7. Kaylee Hawley: Don't Be Afraid of a Bad Drawing

11/16/23 • 52 min

Description:
Kaylee Hawley and I chat finding your style while following your bliss and making preschoolers defend their art on gallery walks!
Follow Kaylee:
IG: @kayleehawley
IG: @ducks_ina_row
Website: www.kayleehawley.com
Ducks in a Row store
Agency: Radish House
Melrose Trading Place on Sundays
School: El Sol Academy
Blue Sky Academy of Art
Creator's Challenge: Draw from Observation
Go to a coffee shop or public place; be present and aware of the beauty around you. Collect visual images.
Quote:
"Don't be afraid of a bad drawing. - Kaylee Hawley
"You'll live a happy life if every day you create something, you learn something, and do something physically."
"It's better to say 'oh well' than 'what if'."
Bio:
My guest Kaylee Hawley is an Illustrator and Art Teacher. She's represented by Radish House Agency where she's working on multiple projects including two children's books. She’s illustrating them as we speak! She is also working on her brand Ducks in a Row whose mission is to create and sell products based on organization, creativity, and positivity.
Kaylee is an elementary and middle school art teacher (I wish I was so lucky to have had her!) She works with artists and El Sol Science and Arts Academy and at Blue Sky Academy of Art. She is a positive force of nature to be reckoned with and her illustrations are beautiful and uplifting. I encourage you to check them out, especially if you have young artists or Elementary or Middle School teachers in your life.
Mentioned:
Luca Malacrino (Kaylee's husband)
Pasadena Arts College
Kyle Payne (Jessica's husband) @therealkylepayne
"Luca Magoo Don't Eat the Glue"
California State University, Fullerton

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6. Levi Petree: Sing Your Heart Out

6. Levi Petree: Sing Your Heart Out
Levi Petree and I chat Cajun roots and picking up a dream later than you'd expect. We dig into how he brought me joy after heartbreak and how he's walking the same road himself.
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levistpetree
radiopublicapresents
LeviPetree.com
IMDB
Acting Reel
Music Reel
Creator's Challenge:
Come up with two melodies; a verse and a chorus that you can sing around the house and record it.
Bio & Intro
Levi Petree is an actor, musician and writer. He was born on the bayou in Lafayette, LA and his Cajun roots shine through all his work.
He's a formally trained actor with Steppenwolf street cred. In LA, he has worked in film, tv, commercials, industrials, narrative audio, theatre, and live events.
He's also a rocker who writes incredibly fun songs with influences ranging from rock and country to new wave and British Punk. He and his band, The Radio Publica always incites some raucus dancing, and have an album sarcastically titled "It's Country."
I've seen Levi perform classic rock in a Vegas Casino, a ballad over gun violence on the Sunset Strip, Cajun country at a Hootenany, and as a vampire in downtown LA, and somehow they all completely work.
I'm delighted to introduce you to this exhuberant artist and human who I put in my work whenever I can, Levi Petree!
Mentioned
Deanna Bedoya
Joanne at Rage Talent
Sarah Jessica "SJ" Rhodes Smith
Jacob Smith
Band: Radio Publica
Sean Novak
Chad McKinsey
"Rusty" Ryan Dean Porter
Jeff Ginsburg (taught at Columbia)
Sheldon Pitinkin (Columbia, Steppenwolf, 2nd City)
Monica Payne (Meisner Teacher)
Amy Morton (Meisner Teacher)
Sally Reed - actor from Scotland
Meisner Technique

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8B. Bonus Episode: Dr. Ben Samuel - Breaking Down AI Storytelling

Dr. Ben Samuel and I talk his performances on Hulu and Netflix, how he is crafting the future of storytelling by having AI and humans build worlds together.
Watch for 8B's bonus episode where we dive into the difference between styles of AI generation of and the shifts we need to keep AI storytelling a diverse and inclusive landscape.
Dr. Ben Samuel is an actor, improvisor, game designer and developer, and a recently tenured assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans. As an actor, Ben starred in Hulu's first scripted series, "Battleground" where the New York Times said he was the best reason to watch the show. He was a breakout audience favorite in the reality show "Dating Around." The AP said he was adored and both The Times and Wired praise his likability and compare him to Danielle Radcliffe as "Harry Potter."
In his work as an interactive game designer, Ben is building the platorms that will shape the future of storytelling. His game Bad News is an AI social simulation blended with live improvised performance. He created the social physics engine Ensemble. His social simulation game Prom Week made Richard Evans, the AI lead of Sims 3s say the "characters in Prom Week are capable of doing things that Sims couldn't even dream of."
And his current project Bad News combines AI social simulation and world generation with live improvised interaction. His team has presented Bad News at SlamDance film Festival, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, toured it internationally, and they won the Audience Choice Award at Indicade Game Festival, one of the largest independent gaming festivals.
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IG: Progresspian
IMDB
LinkedIn
NY Times Article on him in Hulu's "Battleground"
Bad News game
"Dating Around" AP Interview
"Prom Week" game
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