Episodios

  • Animating Dreams into Reality with William Bailey

    Animating Dreams into Reality with William Bailey
    Sep 4 2024
    William Bailey is an Australian-Canadian animation student in West Vancouver, BC, Canada and we met while completing the lauded 2D Animation Fundamentals Citation at Capilano University in North Vancouver last summer.

    Before my return to NYC for more grad school (never a dull moment over here), I interviewed William as we both wanted to found our own production studios at age 20. In this podcast, we discuss how William remains positive and engaged in art production, learning new techniques, networking and further understanding an ever-shifting moving pictures industry on the wet west coast of Canada. I briefly share my experience creating and materializing the now dormant Gilded Players Group & Gilded Arts Productions theatre & film companies for 6 years from 21-27 when the jobs dried up in town in the Vancouver and Surrey, BC areas of Canada.


    Most of all, William and I speak to how to stay connected to your soul, and to be a kind and present friend to other creatives so you don't become consumed by anxiety, that you are your day job, and that your artistic tendencies are leading you down a road of hoaxes and illusions!

    William is planning on applying to the 2 year diploma programs in animation at Capilano University in the coming months. I'm rooting for him and know he will make some fantastic shows. I will continue to draw and animate Hazbin Hotel & Helluva Boss fanart, as is my wont in between writing and composing musicals in NYC. That's right, kids, you really can have it all. And if you're listening Vizpop, I'm not as experienced as Andrew Underberg and Sam Haft, but by golly, I am a good composer and animator so one day I'm going to do both for my own show. Even if it's only on instagram. Because that's still the practice of art-making, folks!

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    34 m
  • Betrayal Trauma & the Just World Hypothesis with Amora Sun

    Betrayal Trauma & the Just World Hypothesis with Amora Sun
    Aug 22 2024
    In amidst completing an 2D animation certificate, Amora continues to shrink. This episode is about how to advance accountability-taking in the helping professions as well as how patients, clients, and regular people who don't attend therapy, might be able to recover from betrayal trauma.

    The Just World Hypothesis is a cognitive bias where people need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable, and just place, where people get what they deserve. Such a belief plays an important function in our lives since in order to plan our lives or achieve our goals we need to assume that our actions will have predictable consequences (Andre & Valesquez, 2015).

    This fallacy can pose challenges for people who have experienced significant betrayal and have had the bottom fall out in multiple ways due to others' dislike of believing that something so horrible could happen out of nowhere to their good friend. We explore internalized doubt for sexual abuse survivors, how to remain ethical and centered in a world where people who may present themselves one way publicly can offend in private with inscrutable calmness, and how to respond if someone tells you about their experiences.

    Lastly, Amora attends to the growing need for more people to train in the serious sub-specialties of family violence and sexual abuse recovery using empirical models to apply care, such as the Duluth model, named after the town Duluth, Minnesota, which pioneered a highly effective modality for preventing, intervening, following up and maintaining low incidence of family violence in their community. Amora offers supervision to counsellors interested in gaining additional training to respond strategically and effectively to people requiring help with family violence matters who are at least 3 years post-graduted from a graduate program in psychology or clinical social work.

    (Music credit: "You Will Be Okay" written by Sam Haft, featured in the animated series, "Helluva Boss.")

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    31 m
  • Feeling Centered While Being Seen with Alyssa Poon

    Feeling Centered While Being Seen with Alyssa Poon
    Aug 6 2024
    Alyssa Poon has been living and working as a voice actor, narrator, theatre actor and much more since she made the migration from San Francisco to New York City to pursue her undergraduate degree at NYU (go violets!).

    Poon's enervating presence translates and moves anyone who beholds her. As we reflect on her performance and interpretation of the character, Puck, from Janani Sreenivasan's recent production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, we also explore what it is to embrace the unknown.

    After becoming enthralled with New York's theatre scene and deciding to stay after graduation, Alyssa has performed in Drunk Shakespeare and narrated about a million audiobooks if you Google her name under Audible. Being centered as a performer can be a challenge at times when we become too concerned with what other people -- critics, future casting directors, our friends still in Can- I mean San Francisco -- may think of us.

    Poon has been doing this for awhile and her awareness of her strengths and areas for growth speak volumes around her dynamism and professionalism as an artist. I hope to see her in many productions to come, and of course, download some of those audiobooks.

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    15 m
  • Staying True to Yourself as a Professional Creative with Genesis Taina Luciano & Ellison Estwick

    Staying True to Yourself as a Professional Creative with Genesis Taina Luciano & Ellison Estwick
    Aug 2 2024
    Have you ever wondered how to stay true to yourself while competing in one of the most powerful and impressive artistic cities in the world?

    On this episode of Saturday Night Shrinking, we talk with Genesis Taina Luciano and Ellison Estwick about their respective journeys in film, writing, performance, dance and acting as two native New Yorkers working hard to realize their creative dreams.

    We discuss ethics in the entertainment industry, how to keep our integrity when offered large sums of money to compromise it, and how to prepare for different jobs with alacrity and organization.

    While a Midsummer Night's Dream has officially closed for the time being, we remember its jollity and solemnity fondly, and take the experience into our bright futures.

    Ultimately, we are only as successful as how truly and respectfully we are prepared to love. There are many forms of love, but if we learn how to offer it without expectation, and to resist the urge to punish or detroy love due to our own discomfort with it, we can truly harness its tremendous ability to change lives for the better. Staying true to ourselves is indeed one of the deepest acts of love we can possibly extend, and as the saying goes, charity starts at home. Lastly, to quote Lauren Hill, a brilliant New Jersey woman of color: "How you gonna win if you ain't right within?"

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    28 m
  • Limerance and Healthy Relationships with Isabel Criado

    Limerance and Healthy Relationships with Isabel Criado
    Jul 22 2024
    It's the subject we all both yearn to obtain and dread to ask for: Real love.

    Join me and Isabel Criado as we invesitgate the differences between examples of authentic, healthy romantic connection presented in our show A Midsummer Night's Dream at Under St. Mark's Theatre in Manhatten, NY. Get tickets here! Not in New York City? That's totally fine! Watch it on the livestream on Saturday! Just click July 27th as your date and wham! You're set to remotely enjoy the show from the comfort of your couch, bed, replete with snacks, as you will.

    In this episode, we ask the question: what is the difference between genuine care, affection and dotage and the skinny half-love hallmark to the phenomenon of limerance? We explore it all alongside some sneak previews of some of the most notable loving and unloving moments in the play, including how parental love can look different across the generations, and how self-love can anchor us into finding, keeping and continuing to appreciate that real authentic love we are all seeking.

    How can we fully and unconditionally practice loving ourselves so we can fully and unconditionally love another worthy of such care? Find out here with Saturday Night Shrinking!

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    28 m
  • Performance Anxiety in the Arts with Camille van Putten

    Performance Anxiety in the Arts with Camille van Putten
    Jul 18 2024
    We've all been there. We've worked long and hard on dreaming the good dream, learning, practicing and reaching the higher heights of an artistic endeavour... only to find... performance anxiety, panic attacks, or in my case, hiding behind water-bottles and backstage snacks to soothe that erroneous fear of... what exactly?

    I chat with Camille Van Putten as we discuss our upcoming play, A Midsummer Night's Dream opening tonight at 94 St Marks Pl, New York City (Under St Marks theatre) from July 18-28th. Read up about it on Theatre Mania & buy tickets here!

    Camille plays the epic role of Bottom, and I play Titania. Their relationship can be thought to inspire self-acceptance, self-expression and the love of the act of making art over trivial things like accolades and money....

    And yet, we all need those accolades to continuously develop our capacity as artists, continue to feel connected to others, and you know, money helps to live and afford basic needs and services.

    Camille explores her own relationship with self-doubt and how they have overcome it in their life so far, and I share how flow-states, neuroplacticity and hanging out at the Barber Shop can almost always guarantee you a haircut, if you're prepared to be vulnerable, fail in front of others, and make yourself available at the drop of a hat.

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    37 m
  • How Professional Creatives Take Care of Themselves, with Austin Sasser

    How Professional Creatives Take Care of Themselves, with Austin Sasser
    Jul 13 2024
    In her second episode, Amora dives into how professional creatives can take care of themselves during times of stress with her friend and co-star, Austin Sasser!

    Sasser plays Fairy King Oberon & Duke Theseus in Janani Sreenivasan's upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Under St. Mark's Theatre in the East Village, NYC, opening July 18th-28th. Buy in-person & livestream tickets here!

    Amora talks kings, cats, origin stories and a certain love-affair with the voice acting in the popular cartoon, Hazbin Hotel with Sasser.

    Sasser regales us with his affinity for Shakespeare, his experiences as an African American actor learning to embrace classical roles at the Atlantic School of Acting in NYC with the help of Anya Saffir, and how he invests heavily in the Canadian body care company, Lush.

    Amora & Austin touch on other actors of note who have inspired them, including Dame Judy Dench (a Titania of the ages), and Alan Rickman (Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman can be bought anywhere fine tea is spilled).

    All elements of this podcast written, created and produced by Amora Sun. Yeah, she was the one singing in the beginning and ending segments. The songs were "Happy Day in Hell" and "It Starts with Sorry," written/composed by Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg.

    Follow Amora and reach out for media/production inquiries on IG: @wecolorblush




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    20 m