Interviews with creatives to explore creativity in music and the arts so that you can develop skills and become successful. We look at creativity through the lens of NLP, magic, and self-improvement and develop a map for creative thinking looking at the the arts as a healing force as well as a tool for self development.
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That Vintage Lens (Film Photography) Podcast
Branden Stanley, Daniel Gebert, Cody Hilliard, Andy Adames, John-Henry Keenan
We are cinematographers and photographers who are passionate about creating something of lasting value. Sometimes we use the latest digital gear, and sometimes the oldest film equipment. Let's spend some time getting to know a range of equipment new and old, techniques that are endlessly useful for digital and film photography, and hear our stories of success, failure, and what we did along the way! #film #photography #35mm #Mediumformat #kodak #analog #culture #staybrokeshootfilm #visualarts
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Hugh R. Grant of TreeMakers Design and Jarryd Bailey of Montane Bonsai have long been best friends, brought together by a shared passion for bonsai and the wilderness, AKA the bush. With a lens of self-humor, the two reflect on Australian bonsai and what it means to be bonsai professionals… sorta.
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We like to talk about all the new tech, even though we’re a bunch of seasoned, vintage nerds.New Tech, Vintage Nerds, a fresh podcast hosted by two seasoned technology enthusiasts with decades of experience between them. As ‘New Tech, Vintage Nerds’ unfurls, we invite you to partake in this audacious journey with us. We promise tales of technological wizardry, discussions that go beyond the surface level, and an occasional comedic interlude as we navigate the quirky side of tech culture. So, ...
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The push and pull of spring work is in full swing for Jarryd and Hugh in their gardens. Using watering and fertilising as the throttle, and pinching and pruning to put on the breaks. They also discuss intentional bark pealing on some Australian species, growth management directing refinement, and the success of the advancements of Australian bonsai…
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Gatsby, The Facebook Cat, and how to be a Superstar Model.
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Gatsby, The Facebook Cat, and how to be a Superstar Model. In this episode, I talk to Gatsby via his ‘dad’ and agent Jeff Cooper about the handsome and thoughtful feline's Facebook and Instagram presence. The episode contains advice for budding social media stars, including stories of famous dogs. For great cat pictures and stories visit https://ww…
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Peter Neall, Men’s Work, Pilgrimage and Wellbeing.
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Peter Neall, Men’s Work, Pilgrimage and Wellbeing. This is one of the interviews that I found so deep and engaging. Peter Neall is a walker of Pilgrimages both physical and metaphorical and as we talk, we go down some amazing rabbit holes about life and meaning. Awesome stuff. To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing a…
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21. The Value in Attending Events and of Vintage Fired Dirt
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After a long hiatus of what was supposed to be a weekly podcast… Hugh and Jarryd return! Appreciating a rainy spring and entering the growth season, they cover garden updates. Hugh recaps the Canberra Club show and good timed catching up with Grant Bowie and Sam Thompson. The guys share nostalgia for the late AusBonsai market and share news and exc…
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Bobby Morrell, Pilgrim, Writer and Business Trainer
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Bobby Morrell, Pilgrim, Writer and Business Trainer Bob is back on the podcast, and we talk about the effect of walking a pilgrimage. The physical and mental benefits are great and we discuss the personal benefits that we have experienced. And Bob being a creative has turned this into a book … Here are some of the details This book gives you an hon…
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20. Ryan Neil - An Asymmetrical Side Quest
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In this episode Hugh, Jarryd, and Ryan Neil of Bonsai Mirai catchup together to discuss everything bonsai. They each explore how they represent their native landscape through bonsai and discuss the deep, often challenging journey of finding meaning through this art form. With insights into the evolving culture of bonsai in Australia, this conversat…
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19. Setting Roots and Excavation Temptation
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After a little hiatus, Hugh shares his big news - Treemakers is moving to a permanent location! With a recent visit from Jarryd, the boys began breaking ground on the new garden, building out a future space for the expansion of Australian bonsai. Exhausted by repotting season and the simultaneous big move, the two share excitement, but also physica…
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Jerry Stevenson Success Secrets for Musicians.
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Jerry Stevenson Success Secrets for Musicians. Jerry returns to the podcast, and we look in depth at what makes a successful creative musician. The points raised work for any artist gleaned from many years of experience of working as a top guitarist. This gets very deep and very interesting, and I my opinion are the things not taught in college and…
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In this episode, our guest Annie Huang tells us about Budlife, a seasonal magazine which focuses on the culture and communities surrounding plants. An eloquent and fascinating person, Annie shares her story and the origins of her publication and how it relates to bonsai. A side-quest of an episode itself, Annie interviews both Hugh and Jarryd on th…
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As Hugh returns from New Zealand, the boys catch up on their recent going-ons and the shift in seasonal work. With the vast array of native New Zealand species on Hugh's mind, the two chat about New Zealands "wildling" collecting, and local species opportunities from the island neighbour. Hybridisation and grafting opportunities in Nothfagus gunnii…
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Julian Vayne, Psychedelic Occultist, Writer, Teacher and Artist.
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Julian Vayne, Psychedelic Occultist, Writer, Teacher and Artist. Great chat with Julian, I thoroughly enjoyed this. A very, very interesting guy. Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over four decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Wit…
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16. Winter Musings on Sustainability
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Unpruned beards and unpruned tree roots await Hugh and Jarryd in their gardens while they push through the craze of winter and the beginning of the repotting season. In this episode, the discussion of sustainability is raised around technique, design of the tree and the long term handling of roots. They discuss there experience in determining when,…
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15. The Amount of Time that Time Presents
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With the quickly impending springtime, Hugh and Jarryd share the work they have been cramming into the season. With the bustle of client work, the time for personal projects gets tucked into contemplative midnight dates in the freezing Winter weather. Further growing their artist's statements, they weigh up what it would mean to operate on a more f…
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14. Bonsai, A Silent Voice in the Conversation
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Charlie Kish Guitarist for Another Day Rescuing Phones and Being Very Cool on Social Media
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Charlie Kish Guitarist for Another Day Rescuing Phones and Being Very Cool on Social Media It's great to talk to Charlie Kish who is the guitarist for the rock band Another Day. Charlie is oozing with enthusiasm for playing and gigging which comes across in this interview and a cracking guitarist to boot. This was great fun chanting to Charlie as h…
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Kevin Lee Replay Martial Arts Famous Musical Families Vintage cars
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This is such an amazing story that it needs another listen. One of the inspiring tales that is very weird. I am really pleased to be talking to an old friend of mine, Kevin Lee. Kevin was a school friend, who from humble beginnings, has lived an interesting life. His amazing story involves music, martial arts, famous musical families and vintage ca…
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Mini Kingman, Prog Rock, Coming to Art Late, Occultist and Success in Male dominated Business.
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Mini Kingman, Prog Rock, Coming to Art Late, Occultist and Success in Male dominated Business. I am delighted to be speaking to Mini Kingman on today’s podcast. Mini has a varied and interesting life working as a rep for her father’s highly successful business for over 20 years but her other interests include lifelong interest and connection to the…
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13. Will Fletcher - Belittler of Tasmanian Trees
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In this guest episode, Will Fletcher sits down with Jarryd and Hugh to share his long history of working with Tasmanian native trees for bonsai. As a major contributor to Australian bonsai, Will's nurseries Plants of Tasmania and later Island Bonsai, broke ground in determining which local tree species are reliable staples for bonsai cultivation.…
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Paul Cheneour Flute, music improvisation, strands of income, addiction to thinking.
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Paul Cheneour Flute, music improvisation, strands of income, addiction to thinking. Paul is one of the greatest musicians that I know. He is awesomely creative with over 60 albums to his name with fabulous collaborations with musicians world wide. The addicted to thinking – we go down the Sufi, Taoism and Zen path to liberate ourselves. How to unli…
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Bob Plimer Ancient Greek, Latin and Egyptian and their Occult practice and Jazz Piano.
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Bob Plimer Ancient Greek, Latin and Egyptian and their Occult practice and Jazz Piano. Bob Plimer is an extraordinary guy. He is an expert in Classics and has written several excellent books on alchemy, Mithraism, and Hermetica, and he is a fantastic Jazz Pianist. We go down the rabbit hole of creativity, mysticism and music. This is a cracking epi…
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This week, we are in real-time as Jarryd and Hugh share life updates before Jarryd heads off the grid for an extended boating expedition. They talk about working landscape trees, approaching gardening through the lens of a bonsai education, and drawing out the design process. They share their experiences of how to teach beginners and some inside th…
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Finishing their action-packed reflection on the month of April, Hugh and Jarryd pick back up after the Bonsai Open and the tree sale hosted at TreeMakers with field-grown trees from Jarryd's adolescence. They then dive deep into their annual epic autumn hike to see the changing colour of the Fagus somewhere in the wilderness of Tassie. Filled with …
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REPLAY Paul Cheneour Improvisation Flute Eastern Influences Mixed with Jazz
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This interview is with the flautist Paul Cheneour we discuss how he got into music and his interesting path to be a virtuoso player. I consider Paul to be one of the greatest creative people I know. I hope you will enjoy this. Originally published in Dec 2019
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It's Easier Than You Think To Make A Personal Homepage For Your House!
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Can you find all your pages that you access regularly? Your router page, your home automation, your printer? Or are you using some kind of homepage, just like AJ and Alex? In this video, we dive into the world of personalized homepages and why they might be the solution you're looking for. Gone are the days of endless bookmarks and chaotic tabs—it'…
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Jarryd and Hugh interview Australian bonsai legend Ric Roberts, who is now 88 and likely practicing bonsai for over 60 years. Ric shares stories from his long practice since the 1960s and his role in the ever-evolving bonsai culture in the Sydney region. Ric is now creating a garden on the Central Coast called Unryu-En. Here he is building a space …
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Adrian Reynolds part 2 Winning on the scratch cards, searching for the Lambton Worm.
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Adrian Reynolds part 2 Winning on the scratch cards, searching for the Lambton Worm. Parks, Bipolar, screens flattening perception, winning on the scratch cards, searching for the Lambton Worm Stories having power to affect our reality it the weirdest ways like meeting someone on the 6th of the 6th 2006 called Damian. This is a great chat about Neu…
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Today, we're diving into home labs: what they are, how to start one, and tips on sizing and power usage. And we briefly touch on the things we printed since the last episode. 🏠 What's on the Agenda: 00:00 Intro 00:31 What did you print this week? 02:13 Let's talk home labs / definition 11:19 Power consumption, performance, noise 23:26 Building your…
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Adrian Reynolds NLP, Collector of Boxes Physical and Metaphorical
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Adrian Reynolds NLP, Collector of Boxes Physical and Metaphorical This is a great chat about Neuro Linguistic Programming with some brilliant ideas about storing ideas and information using the toolbox of NLP. I loved this chat with Adrian a brilliant thinker. If you are interested in Adrian’s work contact me vichyland@msn.com This episode is one l…
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At Jarryd's house in Tasmania, Jarryd and Hugh are no longer in the podcast recording time machine - we are all caught up to the present day with reflections on the recent Bonsai Open in the Central Coast!By TreeMakers & Montane Bonsai
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The Battle Between Ads And Adblockers, which side are you on?
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The internet is full of ads. Without ads the internet as we know it wouldn't exist. Or would it? 🏠 What's on the Agenda: 00:00 Introduction 00:32 What did you print since last time? 09:32 Ads on streaming services, reason for Youtube subscription? 11:39 Pay the content creators 15:15 Not the only annoyance: personalised ads, dark pattern anyone? 16…
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After sharing a haunted American hotel experience, Jarryd and Hugh drift into conversations about tree tourism in the US, New Zealand, and Chile. Coming to the end of the hot summer, they reflect on a work-life balance... that is more asymmetrical than symmetric. They share a beckoning to nature through camping, campfires, and the idea of genetic m…
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Anna Shepherd Artist, Gardener, Tarot, Witch, Cleaner Clootie Campaigner
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Anna Shepherd Artist, Gardener, Tarot, Witch, Cleaner Clootie Campaigner I am joined by Anna to discuss living in the seasons, old cottages, being and embodiment in the creative process, Anna started the cleaner clootie campaign which is the folkloric votive offerings often left on trees but making them ecofriendly. We discuss how we create a creat…
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What's your Storage solution at home? NASses
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Alex and AJ discuss different Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions they had and what is important when selecting components. 🤝 Join the Conversation: We're not just here to talk at you—we want to engage with our community! Have questions or tips about 3D printing, WiFi, or some other topic? Want to share your own home automation win? Drop a com…
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REPLAY Creative Erin Neelands Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist and Artist.
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In this episode of podcast Creative I'm interviewing Erin Neelands who is an artist, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and flautist. We talk about growing up in Alaska and California and what effect it had on her artistically. First played in Oct 2019
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As Jarryd and Hugh end the growth season in late January 2024, they talk about geographic flora boundaries and the vast physical differences between Southern and Northern hemisphere species affecting the approach to bonsai worldwide. Digging into native Australian species, broadleaf-evergreen physiology is explored, and the validity of shrubs in th…
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Is there something as too many streaming providers? Alex and AJ think that that is the case. 🤝 Join the Conversation: We're not just here to talk at you—we want to engage with our community! Have questions or tips about 3D printing, WiFi, or some other topic? Want to share your own home automation win? Drop a comment below, and let's start the disc…
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Chris Dagger bass player for Emeli Sande, George Ezra amongst others and all-round nice chap tells tales of touring, meeting Stevie Wonder and spending time at Paisley Park. Good for you would be rock stars fresh from college to listen to. First played in June 2020
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It's December 31 of 2023 and Hugh and Jarryd reflect on their year and share future aspirations for their bonsai, hikes, garden design, and overall business approach as two professional bonsai practitioners. As with any art form that becomes employment, they struggle with the fine line between delivering their art, but also the commodifying and con…
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Simon Bradbury Heavy Rock Guitar Blacklight Vice
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Simon Bradbury Heavy Rock Guitar Blacklight Vice Simon Bradbury from Southampton is the Rhythm guitarist and one of the songwriters in Blacklight Vice . Guitar player of over 20 years and music enthusiast for the 70s &n 80s. Music is his religion and has been part of his life for along as he can remember. Having been in several originals and cover …
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Ceph storage for your home? Why? Why wouldn't you?
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Alex tells about his endeavours with Ceph for his homebrew container solution on RK1's. The outcome may surprise you. Gear Up with Our Top Tips: 🤝 Join the Conversation: We're not just here to talk at you—we want to engage with our community! Have questions or tips about 3D printing, WiFi, or some other topic? Want to share your own home automation…
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In this throwback episode recorded in late 2023, Hugh and Jarryd share the exhaustion of the growth ramping up in the early summer season. They talk growth management of pines and eucalyptus, and the simultaneous battle against grass and weed growth. They also share some of their favorite tree personalities, tanuki dreams, and the trials of dreaded…
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Stuart Wheaton, Guitar, Teaching, Examining, Composition and Creating a Syllabus
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Stuart Wheaton, Guitar, Teaching, Examining, Composition and Creating a Syllabus Today I'm talking to Stuart Wheaton senior examiner for LCME. We talk about music college, Carlos Bonell and various guitar examination boards from Trinity rock school to LCME. We also discuss how great players have very different ways of approaching music and teaching…
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Hugh and Jarryd stumble through the wonders of podcast technical difficulties recording from their respective homes in the Blue Mountains and Tasmania. They chat about collected pine aftercare, the signs of a tree's declining health post-collection, South African akadama's advantages and disadvantages, and growth patterns after repotting.…
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Heather Bentley Strings, From Classical to Improvisation, Composer, Trailblazer.
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Heather Bentley Strings, From Classical to Improvisation, Composer, Trailblazer. I am chatting to the multitalented Heather Bentley today. This is a great chat about her journey in music. There are some amazing insights here from a wonderful musician. Seattle-based violist and composer Heather Bentley has trailblazed a career as one of the West Coa…
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Mark Hewitt Snowshill Manor, Charles Wade, Skateboarding and Magical Objects.
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Mark Hewitt Snowshill Manor, Charles Wade, Skateboarding and Magical Objects. This episode is with the wonderful Mark Hewitt. We talk Skateboarding, the magical world of Snowshill Manor and its link with the Museum of Magic in Boscastle and Mark’s forthcoming book on the artifacts of the Snowshill Manor and the eccentric life of Charles Wade. We ex…
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3. Indestructable Ficus - the OG Australian Yamadori
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Visiting one another in the Blue Mountains, Jarryd and Hugh reflag on the inspiring native lower canopy for kusamono design, breaking norms and misconceptions about the art form. They then delve into some history of yamadori collecting of native species in Australia, in particular Ficus . Visiting trees in nature naturally brings them to sharing st…
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In this episode, Jarryd and Hugh chat about hikes in the bush and the Australian native species they encounter. They also highlight the importance of your local club and the critiques they share, even if it means facing some failures to be able to learn and grow. They also discuss tree exhibitions and the opportunities for the approach to display i…
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Bet Huws Welsh Folklore and Magic the power of the Welsh language Mabinogion.
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Bet Huws Welsh Folklore and Magic the power of the Welsh language Mabinogion. I'm talking to Bet Huws about the importance of language rooted in the soil and the importance of using Welsh for running events on magic and folklore. We talk about the enchanting nature of the Welsh language and the Science of Awe. We talk about the Mabinogion, the Bard…
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1. Frozen Socks Hiking in the Cheyne Range
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Jarryd and Hugh initiate their first podcast recording after a 4-day brutally cold yet stunning backpacking trip in the Tasmanian Wilderness. Buggered yet gleefully giddy on beers, the two reflect on their trip and the renewed bonsai inspiration to come from it.By Hugh Grant
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AJ and Alex answer a question of a listener on the different options for stream decks and the advantages of choosing one with buttons over dials. The main topic of today is our workshop setups and the reasons behind our choice of tool ecosystems. We discuss the convenience of cordless tools and the cost considerations of battery swapping. The episo…
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