I've been listening to the podcast for quite a while now -- I can't remember when I started -- but I should have been listening longer. My partner listened way before me, and I used to just overhear his playing from the computer. It took me a little while to get into the whole podcast thing, but now I love them. I also listen to
Sunday Night Safran,
The Signal,
The Week in Whedon,
KnitWit - Rantings of a Rabid Knitter,
Firefly Talk,
Film Buff's Podcast,
CraftyPod,
Crafty Chica,
Craft Borg,
Cast-On and
Craft Sanity. My favourites by far are Filmspotting, Cast-On (a knitting podcast) and Sunday Night Safran (a podcast of an Australian radio show -- the tagline is "Religion, Politics and Hoochies", if that gives you any idea of what it's about...)
Anyway, I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my partner and two dogs. I'm 27. I studied advertising at uni straight out of high school, instead of doing a fine art degree (thought I should probably do something that would make me money). I studied art direction and copywriting all through the course, and worked for three years as a copywriter when I finished uni. It turns out I hate ads, so one retrenchment package and three or so years later, I'm back at uni studying what I really wanted to in the first place -- fine arts with a major in printmaking. I also study a media arts subject called Hybrid Media, where we get to make fun little animations. I'm currently working on my major project for the semester, which will be origami stop-motion. Projects from my first semester can be seen
here,
here,
here and
here. I also have a lot of other work on
my website,
my blog (this is where all the artwork has been shown recently -- it hasn't made it to the other part of the website yet), and
my Flickr page. Oh, and I have a thoroughly neglected podcast about art called
FreakPods -- I'm hoping to get another podcast up within the next couple of weeks.
Anyway, as you can probably tell from the podcast list up there, I love making stuff. I'm a printmaker, but I also do lots of fibre arts (knitting, sewing, embroidery, spinning yarn), jewellery making, book making, and sculpture-esque, drawing and painting things. I have a relatively mindless casual retail job to pay the rent and keep me sane (lesson one learned from my advertising career -- avoid "creative" jobs like the plague if you have any interest in doing anything creative on your own time).