Episode 59: Thoughts on going to graduate school for art
Reviewing my experience going for a master’s degree for art in Canada and some things to think about if you are considering it.
The Creative Walks podcast with photographer and musician Pedro Bonatto features daily thoughts about creativity, art, science and culture, recorded during walks in search of inspiration.

Reviewing my experience going for a master’s degree for art in Canada and some things to think about if you are considering it.
Thoughts on the benefits of heat/cold therapy in Russian banyas (saunas)
My deconstruction of a dream I had tonight.
A thought experiment about some good elements of religiosity and how it would be applied to a secular institution around art and science..
Thoughts inspired by recent news about Bob Iger stepping down as CEO of Disney and how successful people find purpose and motivation.
Thoughts on the benefits of going on sensory deprivation tanks.
Thoughts on regret, learning how to forgive yourself and creating artworks inspired by that feeling.
Thoughts on re-watching the movie 'The Truman Show' 22 years after its release and its relationship to today's surveillance technology and social media.
Thoughts on my recent DNA test and the search for our connection to history.
In this episode I talk about three seemingly different subjects of interest from last week: getting my DNA test results, snowboarding in Western Ukraine and visiting the city of Lviv, and how they all combine in one theme of going into a vision quest.
Derren Brown and resetting your mindset
Silly Fears and News From the Road
Thoughts on how our energy levels change depending on psychological influences compared to physical ones.
A description of a very cool exercise on unlocking creative processes
Thoughts on the power of speaking or writing down your personal story, the insights that come from reviewing what you went through so far, and how the stories we tell ourselves relate to your confidence levels.
Thoughts (inspired by a dream) on getting after your dreams.
This episode features a description of an exercise I did during my masters of creating a self-portrait, which I did reimagining my life represented in a city map.
Thoughts on world music and a true globalization of culture
Thoughts on artist dates and learning from other art forms
Thoughts on choosing which projects to go after.
Some ideas on spirituality, atheism and artist dates.
Thoughts on framing art works, from fine art to advertisements, as portals into different worlds.
Thoughts on learning different kinds of art, strategies for combining online and mentorship, and my thoughts on graduate school (for art).
Thoughts on reinventing old projects and diversifying your creative output.
Ideas on getting unstuck on creative projects by focusing process actions.
Thoughts on how we relate to different time horizons on our creative and personal lives.
Following up on the previous episode, here are some thoughts on getting unstuck based on my current sources of ‘resistance’.
Thoughts on the book The War of Art, by Stephen Pressfield
This episode features my reading of ‘Air, and light, and time, and space’ by Charles Bukowski.