The Creative Pulse podcast

Karlee Porter is a creative quilter who loves everything about what is possible with this art form. In addition to valuing traditional approaches, Karlee has also developed brand new techniques and shares her skills and talents through workshops, online classes, quilting patterns, and her own book series.She invented graffiti quilting, a free motion quilting method where you take m

Ernesto Lemke uses LEGO® bricks to create portraits using the unique brickpainting technique he developed. Incredibly, he makes these brick paintings without the use of software - he uses only his painter's eye and artistic vision to create his pieces.Ernesto has been featured in several television shows, including LEGO® Masters, where he created an incredible van Gogh portr

Tinka Robev and Andrew Azzopardi design and produce contemporary puzzles that feed the soul and challenge the mind. These are not your average, everyday puzzles - they feature intricately-cut pieces that turn tried-and-true puzzle solving tactics upside down. They even come with difficulty ratings - that’s how challenging some of these puzzles are to solve.They weren’t always p

Katie Waters is a Foley Artist who enhances stories by performing the everyday sounds you hear in TV shows, movies, podcasts and video games. She captures live audio as she creates many different elements in a soundscape to perfectly match what’s happening on screen - everything from the sound of someone pouring water into a glass, walking down a hallway in high heels or hitting

Bill Hecht creates retro-futurism robot sculptures, finding great joy in imagining new uses for materials that would otherwise be discarded. He imaginatively combines bits and pieces of different items to create robot figures that have personality and presence. Bill established The Robotorium, where he dreams up, builds and showcases his found object robot sculptures. Electronics a

I recently published the 100th episode of the Creative Pulse podcast and I have absolutely loved connecting with creative people around the world and bringing those conversations to you. Thank you so much for being here! This episode is a little different than usual, as I take a moment to mark the milestone of 100 episodes being published and all of the awesome ideas my guests have

On the 100th episode of the podcast, Lindsay Jean Thomson shares all about #The100DayProject!It’s a free global creativity challenge and this year’s start date was announced during the episode. Taking part is pretty straightforward - you pick something and do it every day for 100 days, sharing online as you go.#The100DayProject, in its current form, celebrated its 10th annivers

Using fragile eggshells of all sizes as her creative canvas, Katherine Alexander designs colourful and intricate works of art. Her specialty is pysanky, the traditional Ukrainian art of writing on eggs.Katherine says her creative fire comes from discovering the limits she can push with this beautiful but challenging medium. She respects the long history of pysanky and enjoys the cl

Stef Bastiàn is a talented and experienced tattoo artist whose love affair with tattooing began when he was a teenager. His fascination was sparked when he crossed paths with Maurizio Fiorini, a heavily-tattooed man in his neighbourhood in Florence, Italy, who was well-known and well-respected in the industry.Stef’s creative journey has taken him to the United States, Australia,

A lifelong love of singing and dancing took Robyn Bennett from her hometown stages to New York City and then to Paris. Once there, she performed in the musical Cabaret, directed by Sam Mendes, which played for two years at the famous Folies Bergère theatre. Now Robyn makes her own music and performs regularly with her partner in life and work, trombone player Ben van Hille. She ha