002a - Harlan Whitman (OOAK Forge) (better audio)

I know I said the audio quality wasn't the best on this episode, but the original upload was actually unreasonably terrible - worse than I knew due to an uploading technical glitch. However, it's fixed now! Good learning for me for the future. On to this episode....
Harlan Whitman is a jack of all trades and master of many.
He is the founder of OOAK (One Of A Kind) Forge, which makes knives, slingshots, pizza slayers (Say whaaaat? You just have to see them - they're awesome), and is a venue where he dreams up new beautiful, functional and durable products built to last.
Harlan's work outside of OOAK Forge has spanned media such as building and making furniture, instruments, jewelry, gravity bikes, large scale sculptures, swords, and he has helped create props, puppets and animatronics for massive events such as the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and for well known performing artists on stage.
I sat down with Harlan to talk about what experiences have formed the way he approaches his art and his life as an artist. He shares about the differences between creating art for art’s sake and creating art to make a living, as well as what qualities young artists may want to focus on while moving forward with their careers in the current landscape of social media marketing and constant judgment from the haters and trolls.
Check out Harlan's work on his instagram and webpage:
https://www.instagram.com/ooakforge/
https://www.ooakforge.com/
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