A sort of sequel episode to epsiode 57. Getting out of the way of myself by documenting my mum then work.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

Trying to find momentum to create when (naturally) 95% of creativity is rubbish.Preorder my new book: WORKING NINE LIVESWORKING NINE LIVESUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

Daydreaming in my teens. Comedy in my 20s. Poetry in my 30s. Then combing it all in my 40s.New poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

3 random ideas I had this week that didn't belong anywhere so here they have found themselves! Symbolic moment in novelsWriting my way out of straightjacketsSearching for truth in high critics scores and low audiences scores on Rotten Tomatoes and artists making art with their reputation, not soulsNew poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I talk about finding my voice by speaking it aloud. And maintaining enthusiasm for making ideas even though 95% of them are crap.New poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I blab on about my new writing process to record one minute video poems. and the counter intuitive thing to catch the emotional truth of what I'm writing about.New poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I ramble on about star signs. Being a scorpio sun/aries moon/libra ascendent.New poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I ramble on about creating in a time of crazy distraction and the difference between Instagram and TikTok audiences.New poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I've found a new way to write poems and it feels new and exciting again.New poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I interview Tommy Attwood who is a writer and illustrator from the US with a delisciously bent mind. Tommy's Instagram: @spiritualcardboardNew poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

It's been a 30 year process. I'm not as outrageously talented as other social media poets out there. But just plodded along.New poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

Honouring my 8 year old self's decision to make booksNew poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I mucked around with TikTok for 4 years before I had a breakthrough. One idea inititally only had 200 views. I reposted it a few years later with now over 500000 views. Here's what happened, what I did.New poetry collection 2023:WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLESTUM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I've had a weird week where my TikTok account moderately exploded after 4 years of playing around with poetry on that platform. Here's what happened.UM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

My legs have taken me to heaven and hell. They've got me into and out of trouble. They're inhabited with a pure spirit.UM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

It's tough eeking out art that is (naturally) adventurous in spirit while simultaneously having it crushed by people determined to wear their work costumes and talk in blabber in workplaces that (have to) pretend to care. Here's some of my experience.UM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I've been rolling around some thoughts this week. I'm just not sure how they will grow yet.UM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I'm managine my time better. I've been writing without immediately posting it. Holding onto ideas for 5 days. While feedback can have a purpose for putting together some of my work, the constant feedback loop was starting to take me off course. So I'm learning to not post stuff right away and actually give myself whole days off writing. It's been super helpful.UM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

Re-watching the Sopranos 20 years made me remember what great art can be. And great modern art isn't public, in a gallery or found on social media. It's found in weird texts between friends.UM' self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

Just a little talk to myself on getting unstuck through movement.UM' book, a self help book for creatives:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

What I've learned from the poet Charles Bukowski.My favourite book of his: The Last Night Of The Earth Poems'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast):UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

This episode is a bit skittish. I talk about a bunch of random things from growing stuff from your own mess and how easy it is to be an individual and therefore an artist these days.'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast):UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

There doesn't really feel like there are lessons to be learned when waking life is riddled with dream logic.'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

Cats have incredible amounts of zen and attitude. I've borrowed much of this when writing my work.'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I ramble on about self censorship and trying to create interesting thoughts and planting ideas in different geographical locations.'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I've been handwriting again a fair bit. Words look more magical, as if they're dressed in pyjamas when handwritten in pencil. Fonts in Microsoft Word look 'adult' and dressed in suits.'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

Here I ramble on about reaching the edge of culture and needing to make it up myself, To collaborating with myself from ten years ago.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF - soon to be a paperback):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I talk about poems that shake me awake, detach me from my shadow, and let me fly into the sky. And the reasons (perhaps) why they do this. It’s been said when writing, “say it straight and make it great”. But the best lines are when they’re said straight, and don’t need to be made great. My favourite poems are often this way.'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I talk a little about my new book - you can get a 50% discount for the current eBook version, I give the code out towards the end of the episode that you can enter at the checkout on my site. I will make it into a print book. It's basically a distilled version of what I think might be the most useful stuff for artists/creatives that I've mentioned across the previous 30 episodes! :)'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast:UMMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

While struggling with meaningless jobs in my 30s, I started getting stupid with life, framing my electricity bill in an Officeworks frame and selling it as 'art' for the price that was due. And applying with 2500 jobs with a stupid resume. This is from my ebook, out soon, called UM: Things I've learned about creativity and poetry. It's my first little 'how to' book for creatives on publishing, arting, and writing, Out soon.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterdarbyhudsonart.comInstagramTikTok

I began as a humourist in my 20s, writing for The Chaser and making 'gag' cartoons for Inkgroup greeting cards. But I found flat out humour limiting, until I started to mix poetry with it in my 30s.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

I talk about searching for truth and wisdom in unlikely places and separating the art from the artist. I went down a Charles Manson rabbit hole this week. This episode is obviously not an 'endorsement' of him or his actions, (clearly he was a psychopath) rather, some of his quotes, removed from the context of his life and legal convictions (and objectively looked at), are undoubtedly interesting.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

I've found it hard to balance being in fairly regular contact with the old inner-child, to help creativity, while adulting in a world that has no time for that stuff.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

I took a few weeks break from writing (a few weeks back). I'm still completely distracting myself with football and de-prioritised writing, and voila, I've never felt more creative. Creativity is a difficult creature that sometimes only seems to arrive when it's not exclusively focused on.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

The past is a foreign country, wrote L.P. Hartley. Here I wander around Richmond where I grew up in the 80s. Things have changed. A small reflection on what the world was and what the world has become.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

How I started publishing; getting published by a publisher who isn't you; and self publishing. Independent music and film is glamorised - self publishing books is seen as dirty and 'vanity publishing'. But the tides have well and truly changed.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

2 weeks off writing and I'm waffling about complaint poetry, writing to untangle mess, and clues to find a new direction for writing.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

I'm feeling creatively burnt out, I can't see the poetry in things anymore. Clouds look dead in the sky. So I have to engage in this paradox: the best creativity only comes when unforced and relaxed; so I'm forcing myself to take a break from creativity to relax.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

My new book, CONFETTI TORNADO (new and selected works) is the first book of poetry I've illustrated/painted. It's also a collection of works that are some of my faves drawn from my 3 current books, and I'm still not sick of them.In this episode, thoughts on :•putting the book together•editing: leaving out cultural hot-takes, and more towards anachronistic/grasping at innocence•how colour and painting influenced the writingOut now:Get Confetti TornadoMy instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

A Poet Laureate for Australia? I think we need a Comedian Laureate.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

I ramble about what I thought in my 20s, 30s and 40s and how earning years of life brings more conviction to writing through simply recognising the patterns and cycles of the world.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

I had a bunch of ideas that I tried to plant and grow this week. None of them worked. Here they are. And what I thought of them. And what I might do with them. Some ideas that seem crap may work in a day or in 10 years from now with a new idea to bring them to life.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

Contrarian wisdom and unpopular opinion can produce sacred truth. Here I talk about finding ideas in the small spaces against the popular opinion of the crowd - the space where the unsaid is said.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

Two childhood films feel more important than the news these days. The world feels upsidedown and often a hostile place to publish the heart's truths. Some thoughts about this. And a quick mention of my new 'best of' book, out in Feb or March!My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

My favourite artists and places who have massively inspired my work. Sometimes I feel like I'm just a poor rip off of all my influences. I think as an artist, we grow and move from being inspired by other artists, to the original source itself: places/nature.Links to poems artists mentioned in this episode:Michael Leunig – Come Sit Down Beside Me (poem)https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/430797520581952550/IG: https://www.instagram.com/leunigstudio/Charles Bukowski – The Laughing Heart (poem)https://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/11/the-laughing-he.htmlMary Oliver – The Journey (poem)http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_thejourney.htmlAlan Watts – Life And Music (lecture)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2pcIbyq-0Cormac Mcarthy – The Road (novel)https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_RoadAdam Elliot – Harvey Krumpet (short film)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ClRsCpQfTQIG: https://www.instagram.com/adam_elliot_clay/David Lynch – Twin Peaks (TV series)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_PeaksAndy Jackson –The Thin Bridge (book)https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23449414-the-thin-bridgeMark Tredinnick (author)My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poemsConfetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

This weeks brain dump on cat spirits, chanelling my mum's spirit (and a boring conversation from beyond life), and finding garlic in the supermarket.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:InstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

A good walk kickstarts ideas, thoughts, inspiration. I didn't have anything ready for this episode, so I just started walking and letting it happen. Movement always inspires something. And I love a good flaneuring. Subjects include the anaesthetic qualities of doomscrolling, car mirrors with cobwebs as fly nets for spiders, and just noticing stuff on the streets. Recorded in walking Collingwood streets, alleys and Preston Market, Melbourne.Find me:InstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com

Drinking alone is demonised. But what if it's used as a tool for creative thought? I share my thoughts on booze and its ability to help get us out of the way of ourselves to let the truth write itself.My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF):Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And PoetryMy 'Best Of' illustrated poems:Confetti TornadoFind me:Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletterInstagramTikTokdarbyhudsonart.com