Make Dope Shit Podcast

“It's so much better than just sitting there, looking at your virtual rulebook like, what could I possibly do? You just need to make a decision. It's the difference of perspectives. And it's the difference of ‘I've been listening to this particular part so many times that almost I can't hear it a different way.’ And then you bring it to somebody who has not heard your two hours of practicing and s...

“A lot of the magic comes from hand sketching where, because it's imperfect, you often misread someone else's sketch. Your brain auto-fills something that they weren't even thinking. It’s that sort of ambiguity really leads to a lot of interesting different ideas. Someone might be thinking that they sketched something one way, and you interpret it completely differently. Out of that, you get a who...

“My favorite part is when I've got two completely disparate ideas. I think something really important about our humanity is the ability to hold two separate ideas in our heads. To balance them and consider them at the same time. As an artist, juxtaposing ideas and images are some of the most interesting things we can do.  So when I find ways to merge ideas that are completely different that h...

“You've got to be a good director not only for the film but for your crew, your cast, everything. So Whether that means I'm getting better as a director on screen or as I'm getting better as a director for talent or for crew. I guess that's the one thing I try to do each project - just being better, whether that's for myself or for others.” In this episode, I chat with Logan Solana, a director fro...

"I think filmmaking is certainly, when it comes to a creativity perspective, about breaking the rules. I think that's where innovation happens, so that's just kind of part of my philosophy. Obviously, you wanna have a foundation. You wanna have a general idea of what we're trying to go for, but if you can kind of sit back and let an idea just come to you, then you can kinda really create something...

"In a lot of the same ways people approach sports, athletics, martial arts, and physical disciplines, you're gonna suck and it's gonna be hard at first. But it's about pushing through, just showing up, and doing the work. I literally use the term 'putting the reps in,' like getting those 10,000 hours in. You'll get better at whatever it is, whether it's painting, videography, editing, motion graph...

Follow my work at RK Color: https://rkcolor.com Episode Show Notes: https://rkcolor.com/podcast/s1-e5-scarlet-street/ Finding The Right Musical Ingredients “And you’re gonna hear the same riffs so many times, but it’s all about the time and place. It’s a cliche analogy, but it’s like proper ingredients. Like when you’re at a point in a song and you need a certain feeling, you go to your spice rack...

Follow my work at RK Color: https://rkcolor.com Episode Show Notes: https://rkcolor.com/podcast/s1-e4-jug/ The Mad Scientist Of Beat Making "Because. Songs are things that you can feel. You know, you can feel music, you can, it gets into your brain, it makes your spine tingle sometimes." -Jug Jug is a Cincinnati based music producer and mad scientist of beats, with a catalog of ~12,000 beats he's...

Follow my work at RK Color: https://rkcolor.com Episode Show Notes: https://rkcolor.com/podcast/s1-e3-impak/ "You can't get too picky. There's moderation with everything. If you get too picky, you're just gonna make the song worse. Sometimes you just have go with the first take that you did and it was the best one because you were in that moment." -Impak Impak is a musician based out of Cincinnati...

Follow my work at RK Color: https://rkcolor.com Episode Show Notes: https://rkcolor.com/podcast/s1-e2-phantom/ "I was like - music is being an actor. Like you are performing. You are, you know, creating a character. And when I get back to the US I'm gonna find ways to do this." -Phantom Phantom is a musician, actor, and owner of DYD publishing. In this episode we discuss his journey through being...

Follow my work at RK Color: https://rkcolor.com Episode Show Notes: https://rkcolor.com/podcast/s1-e1-holden-mathis/ Seeking Out The Decisive Moment "I don't think that there is really any necessarily decisive way to lock in on where you need to be or what you need to look for to capture the decisive moment. You just keep your head up, move fast, and press the shutter button a lot. Take a lot of p...