
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Episode 10 - Creating in Their Space with Cathy Kert
For this very special 10th episode, Morley and Ryan are joined by Cathy Kert - a talented interior designer who also happens to be Morley's mom! With over 20 years of experience, Cathy has built her business from the ground up, and is now one of the most highly sought-after designers on Cape Cod....
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Episode 9 - Shifting Perspectives with Jeremie Warshafsky
This week, Morley and Ryan are joined by Jeremie Warshafsky - a visual artist and architecture photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Jeremie captures the built environment from a unique perspective, and his professional portfolio evokes the sensation of exploring a building for the first time.…
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Episode 8 - Putting the Pieces Together with ChrispyD
This week, we are joined by Chris Dezurick, AKA ChrispyD. Chris is a talented young hip-hop artist who is making waves in the independent music landscape. At the time of this writing, Chris has over 50,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, with his top song coming in at over 2.5 million streams. In a...
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Episode 7 - Invention, Imitation and Inspiration
This week, Morley and Ryan talk about finding a balance between skill building and creating original work. We also discuss the difference between imitation and inspiration, and developing the confidence to recognize and apply your inspirations without feeling like you're sacrificing your unique...
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Episode 6 - How The Pandemic Has Impacted Our Creativity
This week, Morley and Ryan discuss how the past 5 months of living in a pandemic has affected our creativity, shifted our perspectives, brought clarity and created unexpected opportunities. Mentions: John Kuiphoff CLAMP (Morley's other podcast) Kevin Smith Bon Iver Because We Make - Enlighten Us...
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Episode 5 - Unconventional Creatives: Stacie DaPonte and Sandra Rizkalla of Tablo Creative
This week, we are joined by Stacie DaPonte and Sandra Rizkalla - cofounders of Tablo Creative, a full-service creative agency in Toronto, Ontario. Stacie and Sandra help brands tell their story through content creation, creative branding, web design & development and digital marketing. Stacie and...
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Episode 4 - A Bunch of Happy Accidents with Olivia Guselle
This week, we are joined be Olivia Guselle - a multi-talented musician, singer, and songwriter from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Olivia sings across a variety of musical genres, has participated in multiple concerts, musicals, and other music shows across Canada! She talently plays the…
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Episode 3 - We're Just Getting Started! with John Kuiphoff
This week, we are joined by John Kuiphoff - maker, designer, woodworker, teacher, coder, video creator, and a guy who is generally difficult to put into a box! The best way to sum up John is in his own words: "I make stuff with computers and glue." John's work is a unique marriage of woodworking,...
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Episode 2 - Expressing Through Interaction with Luis Regalado
This week, we are joined by Luis Regalado - a talented 3D artist, designer and musician who is starting his career in the video game industry. Luis's work spans across a dynamic range of practices such as character modelling, rigging, animation, environment modelling, and shredding on the guitar!...
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Episode 1: It Matters How You Show Up - with Julia McGillicuddy
This week, we are joined by the talented and multifaceted Julia McGillicuddy - artist, designer and a recent graduate of Parsons School of Design. Julia creates across a wide range of themes, visual art and media. This includes Workmens Denim - her personal line of hand painted, one-of-a-kind...
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Episode 0: A Spotlight on Creativity
Hello and welcome to Into The Spotlight, a podcast about bringing creative people and the creative process... you guessed it, into the spotlight! In this inaugural episode, we talk about how we met through Ryan's documentary on content creators, reminisce on the origins of the podcast, and take...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about bringing the creative process and creative people into the spotlight! We interview creators, artists and storytellers from all walks of life to learn about their stories, creative passions, and why they love to create! We also have discussion episodes about a range of topics about creativity, where we share our experiences and personal perspectives.If your creativity is a passionate hobby or a professional career, then this podcast is for you.Hosted by Morley Kert and Ryan O'Connor.
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A podcast about bringing the creative process and creative people into the spotlight! We interview creators, artists and storytellers from all walks of life to learn about their stories, creative passions, and why they love to create! We also have discussion episodes about a range of topics about...
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Into The Spotlight is created and hosted by Morley Kert and Ryan O'Connor.
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