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    Jeffery Saddoris

    I released my first podcast in 2009. I was hooked and have been recording deep-dive conversations with interesting and creative people about what they do and why they do it ever since.

    I like to think of these shows as three aspects of a larger conversation around creativity. In Process Driven, I talk with creators from a wide range of disciplines to discuss what they do and why. Deep Natter offers purposeful conversations with a variety of co-hosts that explore both the philosophical and practical sides of creativity and making art. Iterations is centered around solo observations and reflections, mostly around visual arts and my own creative process—like an inner monologue caught on tape.

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    Iteration 98: Prompt. View. Repeat. May 07, 2023
    Show notes

    You don’t have to look far to know that AI is everywhere and it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. It’s in the news and on social media. It’s what your colleagues are talking about when you’re at work and what your friends are talking about when you’re not. And no matter what you do for a living or for recreation, it seems like AI is going to either disrupt it completely or at least affect it somehow.

    I’ve been following the development of some of the more popular AI platforms from the wings for a while now. I’ve tried ChatGPT, and I recently did an experiment with Midjourney and Stable Diffusion to see how they would handle prototyping ideas for a personal project I’m working on. Even though the results weren’t exactly what I wanted, they got me thinking about what I did want in a different way and ultimately gave me some new things to think about and iterate on in my sketchbook. While I can absolutely see the potential power of AI, I can also see some of the potential cost—and that’s what concerns me.
    LINKS
    Microsoft Designer - Stunning designs in a flash
    AI Art Generator – Adobe Firefly
    DALL·E 2
    Midjourney
    Stable Diffusion Online
    ChatGPT
    Rick Beato on AI
    Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


    Iteration 97: The Ideas Never Stop Apr 30, 2023
    Show notes

    In 2018 I released a book called Photography by the Letter. It took three years of research, writing, re-writing, designing, and re-designing, and while it wasn’t as financially successful as I had hoped, it was one of the most satisfying projects I’ve ever done. After shopping it around to a number of publishers—all of whom passed on it—we self-published a limited print run and released it simultaneously as an eBook. Opening up the first box of books from the printer and seeing those three years represented as actual objects was a very emotional experience. I sent a copy to Ted Waitt at Rocky Nook, who had been incredibly helpful and supportive while I was writing it. He responded with a lovely email that read, “It is really quite beautifully designed and very well printed. I honestly cannot think of a self-published book that I have seen better production values on. Nicely done!” The book has gotten hundreds of glowing reviews like this, and none of them are wasted on me. As proud as I am of what we accomplished, I remember telling Adrianne that while I would love to write another book, I’d never do another one like Photography by the Letter. The technical nature of the writing was hard, dry, and way outside of my wheelhouse, which is why it took multiple passes to get it right. Still, I loved the process as a whole and have had the idea of writing another book in the back of my head ever since. The question is, which one?
    LINKS
    Write what you know?
    Quentin Tarantino on writing
    Brian Eno on ideas
    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


    Iteration 96: Rethinking My Website Apr 23, 2023
    Show notes

    A little over a year ago, after getting a very disturbing email from my then web host saying that they were closing shop—without including an end date, mind you—I decided to try an experiment with my website. Rather than simply move my existing Wordpress installation to another web host, I built a new site using a platform called Carrd (affiliate link) which, according to the website, is perfect for building “simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.” And while that’s mostly true, there are features that allow you to fake displaying multiple pages on a single page and paid features that can add even more functionality. You can also set up subdomains to stand in for additional pages—which is what I’ve done to display multiple bodies of work—and for the past year or so, it’s done exactly what I’ve needed it to do.
    LINKS
    Carrd (affiliate link)

    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


    Deep Natter 76: A Copy of a Copy Apr 19, 2023
    Show notes

    In this episode, Maarten Rots joins me from the Netherlands for a terrific conversation talking about a recent salon group show he was in and the importance of saying yes to putting our work out into the world. Plus, I pitch him an idea for a potential new zine project and we even talk a little bit about AI…just a little.
    LINKS
    Kristopher Matheson
    Everything’s a Remix on AI
    Brian Eno biography (via Amazon)
    John Cage biography (via Amazon)
    CONNECT WITH MAARTEN
    Website: https://www.maartenrots.nl
    Instagram: @maartenrots
    March & Rock magazine: https://marchandrock.com

    CONNECT WITH JEFFERY
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Substack: https://jefferysaddoris.substack.com
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris

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    Leave a review or a rating wherever you listen, or you can share the episode on social media.

    MUSIC
    Jeffery Saddoris


    Iteration 95: Creaking Back to Life Apr 17, 2023
    Show notes

    For years I’ve wanted to do some sort of legacy project that would allow me to explore and somehow acknowledge and maybe even come to terms with my family history. As many of you know, I come from a family of railroad workers. In fact, I’m the first and to my knowledge the only male in three generations of my family not to work for the railroad. At the beginning of 2019, I started laying the groundwork for a project that would not only allow me to lean into my family history but that I could also use as a starting point for something much bigger that could end up being the legacy project that I had been looking for. Unfortunately, COVID shut the world down and because the project really had to be done in person, most of the connections I made up to that point and permissions I had secured became moot. I got really upset about it because I loved the idea and it had taken me a long time to get there. But how I wanted to do it was completely disrupted and since at the time nobody had any idea how long the lockdown would last, I put the whole thing on hold, and it’s been there ever since.
    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


    Iteration 94: Finding Dots to Connect Apr 10, 2023
    Show notes

    Last month, we lost Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was an absolute monster of an artist and since hearing the news I’ve been going back and listening to a bunch of his catalog, which is not only massive, but it’s also incredibly diverse.

    There are certain artists whose work allows you to see the world differently. If they’re really good, they might even allow you to feel it differently. Ryuichi Sakamoto was one of those artists. He worked across multiple musical genres and he was able to tap into and even affect different aspects of the human experience. I think the first piece of Ryuichi’s music I heard was Forbidden Colors, which is a vocal version of the theme to a film he scored and acted in alongside David Bowie called Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. It was also the first of what would be decades of brilliant collaborations with former Japan frontman David Sylvian. A friend in college had reintroduced me to David, who I was familiar with from Japan, but it was his solo record Secrets of the Beehive, which featured Forbidden Colors as a bonus track, that introduced me to Ryuichi and I’ve been a fan ever since.
    LINKS
    Yellow Magic Orchestra
    Brandon Stosuy
    Documentary about the piano that was damaged by the 2011 tsunami
    async
    Asia
    Roger Dean
    Tales From Topographic Oceans
    Hugh Syme
    Storm Thorgerson
    Mick Rock
    Eric Meola
    Hipgnosis
    Reid Miles
    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


    Iteration 93: Joyspotting Apr 02, 2023
    Show notes

    If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’m a big fan of trains and have been since I was a kid. My dad was a railroad man for the Southern Pacific, as were his two brothers, my grandfather, and his father before him. So you might say that trains are in my blood. I remember my dad sometimes taking me to work with him and I would get to ride on the caboose while he did his shift. Of course this was back when trains still had cabooses, which they phased out in the early 80s. My dad really wanted me to go into the family business and he even set up an interview where basically all I had to do was sign some papers and I would have been in. But when I got to the interview, I couldn’t get out of my car. I could see the trajectory of the life that would mean and it just wasn’t the life I wanted. When I told my dad about it, he was furious with me. And understandably so. He took my response to mean that I thought I was too good for the life that was good enough for three generations of the men in our family. But it wasn’t that at all. It wasn’t that the life wasn’t good enough for me, it was that the life just wasn’t right for me. I wanted something different, not better, and he just couldn’t understand that at the time. All this to say, I still love trains and will occasionally even go out of my way to see one, but my love absolutely pales in comparison to someone I’ve been following on Instagram for the last couple of months.
    LINKS
    Francis Bourgeois
    Joe Jonas
    Louis Theroux
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


    Iteration 92: I Just Didn’t See It Mar 28, 2023
    Show notes

    In the last Iteration, I talked about how seeing the Philip Guston show at the National Gallery left me feeling a little envious of such a strong personal story, something that my own work just didn’t have. I talked to Sean about it over the weekend and shared some of what I had been feeling and he was quick to disagree saying that he thought my work was very personal. He said that in his opinion, my work is a reflection of how I see and experience the world. To him, all of my anxieties, my fears, even some of my childhood traumas are all right there on the canvas. “I know you don’t see it,” he said, “but what could be more personal than that?”
    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


    Iteration 91: A Story About Story Mar 19, 2023
    Show notes

    On Friday I went down to the National Gallery of Art and man I came home in a funk. Usually, I come back super charged up and wildly inspired and just ready to get back into the studio, but Friday was not one of those days. I went down to have lunch with my friend Michelle and after lunch we walked through the Philip Guston show that just opened. I had never heard of Guston before and seeing his work was a very dramatic experience. So much so that after Michelle had leave to get back to work, I ended up going through the show again and taking a little more time on some of the pieces that really resonated with me the first time through. Before you enter the actual show, there’s a short video playing on a loop that gives a little background on Guston’s life—specifically his childhood as a Jewish immigrant in California, where the persecution of Jews and Blacks by the KKK caused massive trauma that would stay with him for the rest of his life and feature heavily in his art. On top of that, three days after his tenth birthday, his father hanged himself in the shed outside their house and Guston was the one who discovered the body. As a means of processing his childhood trauma, he taught himself to draw and at 14, he started to paint.
    LINKS
    National Gallery of Art
    Philip Guston Now
    Philip Guston - Wikipedia
    The Guston Foundation
    Stedelijk Museum
    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


    Iteration 90: It’s a Numbers Game Mar 13, 2023
    Show notes

    A few days ago, I read a quote by the great art critic and author Jerry Saltz that goes, “Do not ask what a work of art means. Ask what a work of art does to you. Art is not a thing, or a noun. Art is a verb. Art is something that does something to you.” I’ve been thinking about the quote ever since and how it really came to me at the perfect time. First of all, I’d already come around to thinking about art as a verb, which I mentioned in a previous Iteration. But the other reason that the quote really resonated is that I’m getting ready to (finally) put my paintings out in the world and I’m thinking about value and worth—specifically financial value and worth.
    CONNECT WITH ME
    Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com
    Twitter: @jefferysaddoris
    Instagram: @jefferysaddoris
    SUBSCRIBE
    Subscribe to Jeffery Saddoris: Almost Everything in your favorite podcast app to get more conversations like this. You can also find a written version of Iterations on Substack.
    MUSIC
    Music For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris


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