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Audio journals on making and teaching comics.

TPD 321 – Favorite Tool

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TPD 320 – Reactions/Community

It’s time for another Art Soundoff entry! This time I’m thinking about my relationship with how I want an audience to react to my work.

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TPD 319 – Playing

It’s another Art Soundoff Prompt: What are you Playing? Well, I’m not playing any video or board games, but I am being playful with my teaching!

Here are the notes I took just before recording:

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TPD 318 – Challenges

Today I do my best to remember what challenges felt like when I was in high school, and how my relationship with them has changed as I’ve aged.

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TPD 317 – Notebooks

I’m following the prompts for Art Soundoff 2023, and today’s is Notebooks.

Here are the notes I took just before recording:

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TPD 316 – Art Soundoff 2023: Introductions

I’m back to doing Art Soundoff again, this time to follow along with my Interactive Media students. I try to model how I think about articulating what I’d like people to know about me.

Before I record I try to draft a few thoughts on a piece of scrap paper. Here are the notes I took just before recording this episode.

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TPD Special: Influences: Indiana Jones, with Jerzy Drozd & Ben Hatke

I’m starting a series of special discussions with some friends, focusing on art that influenced The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. In this first TPD Special I’m joined by Ben Hatke, author of the upcoming Things In the Basement, for an enthusiastic exploration of the Indiana Jones movies. We look at how they resonated with us as young people, how they influenced our work, and what we take away from them today.

Lots of story analysis and philosophy in this one!

If you prefer video, you can listen to the episode on YouTube below.

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TPD 288 – Why be a Teaching Artist?

Closing out my Art Soundoff series with some reflections on why being a teaching artist is so meaningful for me.

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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing and IndyPlanet Digital
Voiceover by Tara Platt
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TPD 287 – What if the Power Goes Out?

Today I share some thoughts on a certain kind of adaptability that will aid you when leading workshops.

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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
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Voiceover by Tara Platt
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TPD 286 – Performance Persona

Today I share a principle I observe when thinking about my the performance I put on with every workshop or class.

Links mentioned:

Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing and IndyPlanet Digital
Voiceover by Tara Platt
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