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| LIA Cast 269 - Lettering & Sound Design in Clip Studio Paint (Rebroadcast) | 20 May 2021 | ||
Originally broadcast May 3, 2019. Jerzy’s begun a new comics project, and it’s been a while since we’ve had an art demo on the LIA Cast, so this week join Jerzy and Rob for a demonstration and discussion on designing sound elements in your comics using Clip Studio Paint. Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supportersConnect with Jerzy and Rob | |||
| LIA Cast 360 - Daily Creative Celebration AKA Victory Donut (CWC) | 13 May 2021 | ||
Ready for another day of work, yet not feeling it. So many valid reasons to be in that situation… yet also having due dates and commitments to meet. Sometimes the work is rewarding and the outcomes too, people liking what you do, paying you for it, it’s all awesome. Yet still…sitting there, ready to write, draw, code…and Just. Not. Moving. Or distracted. Sometimes we find it works if we make a game of it. Some kind of reward or consequence waiting for us at the end of the workday. A little challenge we give ourselves. Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 351 - Make Your Own Time Tracker (MWS) | 11 Mar 2021 | ||
It’s no big reveal that time tracking and journaling can be invaluable tools to help you find the time to focus on your creative work. But how do you pick the one that’s right for you and how do you use it? We look at some options and use cases. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 350 - Advocacy as Part of Your Creative Business | 04 Mar 2021 | ||
Rob feels he has a variety of advocacy ideas tangled up and thinks it’ll be super useful talking with Jerzy on today’s show - he’s been doing advocacy through comics for years! Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 349 - Panel Tools in Clip Studio Paint (MWS) | 25 Feb 2021 | ||
Ever wonder what those paneling tools do in Clip Studio Paint? You’ll be surprised by how much they can speed up your work. Join Jerzy and Rob for a Mini Workshop episode where they demo 3 awesome power-ups in Clip Studio Paint. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 348 - Reading/Watching/Playing (CWC) | 18 Feb 2021 | ||
When we make things, write stories, any creative work needs input. Sometimes that’s focused research, other times it’s the indirect idea fuel of taking time to recharge, play games, watch, and read things that give us energy. Join us for an exploration of what we've been reading/watching/playing. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA 347 - Create a Fast Frequent Comics Challenge (MWS) | 11 Feb 2021 | ||
Ever think about participating in hourly comics day or similar comics events? Avoid entirely but think about it still? Or try and get stuck? We’re going to take the worksheet my students use in the Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge workshop. Then we’ll put it to use to puzzle out a frequent comics-making challenge. Will we go with hourly? Daily? Any particular comic styles? Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA 346 - Projects that Frighten You (CWC) | 04 Feb 2021 | ||
Ever not try an art project because you feel some fear about the work involved? This week Rob and Jerzy look at what they do when they feel frightened about making things. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA 345 - Quick Flatting in Clip Studio Paint (MWS) | 28 Jan 2021 | ||
Jerzy and Rob share some tricks in Clip Studio Paint that will make flatting easy for beginners, and speedier for those who have been doing it a while. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supportersConnect with Jerzy and Rob | |||
| LIA Cast 344 - Getting and Believing in Rest | 21 Jan 2021 | ||
Join Jerzy and Rob for an exploration of how our relationship with rest affects our work. Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 343 - Shipping Every Day | 14 Jan 2021 | ||
Some frequently shared advice among creative people hoping to build an audience or attract customers is to “post something every day.” Many of us find this plan reasonable, yet difficult to act out. Rob has chosen to take this practice on for 2021 with a daily bit of writing on his blog. This week Jerzy checks in with him to reflect on Rob’s goals, approaches, and how he’s managing things so far. Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters This week's 2 Minute Practice
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| LIA Cast 342 - Should You Evolve Your Long-Term Project? | 07 Jan 2021 | ||
This week Jerzy and Rob look at the Lean Into Art project itself as a case in point. When should you check in on your commitment to a long-term project, and how do you think about evolving it while you work on it? Join us for a discussion on re-evaluating the work you’re doing on a project and stepping back to see if it’s meeting your goals. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters This week's 2 Minute Practice
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| LIA Cast 359- Viewing Angle Tells the Story (MWS) | 06 May 2021 | ||
Working on the thumbnails for your next comic and discovered you’ve sketched dozens of pages of talking heads? We cartoonists can put the reader’s eye wherever we can imagine, so why don’t we? But how do you know where to put the reader’s eye? In today’s Lean Into Art Mini-Workshop Rob and Jerzy are going to help you find more visual interest on your pages and make more compelling comics. Sponsors for this episode
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| LIA Cast 341 - Ongoing Adventures in Illustration Using Clip Studio Paint | 31 Dec 2020 | ||
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| LIA 340 - Year-end Extra Lean | 24 Dec 2020 | ||
Jerzy and Rob celebrate the end of the year by practicing an Extra Lean episode, which are emergent discussions based on what we've recently experienced in our art. You can download more of them by subscribing to the Lean Into Art Patreon! Sponsors for this episodeConnect with Jerzy and Rob | |||
| LIA Cast 339 - Service-Driven Design can Make it Better | 17 Dec 2020 | ||
What happens when you begin to navigate the creative constraints of a project with the needs of the client, the users, and yourself in mind? Are the needs behind a project simply a list of requirements, or can they be instigators of creative energy? Join Jerzy and Rob for an exploration of a specific project that became a lot more interesting through the application of service-driven design. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:
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| LIA Cast 338 - R/W/P & Picking Tools for Your Experience | 10 Dec 2020 | ||
Jerzy and Rob get together for another analysis of what they’ve been reading/watching/playing. In the second half they’ll look at how your own experience in the making of the thing can be a factor in choosing your tools. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:
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| LIA Cast 337 - Where in the Blank Part 2: Creative Time Tactics | 03 Dec 2020 | ||
Last episode we started exploring creative time strategies and considering capacity as an overall foundation to help with being realistic about creative output. Here we continue exploring to help our future selves get the things we care about making done, into the world, and help others become aware of the stuff we make. Join Jerzy and Rob as they continue exploring the planning and time tools they’re using to make projects and products happen. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA 336 - Where in the Blank is the Time to Create | 25 Nov 2020 | ||
Creative projects need lots of things, different concerns to focus on. Each of those concerns takes time. Where’s the time to create? How can we be kind and realistic in our plans? If we do this skillfully, we hope it will help our future selves get the things we care about making done, into the world, and help others become aware of the stuff we make. Join Jerzy and Rob as they explore the planning and time tools they’re using to make projects and products happen. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 335 - Art Soundoff 2020 Check-in: Topics & Outcomes | 19 Nov 2020 | ||
Jerzy and Rob check in on their 2020 Art Soundoff journals. What themes and topics did we choose, and why? What outcomes are we hoping for with this year’s challenge? If you’re participating in #artsoundoff this year, join the live stream and share your experiences and reflections! Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:
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| LIA 334 - Writing and Using Digital Notes: Part 2 of Note Taking for Making | 11 Nov 2020 | ||
Last episode Jerzy and Rob talked about note taking on physical media, including a demonstration of taking notes. It’s a big topic, why and how you gather notes, and even how you put notes to use. Join Jerzy and Rob in this episode of the Lean Into Art podcast as they explore digital ways they take notes and make use of them for planning, project, and more. Will Jerzy and Rob clear the last level of the note taking topic? You can join the adventure in the Discord to play along! Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:
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| LIA Cast 333 - Useful Note Taking for Making Things | 04 Nov 2020 | ||
Note taking can help with gathering our thoughts and set us up to build upon ideas. Join us in this note taking and note using infused episode of the Lean Into Art podcast. Jerzy and Rob will discuss how we each make use of notes with physical tools, digital tools, and how this note taking helps with creating and collaborating on projects. This topic was inspired by #artsoundoff journal podcaster Owen Jollands in a recent episode of his journal. Art Soundoff 2020, a creative challenge to celebrate micro podcast journaling is underway, learn more about it at http://artsoundoff.com. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters This week's 2 Minute Practice
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| LIA Cast 332 - Art Tools: New Potential and Reliable Favorites | 29 Oct 2020 | ||
Whether digital or analog, favorite art tools have a timeline and a story to them. First you’re curious about a new way or something breaks and it’s time to try something else. Then you explore an option and have an impression, will this new tablet or marker be a keeper? Some tools get to stick around and reliably help you get real projects completed. A special few tools become things we look forward to using. Join Jerzy and Rob as they share a few recent and long standing favorite art tools. Along the way they’ll share the kinds of situations and projects that got those tools "hired". Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:
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| LIA Cast 358 - Showing Up Socially, Balancing Quality and Effort | 29 Apr 2021 | ||
Posting socially is something most independent creators need to work with. I've often been the show up when I've made something, share it, then mostly hang back and like other folks stuff approach. But I know that I can do better, reach folks who I'm here to help. It takes more than that occasional post and that's what I'm hoping to dig into with Jerzy Drozd today. I hope by the end of the show we'll have some new questions to explore and ideas to try! Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 331 - Art & Video in 2021 | 22 Oct 2020 | ||
2020 has asked many of us to level up our skills with online teaching, learning, and presenting. Jerzy and Rob check in to see how they’ve been thinking about using a variety of video information to tell a story, to demonstrate a technique, or to perform something they care about while talking about why they care about it. And how will this inform their approaches to teaching and sharing in 2021. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 330 - Spooky and Monster Stories | 15 Oct 2020 | ||
Jerzy and Rob celebrate some of their favorite spooky stories and stories featuring monsters. In traditional LIA fashion, they also ask themselves why these stories appeal to them. Join the live stream to share some of your own stories and analysis! Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:
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| LIA Cast 329 - Drawing for Yourself | 08 Oct 2020 | ||
Creating for yourself, no matter your medium, has a power to it. Recently it’d been over a month since Jerzy drew something just for him. He found it invigorating and that’s the kind of thing we find fascinating to explore. Join Rob and Jerzy as they discuss creating projects because you want to, with no other agenda. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 245 - Setting Up Projects for Whittling (Rebroadcast) | 01 Oct 2020 | ||
Some projects get the bulk of our effort and attention, yet others are those side projects that get less frequent or shorter durations of time and effort. In this episode of the Lean Into Art cast, join Jerzy and Rob as they discuss whittling at those side projects as an approach to make small consistent progress. Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our Patreon supportersWe select five supporters to highlight every episode, thank you to them and all of our supporters, and you can join them too:
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| LIA Cast 328 - What is Professionalism? | 24 Sep 2020 | ||
This week Jerzy and Rob are joined by returning guest Gregg Schigiel to talk about the value of keeping the connections between you and your social/professional network active. Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 327 - R/W/P & Obstacles: Chaos | 18 Sep 2020 | ||
Jerzy and Rob check in on what they’re reading/watching/playing, followed by another entry from the Obstacles series. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:
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| LIA Cast 263 - Public Art Drops (Rebroadcast) | 10 Sep 2020 | ||
This week Jerzy and Rob look at the methods and rationale for hiding pieces of original art in public. Links to sites mentioned Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA 326 - Creative Challenge Season 2020 | 03 Sep 2020 | ||
This week Jerzy and Rob are joined by returning guest Gregg Schigiel to talk about the value of keeping the connections between you and your social/professional network active. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned:
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| LIA Cast 325 - Curiosity to Level Up | 28 Aug 2020 | ||
Jerzy and Rob look at the role curiosity plays in designing, creating, marketing, and acquiring other skills useful to communicating with images. Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 324 - The Big Why | 20 Aug 2020 | ||
Jerzy and Rob check in and model the big question: why do we do the work we do? Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters This week's 2 Minute Practice
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| LIA Cast 357 - Write Posts Quickly With Prompts, Constraints, and Instinct | 22 Apr 2021 | ||
When you sit down to write a blog post is that a comfortable creative activity? Are there times when it feels like the words are stuck or just not sure how to say what you’re really trying to say? Recently Rob finished a 100 days in a row blogging challenge. That project and other writing he's done in recent years for team collaboration, manifestos, pitches for funding, he's noticed a few things he's been practicing that are helpful he'd like to share. Here in this mini-workshop, we'll share some of these practices to write quickly with constraints, prompts, and instinct. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 323: Service Minded Marketing: Teaching Artist and Other Options | 14 Aug 2020 | ||
One way to add service to your products is to teach about how they get made. Marketing your work as an artist can be an uncomfortable second skill, though it could be more than that. Marketing your work in the best context is a service because it helps you reach the audience that needs and wants what you make. In this episode of Lean Into Art, join Jerzy and Rob as they discuss telling the story of your creative products and the option to teach the skills you use along the way as an option to connect with new venues and audiences. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 249 - UX Bag of Useful Stuff (Rebroadcast) | 06 Aug 2020 | ||
Visual storytelling is a big theme with the Lean Into Art podcast. Also: working with what you have as a storyteller to do a myriad of things that go with not just the creative process but also presenting your creative work in a useful and usable way. Jerzy and Rob talk about useful tools to consider using even if you’re not a User Experience (UX) designer. As we make and share our works we often encounter situations where we wonder if we could have shared it better - especially when that’s not our main focus for making a story, game, or other product. Join us for an exploration of some handy tools from the world of skills in UX. Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 322 - Maybe it's time to hire yourself | 30 Jul 2020 | ||
What do you do when you’ve got a product that you can’t find a partner for? Is it time to set it aside and try something else, or is it time to hire yourself to and go it alone? Join Jerzy and Rob for a discussion on evaluating a project when influential people in the field don’t want to invest in it. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 321 - An Exciting Unplanned Art Project or Technology Appears! Now What? | 24 Jul 2020 | ||
Is there an easy and useful way to find success criteria for projects in a technology you’re excited about? This week Jerzy and Rob talk about when it’s exciting and tempting to try a new (or new to you) art technology, especially if you have a project in mind for it. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 320 - Digital Drawing Hacks | 17 Jul 2020 | ||
This week Jerzy and Rob look at ways they’ve sought out more efficient approaches to drawing using digital tools. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters This week's 2 Minute Practice
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| LIA Cast 319 - Obstacles: Managing Time, Managing Energy | 09 Jul 2020 | ||
This week Jerzy and Rob take a look at some of the obstacles we encounter in making our art. How do we struggle with finding time for our whittling and side projects while also trying to keep refining our main jobs? And how does this friction with finding time affect our enthusiasm and morale? Note: We ran an experiment this week in streaming the video podast to Discord, which called for some new audio routing. The result was a good stream that left us with misconfigured video. So an audio-only episode this week! Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 190 - Getting There Being There (Rebroadcast) | 02 Jul 2020 | ||
This week Jerzy and Rob are joined by returning guest Gregg Schigiel to talk about the value of keeping the connections between you and your social/professional network active. Sponsors for this episode Links Mentioned
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| LIA Cast 318 - Navigating Burnout | 26 Jun 2020 | ||
Uncertainty, unrest, new realities, and managing a side hustle can easily lead to burnout. What do you do to navigate or manage it? How can describing the systems that lead to burnout help us? Join Jerzy and Rob and share your experiences with the subject. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 317 - Drawing Games & Setting Up Creative Spaces | 17 Jun 2020 | ||
Join Jerzy and Rob as we put our streaming studios through some tests! Work continues on our studios evolving, a couple episodes ago we mentioned working on our studios, learning the OBS streaming/recording app. And let's also do some live drawing, what better way to have fun and see what we're liking and want to improve about our live streaming setup. Join us to see how it goes and share your ideas and questions. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 254 - Side Hustle for Product Development (Rebroadcast) | 11 Jun 2020 | ||
A truth for many of us is we have to hold down some other jobs while we hustle to make our art. How do we think about this friction between keeping the lights on and developing new products? Speaking of which, Rob and Jerzy are wrapping up their Art Soundoff entries and have some reflections on using creative challenges to develop new products. Is an art challenge a good chance to set aside time to make new things? How does it change your relationship and experience with the challenge? Links to sites mentioned Sponsors for this episode Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 356 - Prioritizing Your Work | 15 Apr 2021 | ||
We’ve all been there--you start out with the promise of a new day, a reasonably curated to-do list, and a commitment to make your art. And suddenly you look at the clock and it’s the end of the day and all you have to show for it is seven or eight little piles of unfinished good intentions. This happens to all of us. Whatever your skill level, it’s super easy to get lost in the various tasks that go into making art. And for good reason--not only is art a series of complex tasks, but we’re often performing the tasks in chunks of time either stolen from other commitments, or in the spaces between emotionally and physically expensive commitments. Sponsors for this episode
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| Black Lives Matter | 04 Jun 2020 | ||
Instead of our usual exploration of visual storytelling and thinking about creative process, this week we have a brief yet important message to share. Our message is that we’re here to love, care, and support our black community and do our best as non-BIPOC do to be better at helping more by listening, being affected, and committing to an ongoing active awareness and ongoing supportive action to get rid of systemic racism. Black Lives Matter. The ongoing system of repression and discrimination must end. So much murder and death of black skinned people is such an obvious symptom of the discrimination. Murders by the police of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, and so many others. We are in the midst of an uprising of super brave action from the black community. This is a place and time to dig in for systemic change. Let’s make it all our job to end systemic racism. I’m looking at us white folks as I say this. People who are BIPOC have no choice but face that job. Our work is to help one another become as strong as possible. So then what are we/us two doing to help more and in better ways? For Jerzy, that is:
For Rob that is:
Supporting, raising, celebrating voices that need to be heard like that of the black community must be an ongoing way of life. Where you can, when you can, support black creators and causes. The black community has been forced to bear this systemic racism load every day for over 400 years. We are privileged because it’s a choice for us to face it. Let’s not forget that. Let’s explore ways to bring in more diverse voices more often on the show. We want potential guests to reach out. Leanintoart.com/contact We’re here to learn with all of you. What are you doing for your awareness, commitment, and ongoing action? Tell us your stories, comments, questions, thoughts (through our email, social feeds, contact form). I know we’re in good company to make things better because Leaners aren’t weiners. Brave protesters thank you, our society owes you. Thank you all for listening and learning with us. Love to you all. OK Bye. | |||
| LIA Cast 316 - R/W/P | 28 May 2020 | ||
Rob and Jerzy like to remind themselves to make space for reading, watching, and playing. Join us for an exploration of media we engage with for relaxation and inspiration and even refueling. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters
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| LIA Cast 315 - Learning OBS Studio to Level Up Video Streams | 21 May 2020 | ||
The tools we use to make and share our art change a lot. Individual tools wear out, digital tools change company hands, business plans change and tools get decommissioned. As makers we are often in the position of picking a new tool, sometimes to replace the old, sometimes because we need to change something about our work and a new tool offers new possibilities. The Lean Into Art podcast is soon to be 9 years old and we’ve offered both video and audio versions of our show for most every episode. Lately we’re digging into how we can level up with video streaming and Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is a tool pointing us toward so many interesting new possibilities. Join us to learn along with us we share what we’re learning so far about streaming and recording with OBS! We’d love to hear from you in the chat whether you’re an OBS pro or just getting started. Sponsors for this episode Links mentioned: Thanks to our top Patreon supporters This week's 2 Minute Practice
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| LIA Cast 189 - Inclusive Creative Work (Rebroadcast) | 14 May 2020 | ||
Join Jerzy and Rob as they explore creating projects and works that are inclusive, think through ways to detect and avoid toxicity, and celebrate practicing/working to be both sensitive and patient. Sponsors for this episode
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