One Thing Real Quick

The Guest

Mary Kate McDevitt is a designer, illustrator, and lettering artist from Philadelphia. Her unique and engaging style embraces the hand-made. Her work has been featured in various print and online publications. Clients include Smuckers, Sesame Street, Nike, AT&T, Target, Nintendo, Chronical Books, and way more. She has published multiple books on illustration and lettering and she teaches workshops online and in person. Go check out her work at marykatemcdevitt.com.

The Question

How does where you are, affect what you make?

The Notes

Our conversation is all about location. The context in which Mary Kate finds herself, and how living in different cities has impacted her career and work. We explore geographical locations and locations within her neighborhood and even within her studio space.

We discuss remote working, the value of big and small cities, coffee shops, large work tables, tin cars and talking skeletons.

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Links

• Mary Kate McDevitt’s website: https://www.marykatemcdevitt.com/
• Follow Mary Kate on social: @marykatemcdevitt on Instagram, @marykatemcd on Twitter.
• Our website: http://onethingrealquick.com/
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We’re picking up part two of an audio documentary about an audio drama. Lex Noteboom is an independent podcast creator from Amsterdam. He’s the creator of an audio drama called The Deca Tapes. It’s a sci-fi-ish dystopian-future mystery show. In March of 2018, Lex quit his job and spent a year writing, directing and producing the podcast.

In this second part of the story, we follow Lex’s process week by week as he works to build an audience for The Deca Tapes. Evan interviewed Lex before, during and after the release of all eight episodes, following his process for about 10 weeks. Listen for a break down of six things that Lex did to promote the show and hear the result of his work.

The Question

Same as the first part: How do you build an audience for a creative work?

We talked with some other podcasters to tell this story. Indie podcast supporter, Zach Auld of a show called Podcast Junkie and podcasting veteran, Evo Terra. While we’re talking with a lot of podcasters, these principles can be applied to just about any other kind of creative endeavor.

This episode was created and produced by Evan MacDonald. Edited by Evan with some help from John M. Craig, our associate producer. Sound design, music, and scoring by Evan MacDonald.

Notes and Links

• Listen to the Deca Tapes: https://fanlink.to/TDT
• The Deca Tapes website: https://www.thedecatapes.com/
• Find The Deca Tapes on Social: Twitter & Instagram
• Podcast Junkie, the podcast, can be found here: https://www.castjunkie.com/
• Join the Podcast Junkie discord server here: https://discordapp.com/invite/napQ3Cb
• Get Evo Terra’s podcast here: https://podcastpontifications.com/ and Simpler Media Productions at http://PodcastLaunch.pro
• The Infinite Dial (the report Evo Terra referenced)
• The One Thing Real Quick website: http://onethingrealquick.com/
• Find @OTRQpodcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
• Write a review or leave a rating for OTRQ at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-thing-real-quick/id1448979948

Lex Noteboom is an independent podcast creator from Amsterdam. He’s the creator of an audio drama called The Deca Tapes. It’s a sci-fi-ish dystopian-future mystery show. In March of 2018, Lex quit his job in advertising and spent a year writing, directing and producing the podcast. And then leading up to its March 2019 release, Lex started to promote the show.

The Question

How do you build an audience for a creative work?

This is part one of a two-part audio documentary about Lex’s process of finding (or creating) an audience for The Deca Tapes. We interviewed Lex before, during and after the release of all eight episodes, following his process for about 10 weeks. This episode centers around a conversation we had in the week leading up to the show's debut.

Links and Notes:

• Listen to the Deca Tapes: https://fanlink.to/TDT
• The Deca Tapes website: https://www.thedecatapes.com/
• TDT Social Pages: Twitter & Instagram
• The One Thing Real Quick website: http://onethingrealquick.com/
• Find @OTRQpodcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
• Write a review or leave a rating for OTRQ at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-thing-real-quick/id1448979948

One Thing Real Quick is created and produced by Evan MacDonald. John M. Craig is our Associate Producer. Music by Evan MacDonald.

Meet Rachel Alina, a Brooklyn-based mixing engineer, poet, and instructor at Berklee College of Music. She's been in the studio with Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Katy Perry, King Garbage, Selena Gomez, Greg Wells, Helado Negro, Stephen Marley and others. She's worked in some of today's legendary studios and learned from the best in the music business.

The Question

What role has mentorship played in your development as a professional creative?

In this interview, we talk about Rachel's path from graduation from Berklee up through today, discussing her mentors along the way. Rachel's experience with mentors of all kinds has given her an open approach to receiving and giving mentorship.

Notes and Links:

• Visit Rachel Alina's website here: http://www.rachelalina.com/
• Preorder her book of poetry, Locals here: http://smarturl.it/locals-ifyouswim
• Follow Rachel Alina on Twitter: @rachalina : https://twitter.com/rachalina
• And on Instagram: @rach.alina http://instagram.com/rach.alina
• Learn about Berklee College of Music at: https://www.berklee.edu/ and https://online.berklee.edu/
• You can watch Rivers & Tides, the film Rachel mentions in the interview, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP2AfqyOsI
• Find One Thing Real Quick on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook (@OTRQpodcast for all three)
• Subscribe and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts (or where ever you like to listen)
• Get audiobooks from Libro.fm (use the offer code OTRQ and get three for the price of one)

Eric Karjaluoto a Vancouver BC based designer. He’s one of the two guys behind SmashLAB, a small design studio which he co-founded 19 years ago. Clients include Arc’teryx, Saltspring Soapworks, The Nature Conservancy, The Vancouver Aquarium, and a bunch more. He’s written two books, The Design Method and Speak Human. And together with his business partner, Eric Shelkie, he’s built a handful of useful side projects, including Officehours, Campnab, and Emetti, to name a few.

The Question: How do we slow down and focus on what really matters?

I was sent a link to one of Eric’s blog articles, How to Keep Sane, In Faketopia. After reading it, I sent Eric an email and asked him to tell me more about the ideas from his article.

In our conversation we talk about the fakery in social media, the idea that feeding the ‘social media beast’ doesn’t do anything to help our us reach our career goals, and how being real about what’s most important can help us get more out of life and work alike. In short, we’re talking about how to tidy up our list of priorities.

Links

• SmashLAB (where Eric works) http://www.smashlab.com/
• Eric Karjaluoto’s Website (where he writes) http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/
• The article we talked about today http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/how-to-keep-yourself-sane-in-faketopia/
• Eric’s Twitter is @karj
• Eric make products including Campnab, Officehours, and Emetti
• We are all famous to a few people — Having cancer on social media
• Go listen to Design Tomorrow (a podcast about design, technology and being human) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-tomorrow/id1433919260?mt=2
• Find One Thing Real Quick on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook (@OTRQpodcast for all three)
• Subscribe and leave a rating and review at Apple Podcasts (or where ever you like to listen)
• Get audiobooks from Libro.fm (use the offer code OTRQ and get three for the price of one)