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Need a dose of creativity and accountability? Hosts Monica and Candace are prioritizing ART and talking about it in a real way. One take, no script, and no filters… just two humans inviting listeners in for a fun weekly chat about what they’re making now and what is inspiring them.
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Speaker 2
Hello.
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Speaker 1
Hello and welcome.
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Speaker 2
Welcome to As We Art episode 11. Or this one goes to 11.
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Speaker 1
This one goes to 11.
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Speaker 2
Yes.
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Speaker 1
11 episodes. This is amazing. Yeah. Welcome. This is a YouTube channel. It's a podcast. And we're talking about the art that we're working on right now in the present moment, and we're talking about what inspires us right now. And this week, we have a little something extra because we invited questions and we got some good ones. Yes.
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Speaker 1
All right, so I'm Monica.
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Speaker 2
I'm Candice.
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Speaker 1
Welcome. If you're new here. We're so glad you're here. If you're a returning listener, thank you for your support, your comments, your questions. We love it all.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, we appreciate it. We're so happy you're here. And we're so happy we're here.
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Speaker 1
I know this is.
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Speaker 2
This is fun for us.
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Speaker 1
We thought it might be fun to do this. So we started and, you know, without without really knowing what we're getting into, we're learning as we go.
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Speaker 2
Definitely making up. Pardon any sound.
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Speaker 1
That's fine. Okay. To move around. We have longer chords this week.
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Speaker 2
We've leveled up.
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Speaker 1
I feel so much freedom. So we are learning as we go. But for the for to be together, to create this community of other artists, of other people doing creative things. We knew this would be fun. We thought it would be fun to see what other people working on, but I really didn't know how much it would like change my week.
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Speaker 2
Yes.
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Speaker 1
How much time I stop and put my phone down to go do some art. It's because of you. Because I want to show you something every week. So thank you.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, thanks for being here. Thanks for participating. We're so grateful for everyone that watches. We love building a community with you. It's awesome.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, it's really good. So again, if you're listening, that's awesome. If you're watching on YouTube, you're getting some extra visuals. But either way, it's worth following us on Instagram. We have, as we Art podcast. Yes, on Instagram. And the reason why that's key is because we're including a little carousel of pictures every week to go with each episode.
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Speaker 1
Yes, I want to say show. It's isn't a show.
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Speaker 2
It's a show. It's a two woman show.
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Speaker 1
To go with each chat. We're, putting up some photos of some of the art. We're talking about, some of the inspiration, but we're also adding some photos sent to us by listeners, viewers, friends, family, whatever. People are working on all.
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Speaker 2
Of the above.
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Speaker 1
I gotta stop fidgeting with that new chord. Yes.
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Speaker 2
Here is the danger of getting you a longer cord. Now it's a toy.
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Speaker 1
Oh, gosh. Okay, that's all right. We're going to get started. So, art. Candice. What? Art did you do this week?
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Speaker 2
I started the hell out of it. No, I really focused on, that linocut that I had talked about last week. Our friend Val challenged us to make a visual representation of Infinite Pi, which we had talked about in episode nine or whatever. So go back and check that out. And I've been working on a linocut of my visual representation of infinite Pi, and my first print was just, my first round of prints, I should say, was just a print of the raw lino without any cuts made.
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Speaker 2
And this week I transferred my pattern to the linoleum and did my first round of cuts for the first reduction print. So let me reach.
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Speaker 1
Before you show it, I want you guys to check Instagram because I took a picture of the cutting sage, the carving Candace was doing, and I'll throw that up on Instagram if you can't see how long the process is in this picture. But the tiny little detailed tools and all the little pieces that you removed are off to the side.
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Speaker 1
I'm just fascinated by that.
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Speaker 2
So it's fun. Carvings. My favorite part for sure so far. So this is the lino. Anything that's dark gray. I didn't remove anything. Anything that's the lighter gray. That's where I cut away. So then I did a test print of this. A couple of test prints. Because you want to make sure that you have cut deeply enough that things you don't want to show don't show.
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Speaker 2
So I did a test print. Ignore the splotchy ness of it, because the point is not to get, like, a perfect print. But there was a little bit of chatter, like in here. That's what the things you don't want.
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Speaker 1
To.
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Speaker 2
Show. It's called these little lines. They're called chatter. So I went back in and cut those away and reprinted it to make sure that was gone. I also have a little circle over here that's not quite being represented the way I want it to be. So I'll be cutting more of that away. I haven't done that yet, but that's the first round of cutting.
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Speaker 2
Once I get it cut the way I want, the test print looks good. Then I will do the second round of printing of the next color on the lino on top of the purple squares rectangles that I showed last week. So.
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Speaker 1
So this test print you did on white paper to throw away. You're not going to do a test on your purple ink yet.
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Speaker 2
That's what those are like final copies. So you want it to be as perfected as it can be before you move on to printing on those, because you only get one shot. This is,
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Speaker 1
It's a lot of carving. It's a lot of detail. And again, if you're just listening, no problem. Check it out. I'll put a real detailed picture. It I say I, we will post the usually the one that posted.
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Speaker 2
Does the postings most of the time so they can just.
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Speaker 1
God. Candace does all the behind the scenes work on the video editing and that she has like music that introduces us and I don't know, like shim.
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Speaker 2
Nails and.
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Speaker 1
Like click and follow up.
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Speaker 2
Pretty nice. That's such a bad YouTuber.
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Speaker 1
Oh my God, I'm the worst.
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Speaker 2
It's amazing.
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Speaker 1
I'm the worst. And, this is not my first YouTube experience either, which is extra embarrassing that how bad I am. You're not bad. No, sorry. Not how bad I am. How uninformed I am about YouTube. So when Candace and I were in full swing with our stained glass studio, which is called Glass Over Teakettle, which we're still doing, we still make art.
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Speaker 1
We just stop being public about it and putting YouTube videos up, which we might start again. We've had all these new subscribers, and I feel bad that we're not putting any content out.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. We'll see. Who knows.
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Speaker 1
But for that, Candace did all the editing behind the scenes and the titles or whatever you call them, you have to add.
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Speaker 2
Thumbnails and all that fun stuff.
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Speaker 1
Amazing stuff where I will go through and post still pictures, like just photographs on our, social media. And then prior to that, years and years I've been doing YouTube, which I haven't done for a while, but for like five years I did YouTube, videos for my, a teaching for, non-native English speakers, and that's called American English with Monica.
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Speaker 2
Yes. Differentiating between British English. She teaches American English.
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Speaker 1
I did name my business American English with Monica, right when I became certified in 2018. And it was because of that I wasn't well versed in. I couldn't and didn't want to commit to teaching British English, which a lot of the English exams are based on British English. But now I'm like, oh, why did I name it that?
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Speaker 1
Because I'm not. It. I well, I have well, turns out I have a lot of followers on that American English. The Monica so yeah, you would think after all that experience, I might know a little more about YouTube, but I don't. And I pulled it up the other day. Candace and I were just looking through the YouTube.
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Speaker 1
I never look at statistics or anything. And she's like, oh, I see.
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Speaker 2
The YouTube.
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Speaker 1
The YouTube. She's like, you have like 10,000 people watching this video. And I'm like, yeah, she's like, maybe if you make more, there's a lot of people asking questions. They want more. I suck. I mean, I didn't even respond to comments, which apparently helps.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
I just I'll put some videos out there for all free English saying glass and as we art. But the statistic part and the the follow up.
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Speaker 2
The analytics, oh.
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Speaker 1
That's not something that interests me. So I'm going to ignore it.
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Speaker 2
That's what I'm good at. So hello.
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Speaker 1
And that is art. You have to constantly do behind the scenes stuff. So I appreciate it Candace thank you.
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Speaker 2
Thank you. Cutting your personality and being able to make videos because fearlessly, much better at it than I am.
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Speaker 1
I will talk, I'll make mistakes, I don't care. We're here being real. We're being human, we're being creative. And we're really glad that you're all here along for the ride.
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Speaker 2
I just want you to know I gave you grief for messing with your headphone cord. And then I just caught myself doing it, so, hypocrite over here. But.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, I mean, it's hard.
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Speaker 2
Not to mess with now that it's longer.
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Speaker 1
The other thing.
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Speaker 2
That is going to sit like this.
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Speaker 1
Well, the other problem with us messing with this cord is just the visual. We have our hands under a table and they're moving. It's very straight. It might not come out all right. Some might like don't flag us.
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Speaker 2
YouTube. Yes. There's nothing weird happening.
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Speaker 1
Stop fondling the cord. Okay. My turn.
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Speaker 2
Yes. What did you make this week? Monica? What did.
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Speaker 1
I make? Okay, I finished cutting and grinding my current stained glass piece. Whew. When I say current, I have three.
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Speaker 2
Depends on the day. What current means.
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Speaker 1
I have my Harlem Renaissance literature cover that one I did not work on this week. I have my beautiful woman reading a book under a tree. That piece called Zari, for I did pick glass for her, but I didn't. I did not work on that this week. Instead, I ground all the pieces from my yet to be named, piece.
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Speaker 1
And I'll show you.
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Speaker 2
I'll move here.
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Speaker 1
Thank you.
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Speaker 1
This will look familiar to some of you because I did show the raw cuts last week, but it got totally all, mesh.
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Speaker 2
Donk your microphone.
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Speaker 1
Cord. Okay, this. When I moved it out of the studio last week, I didn't have these frame. What are these called, baby?
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Speaker 2
They're brand name. They're called Morton's.
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Speaker 1
Morton's?
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Speaker 2
It's like some more Morton's system. Morton's.
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Speaker 1
I say it with the Boston accent. Morton's. So the Morton system is really helpful for stained glass artists. I should use it from the beginning. For every project. I tend to put it on pretty late, and I don't even do all the thumbtacks, as you can see. But it keeps it in place. And if you're listening to this podcast and you're like, what is she talking about?
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Speaker 1
Again, check us out on Instagram. It's a profile I'm hoping genderless. It can be a man or a woman's profile with mirror glass. Next to their face is some clear, beautiful sculptural, textured clear glass I found, and I was able to cut that all in one go. So it flows right? And then I picked five different colors of glass to do all these different triangles and swirls going out of the mind or into the mind or both.
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Speaker 1
So I'm not it's abstract. I don't know what I'm going to call it yet, but, I'm on to the next step. I'm going to foil each piece.
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Speaker 2
It's beautiful. Oh, that reminds me of like, book pages coming out of a brain.
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Speaker 1
Book pages.
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Speaker 2
Ooh, I like it.
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Speaker 1
Okay, I like that. I have it's just so chaotic. This is my busy brain. It's a representation, but a lot of books going on in there. Yeah. Yeah. The next step is to add foil to each piece, and then I can solder.
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Speaker 2
Oh, that's hard to do with.
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Speaker 1
With trying to stay in frame. So anyway, we worked on art. I'm so happy and we'd love to hear what you all worked on. And we got some awesome updates from some people. Some fiber arts.
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Speaker 2
Yes, lots of fiber arts.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, but really different projects.
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Speaker 2
Yes. Very cool. Our friend Katie, she showed us a bunch of these, like, crochet creatures she makes that are just kind of from her mind. Very cool, free.
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Speaker 1
Form.
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Speaker 2
Very awesome.
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Speaker 1
She might start with a pattern or use a pattern. I'm not sure, but her end result is asymmetrical and funky and creative. And I love seeing that. Yeah, she did teach us, a Japanese word, which we don't remember, so I'm not even going to try.
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Speaker 2
But there's some. That's it up.
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Speaker 1
I will put it on that when we do the post. But there's there's a oh, maybe it was Marty that taught us.
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Speaker 2
Marty, who is also doing some fiber arts with crochet, is doing something in the same vein. These little, like critters that are crocheted and stuffed. Damn.
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Speaker 1
If you're listening, do you know the word we don't know? We might.
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Speaker 2
Be able to like. It starts with an A.
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Speaker 1
Oh, God, I don't know. We won't even try to guess. But if you know the word, Marty's watching this and knows the word. Katie's watching this and probably knows the word. But Marty told us, he sent us pictures of some fingerless gloves that he made as a separate project chart. Like, phenomenal. And remind me of my 80s, when I was obsessed with Madonna and wanted fingerless gloves.
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Speaker 1
And my mother was like, no, you're not going to dress like her. Your nine. But I really wanted I did get to get a lot of. I did get jelly bracelets, like up the arm that was super in, but I couldn't get fingerless gloves, which I just thought were so cool. So Marty crocheted fingerless gloves, which look amazing.
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Speaker 1
We'll put that picture on this week's inspo and other artists creations. And we'll also put the word, the Japanese word for these small little crocheted critters that are beyond.
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Speaker 2
Their adorable, super imaginative. Really cool. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
And I would imagine it takes a long time to get good enough to be able to stitch like that. Neither one of us have to throw shade.
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Speaker 2
Oh, I've made a couple scarves and, crochet is not my forte. I will say the scarves were a little wonky. The counting gets to me, so, But yeah, it is not an easy art form for fiber, right?
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Speaker 1
I did, and yeah, you're right. In my early 20s, I did make a scarf once crocheting, but I it certainly wasn't symmetrical. And it was wonky and.
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Speaker 2
Yep. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
But it hasn't been something we've gone back to. It doesn't mean we won't. We love trying different art forms. So we want to know from you if you're trying new art forms, you're perfecting an art form that you've been working on for a while. If you're brave enough to send us pictures, we'd love to see it. Yeah, we really appreciate it when people share with us.
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Speaker 1
That's awesome.
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Speaker 2
It's great, and you'll most likely get some sort of shout out for sharing. So, you know, we appreciate it. It means a lot. Like we said, we're building a community that you're a part of and we're so happy. So yeah.
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Speaker 1
So let us know what you're working on, what you're trying, what activity, even if it doesn't fall under like an artistic definition. Don't worry. Like, what are you doing with yourself? Your human side, your creative side? We'd love to know. Yep.
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Speaker 2
That's great. What's your inspiration this week, Monika?
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Speaker 1
Oh, inspiration. Oh, there's so many sources of inspiration. I've been busy with music and reading and, I usually plan ahead of what to say. Oh. I know what I'm going to do. Okay, I'm going to. I'm going to me optimistic, happy. Monica I'm going to go a little dark again. I've done this before with inspiration. My inspiration this week was rejection.
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Speaker 2
Oh, that's a good inspiration.
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Speaker 1
No, it's not it sucks. Being rejected sucks. It feels so shitty to have another terrible I got rejected. One of my pieces of writing was not accepted to move forward in a writing contest. And I got to tell you, thank God we are filming this a few days out from that moment.
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Speaker 2
Different emotions now.
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Speaker 1
Different emotions.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So it's funny to go back to episode ten where I had submitted it. I was on top of the world, I was confident and I was so happy I submitted it. And then a few days later I was like, oh, thank you for submitting. We're not moving forward with your story and I'm like, oh, oh, I, I'm shocked.
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Speaker 1
And now I know rejections need to happen. That's a big part of it. But at first I was super bummed. Then I was like, this is so embarrassing. But I was like, in denial. I'm like, oh, I'm going to get an email soon that they made a mistake, I promise you. I thought that it's so embarrassing to me.
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Speaker 2
It's pretty normal to me. Like a pretty normal human reaction. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
I'm like, oh, a man read it. I got the email from a man's name and I assumed I'm like, I just want a woman at this literature magazine to read it, and she'll get it. Because you were.
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Speaker 2
Going through the stages of grief and denial is one of them.
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Speaker 1
I was I was like angry, denying. I'm like, oh, the wrong person. Read it clearly. Something went up. Yes. No, it needed to be rejected. And let me tell you why. My dear, dear audience, I have had people read this short story. I had professors read the short story, and I was praised by professors and family and friends for this short story called Doing Time with Virginia Woolf, about two women in a prison cell.
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Speaker 1
After it was rejected, I went back a couple days later. This is like in the last couple days, and I realized it's not a story. It's not a story. There is no character arc. What it is is a very interesting setting. Of course. Right. A prison cell to women. It has some interesting conversation and dialog and topics brought up.
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Speaker 1
Absolutely. But it's not a story. And it was so good for me to realize this on my own. And it took me stepping away from it, getting rid of the emotional side and looking at it from an editors point of view. It also helped to read other stories in these magazines and realize there's a change. A character goes through a change even in a short story, most likely an essay is different.
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Speaker 1
You don't have to have a character go through a change in an essay. And I was trying to combine because there's some realistic autobiographical elements in this short story. And I was I was in between essay and story. So I'm going to go back and make this a real work on this setting. Beautiful setting, awesome points I'm making in the dialog.
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Speaker 2
And really well written.
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Speaker 1
Thank you. But I'm going to make it a story. And I was like, I had so much calm relief when I thought that. So rejection was my inspiration and it was so hard at first, and I'm embarrassed to admit that my true thoughts. I can't believe I said that.
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Speaker 2
I think that's totally normal. I don't think you should be embarrassed. I think it's a totally normal part of thoughts to have when you're rejected. I mean, I think everybody would be like, no, no, no, there's some kind of mistake.
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Speaker 1
But also, I actually started thinking this helped me a lot to a lot of people don't even put themselves out there to be rejected.
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Speaker 2
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It's because of that fear. Yes. That fear of rejection has someone who lives with fear all the time. I can tell you. Yeah. Yeah. That fear of rejection, I would say, stops 90% of people.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. My putting your heart out there, we all get rejected, right? We've all had job interviews we wanted and didn't get. We've all liked people in life. We had a crush on someone. They didn't like us back. Okay? We got rejected in different ways throughout life. But, this was a good one. It was really good. So that that was my inspiration.
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Speaker 1
And then you sent me a little screenshot of something that said, I don't know, I'm going to paraphrase, but if you knew that your yes was going to come after 500 rejections, after 500 no's, wouldn't you be so happy every time you got to know, because you're racking them up and getting closer and closer to that? Yes. And that attitude really helped because with writing in particular, I read this from every published writer, all the all the blogs, all the writers that I've researched.
00:22:03:11 - 00:22:13:25
Speaker 1
They all say 30 to 50 rejections per yes is is a really good normal ratio. So there we have it. My inspiration, I.
00:22:13:25 - 00:22:27:15
Speaker 2
Think it says a lot about you as a human, to be able to turn it around and look at it and be like, oh, there is something that needs to change. Yeah. That's awesome. I think a lot of people wouldn't be able to do that. I would be very difficult for me to do that.
00:22:27:15 - 00:22:47:22
Speaker 1
So thank you. Yeah. I wasn't going to be like, I'm never going to write again. Like I wasn't acting like I might have taken a rejection differently. When I was young. I've been like, oh, I must suck time to move on. I don't feel that way. Yeah, but thank you for that. Thank you for listening. That was a big, a big moment of release.
00:22:47:22 - 00:22:51:29
Speaker 1
And that was my inspo this week. So Candice, inspiration for you.
00:22:52:03 - 00:23:33:17
Speaker 2
That's great. That was my inspiration. Monica's rejection. No. My inspiration this week is it's a something I'm not usually inspired by. I will say that, my inspiration was kind of, a change in routine, a change of scenery, a change in the norm. Normally, I'm a very, routine person. I feel very safe in routines. I am very good at finding the most effective and efficient way to do something, and then not deviating from that, because it is the most effective way.
00:23:33:19 - 00:23:42:11
Speaker 2
So this week we went on a drive on in some areas we've never been, was without.
00:23:42:11 - 00:23:42:28
Speaker 1
GPS.
00:23:43:00 - 00:24:07:12
Speaker 2
Without GPS. Yeah, it was beautiful to see something new and just experience something with fresh eyes. I have to remember how good that feels because I do get very, like, bogged down and nervous about change. So, I don't know. This is inspiring for me. We also went to a restaurant and ate dinner, which at the restaurant it was lunch, but.
00:24:07:14 - 00:24:09:26
Speaker 1
Not for takeout, right? Not in a restaurant.
00:24:09:28 - 00:24:34:04
Speaker 2
So I haven't done that in a very long time. We love to cook at home. We're both very avid home cookers. Probably comes from years of working in a restaurant and never cooking at home for me. But we ate at a restaurant. That was fun. So just some, like deviation from the norm this week was inspirational for me, which is in and of itself a deviation from the norm.
00:24:34:04 - 00:24:35:26
Speaker 2
Because I love a routine.
00:24:35:28 - 00:24:41:15
Speaker 1
You really do remember our commutes to our jobs in Boston?
00:24:41:15 - 00:24:51:16
Speaker 2
Yeah, we both used to work in Boston. It's quite the trip. Every morning it's like two hours minimum each way for us.
00:24:51:18 - 00:25:14:18
Speaker 1
Yeah, we get to the train station and I'd walk to my job, Candace would walk to hers, and on a couple of occasions, and I don't remember why. Maybe I didn't have to be at work that early or something. I walked with Candace, so I was like, show me your robe. Whatever. And the couple of times we did that, I noticed it was the same exact route down to the crosswalk.
00:25:14:18 - 00:25:38:28
Speaker 1
Like which street she would cross at and which sidewalk she would stay on. And she's in Boston. There's there's public art. There's a park. This was near Downtown Crossing. She never, like, walk through the park on her lunch break. I'm like, I took a different route to my office every day. And sometimes I'd go down alleys. I'd never been down or go through the park in a different way.
00:25:39:00 - 00:25:53:25
Speaker 1
I could never do the same walk every day. But like Candace said to her point, to be efficient is something Candace strives for or comfort zone of a routine, a familiar thing. It's not a bad thing.
00:25:53:26 - 00:26:05:18
Speaker 2
Yeah, it's more comfort zone for me. I think it just eliminates what I perceive as like unwanted results or unwanted,
00:26:05:20 - 00:26:06:11
Speaker 1
Risks.
00:26:06:15 - 00:26:09:14
Speaker 2
Risks and things I can't control.
00:26:09:16 - 00:26:12:01
Speaker 1
What if I get lost control problem?
00:26:12:01 - 00:26:16:04
Speaker 2
But that's all right. Not. Not with other people. Just with myself.
00:26:16:07 - 00:26:36:12
Speaker 1
Yeah. You're really comfortable with routines and so I loved working with Candace and inviting her to, like, let's go down this street. Let's go see this sculpture. I just love the variety. So it really was a big deal this week. And I'm glad you mentioned that. As inspo breaking out from the norm, putting the phone away, driving down roads.
00:26:36:12 - 00:26:43:15
Speaker 1
We just hadn't been down. Let's go see what we can find. It was so fun and I was really glad you initiated it. Yeah, yeah.
00:26:43:15 - 00:26:50:05
Speaker 2
It was, it was different. It was fun and it was great. It was inspirational for me this week. So.
00:26:50:07 - 00:27:10:21
Speaker 1
Yeah. So what about you out there listening? Are you more of the type of person that sticks to a routine and familiar, like you have your daily thing, or you're something you're just so used to doing in a very specific way, or are you? Which is great. That's how Candace is, and it really works well for your life.
00:27:10:24 - 00:27:26:16
Speaker 1
Are you like me? Where every time you do something, even if it's something you think you've done before, it's a new adventure because you change it up purposely and it takes eight times longer. You know, I'm just thinking about my stained glass project that would have gone better had I followed my pattern. I didn't.
00:27:26:22 - 00:27:29:22
Speaker 2
It looks great you got here. You got the great result. In the end.
00:27:29:22 - 00:27:36:19
Speaker 1
I got there. But the the long way, I took the long way there. But we're just curious. Are you are.
00:27:36:19 - 00:27:42:23
Speaker 2
You pretend it's the first round of sex in the city? Are you a Candace or a Monica?
00:27:42:25 - 00:27:43:19
Speaker 1
Well, I don't get it.
00:27:43:19 - 00:27:46:24
Speaker 2
Miranda or Carrie or.
00:27:46:26 - 00:27:47:10
Speaker 1
I don't get.
00:27:47:10 - 00:27:55:13
Speaker 2
First year people. When sex in the city first came out, they'd be like, are you a Charlotte? Or are you more of a Miranda?
00:27:55:16 - 00:27:56:09
Speaker 1
Like I've done that.
00:27:56:09 - 00:28:01:08
Speaker 2
Would characterize their personalities based on which sex and the city character they matched with.
00:28:01:08 - 00:28:07:17
Speaker 1
More. Got it. Anyway, no, I think that happens with a lot of shows. Friends. Harry Potter.
00:28:07:19 - 00:28:08:09
Speaker 2
Right? Yes.
00:28:08:13 - 00:28:42:02
Speaker 1
Yeah. I'm like, I'm a Gryffindor, not a fucking Hufflepuff, but you got Slytherin. I'm like, all right. Yeah, yeah. Hufflepuff. Yeah. I don't even remember what the, characteristics were, but I, you know, everyone, I mean, I anyway, TV shows and movies. What character are you like? But if you're watching as we art or listening to as art, are you more on Candace's side of thinking, the comfort zone of familiarity, or are you, inspired by the freedom of taking risks and trying new things like every chance you get?
00:28:42:04 - 00:29:02:25
Speaker 1
So. All right, one new addition we're doing this week is we Got questions. And this was so awesome. We invited people to ask us questions. We got a couple, which is great, but it's too many to do it because we want to keep these around a half hour or shorter. Yep. So we'll just add a question to the end of some episodes.
00:29:02:28 - 00:29:21:07
Speaker 1
So if you have a specific question for us, you can message us, put it in a comment on YouTube or, Instagram and we should see it and we can include it. So this week, what is your dream art project?
00:29:21:09 - 00:29:27:05
Speaker 2
It was a very good question. I really had to think hard about it. Okay. You want to go first or you want.
00:29:27:05 - 00:29:29:07
Speaker 1
Me to go? I did not have to think hard. No.
00:29:29:11 - 00:29:32:18
Speaker 2
Good. You go first, then I.
00:29:32:20 - 00:30:00:00
Speaker 1
I have two answers. The first one, that's involves stained glass. I've always wanted to make a life sized tree. A gigantic sculpture for public art, for the purpose of just people walking by and seeing a big, beautiful, colorful tree. In some city somewhere. I don't care where, but I just. I have it in my mind to build this sculptural, gigantic experimental stained glass tree.
00:30:00:03 - 00:30:32:29
Speaker 1
It's awesome. I, I love thinking about it like it will happen. I just know that because I visualize it all the time. The other dream art project that I'm going to throw in there certainly published writing. I have a separate project of nonfiction, personal essays that I want as a collection, which is great. That's going well, but I also really want to get into being a better story teller character arc.
00:30:33:01 - 00:30:56:05
Speaker 1
And be able to have published a book that is about a published book or books of short stories or fiction or even plays or screenplays, something like that. So I have seen glass dreams and writing dreams, and these are going to be a reality. This isn't I don't think this is too far fetched for me. I mean, I'm like, when can I do it by give me a one year deadline.
00:30:56:05 - 00:30:57:23
Speaker 2
You were here deadline yesterday.
00:30:57:26 - 00:31:07:24
Speaker 1
So so I love this question because I'm always thinking about new art projects. But those are like the big milestones right now in my life.
00:31:07:27 - 00:31:29:08
Speaker 2
How about you? So mine was kind of a two parter as well because like my dream project, I couldn't really like think of one. Initially, I did come up with one that truly is a dream project, but I like to dabble in a lot of different things. So I'm a stained glass artist, just like Monika. I also recently started doing linocut.
00:31:29:10 - 00:31:57:05
Speaker 2
Eventually I'd love to learn how to throw pottery. You know, I've done some painting, some sculpting. I like to kind of just mess around and learn what I can in different aspects of things. I do that with music. I, I have a drum kit that I could be learning on, but have not, and I would, you know, would like to get into that.
00:31:57:05 - 00:32:28:05
Speaker 2
So my dream project was kind of hard to pick because I like to learn a bunch of different things and just, have those experiences. So, but I finally, like, narrowed it down to what I think my ultimate dream project at this moment would be, which is I would love to create a film or a short film where I am responsible for almost every aspect of it.
00:32:28:05 - 00:32:35:19
Speaker 2
So I want to write the screenplay, I want to direct. I'd love to do the casting. I don't want to act.
00:32:35:24 - 00:32:39:15
Speaker 1
Oh, I was going to ask, are you in? No. Okay. Not in front of the camera.
00:32:39:16 - 00:32:56:23
Speaker 2
You have to have a face that emotes to act, and I like that. So, But I'd love to be responsible for the music, for the movie, choosing the music. And then also making, like, the poster art, the promotional art.
00:32:56:23 - 00:33:02:26
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. So I love that dream. What would the genre of film be of knowing.
00:33:02:26 - 00:33:24:28
Speaker 2
My knowing me? It would probably be like a horror or thriller type genre with some humor in there. Okay, but I don't know. I also just kind of like the idea of, like, maybe having a movie, having something to do with music or, I don't know, I'm not. I haven't gotten that far yet.
00:33:24:28 - 00:33:37:03
Speaker 1
But yeah. Hey, dreams start with the thought. This question came in. We're so grateful for it. And you have this idea, so you don't you're not like, this is happening. I can do this within a year.
00:33:37:03 - 00:33:43:06
Speaker 2
This is no, no, this is like, it'll probably take me a year to brainstorm a new thing about it. Okay. Yeah.
00:33:43:08 - 00:34:04:00
Speaker 1
It's so exciting. So now it's your turn out there. We want to know, like, just use your imagination. Don't worry about, like, budget or skills or what you need. What is that dream art project for you? Yeah, we would love to know. Think big. We'd love to know. Thank you so much for being here. Episode 11.
00:34:04:00 - 00:34:09:15
Speaker 2
Oh my gosh, double digits and longer headphone courts. Yeah.
00:34:09:17 - 00:34:25:19
Speaker 1
Thank god. I don't know if it helped at all because we were both fidgeting with the cords, but we hope that this, video worked out sound wise with these new cords. We'll know soon. We only do one take. There is no script, obviously. So here. Here we are.
00:34:25:19 - 00:34:27:11
Speaker 2
As we. Art. Art. Yeah.
00:34:27:14 - 00:34:37:26
Speaker 1
Thank you so much for being here. We truly look forward to this moment every week, sharing with you and then hearing what you're doing. So thank you and we will see you next week.
00:34:37:26 - 00:34:40:13
Speaker 2
Yeah. Thanks for tuning in. Bye.