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After a quick update about the future of TBAS with Zak, he welcomes back Rob Walker, who shares intriguing advice on embracing ridiculousness in minute ways. The conversation explores how such absurd activities can bring joy and creativity to daily life. Rob Walker is a journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He was last on TBAS walking and talking about Looking Up. He writes the BRANDED column for Fast Company and has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, NewYorker.Com, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others. His latest book is The Art of Noticing (Knopf). He is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.Read Rob's piece about the Squirrel Census on his Substack. - https://robwalker.substack.com/The Vox piece which inspired Rob, The unexpected joy of the Squirrel Census.https://www.thesquirrelcensus.com/---Call Zak and describe the ways in which you embrace ridiculousness in your life @ 844-935-BEST Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

Hey, have you subscribed to the bookmark newsletter? If you liked this, you might like my twice-monthly email with book reviews and ideas of what you should be reading, and listening to, next. Click here to subscribe. About the book A thought-provoking, gorgeously illustrated gift book that will spark your creativity and help you rediscover your passion with “simple, low-stakes activities [that] can open up the world.” — The New York Times Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen. Enter Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing — an inspiring volume that will help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises — 131 of them — Walker maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague, and finally, to rediscover what really matters to you. Source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/570033/the-art-of-noticing-by-rob-walker/ About the author ROB WALKER is a columnist and contributes to a wide of publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, NewYorker.com, The Boston Globe, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of Buying In and Significant Objects (coedited with Joshua Glenn) and on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. He lives in New Orleans. Source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/59959/rob-walker/ Big idea #1 — Less productivity, more curiosity The answer to having lots to do and endless lists is not to add more. “A hyper effective schedule designed to maximize productivity is in fact, more likely to distract you from what's important than help you discover it.” We're doing so much and we've all experienced the situation where you have lots to do but get to the end of the day and feel like you've achieved nothing meaningful. Instead, Rob suggests dedicating just one hour per week to consciously directing your attention. Stop trying to be more productive and instead try to be more curious (or embrace “joyous exploration”). The more we do, the more we push against this attention deficit that we are all facing at the moment. Given the complexity of what's going on in the world, and some of the terrible things that are happening, we really need the best of our attention to solve these problems. We need to push against this attention deficit and our state of peak destruction, and in order to do that we need to practice paying attention, which means practicing noticing. Attention makes us human, let's get it back through noticing. Big idea #2 — The types of noticing The book is split into five types of noticing. In these five sections there's different activities with different levels of difficulty that you can do in order to practice noticing.  Those five sections are; Looking: eg lifting up your eyes and spotting something new every day, noticing colours, spending time really seeing something (eg spending three hours looking at one piece in a gallery*), or looking for something in particular. Sensing: eg making a sensory map, hunting for scents. Going places: eg looking for imaginary clues, going somewhere new, taking a different route, or taking the hardest route to get somewhere, make up games to play to find new things in the supermarket. Connecting with others: eg follow strangers (don't be weird about it) and let them lead you to somewhere different, interview other people, make up backstories for strangers you see. Being alone: eg make an inventory/list of stuff (things you didn't buy / things you touched today), study a rock, get distracted, go on a date with yourself. *there's a whole section in ‘looking' chapter about galleries that's well worth a flick through if you have a gallery visit planned. Big idea #3 — Attention is creativity It's seeing things well that brings your work or your art to the next level. This is absolutely not only relevant to “creatives” or “artists”, it's the skill that allows you to transcend the boring and the surface level things and instead see connections that others may overlook. The art of noticing allows sports coaches or scientists to see data links that others might miss, it allows teachers, leaders, or doctors to see subtle clues that might be important, and allows investors to pay attention to undervalued companies. This is the thing that could make the difference between you and others in your field, in your industry, and/or your company and allows you to do what you do really well. “The difference between looking and seeing, between hearing and listening, between accepting what the world presents you and noticing what matters to you.” The art of noticing is the importance of bringing these things together and paying attention to the right stuff at the right time, and making the difference between missing something vitally important, and being able to make the most of it. Let's connect LinkedIn Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rob Walker notices things. Everything in fact. How? He wrote the book on it. ‘The Art of Noticing' is a practical guide to getting more from…everything. We'll be talking about his NYT column which discusses working trends, life and a lot more besides. ABOUT ROB (@notrobwalker)Rob Walker is a journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, NewYorker.Com, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others. His latest book is The Art of Noticing (Knopf). He is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. Find out more about Rob here and get on the ‘Art of Noticing' newsletter here. SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rob Walker is a journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, NewYorker.Com, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others. His latest book is The Art of Noticing (Knopf). He is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. Find his Art of Noticing newsletter at robwalker.substack.com

It seems, every time I sit down with my friend, illustrator, fine artist, and author Lisa Congdon, she's in a moment of transformation. Truth is, it's a bit of a perpetual state for her. Lisa is best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering. Her work appears in private collections, merchandise, textiles, apparel, and a wide array of collaborations with clients around the world including Method, Target, Comme des Garçons, Crate and Barrel, Facebook, MoMA, REI, and Harvard University among many others. She is the author of nine books, including Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist; Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic; and her latest book, You Will Leave a Trail of Stars: Inspiration for Blazing Your Own Path. Lisa teaches in the Applied Craft & Design MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon, and is also a devout cyclist, having just finished an intense ride to Crater lake and, as we talked, was getting ready to complete the Gravel Grinder race, where she would climb more than 30,000 feet in elevation on her bike, on gravel. You might wonder what, if anything, has to do with the creative life and art, and as you'll hear, the answer is everything.You can find Lisa at:Website : https://lisacongdon.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/ellen_hendriksen/The Lisa Congdon Sessions : https://pod.link/1562400129If you LOVED this episode:You'll also love the conversations we had with Mari Andrew. She is an author, illustrator, has a tremendous following across the socials and has an incredible ability to sort of get into all of our heads and through words and art express, what we're thinking and feeling in the most relatable way : https://tinyurl.com/GLP-MariCheck out our offerings & partners: Talkspace: Online Counseling Via Text, Audio, Or Video Messaging. At Any Time, From Anywhere. Get $100 off of your first month with Talkspace. To match with a licensed therapist today, go to Talkspace.com or download the app. Make sure to use the code GOODLIFE to get $100 off of your first month and show your support for the show.Air Doctor: Capture contaminants and chemicals with a medical-grade UltraHEPA air purifier that's 100X more effective than ordinary purifiers. Go to airdoctorpro.com and use the promo code GOODLIFE to receive a 35% discount off their classic AirDoctor 3000 purifier.Privacy Policy and California Privacy Notice.

Courtesy of Nina Martine Robinson An installation made by Nina Martine Robinson with repurposed button-down shirts that are deconstructed and then reassembled and repetitively stitched to form figurative shapes. Emma Deaner, percussionist of the Superior Siren project, is looking forward to This Moment in Time, a live-streamed concert by artists of Duluth, Minn.-based DanSan Creatives, will feature eight musicians whose work spans neo-soul, hip-hop, rap and spoken word. DanSan Creatives is a collective of artists working in music, spoken word and visual storytelling, with the goal of empowering youth and diversifying narratives. Deaner appreciates the recording venue, the Sacred Heart Music Center in Duluth, a former church-turned performance space. She said it has “such great acoustics, and with all of their voices filling that sanctuary, I’m sure it’s going to make for a really beautiful experience.” The free event goes live Saturday at 7 p.m. Visual artist Brigid Higgins is drawn to the comics of Twin Cities artist Myc Dazzle. In particular, she was moved by “An Ordinary Day.” The brief comic follows two friends as they banter and tease each other on the way to the store one hot summer day. Both boys are Black, and the older one is stopped by the police in what the comic displays as a case of racial profiling. The younger boy records the tense exchange. The episode ends without violence but with both boys notably shaken. This comic was among other artistic responses incorporated in MPD150’s “Enough is Enough: 150 year performance review of the Minneapolis Police Department,” a report prepared by activists and researchers. Ellen Mueller, director of the Minnesota College of Art and Design MFA program, is looking forward to an art installation opening next week. “Suspended Modulations” pairs the large wood sculptures of Pete Driessen with fiber art by Nina Martine Robinson. Both artists used repurposed materials and created artwork for this site in response to the gallery’s high-beamed architecture. Robinson’s textile work hangs from the ceiling, suspended above Driessen’s sculptures. Courtesy of Pete Driessen "Angle Modulation" is an artwork made of repurposed rough sawn white and red pine, and metal hardware by Pete Driessen. The installation opens Jan. 14 at 6 p.m. and runs through February at Silverwood Park Gallery in St. Anthony, a Minneapolis suburb. The gallery also features an outdoor sculpture garden, which Mueller recommends as well.

Kieve Rodeheaver interviews Jacs Fishburne about their work in progress: Neural, a fiber piece for their master’s thesis and two woven photographs. Starting with Neural the pair discusses grief, chronic illness, pain, the desire to connect through touch, and the process of making. With the photographs they talk about interacting with their art in space, sexuality, and collaborating with the dance troupe Sea-Bus. Neural can be seen in the current Columbus College of Art and Design MFA thesis show, Replacing the Sun? through the next few weeks.Links to pictures discussed in the episode:Neural WIP: http://blog.jacsfishburne.com/#jp-carousel-40634 http://blog.jacsfishburne.com/#jp-carousel-40635 http://blog.jacsfishburne.com/#jp-carousel-40637Photo 1: http://www.jacsfishburne.com/weavings/720aqw6b85js32rfwmirljtm95ip13Photo 2: http://www.jacsfishburne.com/weavings/el1q3gwoaiu1ixzhkcldk462z8meteBeltane: http://www.jacsfishburne.com/beltaneLinks of artists discussed:http://www.jacsfishburne.com/https://www.seabusdance.com/Music Fed up with Hunger by Saintsenenca:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvgkjGSf3G0

American artist Charles Gaines has been delving into philosophy, abstraction and mathematics to address politics and race since the 1970s. In August 2019, Gaines receives the 60th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal, an award celebrating his high achievements in visual art, musical composition and performance, and his influence as a teacher, writer and curator. An artist whose work is described as formulating the DNA of the conceptual movement, Gaines is a key figure in contemporary art history. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Gaines was the first African American accepted into the School of Art and Design MFA program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He now lives and works in Los Angeles. He’s been a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts, for more than three decades. As Charles Gaines prepares for high profile exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco and London, through 2022, we reflect on what his art says to the world. Resolutely abstract in his practice, Charles Gaines refuses traditional representation—resisting both dominant racial stereotypes, and pressure from within the black community. His gridworks and manifestos deliberately counter deep-seated assumptions about the forms that nature and culture, art and music should take. Gaines shows us how art can embody conceptual, aesthetic, and personal freedom. This episode features conversations recorded with Charles Gaines in 2015, 2017 and 2019. About the MacDowell Medal: A Haven for Artists since 1907, the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, was the first artist residency program established in the United States. Each year, the MacDowell Medal recognizes one individual for outstanding contributions to American arts and culture. Merce Cunningham, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Sonny Rollins, and Toni Morrison are among past honorees. Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Audio: Charles Gaines, Manifestos performance, 56th Venice Art Biennale Related Episodes: Mark Bradford Connects Art with the Real World, Contemporary Art and the Black Imagination Related Links: Charles Gaines | MacDowell Honors Visual Artist‎, Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, Charles Gaines, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Charles Gaines, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Biennale Arte 2015, All the World's Futures

On this podcast episode, I spend time chatting with Rob Walker. Rob Walker is a journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He writes the Human Resource column for Lifehacker, and has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others. His book The Art of Noticing was released in May 2019. He is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. This episode is brought to you by https://frontapp.com/ (Front). Founded in 2013, if you are ready to transform your team’s productivity with efficient email, you’ve got to give Front a try for only $9/month. Front is reinventing the inbox so people can accomplish more together. With new workflows, efficient collaboration, and all their communication channels in one place, more than 5,000 businesses rely on their Front inbox to be more productive as a team. Visit https://www.frontapp.com/timecrafting (https://www.frontapp.com/timecrafting) to start your free trial today! Rob Walker’s book The Art of Noticing is a gorgeously illustrated volume that will spark your creativity and - most importantly - help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises with 131 of them, Rob maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague, and finally, to rediscover your sense of passion and to notice what really matters to you. We discussed the book and the subject of “noticing” a great deal during our conversation. Specifics that we covered on the show include: How do you define “noticing” and how does that play a role in how we craft our lives? (3:23) On the notion of productivity and efficiency (5:27) On “noticing” as the backbone of curiosity (7:15) What is being productive? (09:10) What led Rob to spend time studying the topic of noticing? (11:15) Is Rob the “Jerry Maguire” of noticing? (13:01) On “noticing” when it comes to comedy (14:30) On the idea of attunement vs. alignment ( 16:25) On the idea of time management (17:20) Why is this book important right now? (22:44) How many ways did not make it into the book? (25:17) Which of the 131 exercises stood out and which is the most unconventional? (26:50) Does Rob journal and if so how? (30:18) Quote “It is not about your skill at noticing, more on the habit of noticing that sort of forces you to see differently and to see things that you weren't looking for.” ~ Rob Walker Relevant Links: http://robwalker.net/ (Website) https://www.facebook.com/Consumed (Facebook) https://twitter.com/notrobwalker/ (Twitter) https://murketing.tumblr.com/ (Tumblr) Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525521240/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0525521240&linkCode=as2&tag=sfn0e9-20&linkId=c3db79c53f295e9a34c200c2671d06d8 (The Art of Noticing) One of the key takeaways from this episode is that we are well into “the era of white noise”. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost. We need to make and take time to think and to see and to listen. We need to spend more time noticing. I appreciate the time you spend listening to the show. If you enjoyed this, make sure to never miss an episode byhttps://productivityist.transistor.fm/subscribe ( subscribing). Also, take a moment to give the podcast a rating and review on whatever platform you use to listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening and for your support. See you later.

Jeffrey Zeldman's guest is Abby Covert, Information Architect; curator of IA Summit; co-founder of World IA Day; president of IA Institute; teacher in the Products of Design MFA program at New York's School of Visual Arts; and author of How To Make Sense of Any Mess, a “brilliant introduction to information architecture” (Peter Morville) that is frequently purchased at Amazon with Don't Make Me Think and The Design of Everyday Things, the two classics of usable design. Discussed: why IA matters now more than ever, the difference between IA and content strategy (IA is building the vehicle, CS is putting fueling it and making sure it won't run out of gas), writing and designing a book, building agreement among stakeholders, “not having opinions, not having ideas of one's own,” IA's origins in language and structure, the fun of the IA Summit, the creation and growth of World IA Day, the joy of teaching, and more.

Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest is Abby Covert, Information Architect; curator of IA Summit; co-founder of World IA Day; president of IA Institute; teacher in the Products of Design MFA program at New York’s School of Visual Arts; and author of How To Make Sense of Any Mess, a “brilliant introduction to information architecture” (Peter Morville) that is frequently purchased at Amazon with Don’t Make Me Think and The Design of Everyday Things, the two classics of usable design. Discussed: why IA matters now more than ever, the difference between IA and content strategy (IA is building the vehicle, CS is putting fueling it and making sure it won’t run out of gas), writing and designing a book, building agreement among stakeholders, “not having opinions, not having ideas of one’s own,” IA’s origins in language and structure, the fun of the IA Summit, the creation and growth of World IA Day, the joy of teaching, and more.

Steve is a Film Editor, Sound Designer, and Visual Artist, who has more recently trained in the field of Design Research and Thinking at the School of Visual Arts Products of Design MFA program. Steve has collaborated with filmmakers Hal Hartley and Ang Lee, and a variety of choreographers and visual artists. Steve's work has been shown at film festivals and museums throughout the world. 

This episode of Art Beat Conversations I interview ceramic and mixed media artist Courtney M. Leonard from the Shinnecock Nation of Long Island, New York. Leonard's work explores the evolution of language, image and culture through mixed media pieces of video, audio and tangible objects. She studied art and museum studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts (AFA 2000), Alfred University (BFA 2002), and the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA 2008). She currently lives in Santa Fe, NM and works as a professional artist and educator. Leonard talks to us about her journey through academia as an artist and the mapping of her life and her travels.

This episode of Art Beat Conversations I interview ceramic and mixed media artist Courtney M. Leonard from the Shinnecock Nation of Long Island, New York. Leonard's work explores the evolution of language, image and culture through mixed media pieces of video, audio and tangible objects. She studied art and museum studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts (AFA 2000), Alfred University (BFA 2002), and the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA 2008). She currently lives in Santa Fe, NM and works as a professional artist and educator. Leonard talks to us about her journey through academia as an artist and the mapping of her life and her travels.