Ep. 54 - John F. Simon Jr
Synchronicity with Noah Lampert
Noah Lampert
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2016
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Brace yourself for an absolutely excellent episode of Synchronicity.
Today, I'm joined by artist, mystic and all around brilliant person, John F. Simon Jr.
If you're interested in the intersection of creativity and mindfulness this is the episode for you.
I left our conversation absolutely in awe of John's creativity, compassion and wisdom.
John's new book, "Drawing Your Own Path: 33 Exercises at the Crossroads of Art and Mindfulness" is out now on Parallax Press.
John has been producing art professionally for almost 20 years beginning with hand and pen plotter drawings and progressing through Internet Art to finally arrive at his own practice of 'coding as creative writing'.
The main John shows his Software Art is through sculptural wall hangings with LCD screens that he calls 'art appliances' and has made and sold since 1999. John also makes drawings and paintings daily in the 'traditional' media of gouache and pencil.
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| 0:00.0 | Hopefully you choose something, for me it was drawing, that you have joy and energy around doing, that you want to do, and that gives you a positive feedback in terms of the release of that creative energy. |
| 0:11.0 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:12.8 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:14.7 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:16.8 | This is synchronicity. |
| 0:20.3 | This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. |
| 0:21.6 | This is synchronicity. I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:38.3 | I'm |
| 0:39.3 | I'm The |
| 0:57.0 | ...their... Your heart beats me a lot of |
| 1:13.6 | You don't have voluntary control. |
| 1:30.3 | Now exist... |
| 1:32.3 | ...something that's something that's on case. |
| 1:35.3 | Your heart beats by itself. |
| 1:39.3 | Your heart beats by myself. |
| 1:42.3 | You don't have voluntary control. |
| 1:47.0 | So we say it happens on things. |
| 2:03.6 | But the basis of it. |
| 2:06.6 | But the basis of it all is listening. |
| 2:26.3 | If we say you must survive, or I must survive, life is done, and I have got to go on. |
| 2:30.3 | Then your life is drag. Now it's my intention |
| 2:37.0 | my personal opinion |
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