Yelling At Concrete

This week I sit down with the lovely Gianna Paniagua as we talk about the art world, health and the troubles all in between. Gianna is an artist foremost focused on tactile and illustrative work and through her varied career has had a focus on mindful practice, chronic illness and medicine in general. As a heart transplant survivor she has explore her own experiences with her own health her history and built a career in brilliantly bashful approaches to engaging galleries, artists and topics. Creating installations, comics looking at graphic medicine and talking on a multitude of topics. We sit down to talk the challenges of being an artist in how to engage with that world which can be a monolith of information at times. How those hidden doors work and how often when art comes easy networking is the largest challenge.Find out more about Gianna here:https://giannapaniagua.squarespace.com/https://www.instagram.com/tragicdarling/https://tragicdarling.wordpress.com/The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts

I am a firm believer that all things can be art, you only need label them as such. I also believe there is good and bad art. Something I think is important to remember when dealing with artists though is that art is accidental. There is a level of organic chaos which is resonant in creation and whilst I'm not declaring all art is a fluke or can be waved away or "anyone can do that" I am saying declaring yourself the best is wrong and saying all things were intended at the time of creation is also wrong.But hey maybe I'm just bad at art.The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully funded in terms of the running costs! It's only $1 or £1 depending on your locatio

This week i sit down for a rare in person podcast where I travel to Mystic Connecticut for the first time to meet Stacy Crouse! Stacy is healer and counselor who believes in radical love and connection to humanity through enlightenment through life. So how did she end up talking to spiritually cynical concrete? Well as despite our approaches to life differing we have something huge in common. We like learning about people, supporting communities and building strong human connections. And seeing as this whole podcast is based upon life experience and conversation It seemed like a great opportunity to meet an online friend and see more of the country. So sit back, chill and a warning that there is discussion of family death in this episode. As we dive into what makes the world go around and how Stacy found space within intense experiences.Find more of Stacy:https://www.instagram.com/siddhanimomma/https://www.siddhaniwellness.com/about-stacy-modern-shamanThe show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/

This week I sit still to talk life lessons, discovery and how the outside world really can impact what you thought you were teaching yourself. With talk on self care and injury it's worth taking a step back some times and making a piece for yourself rather than other people. So this week I try to remind myself that I have been through things before and will again.The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully funded in terms of the running costs! It's only $1 or £1 depending on your location and means this can be a truly not for profit creation!Thanks for your time and Hope you have a great yearGraham Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we take a deep dive into creatures, monsters and practical effects industry with Adam Dougherty of  @KreatureKid . Adam is someone I have followed for a while after he was recommended to me by another guest and in getting to talk to him we talk through the challenges of the industry. The impact online bullying can have on creatives and reflect on what it really takes to make something you're passionate about. Find more of Adams work at :https://www.instagram.com/kreaturekid/ https://www.kreaturekid.com/https://www.tiktok.com/@kreaturekidThe show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully funded in terms of the running costs! It's only $1 or £1 depen

This week I sit down to discuss reproduction, sampling, creation and growth as an artist and how different mediums have different cultures around the way they create.Really i depends on mindset more than anything and honesty when making art. If you were inspire. TELL PEOPLE. Don't hide it. My own channel name is based on a Simpsons quote!But tell me your views I'm curious.Drill:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123159625-deeping-itThe show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully funded in terms of the running costs! It's only $1 or £1 depending on your location and means this can be a truly not for profit creation!Thanks for your time and Hope you have a great yea

This week I get to sit down with comic creator, journalist, zine maker extraordinaire that is Caitlin Cook. Better known as Cooklin online I've been following her work a long while after discovering her comics about depression and then getting an insight into Asexuality through her other work. Not one to shy away from the harder topics and with a great sense of humour and story telling I thought she'd be a great person to catch up with.We sit down to talk varied backgrounds of artists and how that comes into play when you create and market your work but also how that helps balance your own expectations of what can be achieved. Caitlin has a storied background in media and news and had a book coming out in the near term dealing in memoirs and sexuality so I highly recommend checking her out and giving her a follow to find out more!Find Cooklin at:https://www.instagram.com/cooklin_comics/https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/artist/cooklinhttps://www.etsy.com/shop/CooklinComicsStorehttps://linktr.ee/cooklinht

This week I sit down to talk, trail and error. To talk failure to talk about how easy is it to be stopped at the first hurdle, the first locked door and figuring out the world. I am a person who for my own faults does not give up easily. I'll try to make it fit. To make it work. To build the thing my self but I don't know I was always like this. So lets talk about it and coin a phrase. Rate of inconvenience. How many inconveniences do you need to have for you to no longer progress and to either give up or frustrate/convince yourself not to move forward and if you can identify that number...can you improve it?The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully funded in

This week I sit down with actor, teacher and overall performance creator  ⁨@ryangilmartin5876⁩  as we talk about a challenge. Ryan like myself is from a background in small towns and villages but also like me has been and seen plenty of the world. Creating shows and experiences Ryan mixes history, folklore and insight to try and bring more creative opportunities to the world. So this week we talk about the challenge of doing that in smaller and more rural places. Embracing the native homesteads and looking at how places like the East Midlands, Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and Humberside (I could keep going) face a challenge with not only finding creative and conceptually forward spaces but how generating those places can be a challenge too. To bring something not purely functional to an area where frivolity is met with suspicion is a challenge and a topic close to my core!I do suggest you check out Ryan and what he's up to. At the time this episode goes live he's performing in "Henry the VIII us

This week I slide down the counter to talk about how rarely some decisions are in your hand, be it through resources, days of the week or simply that the options are too many. I talk through a lazy easter Sunday and think on all that could have been and how my mind often doesn't let me rest.Something I think a lot of people end up dealing with is indecision and splitting priority. Because the world is abundant and you have so much to do and want to do and so little time. So this week I talk through that.The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully funded in terms of the running costs! It's only $1 or £1 depending on your location and means this can be a truly no

This week I sat down with Mariela Flor Olivo "Mari" who talked me through the wonderful world of learning! Mari is an extremely talented individual who has taken on exploring art and creation through performance and continues to do so. This week we talk about how learning skills of self expression is more than just mastering the art itself but gives you all these extra talents like people skills, cognitive theory and mindful practice that transfer to the day to day work we do!I've seen this no end in real life working with people who have side passions and who have made their living at the behest of their art but made it to support their own art as well. So if you're worried about the careful balance of art and capitalism or how working class artists get left behind you should maybe sit down for this chat too as it might help perspective or how people from different backgrounds can find their spaces to create. Find Mari at https://www.youtube.com/@UCGS93DT20dV_vH9SVdxwiSA https://www.instagram.com/musicalmari

This week I sit down to talk cognition and problem solving. It seems more often than not when I talk to people about problems the main blocker is they are thinking about it. Over thinking it. Needing to map an idea out and really detail through something. Which is one way of doing it. The other is to go the other approach. Stop thinking. Do something else. Watch something. Entertain yourself. Put your body through some stress. My theory is as a human we've have fight or flight and during moments when we are problem fixated you can use that fight or flight to cut through to what you truly want. So this week I cosy in and sit and think about the notion of just not thinking.The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38

This week i get to sit down with  @KyranScott  comedian and grassroot event creator. As we talk all things comedy. Whilst this isn't a comedy podcast intentionally we've had some funny moments and was great to take a moment and catch up with a friend in the scene. We talk open mics, Old school comics, indie events and how to build something from the ground up!You can catch up with Kyrans antics at https://www.instagram.com/cannedmeatcomedy/https://www.instagram.com/kyranscott_94/and youtube!The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully funded in terms of the running costs! It's only $1 or £1 depending on your location and means this can be a truly not f

This week we talk the draw backs, the struggles the problems with having multiple interests. Being multi interested can be a problem for a creative soul. It means you'll always be stretched thin, always struggle to target an audience and over all always have unfinished ambitions but at the same time...Damn it's fun.After recent conversations with guests  @ItsKavi  and  @AllOneVoice  It seems like I'm not alone in my pursuit of being a little bit of everything all at once. So this week I sit down to talk about how to manage that expectation and perhaps give a little insight for budding creatives.The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully fun

Continuing the chain letter of suggested guests! This week I got time to sit down with Ska Punk extraordinaire  @DavidMcWane  Former drummer now Singer of Big D and The Kids Table. A band who I actually found out about maybe 20+ years ago when I was coming up through the alternative music scene. Dave sat down with me to talk multiple topics the main of which is the American fascination with idols and royals and the impact that can have on artists starting out. It's a sobering lesson for anyone trying to create to know there is a blocker ahead but by recognizing it we can challenge it and keep creating!You should definitely check out Daves music  @bigdandthekidstable  Especially as they are on tour and live music is life blood! But also sit down and consider if you've been stunted by the rigged game.The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yell

More of a conceptual walk through that a narrative one. After seeing a mountain of Essays and reviews of The Simpsons I decided the only real apporach I could take is to ask. Is it art or is it just content and filler?So join us as I think about what art means and if oddly enough The Simpsons could be considered bad content but good art?The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteSupport us onhttps://www.patreon.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the show fully funded in terms of the running costs! It's only $1 or £1 depending on your location and means this can be a truly not for profit creation!Thanks for your time and Hope you have a great yearGraham Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week i sit down with a word smith in the form of  @AllOneVoice  Bruce. Bruce is a writer, rapper, poet and journalist who i know of having seen him perform along side one of my other guests! I sort of knew Bruce would be a great conversation to have as his work often delves into topic i consider in my own creative process as well as just being a very well rounded creator who is simply looking at the core to express and enjoy that journey.This week we sit down to talk method, to talk creation and figure out inspirations impact on how you come to be as an artist. A lot of art especially in the modern era is seen as imitational but art inspiration can come from any method or moment not just ones in the same vien as your own. So sit down, grab a drink and consider these points. Also check out Bruce's work. He's just released an EP Four Maras and I think you'll enjoy his workhttps://allonevoice.bandcamp.com/album/four-marashttps://soundcloud.com/allonevoicehttps://www.instagram.com/allonevoice/The s

As we enter the new year it's important to take stock and listen to your mind and your body and the random man on the internet as he has a slight breakdown of recent conversations he's had about why we create art. How we improve on ourselves and how that comes through in the work we make. Resolutions can be a flag, a badge of honour or just a bench mark but they dont need to be ruiners of your self esteem and progress. So we discuss how better is a false term and too vague or a line to request feedback or even consider yourself. I'd love to hear the challenges you're setting yourself though and goals for the future so it you're so inclined let me know below. Meanwhile welcome back.The show is available on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcreteIf you'd like to support at all there is a patreon and I have the goal of finding 38 members by the end of the year to make the

Welcome to 2025! First episode of the year as is tradition I sit down with my brother Martyn and this time his Partner Amy  @AlternativeAdventures  as we discuss the state of online and what really is "cool" when it comes to an online database of content. Is it slang and constant clout being shown off? Is it just a database of information? Is this just a man in his late thirties complaining about how he's struggling to find content he connects with? It could be all of the above!Whilst myself and Martyn are very similar we differ on many key points and one is how to rectify this. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter in the comments and until then you can check out Amy and Martyn on their channel and find the podcast on other platforms:Alt adventureshttps://www.youtube.com/@UCNt5dFXQHz7u92xOBuLnMKQ Available also on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcre

Bad is subjective but throwing out a whole things because of one aspect of what you were expecting to me seems like madness? Maybe I'm becoming the poster child of middle ground but I think you can enjoy much more in life if you embrace the things which change your view and expectations.So lets talk, about bad things. Inspired by the recent Joker 2 reviews and Borderlands debacle I decided to look more internally a the things i've disliked and ask is what I like bad or was it just not what I expected?Available also on:Ituneshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yelling-at-concrete/id1238765054Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3T2OhYE07edgaBDXrm86saAcasthttps://shows.acast.com/yellingatconcrete Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.