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023: Celebrate the difference! (Alex Cherry Part 2)

023: Celebrate the difference! (Alex Cherry Part 2)

FromYour Creative Push


023: Celebrate the difference! (Alex Cherry Part 2)

FromYour Creative Push

ratings:
Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Feb 13, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Alex Cherry is an LA-based digital artist who blurs the lines between art and design.  He draws his inspiration from film, music, and pop culture to make stunning images that will always make you think.
Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/alexcherry2
In this episode, Alex discusses:
-The issue of copying and how we have to get over it.
-The importance of thinking about new things every day.
-A recent negative experience he had and how it led to an "artistic PTSD."
-The story about how he met his fiance through his art.
-A rapper suggestion for Youngman Brown to help him with his insecurities about his own monotone voice.
-The last words his grandmother said to him, and the impact that it has on his life.
Alex's Final Push will grant you permission to create!
 
Quotes:
"I heard that 90% of communication is non-verbal, and it's so true.  We put too much value in words."
"It's not the what.  It's the how."
"You never know in which ways you influence people or potentially change someones life.  You may never find out about that."
"You have to be lovingly detached from the ego."
"The best way to not produce any work is to think about the identity of that work."
"Just create what you think the world needs."
"Celebrate the difference."
"So much of creativity is like capturing lightning in a bottle.  You can't really control the lightning, so you have to create an environment to capture the lightning."
"You don't tell a tree how to grow.  You just water it and then it grows.  That's how creativity is."
Links mentioned:
The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast
Gang Starr
Connect with Alex:
Website / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter
Released:
Feb 13, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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Your Creative Push is the daily podcast that pushes YOU to pursue your creative passion. Every week, Youngman Brown interviews artists, musicians, writers, photographers, graphic designers, and other inspirational creative individuals in an attempt to get them to inspire you to put aside your excuses and START DOING WORK. Each artist opens up to YOU, revealing the things that hold THEM back on a daily basis, and how they FIGHT THROUGH IT. They then give you one final push, in an attempt to motivate you to start doing work as soon as the episode is over. If you have a full-time job or full-time responsibilities and WISH that you had the COURAGE and MOTIVATION to FINALLY do that thing that has been on your mind, this podcast is for you!