The Creative Slice Podcast
Art
Discover how you can succeed as an independent creative, each episode Lloyd Hofmeyr chats with inspiring artists, successful creatives and entrepreneurs who have pushed their style into an uncommon place, on how they’ve discovered their unique slice of the world, their successes and how they market themselves to help you slice out a niche for yourself in this ever changing creative landscape! Whether it's through setting routines, packaging your work creatively, marketing yourself on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook Instagram, setting up a unique lifestyle, looking for a online course to help take your career further, getting encouraged by profitable artists, been motivated through stories by like-minded creatives, learn how to start, to finish and to work through the lows mid project. As an aspiring full-time creator plug in to the interviews with creatives and entrepreneurs who have prospered and found happiness in their field.
Location:
South Africa
Description:
Discover how you can succeed as an independent creative, each episode Lloyd Hofmeyr chats with inspiring artists, successful creatives and entrepreneurs who have pushed their style into an uncommon place, on how they’ve discovered their unique slice of the world, their successes and how they market themselves to help you slice out a niche for yourself in this ever changing creative landscape! Whether it's through setting routines, packaging your work creatively, marketing yourself on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook Instagram, setting up a unique lifestyle, looking for a online course to help take your career further, getting encouraged by profitable artists, been motivated through stories by like-minded creatives, learn how to start, to finish and to work through the lows mid project. As an aspiring full-time creator plug in to the interviews with creatives and entrepreneurs who have prospered and found happiness in their field.
Twitter:
@creative_slice
Language:
English
Website:
http://sliceoftheworld.com
Episodes
TCS 012 Becoming a better conversationalist with Aurus Sanchez
4/19/2017
I'm always curious as to how creatives can use social media better to promote their work and get attention, in this episode I chat with Aurus Sanchez from @ConversationGuru on some tactics we can use to stand out on social media.
Please enjoy this episode, with Aurus Sanchez
What we chat about in this episode:
Links & Places mentioned in this episode:
Gary Vaynerchuk
Get in touch with Aurus Sanchez.
The Conversationalist websiteInsta Page- Conversation GuruAurus on YoutubeAurus's Snap...
Duration:00:26:35
TCS 011 - Treating Your Passion as a Fulltime Job with Justin "Nomad" Badenhorst
3/22/2017
It's rare that an artist, however talented, get's to travel with their work for exhibiting or performing and even rarer for an artist to do it twice, the refreshing nature that Justin shares stories of travelling as both a professional drummer and a street artist made this one of the longest and most enthralling interviews I've done yet.
Justin started drumming as a teenager and after returning home from fine tuning his drumming skills through a Masters in Performance in New York, he turned...
Duration:00:38:21
TCS 010 – Rehahn Croquevielle's Precious Portraits & Creating with a Connection
2/10/2017
One of the coolest people that my wife and I met in SE Asia while on our sabbatical was Rehahn Croquevielle, a super friendly photographer who we bumped into while in his shop and after only a few minutes of chatting invited us to join him at his favourite coffee shop in Hoi An the next morning.
French born Rehahn is a world renowned photographer and one of the most featured in recent years with his incredible portraits of local Vietnamese people, where he now lives. He's been rated number...
Duration:00:26:00
TCS 009 – Creative Education and Sustainable Design with John Hardy
12/13/2016
There are few people that you meet that completely make you look at life anew and make another way of living seem so fresh and easy to adopt.
As far as creativity and entrepreneurial thinking goes- we all wish that our schooling could’ve been a head start rather than having to unlearn the reactive industrial age thinking before been able to succeed with new projects
John's a Canadian born creative who found his way to Bali in 1975 and intrigued by Bali's artisan tradition he started...
Duration:00:20:42
TCS 008 – Life as a Reluctant Artist with Anastasia Pather
11/29/2016
Anastasia Pather is a semi abstract, finger painter, a frequently distracted thinker and an uninterrupted female. Ana describes herself as a reluctant artist, a term that helps her focus on her process and not already being who you're hoping to become. Her art is large format paintings, typically containing gold leaf and mostly all painted with her hands.
What we chat about in this episode:
Links & People mentioned in this episode:.
Social Media Driven Art
The artist El Anatsui
Yves...
Duration:00:20:46
TCS 007 – Making an Impression with Gareth Pon
11/1/2016
Gareth Pon believes that everyone should have at least one ridiculous dream they believe can come true and since he can remember, his has been to go to space. Growing up, he maintained his dream of space travel and avoided it becoming a career, he opted out of becoming an astronaut and chose to be a film maker and photographer instead.
Gareth was named Africa's top Instagrammer of 2014, 2015 & 2016 by the African Blogger Awards and is the founder of the South African Instagramers Community,...
Duration:00:17:30
TCS 006 – The Power of Time Off with Chanel and Stevo from How Far From Home
10/4/2016
Two creative thinkers, Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger quit their jobs in corporate advertising to see how far from home they could really get, both physically and figuratively. They put together a wanderlist and encouraged anyone and everyone to add to it and they've been exploring and creating since early 2015. Their inspiring story and twist on the "creative sabbatical" has been featured by Instagram, The Huffington Post, MailOnline, BuzzFeed and AdWeek.
Listen to Chanel & Stevo chat...
Duration:00:35:10
TCS005 – Conversations with Street Musician Dino
9/11/2016
This podcast is about inspiring and motivating you through conversations with people that I meet, sometimes through a tactic they use to market themselves, other times a game they play to stay creative but today it’s simply audio inspiration with a sprinkling of the shared challenges we all have as we share our art.
I’m always inspired by street muso’s whenever I travel, they slow me down and allow me to appreciate that I’m in a unique place. Baharudin or “Dino” as he introduced himself as,...
Duration:00:19:35
TCS004 – An Origami Inspired Lifestyle with Ross Symons
8/29/2016
Ross Symons is a full time origami artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. He was working a nine-to-five job as a web developer at a big multinational agency when he started a little project:
365 days, 365 origami art pieces. It unfolded into a successful new career and today he is South Africa’s most well-known origamist.
In this episode you will learn:
Links mentioned in this episode:
Wayne Dyer’s book- Change your Thoughts, Change your Life.
Robert Lang’s Book- Origami Design...
Duration:00:32:02
TCS003 – Gamifying your Creative Practice with Audrey Anderson
6/23/2016
Audrey Anderson creates art in an illustrated or graphic novel-inspired way. Drawing from everyday moments, like getting dressed, going to work or making coffee which are normally seemingly forgettable acts. For most of us, they have simply become automated must-dos. Yet, they make up most of life and shapes patterns, identities, personalities and relationships.
In this episode you will learn:
Links mentioned in this episode:
Read up more about the Creative Block Project on Between...
Duration:00:17:27
TCS002 – How to Creatively Package Yourself with Mike Sharman
4/20/2016
Mike Sharman is the co-founder of RetroViral, an award winning digital communications agency. Winning fancy dresser and creator of words like “radvertising” and “adtrepreneur”
In this episode you will learn:
Links mentioned in this episode:
Justine Musks article on being obsessed
Mike Sharman’s Creative Morning’s Talk
Get in touch with Mike Sharman
RetroviralTwitter @RetroviralTwitter @MikeSharmanMike’s Personal Blog- The Sharmanator Thanks for listening and a huge thank you to Mike...
Duration:00:21:58
TCS001- Establishing an Identity & Staying Inspired with Sindiso Nyoni
4/20/2016
Sindiso Nyoni aka R!OT is a Bulawayo native (born and raised in Zimbabwe), Johannesburg based, independent Graphic artist
In this episode of The Creative Slice Podcast, I chat with Sindiso Nyoni on establishing an identity, staying inspired and creating work that makes a riot.
In this episode you will learn:
See more of Sindiso’s work and get in touch:
Studioriot.com
Twitter: @sindisonyoni
Sindiso on Behance
Sindiso’s Instagram
Thank you for listening and a thanks to Sindi for...
Duration:00:28:16
TCS000 – Welcome to the Creative Slice Podcast
4/20/2016
This introduction episode is to give you folksan idea as to what you can expect from future podcast episodes. I'll talk about the frequency of the show, the average length as well as who you can expect to hear from in upcoming sessions. If you haven't already, subscribe to the show on iTunes to be notified each time a new episode comes out. Keep in touch with us via social media, Instagram and Twitter are probably the best to stay in the loop.
TCS000 – Welcome to the Creative Slice Podcast
4/20/2016
Lloyd Hofmeyr – I’m a motion designer and curious creative from South Africa, who probably like yourself, am always seeking a profitable way to make a success of my art and am constantly keen to improve so I decided I’d go out and chat with some of the most creative minds and get their advice, and I’m sure you’ll find a lot of value with what some of them have to say…
This introduction episode is to give you folks an idea as to what you can expect from future podcast episodes. I’ll talk...
Duration:00:02:37