{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"I Love Your Stories- Conversations with Artists and Creatives with Hava Gurevich","title":"Episode #23 David Olson on Creative Process, Synchronicity and the Art of Seeing Differently","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2384,"description":"In this episode of I Love Your Stories, Hava Gurevich is joined by multidisciplinary artist, videographer, photographer and writer David Olson.\nThe conversation explores David’s creative path, from growing up around poetry, drawing, music and photography, to his early experiences with travel, writing, radio, music promotion and video. David reflects on a life-changing rock-climbing experience in Sardinia, the way travel opened up his view of culture and creativity, and how his artistic process grew from observation into abstraction.\nHava and David also discuss photography, videography, composition, synchronicity, the influence of music, and the importance of staying connected to the process of making art rather than focusing only on the final outcome.\nShow Notes\nDavid Olson joins Hava Gurevich for a conversation about creativity, perception and the process of making art.\nThe episode begins with David reflecting on his early creative influences, including his mother, who wrote poetry, drew, sang, played guitar and used photography.\nDavid talks about his early involvement in music, including his time as a DJ on WCBN-FM Ann Arbor, a freeform station where putting together a show was treated as a creative act.\nThe conversation moves into travel, writing and David’s experiences in France, including how living in different places helped him see cultural norms as constructs and opened up new ways of thinking.\nDavid shares the story of a dangerous rock-climbing experience in Sardinia, where he believed he was going to die. He describes how that moment encouraged him to dig deeper, move toward the things that interested him, and keep exploring in both art and life.\nHava and David discuss his approach to video, including how he became interested in doing the things that video is not usually used for, and how he moved away from simply documenting toward creating abstract compositions.\nDavid explains how a moment in Aventine, one of the oldest quarters of Rome, changed the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BzVr4HUpBAARweHVFCWb1fF9reodKaJYUPicJmCMya8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMGY1/ODMyNTU0OThkYzQw/MGFlMGYwMWNmYmU5/ZjVjMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}