Episode 2 – The Chef and The Cook

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03/01/13 • -1 min

Episodes – We're Gonna Make It!

Episode 2:

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For our second episode, we promptly defy expectation and jump this audio-train right off its tracks. With which medium should we best be studying independent art? Would that be painting? Music? Film? Nope. We chose cooking.

Our two guests today are both culinary artists within the Okanagan Valley: one is a student, the other a self-taught master. Together, they make a sort of socially awkward but thoroughly amusing episode.

Liam McNulty is the head chef at Nk’Mip Cellars in Osoyoos, BC, providing amazing patio meals during the summer months. He has worked at several other winery restaurants, and such venues as BiBO in Nelson before settling in the desert.

Colton Vieau is a culinary student in Kelowna, BC by day, working at Earls by night. He’s like, 18.

One of the great advantages to having these supremely talented foodsmiths on our show was that they were able to advise us in our first great cookoff. With the guests serving as coaches, Moss and Taylor engaged in a ferocious test of creativity and skill.

Mistakes were made, wine was drunk, expired cheese was purchased, inappropriate flours were substituted for their superior counterparts, and in the end our gladiators presented their meals for the scrutiny of the professionals.

Both dishes are shown below, but to find out what’s in them and who won in the end, you’ll have to listen to the show!

Taylor’s Meal

Moss’ Meal

This episode’s soundtrack features the following track by OLAV:

(Colton’s Theme)

Episode 2:

http://archive.org/download/WereGonnaMakeItE02/We%2527re%20Gonna%20Make%20It%20E02.mp3

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Colton Vieau is a culinary student in Kelowna, BC by day, working at Earls by night. He’s like, 18.

Both dishes are shown below, but to find out what’s in them and who won in the end, you’ll have to listen to the show!

Taylor’s Meal

Moss’ Meal

This episode’s soundtrack features the following track by OLAV:

(Colton’s Theme)

Previous Episode

Episode 1 – The Visual Artist and the Musician

Episode 1:

http://archive.org/download/WereGonnaMakeIt-Ep1/WereGonnaMakeItE01.mp3

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Welcome to We’re Gonna Make It, a podcast about art, artists, and the fierce creative rivalry between a newly engaged couple. In our inaugural episode, we try to simplify all the artistic monuments of the world into two simple categories: things you can look at, and things you can hear.

While we may have failed in our gross attempts at categorization, we did get a few interesting conversations out of it.

Jennifer Cook is a visual artist and designer from Victoria, BC. She works at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and keeps a sporadically updated selection of her work at yourstrulydesign.wordpress.com

Colin Liseth is better known as OLAV. A DJ and electronic music producer, OLAV can also be seen in Victoria on a monthly basis playing at Lucky Bar. His music can also be found online at olav.bandcamp.com

One of the reasons we pulled a designer and a musician onto our first episode was to have them do our dirty work for us. We needed a logo and a theme song to accompany this show, so Jenn and Colin each competed against the hosts for the honour of having their work represent We’re Gonna’ Make It.

The contestant pieces are all below after the break, but to find out which ones won the contest, you’re just going to have to listen to the show!

...or look at the top of the website.

Moss’ Theme Song: listen

Moss’ Logo:

Taylor’s Theme Song: listen (and please don’t tell RCA records)

Taylor’s Logo:

Colin’s Theme Song: listen

Jennifer’s Logo:

This episode’s soundtrack featured the following tracks by OLAV:

Sands (Jenn’s Intro)

It’s Whales (Jenn’s Complication)

Reflecting His Changing Spirits in Sonance (Jenn’s Outro)

More Than I Can Handle (Colin’s Intro)

Error Arp (Colin’s Featured Track)

Us (Colin’s Outro)

Next Episode

Episode 3 – The Photographers

Episode 3:

http://archive.org/download/WereGonnaMakeItE03/We%2527re%20Gonna%20Make%20It%20E03.mp3

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In this, the third episode of We’re Gonna Make It, we tackle one of the most prolific hobbies in the world. With the dawn of digital cameras and the rise of interactive Web 2.0 culture, photography has become a medium in which anybody with a cell phone and a Flickr account can become an artist.

But has this inundation of the form weakened its merits? Today, to reflect the huge audience for this medium, we go broad and talk to five different artists, some professional and some amateur, and we try to learn what it is about photography that makes them passionate.

Andrew Dodd Clippingdale is an event and promotional photographer in Victoria, BC, who also juggles the life of a filmmaker, graphic designer, and DJ.

His company, Dodd’s Eye Media, can be found at facebook.com/doddseyemedia and you can see some of his choice pieces at flickr.com/photos/doddseyemedia/

He takes pictures using a Canon EOS 7D. He describes it as “pretty okay.”

Kristy Westendorp is a lifestyle photographer who operates out of the greater Victoria area. She dabbled in the field of boudoir photography before moving on to more family-oriented work.

She is on maternity leave right now with her second child, so she doesn’t have a current website of her work, but you can find her by searching for Kristy Westendorp Photography, and we’ll be sure to update her profile here.

She uses a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, typically with lenses ranging from a 50mm 1.4 to an 85mm 1.8 (I don’t know what these numbers mean.)

Ally Butler works for the provincial government in Vancouver, BC. Her most fond memories of photography are from its unseen technical side, from when she worked as a photo technician.

She uses a Nikon D90, but also has her old film cameras: a Nikon F80, and the Canon AE-1 her dad gave her to get her interested in photography.

Justin Holmes is a Vancouver-based programmer with an education in photography. He takes pictures as a way to simply document life, without artistic ambitions.

He uses a Nikon something-or-other, a broken Canon SD600, and his phone, which is actually his best camera.

Jennifer Cook is still an artist in Victoria, BC. (Nothing’s changed there since our first episode.) She believes in a creative approach to photography, staging elaborate scenes with an air of theatricality.

She uses a Nikon D5000 these days, which she prizes for its swivel screen. She also has a toybox full of cruddy old film cameras, including her prized Holga.

This pantheon of artists gave the hosts, Moss and Taylor, a series of photo tasks that harrowed their very souls and drove them extremely close to the edge of reasonable sanity. To see the pictures they took, and to get a detailed breakdown of how the judges voted, follow the link (Warning: Major Spoilers for Episode 3.)

The We’re Gonna Make It Episode 3 Photographic Portfolio
With Judging Scores!!

This episode’s soundtrack includes the following tracks by OLAV:

(Andrew and Kristy’s theme)

(Ally and Justin’s theme)

(Jennifer’s theme)