Blah Di Da (Darby Hudson)
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| 05 Oct 2023 | Starsigns and creativity - skip this if starsigns ain't your thing! | 00:10:24 | |
I ramble on about star signs. Being a scorpio sun/aries moon/libra ascendent.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 28 Nov 2024 | Stuck on the couch - boring episode | 00:09:26 | |
Stuck on the couch after a soccer injury. I'm weirdly enjoying it. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 01 Jun 2023 | Self censoring making art | 00:09:35 | |
I ramble on about self censorship and trying to create interesting thoughts and planting ideas in different geographical locations. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 27 Feb 2025 | Finding true things in a world of BS | 00:11:17 | |
This one is all over the shop. I'm losing my focus these last few weeks. Hopefully the brain brings more focus soon. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 22 Mar 2023 | The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world | 00:11:04 | |
Nine-to-fives are really just paid acting gigs. Popular and award winning culture rarely makes sense to the heart. The world talks in cliche, so words may as well be numbers. Some thoughts on the strangeness of the world, the strangeness of culture, and how it works for art and writing. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Find me: | |||
| 20 Jun 2024 | Courageous artists: be the first to say the thing | 00:12:15 | |
I crap on about the courage to be the first to say what everyone's thinking. Good ideas. And a brief chat with Matt Hardy who's producing me first show. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 31 Oct 2022 | The courage (and stupidity) to say what everyone's thinking and no one's saying | 00:12:52 | |
With so many “main characters” across social media and not enough stories to fit them all, is it more worthwhile to be an extra in your own life? Confessional poetry was popularised in the US in the late 50’s, early 60’s by poets like Sylvia Plath and Charles Bukowski. These days it’s how nearly everyone writes in the caption on social media – “I” this, “I” that – confessional poetry in prose form. And as a form of poetry, it’s more popular than ever. To post or not to post. How scary can it be? Is it oversharing or providing something of value? In this episode I talk about saying what everyone is thinking and no one is saying, And finding your creative voice by wrongfooting yourself. TikTok: @darbyhudson6 IG: @darby_hudson Web: darbyhudsonart.com | |||
| 17 Oct 2024 | 30 years to find an audience (it took me) | 00:12:46 | |
Some thoughts on finding an audience over 30 years and writing ten books until I'd made my best one. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 07 Sep 2023 | How I've been able to pay the rent writing poetry | 00:15:00 | |
It's been a 30 year process. I'm not as outrageously talented as other social media poets out there. But just plodded along.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 11 May 2023 | Poems that shake me alive | 00:09:32 | |
I talk about poems that shake me awake, detach me from my shadow, and let me fly into the sky. And the reasons (perhaps) why they do this. It’s been said when writing, “say it straight and make it great”. But the best lines are when they’re said straight, and don’t need to be made great. My favourite poems are often this way. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 16 Feb 2023 | Editing, writing and painting my new book CONFETTI TORNADO | 00:11:55 | |
My new book, CONFETTI TORNADO (new and selected works) is the first book of poetry I've illustrated/painted. It's also a collection of works that are some of my faves drawn from my 3 current books, and I'm still not sick of them. In this episode, thoughts on : •putting the book together •editing: leaving out cultural hot-takes, and more towards anachronistic/grasping at innocence •how colour and painting influenced the writing Out now: My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Find me: | |||
| 26 Oct 2023 | Writing my way out of straightjackets and 2 other random ideas I had this week | 00:08:34 | |
3 random ideas I had this week that didn't belong anywhere so here they have found themselves!
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| 18 Jan 2024 | Selling out to myself | 00:09:56 | |
Sometimes I'll write stuff purely on 'cleverness' and it will lack something. It feels like I've sold out to myself. But sometimes I have to write these hollow pieces to break through to the real stuff. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 20 Apr 2023 | Balancing darkness and light in poetry | 00:08:48 | |
I began as a humourist in my 20s, writing for The Chaser and making 'gag' cartoons for Inkgroup greeting cards. But I found flat out humour limiting, until I started to mix poetry with it in my 30s. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 11 Apr 2024 | Balancing Sensible Self and Crazy Self (to pay bills and make art) | 00:08:19 | |
I struggled for years trying to find the balance going to work and pretending to be sensible then getting home to get insane to make interesting things. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 27 Jun 2024 | Exploiting myself for ideas I'd never thought I'd publish | 00:09:52 | |
I've kept a lot of my life personal, even though most of my stuff is written very personally. But I've crossed a small line into posting about stuff that I haven't before and it feels like very new territory. And more interesting territory. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 08 Nov 2022 | Finding your voice through perfect truths, imperfectly said | 00:08:38 | |
The world makes more sense when a perfect truth is imperfectly said. Where's the balance between truth and an imperfect human voice to convey it? For me the contrast is magic and sings. It's where an artist an audience connect - when it feels like they're sharing the same sleeping dream. IG: @darby_hudson TikTok: @darbyhudson6 Web: darbyhudsonart.com | |||
| 15 Nov 2022 | Are our stories worth telling over and over? | 00:11:17 | |
The past is full of possibility and constantly reinventing itself. Our old stories change with gained life experience. Some thoughts on mining our old stories and recurring ideas and honing them over a lifetime. IG: @darby_hudson TikTok: @darbyhudson6 Web: darbyhudsonart.com | |||
| 04 Jul 2024 | Lessons from a hangover | 00:11:26 | |
I often felt lost and unconfident in not knowing what I was doing when I was in my 20s. I still don't know what I'm doing but I'm more confident about it. But a brutal hangover reminded me what it was like to be in my 20s and feel lost for a day... in my 20s I'd experience this feeling without even needing a hangover, and often! My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 25 Jul 2024 | Productivity and creativity hate each other | 00:10:01 | |
Running a 'poetry business' is weird and business me and creative me are often at odds with each other. Batching has taken these two version of me out of the same room and given me a little more breathing space. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 02 May 2024 | The endless daily creative defeats make me grumpy | 00:10:02 | |
Only 1% of my stuff works and 99% of it is rubbish. It can effect me emotionally. I can get really grumpy when the creativity isn't going my way. But it's part of it. It's always been part of it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 28 Sep 2023 | Nows the time to create in a world distracted by politics | 00:11:18 | |
I ramble on about creating in a time of crazy distraction and the difference between Instagram and TikTok audiences.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 02 Nov 2023 | Find out who you are and do it on purpose | 00:11:15 | |
Daydreaming in my teens. Comedy in my 20s. Poetry in my 30s. Then combing it all in my 40s.New poetry collection 2023: UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 07 Dec 2023 | One idea leads to the next | 00:08:36 | |
Each book I've written seems to have had an abberant piece in it - like a doorway to the next book. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 11 Jan 2024 | Creative breakthroughs by not giving a shit | 00:10:20 | |
Talking about David Chase from the Sopranos, David Lynch, and not giving a shit as aid to creative breakthroughs. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 08 Feb 2023 | Comedians tell the truth more than poets these days | 00:10:23 | |
A Poet Laureate for Australia? I think we need a Comedian Laureate. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Find me: | |||
| 18 Apr 2024 | I've got an inner waggy pissed off cat's tail and an outer waggy happy dog's tail | 00:11:34 | |
I've writen and recorded a lot of cynical videos over the past 6 months. Perhaps it's time to mix it up (soonish).. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 13 Jul 2023 | Great art lets you see the world for what it is | 00:09:45 | |
Re-watching the Sopranos 20 years made me remember what great art can be. And great modern art isn't public, in a gallery or found on social media. It's found in weird texts between friends. UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 07 Oct 2022 | Thoughts on writing and the creative process | 00:13:48 | |
Some ideas on writing that I've stumbled across over 30 years. IG: darby_hudson TikTok: darbyhudson6 darbyhudsonart.com | |||
| 24 Aug 2023 | Have faith in shit ideas: from 200 views of a poem, to half a million (with the same poem) | 00:09:10 | |
I mucked around with TikTok for 4 years before I had a breakthrough. One idea inititally only had 200 views. I reposted it a few years later with now over 500000 views. Here's what happened, what I did. New poetry collection 2023: UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 13 Mar 2025 | My favourite art alleviates the burden of time | 00:10:50 | |
Some thoughts on art helping me through my 30s while feeling stuck in life. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 29 Aug 2024 | Writing my new book with small-big thoughts (out today!) | 00:09:06 | |
"YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK... " is probably my favourite book. You can find it in the link below. It's sorta fitting this is me 100th episode. The book is made from bits and pieces from all my poems across all my books. Just the juiciest most combustible lines. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 06 Feb 2025 | I can't be creative in summer | 00:08:09 | |
I love the cooler months. That's when I feel like I come out of a long coma and I can think straight again. Sorry about the sound of the airconditioning fluttering in the car. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 01 Dec 2022 | Sport tactics and psychology that have helped my art | 00:10:13 | |
I've learned a lot from sport tactics and psychology that has directly helped my art and making ideas. From entering flow states to taking set shots on goal (when facing a blank page or canvas); selecting captains to make my 'team' (ideas) better, to tactically using substitutes and time outs to help find an audience for my art. Comes with a bonus tip from what I learned from my cat. Find me: | |||
| 22 Feb 2024 | Writing in 'beginner mode' and poetry as a baseline to find one's voice | 00:11:51 | |
I have to constantly trick my brain back into beginner mode. As soon as I think I'm an 'expert' on a particular way of writing, my writing is dead on the page. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 26 Dec 2024 | Fast witty thinkers VS slow deep thinkers | 00:09:51 | |
Fast thinking is rewarded in life. Slow thinking is rewarded much later in life.. Without writing my thoughts down, nothing would happen. I need to build on thoughts in front of me. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 20 Jul 2023 | Creatives need breaks to be improve | 00:12:42 | |
I'm managine my time better. I've been writing without immediately posting it. Holding onto ideas for 5 days. While feedback can have a purpose for putting together some of my work, the constant feedback loop was starting to take me off course. So I'm learning to not post stuff right away and actually give myself whole days off writing. It's been super helpful.UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 01 Aug 2024 | Making something out of nothing | 00:09:33 | |
Gotta consciously wrongfoot myself to make interesting things. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 30 Jan 2025 | 40 is when writers arrive into themselves | 00:11:14 | |
40 is a strange time for writers. It's kind of a cut of point to have a family or go full blast at creativity and 'make it'. Art is a naturally 'selfish' pursuit, it has to come first. But so does family. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 03 Aug 2023 | Making art while working a full time job: art before the horse | 00:10:19 | |
It's tough eeking out art that is (naturally) adventurous in spirit while simultaneously having it crushed by people determined to wear their work costumes and talk in blabber in workplaces that (have to) pretend to care. Here's some of my experience.UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 02 Jan 2025 | Tapping the magic of being an old fart | 00:09:12 | |
I forget I'm an old fart sometimes. Most art is tapping the inner child. But I gotta learn to embrace this mulch heap of years I've existed through. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 20 Feb 2025 | Creativity under pressure - some thoughts on RuPauls Drag Race | 00:13:41 | |
I watched seasons 4 and 6 - supposedly the classic seasons of this show. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 16 Mar 2023 | The past is a foreign country | 00:07:18 | |
The past is a foreign country, wrote L.P. Hartley. Here I wander around Richmond where I grew up in the 80s. Things have changed. A small reflection on what the world was and what the world has become. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Find me: | |||
| 24 Oct 2024 | Balancing chaos and routine for creativity | 00:10:10 | |
I've had to learn to balance chaos and routine in my life... forcibly. And the writing started to pour out. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 21 Nov 2024 | Josh Turek, poet and comedian interview | 00:21:31 | |
I love Josh's work. Thank you Josh! You can find Josh's work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/joshuaturek/ And his podacast, Turek Books on Apple, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/turek-books-podcast/id1734284461 My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 07 Nov 2024 | Writing breakthroughs have no linear progression | 00:11:00 | |
A bunch of times I thought i'd plateaued with my writing. And then, bam! Another level. It can happen after years of banging your head on the same wall, and it can come all at once. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 23 Jan 2025 | Thoughts on The Exorcist (book) and vibes in the air | 00:09:16 | |
Just some scattershot thoughts on vibes in the air and the artists work to pick them up. Apologies - I'm filming this as a video and I'm slowly adjusting to making stuff up while filming myself (in the car) which blocks me a little. I'll get there. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 16 Jan 2025 | Balancing cynicism and magic | 00:10:37 | |
Trying to find more magic in my work. Maybe that requires more visits to the country and respect for my dreams. But without being boring. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 07 Dec 2022 | Using booze as a tool to write | 00:08:38 | |
Drinking alone is demonised. But what if it's used as a tool for creative thought? I share my thoughts on booze and its ability to help get us out of the way of ourselves to let the truth write itself. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 22 Aug 2024 | Stuff learned from my first spoken word performance | 00:18:14 | |
Well, that was a leap off a cliff. It went better than I expected, Lots of learning from it. Parts when really well, some not so well. But overall I suprised myself. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 25 Apr 2024 | We love to make meaning out of everything | 00:07:24 | |
I posted something on social media recently about a little secret game I play with myself that seemed to resonate - that makes me believe we're constantly starving for meaning our lives. I might be wrong. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 06 Jun 2024 | The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world | 00:15:24 | |
This is something I recorded a year back that started all my videos. I've added a few more ideas/minutes to it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 31 Oct 2024 | My best stuff comes from beyond me | 00:08:52 | |
What parts of me are me? A bit of psuedo-philoshophical waffle of an ep. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 05 Dec 2024 | Jay the street writer - interview | 00:37:03 | |
A little chat with Jay who posts "Dear Stranger" letters around the world! Check out Jay's work here: https://www.instagram.com/jaytheauthor/ My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 22 Feb 2023 | Creative burnout - relaxing is hard work | 00:08:57 | |
I'm feeling creatively burnt out, I can't see the poetry in things anymore. Clouds look dead in the sky. So I have to engage in this paradox: the best creativity only comes when unforced and relaxed; so I'm forcing myself to take a break from creativity to relax. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Find me: | |||
| 26 Jan 2024 | Making art for no audience | 00:12:28 | |
A little blah di da reflection on writing without an audience for 30 years. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 13 Feb 2025 | Fear and good art don't belong together | 00:11:37 | |
A few thoughts on AI, creativity and talking to my guardian angel through writing. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 04 Jan 2024 | Documenting the writing process for one of me videos | 00:13:55 | |
I thought I'd document the writing process of one of my videos I shared recently on TikTok and Instagram "Envy disguised as moral highground". Also there's a little bit I learned on writer's rooms (from the Sopranos showrunner, David Chase) at the end. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 31 Aug 2023 | Honouring my 8 year old self's decisions to make books | 00:07:33 | |
Honouring my 8 year old self's decision to make booksNew poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 06 Mar 2025 | When storytelling loses its power | 00:09:26 | |
I'm tired of stories. Just give me a scene with a dream. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 23 Nov 2023 | Shit podcast episode where I was out of ideas | 00:09:54 | |
Shit podcast episode. Huge creative block. And little on letting the unconscious do the heavy lifting in creativity. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 06 Jul 2023 | Road Trip to free up creativity | 00:09:19 | |
Just a little talk to myself on getting unstuck through movement.UM' book, a self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 20 Dec 2022 | Spirits (and other random weekly stuff while walking around talking shit into my phone) | 00:09:34 | |
This weeks brain dump on cat spirits, chanelling my mum's spirit (and a boring conversation from beyond life), and finding garlic in the supermarket. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 12 Oct 2023 | Catching the emotional truth of what I'm writing about | 00:10:09 | |
I blab on about my new writing process to record one minute video poems. and the counter intuitive thing to catch the emotional truth of what I'm writing about.New poetry collection 2023:UM' self help book for creatives:My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 23 Nov 2022 | Writing routine and how social media engagement helps put a book together | 00:12:08 | |
Here I Blah Di Da about putting a book together, the nuts and bolts of my writing routine, and the balance of using engagement on social media to include certain pieces of work in a book. Subscribe to my free Substack to be part of the podcast conversation (below). Happy to answer any questions on this episode, or previous. Substack: https://darbyhudson.substack.com/ IG: @darby_hudson TikTok: @darbyhudson6 web: www.darbyhudsonart.com | |||
| 14 Mar 2024 | The duty to make art in a shit culture | 00:08:33 | |
Here I crap on about traditional gatekeepers and our inner gatekeeper. And Trojan horsing/subversive social commentary through different avenues. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 23 May 2024 | Smuggling your weirdness through years of the cult of sensible | 00:09:28 | |
A few thoughts on smuggling myself through the years of the cult of sensible. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 12 Dec 2024 | Writing stuff that's just for me | 00:09:37 | |
I have a lot of stuff that I can't publish because I know the world's just not ready for it. But it keeps me sane to write it. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 12 Jan 2023 | The Wizard Of Oz and The Never Ending Story are documentaries | 00:09:20 | |
Two childhood films feel more important than the news these days. The world feels upsidedown and often a hostile place to publish the heart's truths. Some thoughts about this. And a quick mention of my new 'best of' book, out in Feb or March! My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Find me: | |||
| 15 Feb 2024 | A little about writing me new book, WORKING NINE LIVES | 00:11:05 | |
This week I read a few poems from my book and talk about a quote from Cormac McCarthy that was in the back of my mind while I wrote it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 10 Apr 2025 | You're Dangerous When You Make Something Beautiful | 00:08:53 | |
Link to John Mescalls full lecture on creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfVnH7qUCAI&t=28s My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 03 Feb 2023 | Earning years of life to earn poetry | 00:10:11 | |
I ramble about what I thought in my 20s, 30s and 40s and how earning years of life brings more conviction to writing through simply recognising the patterns and cycles of the world. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Find me: | |||
| 19 Dec 2024 | Turning the love of art into a job | 00:09:09 | |
Been writing a crime novel. Well a whole page over a year. I'm enjoying tinkering with with the few paragraphs I have. Don't know if I'll ever publish it. But it's fun. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 08 Jun 2023 | Cats and creativity | 00:10:11 | |
Cats have incredible amounts of zen and attitude. I've borrowed much of this when writing my work. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 13 Jun 2024 | Best bits from 88 episodes of this podcast (some of them) | 00:08:52 | |
I took the top ten downloaded episodes, went through the transcripts and found my fave bits from each and here I am reading them out. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 14 Nov 2024 | You need a thin and thick skin to write and promomote your work | 00:11:13 | |
It's a contradiction to hold brutality and tenderness while writing, And promoting your work can feel like shouting about your whispers. You need both. Not only for writing but to promote your work, too. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 08 Feb 2024 | Finishing a book project and starting the next | 00:10:31 | |
This week feels like a bit of a diary entry (recently they sorta have been) but here I waffle-reflect on finishing a book and searching and planting the seeds for a new idea to begin. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 15 Jun 2023 | Waking life runs on dream logic more than we probably care to admit | 00:09:50 | |
There doesn't really feel like there are lessons to be learned when waking life is riddled with dream logic.'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 29 Jun 2023 | Charles Bukowski, poet, and what I've learned from him | 00:15:52 | |
What I've learned from the poet Charles Bukowski.My favourite book of his: The Last Night Of The Earth Poems'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast):My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 16 May 2024 | A hundred bad ideas to write a single good one | 00:10:15 | |
It's thrilling when I post what I think is a shit idea and it resonates with an audience. Especially when all my good ideas don't resonate, and a single bad one does. It reminds me I don't own my creativity My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 10 Oct 2024 | Writers block - things I do to kill it | 00:12:30 | |
A few things I've learned to jumpstart me old brain. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 04 May 2023 | "UM": my little (big) book I've made that's sort of a self help for creatives | 00:12:38 | |
I talk a little about my new book - you can get a 50% discount for the current eBook version, I give the code out towards the end of the episode that you can enter at the checkout on my site. I will make it into a print book. It's basically a distilled version of what I think might be the most useful stuff for artists/creatives that I've mentioned across the previous 30 episodes! :) 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 11 Jul 2024 | The horror of time | 00:09:57 | |
Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock was Twin Peaks before Twin Peaks. (And I love David Lynch). My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 05 Sep 2024 | Taking a break from writing | 00:08:39 | |
Relaxing is hard work for me. Sometime I feel like who I am is too tied up in the stuff I make. So it's interesting to force myself to just be a person without the magic of creativity. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 03 Jan 2023 | 11 poems, artists & places that have greatly inspired me | 00:16:37 | |
My favourite artists and places who have massively inspired my work. Sometimes I feel like I'm just a poor rip off of all my influences. I think as an artist, we grow and move from being inspired by other artists, to the original source itself: places/nature. Links to poems artists mentioned in this episode: Michael Leunig – Come Sit Down Beside Me (poem) https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/430797520581952550/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/leunigstudio/ Charles Bukowski – The Laughing Heart (poem) https://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/11/the-laughing-he.html Mary Oliver – The Journey (poem) http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_thejourney.html Alan Watts – Life And Music (lecture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2pcIbyq-0 Cormac Mcarthy – The Road (novel) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road Adam Elliot – Harvey Krumpet (short film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ClRsCpQfTQ IG: https://www.instagram.com/adam_elliot_clay/ David Lynch – Twin Peaks (TV series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks Andy Jackson –The Thin Bridge (book) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23449414-the-thin-bridge Mark Tredinnick (author) My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Find me: | |||
| 14 Dec 2022 | I wrote this episode by walking | 00:09:21 | |
A good walk kickstarts ideas, thoughts, inspiration. I didn't have anything ready for this episode, so I just started walking and letting it happen. Movement always inspires something. And I love a good flaneuring. Subjects include the anaesthetic qualities of doomscrolling, car mirrors with cobwebs as fly nets for spiders, and just noticing stuff on the streets. Recorded in walking Collingwood streets, alleys and Preston Market, Melbourne. Find me: | |||
| 25 May 2023 | Dressing my words in pyjamas by handwriting | 00:10:52 | |
I've been handwriting again a fair bit. Words look more magical, as if they're dressed in pyjamas when handwritten in pencil. Fonts in Microsoft Word look 'adult' and dressed in suits. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 10 Aug 2023 | I often make my brain to ask itself: what would legs do? | 00:08:37 | |
My legs have taken me to heaven and hell. They've got me into and out of trouble. They're inhabited with a pure spirit. UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 22 Jun 2023 | Making stuff from mess and it's easier than ever to be an individual | 00:11:22 | |
This episode is a bit skittish. I talk about a bunch of random things from growing stuff from your own mess and how easy it is to be an individual and therefore an artist these days.'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast):My 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Find me: | |||
| 01 Mar 2024 | Thinking out loud has changed the way I write | 00:10:18 | |
Thinking aloud helped massively this last year, mainly thanks to making this podcast! I never thought I'd enjoy it. I never know what I'm thinking untiil it tumbles outta my mouth, threads back through my ears and then written with the hand. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 18 Jul 2024 | The hidden door in rock bottom | 00:09:45 | |
I've always been fascinated by the little doors to other worlds scattered in unassuming places. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 14 Sep 2023 | Interview with Tommy Attwood, writer/illustrator | 00:33:41 | |
I interview Tommy Attwood who is a writer and illustrator from the US with a delisciously bent mind. Tommy's Instagram: @spiritualcardboard New poetry collection 2023: UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 30 Mar 2023 | Creativity in trying-not-trying | 00:10:53 | |
I took a few weeks break from writing (a few weeks back). I'm still completely distracting myself with football and de-prioritised writing, and voila, I've never felt more creative. Creativity is a difficult creature that sometimes only seems to arrive when it's not exclusively focused on. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems Find me: | |||
| 30 Nov 2023 | Sticking up poems around the streets and talking to myself | 00:13:10 | |
I walked Melbourne Streets sticking up poems over two days while talking to myself: Gertrude St, Swan St, Greville St, Chapel St, Smith St Brunswick St, Bridge Road, VCA Southbank. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES UM' self help book for creatives: My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 21 Mar 2024 | I know who I am and after all these years there's a victory in that | 00:10:56 | |
This title is after a quote from True Detective season one by Nic Pizzolatto. YouTube clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf4P1uXR6Q This ep I crap on about art being a weird way of connecting, turning strangeness into magic. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 21 Dec 2023 | Physical frailty and creating beyond oneself | 00:08:56 | |
I used to visit a cafe next to a nursing home. It was incredible. Anxiety reducing. And I've noticed how some of my favourite artists write beyond themselves when physically frail and elderly. Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||
| 06 Apr 2023 | Adulting in a creative life | 00:10:16 | |
I've found it hard to balance being in fairly regular contact with the old inner-child, to help creativity, while adulting in a world that has no time for that stuff. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Find me: | |||
| 09 Jan 2025 | Becoming an artist by becoming bad at everything else | 00:10:46 | |
I turned down promotions, relationships, sensible decisions over decades until I'd painted myself into a corner. For better or worse or better. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com My books and prints: Find me: #art #writingtips #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist | |||
| 24 Oct 2022 | Detectives and Poets do the same job | 00:13:36 | |
We crave mystery in a world where there are more answers than questions. Detectives solve mysteries. Poets deepen the mystery. But they both operate on a similar plane. A poem is really a dossier of clues that take you right up to the door of a starless black night, and at that point you have to give yourself over to something vast and unresolved. And that’s the magic. IG: darby_hudson TikTok: darbyhudson6 darbyhudsonart.com | |||
| 09 May 2024 | The sum of our artistic influences... and our life | 00:10:06 | |
I'm the sum of my influences and nearly 50 years of just existing. I've been feeling recently I'm stepping into a void left my some of my favourite artists and writers. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Find me: | |||