470 - How To Create A Body Of Work By Collaborating With Your Past Self- With Carson Ellis

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a box of treasured momentos, a drawer of unfinished artwork or a notebook of ideas you never quite started and definitely didn't finish? Author and illustrator Carson Ellis tells us how she uncovered a forgotten journal from her 20s and how it informed an entire series of work, with a little help along the way from some other past projects. This interview is creative inspiration for how to tell stories using pictures, capture nostalgia and perhaps even create art today as a time capsule for the future. ------- SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com https://www.carsonellis.com/ https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/one-week-in-january Picture book mentions: What is Love, Du is Tak and Wildwood TV show mentions: Mad Men Band: https://www.decemberists.com/ Author Kazoo Ishiguro https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/14137/kazuo-ishiguro/ Julian Glander https://glander.co/ Past episode with Carson Ellis and Mac Barnett: https://creativepeptalk.com/355 SPONSORS: Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way. Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk Riverside - The easiest way for you and your team to record, edit and share professional grade Videos and Podcasts, from anywhere in the world. https://creators.riverside.fm/creativepeptalk Pixite Apps https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=1485310935&code=PEPTALK

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0:00.0	On the creative journey it's easy to get lost but don't worry you'll lift off
0:10.0	sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:15.0	Hey, you're listening to Creative Pep Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your creative journey.
0:26.7	I'm your host, Andy J. Pizza.
0:28.4	I'm a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, and this show is everything
0:32.4	I'm learning about building and maintaining a thriving
0:35.2	creative practice. Carson Ellis is on the show today. I am a huge fan of Carson Ellis's art and illustration and her picture books like Do Is Talk and home. I'm so thrilled to have her back on
1:00.8	she was on an episode of Creative Pep Talk with Mac Barnett back on
1:06.7	355. If you like this episode go back and listen to that one. We talk about a book that they made together that is
1:14.4	really great called What is Love. She is here today to talk about her new
1:19.4	project which is one week in January which is a very interesting gorgeous book which is her
1:29.4	taking a journal from 2001 that she kept for only a week and then using that almost like an
1:36.2	illustration prompt to create a body of work or a gallery show and share the journal.
1:43.0	It's a really, really interesting project
1:47.2	and I had a blast talking with Carson about so many questions that I had about the book.
1:55.0	I've been a fan of hers for a long time and of her husband, Colin Malloy,
2:00.0	who is the frontman of the band DeSimbristsrists that I'm also a big fan of.
2:05.2	Had a blast chatting with Carson.
2:07.2	It's just a, um, such a privilege to talk to artists that you respect as much as I do Carson.
2:15.8	And in this episode, a couple things to look out for.
2:21.1	There are a few themes that I think you should tune in to. One is the ongoing
2:27.8	theme of this year, which is the independent spirit, the DIY spirit. This book catalogs a period of time when they were early in their creative
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