Chaos & Creativity https://chaosandcreativity.com/ The Chaos & Creativity podcast with your hosts Kimi Recor and Lou Lesko. Copyright 2026 Chaos and Creativity Chaos and Creativity false Chaos and Creativity en Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:46:25 -0700 Fair (and Unfair) Trade: Giving It Away for Free https://chaosandcreativity.com/2026/08/09/fair-and-unfair-trade-giving.html Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:31:14 -0700 https://chaosandcreativity.com/2026/08/09/fair-and-unfair-trade-giving.html by Cheramie Johnson

In this week’s minisode: Lou offers to write a treatment for a screenplay with a spectacular premise and a really good story. Kimi randomly gets cast in a short film and is relieved when it gets canceled. Drawing on decades of experience as creative professionals, Kimi and Lou share how to ask the right questions when given the “opportunity” to work for free, when trade feels like a valuable exchange, when saying yes is stupid, and how to say no when it needs to be said.

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]]> 1591 The Art of Sound, Part 2: Tom Myers of Skywalker Sound https://chaosandcreativity.com/2026/07/23/the-art-of-sound-part.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:44:41 -0700 https://chaosandcreativity.com/2026/07/23/the-art-of-sound-part.html Until I met three time academy award nominee Tom Myers, it never crossed my mind that a blank page to a writer is total silence to a sound designer. That something as subtle as a dog barking in the distance in a movie is as intentional a choice as the more conspicuous murmuring of a populated cafe underneath the dialog of actors in a scene. The deeper Myers and I dug into what he does for a living at Skywalker Sound, the more I realized that sound design and sound mixing are forms of aural magic performed by wizards. Subtlety is art, ethos and praxis in this enchanting world. A world where the latitude between not enough and too much is shockingly narrow and requires good ears, a rich imagination and clever, clever instinct.

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