Existential Delight Dylan Gous

🔽🔽🔽ALL TIMESTAMPS LINKS AND MEDIA MENTIONED IN INTERVIEW🔽🔽🔽

In this episode I speak to my good friend, lecturer, and artist, Morné Venter.His art can be seen on Instagram: @velvetventer

This was one of those conversations that truly felt constructive - in that we both had fragments of understanding, but helped each other refine and expand our thinking - the whole thing felt electric, and I was buzzing with excitement by the end.

This episode is all about CREATIVITY and ATTENTION:

we talk about:

- Using habit to facilitate inspiration

- David Lynch

- The Great Plateau that all creative endeavors undergo

- The difference between choices and decisions in the creative process

- Our modern lack of attention and the necessity of boredom

- Why creative projects grip us

- Morne's artistic philosophy of MESS

- Artists and AI

- Why surprise is the currency of creativity

...and much, much more!



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🚨🚨🚨CONVERSATION FLOW

1 - Morne’s Background

2 - The Role of Art Galleries and the New Model for Artists

3 - Artists & AI

4 - Attention & Focus - How We Engineer Distraction

5 - Habit & Ritual When Making Art

6 - The Great Plateau

7 - Decisions vs Choices in the Creative Process

8 - Morne’s Artistic Philosophy of Mess

9 - David Lynch on Creativity

10 - Outro



🧠MEDIA, PERSONS AND LINKS MENTIONED IN INTERVIEWIn order of mention:

1 - A Short Film Written Entirely by AI - Austin McConnell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XO3q6MA668&t=3s&pp=ygURYXVzdGluIG1jb25uZWwgQUk%3D

2 - Tom Sachs - https://www.tomsachs.com/

3 - Viral Cellphone Video - Look Up by Gary Turk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY

4 - Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202

5 - Stephen Pressfield - Turning Pro: https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Pro-Inner-Power-Create/dp/1936891034The War of Art - https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Steven-Pressfield-ebook/dp/B007A4SDCG

6 - Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky - https://www.amazon.com/Making-Ideas-Happen-Overcoming-Obstacles/dp/1591844118

7 - Gamestorming by Dave Gray - https://www.amazon.com/Gamestorming-Playbook-Innovators-Rulebreakers-Changemakers/dp/0596804172

8 - Van Neistat - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5mPJA4y5G8Z6aNkY6AxgAw

9 - David Lynch on Creativity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFsBaa_MEzM

10 - Eraserhead - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/11 - Mulholland Drive - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/

In this episode, I speak to Dr. Gregory Schulz, he holds a PhD in Philosophy and creates online content at lutheranphilospher.com. Suspended by his university after writing an article criticizing the school as Woke.

We discuss the philosophy of language, wokeism, angst, Christian living, the Kata Christon philosophy, and much more.

You can find his work here: lutheranphilosopher.com

In this episode, I speak to Joseph Pearce, he is an English-born American writer, and as of 2014 Director of the Center for Faith and Culture at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee, before which he held positions at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan and Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida.

He has written biographies of literary figures, often Christian, including William Shakespeare, J. R. R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Hilaire Belloc. His books have been translated into at least nine languages.

In this interview we explore the impact that G.K. Chesterton has had on his life and the lives of several literary figures, including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

You can find his work here: jpearce.co

In this episode, I speak to Mike Willenborg, he is a Doctoral Student at Baylor University. He specializes in Metaphysics and Epistemology Value Theory. We explore the fascinating argument for the Hiddenness of God.

Dewayne Noel from Dry Creek Wrangler School on the process of maturity. I found this advice extremely helpful and wanted to make sure that more people here it. In this Pneumamix I mix Noel's advice with calming music to help the listener grasp the ideas.

An exception to the usual podcast - A classic in Christian Theology, and worth a read. Hopefully this audiobook makes it easier to grasp.