<![CDATA[VESPERISMS: The Art of Thinking for Yourself]]>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 07:48:15 +0000Captivate.fmstudio@vesperillustration.com (Vesper Stamper)https://artwork.captivate.fm/16418ed4-809c-4ff6-9566-84f2eaddc3e0/3239828-1582840651397-5e0c46bed3e04.jpgVESPERISMS: The Art of Thinking for YourselfVesper Stamperstudio@vesperillustration.comVesper Stamper15 minutes a week in my studio to develop your artistic worldview! Let's go deeper than quotable platitudes and explore the many facets of thinking like an artist in a complex world. Hosted by award-winning Author-Illustrator Vesper Stamper. Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration.http://vesperillustration.comnoepisodichttps://feeds.captivate.fm/vesperisms/Vesperisms 7: The Dream of Justice with Will Ford IIIVesperisms 7: The Dream of Justice with Will Ford IIIIn light of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Brianna Taylor and George Floyd, and our national conversation about race, I felt it was appropriate to pause my series on artistic process in order to speak with my friend, storyteller and leader Will Ford III. He tells the story of his family's extraordinary history from slavery to the present, his work in racial reconciliation, and the importance of paying attention to your (literal) dreams. This is a longer episode which I think will really help all of us think toward what's possible. * This week's Recommended Read: The Dream King, written by Will Ford and Matt Lockett. * Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. * My newest book, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, can be pre-ordered NOW at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support right now. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416 * Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, http://instagram.com/vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter at http://vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! * Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper. In light of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Brianna Taylor and George Floyd, and our national conversation about race, I felt it was appropriate to pause my series on artistic process in order to speak with my friend, storyteller and leader Will Ford III. He tells the story of his family's extraordinary history from slavery to the present, his work in racial reconciliation, and the importance of paying attention to your (literal) dreams. This is a longer episode which I think will really help all of us think toward what's possible.

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This week's Recommended Read: The Dream King, written by Will Ford and Matt Lockett.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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My newest book, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, can be pre-ordered NOW at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support right now. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, http://instagram.com/vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter at http://vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me!

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

]]>cb16cb34-520e-4055-acc2-65c440ca199eTue, 16 Jun 2020 14:56:00 -050058:42nofull17In light of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Brianna Taylor and George Floyd, and our national conversation about race, I felt it was appropriate to pause my series on artistic process in order to speak with my friend, storyteller and leader Will Ford III. He tells the story of his family's extraordinary history from slavery to the present, his work in racial reconciliation, and the importance of paying attention to your (literal) dreams. This is a longer episode which I think will really help all of us think toward what's possible. * This week's Recommended Read: The Dream King, written by Will Ford and Matt Lockett. * Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. * My newest book, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, can be pre-ordered NOW at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support right now. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416 * Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, http://instagram.com/vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter at http://vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! * Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.Vesper StamperVesperisms 6: From Thought to SpeechVesperisms 6: From Thought to SpeechThis episode of Vesperisms is step 3 in my 4-part series on the *basic* artistic process I'm calling "The Pathway." We've been exploring how Perception becomes Thought, which becomes Speech, which manifests in an artistic Action. Freedom of Speech is vital to the artist. You cannot predict or prescribe what an artist is going to *need* to say about the time in which he or she lives. Far from being a political consideration, freedom of speech is an artistic value that we must extend to all. This week's Recommended Read: The Power of the Powerless, by Czech playwright, political dissident and eventual President, Vàclav Havel. * Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. * My newest book, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, can be pre-ordered NOW at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support right now. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416 * Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, http://instagram.com/vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter at http://vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! * Leave me a voice message at http://anchor.fm/vesperisms and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to. * Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper. This episode of Vesperisms is step 3 in my 4-part series on the *basic* artistic process I'm calling "The Pathway." We've been exploring how Perception becomes Thought, which becomes Speech, which manifests in an artistic Action.

Freedom of Speech is vital to the artist. You cannot predict or prescribe what an artist is going to *need* to say about the time in which he or she lives. Far from being a political consideration, freedom of speech is an artistic value that we must extend to all.

This week's Recommended Read: The Power of the Powerless, by Czech playwright, political dissident and eventual President, Vàclav Havel.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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My newest book, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, can be pre-ordered NOW at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support right now. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, http://instagram.com/vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter at http://vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me!

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Leave me a voice message at http://anchor.fm/vesperisms and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to.

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

]]>726bba90-93e2-4885-9fc8-c8915033d3a4Sat, 30 May 2020 18:10:00 -050022:32nofull16This episode of Vesperisms is step 3 in my 4-part series on the *basic* artistic process I'm calling "The Pathway." We've been exploring how Perception becomes Thought, which becomes Speech, which manifests in an artistic Action. Freedom of Speech is vital to the artist. You cannot predict or prescribe what an artist is going to *need* to say about the time in which he or she lives. Far from being a political consideration, freedom of speech is an artistic value that we must extend to all. This week's Recommended Read: The Power of the Powerless, by Czech playwright, political dissident and eventual President, Vàclav Havel. * Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. * My newest book, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, can be pre-ordered NOW at any bookseller—I recommend your local indie bookstore, who would love your support right now. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416 * Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, http://instagram.com/vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter at http://vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! * Leave me a voice message at http://anchor.fm/vesperisms and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to. * Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.Vesper StamperVesperisms 5: From Perception to ThoughtVesperisms 5: From Perception to ThoughtAs part of our focus on the first principle: ARTISTS SEE, we're going down the pathway of artistic process: Perception, Thought, Speech and Action. This week we're focusing on Thought: what forms it takes, why it's so important to think for yourself, and how to restore your inner dialogue without outside voices telling you what to think. * This week's Recommended Read is...nothing. I'm encouraging you to read nothing this week, and set aside 20 minutes a day to do stream of consciousness writing, in an effort to reconnect with your own thoughts. * Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. * Follow me on http://instagram.com/vesperillustration (Instagram @vesperillustration) , and http://vesperillustration.com/ (sign up for my newsletter) to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416 (available for pre-order now)! * http://anchor.fm/vesperisms (Leave me a voice message here), and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to. * Music for Vesperisms is provided by https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Qq4Kw1pec9GFrfuImHO86?si=psMcaDB3SzKhkZTpBs_dBg (Ben + Vesper). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp (https://anchor.fm/app) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageAs part of our focus on the first principle: ARTISTS SEE, we're going down the pathway of artistic process: Perception, Thought, Speech and Action. This week we're focusing on Thought: what forms it takes, why it's so important to think for yourself, and how to restore your inner dialogue without outside voices telling you what to think.

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This week's Recommended Read is...nothing. I'm encouraging you to read nothing this week, and set aside 20 minutes a day to do stream of consciousness writing, in an effort to reconnect with your own thoughts.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, available for pre-order now!

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Leave me a voice message here, and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to.

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message]]>077dffd3-48bf-4bc2-a348-7eabc024a800Mon, 11 May 2020 22:37:00 -050015:53nofull15<p>As part of our focus on the first principle: ARTISTS SEE, we're going down the pathway of artistic process: Perception, Thought, Speech and Action. This week we're focusing on <em><strong>Thought</strong></em>: what forms it takes, why it's so important to think for yourself, and how to restore your inner dialogue without outside voices telling you what to think.</p> <p>*</p> <p>This week's Recommended Read is...nothing. I'm encouraging you to read nothing this week, and set aside 20 minutes a day to do stream of consciousness writing, in an effort to reconnect with your own thoughts.</p> <p>*</p> <p>Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.</p> <p>*</p> <p>Follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/vesperillustration" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram @vesperillustration</a> , and <a href="http://vesperillustration.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sign up for my newsletter</a> to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">available for pre-order now</a>!</p> <p>*</p> <p><a href="http://anchor.fm/vesperisms" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Leave me a voice message here</a>, and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to.</p> <p>*</p> <p>Music for Vesperisms is provided by <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Qq4Kw1pec9GFrfuImHO86?si=psMcaDB3SzKhkZTpBs_dBg" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ben + Vesper</a>.</p> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageVesper StamperVesperisms 4: The Pathway Begins with PerceptionVesperisms 4: The Pathway Begins with PerceptionThis week, we’re going to do a deep dive into each of those principles, and for these next several episodes, we’re going to focus on the first principle: ARTISTS SEE. I lay out a pathway of artistic process that we need to understand fully. Originally, I was going to do episode 4 on the topic of Freedom of Speech and Censorship. I’m deeply concerned about artists increasingly engaging in censorship, whether that’s self-censorship or calling for curtailments on others’ free speech. For me, it’s not a political question, even though that’s the realm through which most of us are encountering the issue right now in media. No—it’s a question of cutting the artist off at the knees, at the very time we are most needed by our culture. * This week's Recommended Read is My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok. It's one of my top 5 favorite novels, and it has everything to do with perception and timing. * Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. * Follow me on http://instagram.com/vesperillustration (Instagram @vesperillustration) , and http://vesperillustration.com/ (sign up for my newsletter) to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416 (available for pre-order now)! * http://anchor.fm/vesperisms (Leave me a voice message here), and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to. * Music for Vesperisms is provided by https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Qq4Kw1pec9GFrfuImHO86?si=psMcaDB3SzKhkZTpBs_dBg (Ben + Vesper). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp (https://anchor.fm/app) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageThis week, we’re going to do a deep dive into each of those principles, and for these next several episodes, we’re going to focus on the first principle: ARTISTS SEE. I lay out a pathway of artistic process that we need to understand fully.

Originally, I was going to do episode 4 on the topic of Freedom of Speech and Censorship. I’m deeply concerned about artists increasingly engaging in censorship, whether that’s self-censorship or calling for curtailments on others’ free speech. For me, it’s not a political question, even though that’s the realm through which most of us are encountering the issue right now in media. No—it’s a question of cutting the artist off at the knees, at the very time we are most needed by our culture.

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This week's Recommended Read is My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok. It's one of my top 5 favorite novels, and it has everything to do with perception and timing.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, available for pre-order now!

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Leave me a voice message here, and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to.

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message]]>1a55eb07-b0dc-4bce-a7fd-15b2236b42c9Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:00:00 -050016:15nofull14<p>This week, we’re going to do a deep dive into each of those principles, and for these next several episodes, we’re going to focus on the first principle: <em><strong>ARTISTS SEE</strong></em><em>. </em>I lay out a pathway of artistic process that we need to understand fully.</p> <p>Originally, I was going to do episode 4 on the topic of Freedom of Speech and Censorship. I’m deeply concerned about artists increasingly engaging in censorship, whether that’s self-censorship or calling for curtailments on others’ free speech. For me, it’s not a political question, even though that’s the realm through which most of us are encountering the issue right now in media. No—it’s a question of cutting the artist off at the knees, at the very time we are most needed by our culture.</p> <p>*</p> <p>This week's Recommended Read is My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok. It's one of my top 5 favorite novels, and it has everything to do with perception and timing.</p> <p>*</p> <p><strong>Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself</strong>, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.</p> <p>*</p> <p>Follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/vesperillustration">Instagram @vesperillustration</a> , and <a href="http://vesperillustration.com/">sign up for my newsletter</a> to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, <strong>A Cloud of Outrageous Blue</strong>, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416">available for pre-order now</a>!</p> <p>*</p> <p><a href="http://anchor.fm/vesperisms">Leave me a voice message here</a>, and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to.</p> <p>*</p> <p>Music for Vesperisms is provided by <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Qq4Kw1pec9GFrfuImHO86?si=psMcaDB3SzKhkZTpBs_dBg">Ben + Vesper</a>.</p> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageVesper StamperVesperisms Bonus Episode: Troy Bronsink Full InterviewVesperisms Bonus Episode: Troy Bronsink Full InterviewThis is the full interview with Troy Bronsink, as heard in Vesperisms Episode 3: Embodiment. The interview ends with a guided meditation to help us become more aware of our physical selves in our all-too-familiar spaces as we shelter in place. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp (https://anchor.fm/app) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageThis is the full interview with Troy Bronsink, as heard in Vesperisms Episode 3: Embodiment. The interview ends with a guided meditation to help us become more aware of our physical selves in our all-too-familiar spaces as we shelter in place.

--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message]]>ad141943-eff7-493f-879f-3b106cff83efWed, 08 Apr 2020 00:53:00 -050036:53nofull<p>This is the full interview with Troy Bronsink, as heard in Vesperisms Episode 3: Embodiment. The interview ends with a guided meditation to help us become more aware of our physical selves in our all-too-familiar spaces as we shelter in place.</p> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageVesper StamperVesperisms 3: EmbodimentVesperisms 3: EmbodimentOne of the foundational principles of Vesperisms is that an artistic worldview is human-centered, and that this takes place both inwardly, in our relationship to our own bodies, and outwardly, in our relationship to others. Today, I want to explore the first part of that idea further, namely, understanding our relationship to our own bodies. This is Vesperisms Episode 3: Embodiment. * This week's Recommended Read isn't a book, but a practice. Follow my guest Troy Bronsink's guided meditation to help center your physical body in its surrounding space. He's an author and the director of http://www.cincyhive.org/ (The Hive, A Center for Contemplation, Art and Action) in Cincinnati, OH. * Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. * Follow me on http://instagram.com/vesperillustration (Instagram @vesperillustration) , and http://vesperillustration.com/ (sign up for my newsletter) to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416 (available for pre-order now)! * http://anchor.fm/vesperisms (Leave me a voice message here), and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to. * Music for Vesperisms is provided by https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Qq4Kw1pec9GFrfuImHO86?si=psMcaDB3SzKhkZTpBs_dBg (Ben + Vesper). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp (https://anchor.fm/app) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageOne of the foundational principles of Vesperisms is that an artistic worldview is human-centered, and that this takes place both inwardly, in our relationship to our own bodies, and outwardly, in our relationship to others. Today, I want to explore the first part of that idea further, namely, understanding our relationship to our own bodies. This is Vesperisms Episode 3: Embodiment.

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This week's Recommended Read isn't a book, but a practice. Follow my guest Troy Bronsink's guided meditation to help center your physical body in its surrounding space. He's an author and the director of The Hive, A Center for Contemplation, Art and Action in Cincinnati, OH.

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.

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Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration , and sign up for my newsletter to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, available for pre-order now!

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Leave me a voice message here, and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to.

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Music for Vesperisms is provided by Ben + Vesper.

--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message]]>606a000c-9d23-49fd-a48c-5cec21441b56Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:35:00 -050024:49nofull13<p>One of the foundational principles of Vesperisms is that <strong>an artistic worldview is human-centered</strong>, and that this takes place both inwardly, in our relationship to our own bodies, and outwardly, in our relationship to others. Today, I want to explore the first part of that idea further, namely, understanding our relationship to our own bodies. This is <strong>Vesperisms Episode 3: Embodiment</strong>.</p> <p>*</p> <p>This week's Recommended Read isn't a book, but a practice. Follow my guest <strong>Troy Bronsink</strong>'s guided meditation to help center your physical body in its surrounding space. He's an author and the director of <a href="http://www.cincyhive.org/">The Hive, A Center for Contemplation, Art and Action</a> in Cincinnati, OH.</p> <p>*</p> <p><strong>Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself</strong>, with host, author-illustrator Vesper Stamper, is your weekly 20 minute recalibration of your artistic worldview. It's a podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists.</p> <p>*</p> <p>Follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/vesperillustration">Instagram @vesperillustration</a> , and <a href="http://vesperillustration.com/">sign up for my newsletter</a> to receive a free outtake chapter from my new novel, <strong>A Cloud of Outrageous Blue</strong>, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781524700416">available for pre-order now</a>!</p> <p>*</p> <p><a href="http://anchor.fm/vesperisms">Leave me a voice message here</a>, and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to.</p> <p>*</p> <p>Music for Vesperisms is provided by <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Qq4Kw1pec9GFrfuImHO86?si=psMcaDB3SzKhkZTpBs_dBg">Ben + Vesper</a>.</p> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageVesper StamperVesperisms 2: Creating During ChaosVesperisms 2: Creating During ChaosWho could have predicted this global pandemic? How can artists respond to the paralysis and shock that come from crisis? This week's Recommended Read: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and sign up for my newsletter at vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! Leave me a voice message and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message Music is provided by Ben + Vesper. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp (https://anchor.fm/app) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messagehttps://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message]]>8d0cdd77-3e77-404e-bcf9-ebf59b7939faThu, 26 Mar 2020 20:38:00 -050016:10nofull12Who could have predicted this global pandemic? How can artists respond to the paralysis and shock that come from crisis? This week's Recommended Read: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and sign up for my newsletter at vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! Leave me a voice message and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message Music is provided by Ben + Vesper. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageVesper StamperVesperisms 1: Laying the FoundationsVesperisms 1: Laying the FoundationsIn our first episode of Vesperisms, let's lay some foundations about what this podcast is and is not, and what we mean by an "Artistic Worldview." Artists SEE. An artistic worldview is EXPANSIVE. An artistic worldview is HUMAN-CENTERED. An artistic worldview allows for GROWTH &amp; CHANGE. This week's Recommended Read: Art &amp; Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, by David Bayles &amp; Ted Orland. Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and sign up for my newsletter at vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! Music is provided by Ben + Vesper. In our first episode of Vesperisms, let's lay some foundations about what this podcast is and is not, and what we mean by an "Artistic Worldview." Artists SEE. An artistic worldview is EXPANSIVE. An artistic worldview is HUMAN-CENTERED. An artistic worldview allows for GROWTH & CHANGE. This week's Recommended Read: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, by David Bayles & Ted Orland. Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and sign up for my newsletter at vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! Music is provided by Ben + Vesper.

]]>fe048cc1-ea45-43e5-9ed7-ae6f58c673c5Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:22:00 -050017:58nofull11In our first episode of Vesperisms, let's lay some foundations about what this podcast is and is not, and what we mean by an "Artistic Worldview." Artists SEE. An artistic worldview is EXPANSIVE. An artistic worldview is HUMAN-CENTERED. An artistic worldview allows for GROWTH & CHANGE. This week's Recommended Read: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, by David Bayles & Ted Orland. Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and sign up for my newsletter at vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! Leave me a voice message and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message Music is provided by Ben + Vesper. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageVesper StamperWelcome to Vesperisms!Welcome to Vesperisms!Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. The Vesperisms Podcast officially launches on April 1, 2020. Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and sign up for my newsletter at vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! Leave me a voice message and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message Music is provided by Ben + Vesper. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp (https://anchor.fm/app) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messagehttps://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message]]>78572798-4958-42f7-9f4f-19bf8b0ac5e5Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:28:00 -050006:10notrailer11Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself is the podcast to help you make sense of your place in this crazy world by reclaiming an artistic worldview. Everything around us is trying to push us into boxes, but that's not how artists' minds work. Let's get off that detour and back on the main road to thinking for ourselves: as artists. The Vesperisms Podcast officially launches on April 1, 2020. Follow me on Instagram @vesperillustration, and sign up for my newsletter at vesperillustration.com. Thanks for joining me! Leave me a voice message and let me know what you'd like me to talk about, or who you'd like me to talk to: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/message Music is provided by Ben + Vesper. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/13e82c50/podcast/sponsor/acugj9/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fapp">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vesperisms/messageVesper Stamper