HeyJaredWar with Art
The weekly podcast that helps you fight your creative battles!Hosted by three professional game developers by day, and writer (S. M. Carter), musician (George Spanos), and artist (Eric Vedder) by night.See liner notes for each show at warwithart.com
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Oblique Strategies: "Use an Unacceptable Colour" (opens the original)
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George, Eric, and Sheldon draw another prompt from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s iconic Oblique Strategies deck. This episode’s pull delivers a simple yet provocative constraint: "Use an unacceptable color." From out-of-key "blue notes" in jazz and microtonal progressive rock to structural leaps in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, we explore how breaking established rules creates lasting friction. We dive into visual art history with Hans Holbein’s 1533 painting The Ambassadors—and its jarri
Aardehn is DONE! (opens the original)
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A small victory in the War with Art. In this episode What it actually feels like to finish a major creative project The strange emptiness that can follow years of focused work Why finishing something can feel a little like grieving Learning to accept that a work is finished—even when you can still see things you'd change The transition from making a project to letting other people experience it The long journey of Aardehn: Awakening Returning to Fan Expo, where the Kickstarter began Finally gett
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