On Goingness

Besides being your hosts... Jenny Morris [https://www.tovahstudio.com/] is a fiber artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She loves spending time with her Saori loom and her favorite pup Jo. In addition to weaving, Jenny feels especially passionate towards organizations that help to build social change. In 2019, she became the first artist-in-residence at The Memory Maker Project [https://www.memorymakerproject.org/], an organization that brings art, culture and advocacy to people living with memory loss. The same year, she started the No Hard Feelings Project [https://www.tovahstudio.com/nhfblog], an interview series where she talks to artists and creative entrepreneurs alike about work, play and process. Her friend Sofia told her to make it into a podcast, and here we are. Sofia Pashaei [https://www.sofiapashaei.com/] is an illustrator, animation director and multidisciplinary artist, with a focus on stylized graphic imagery. Through the use of paintings and animation, she investigates the perception of modern day life told from the perspective of womanhood and relationships. Sofia aims to create quiet paintings portraying artificial moments and surrealistic films emphasizing the absurdity of our modern day life. She has worked with clients such as Google, Adult Swim and TED Education to name a few and is an AI-AP winner with her shot film for Adult Swim. You can find a selection of her incredible short films here [https://www.sofiapashaei.com/personal-work]. Follow her painting work here [https://www.sofiaannahitapashaei.com/]. In this episode we tell you a bit about who we are, our processes, our pain points and what we are thinking about right now. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support [https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support]

A serial entrepreneur and performing multimedia artist, Jay Rinsky is the founder and Chief Creative Director of Emmy-nominated Little Cinema [https://www.littlecinema.net/] / Little Cinema Digital. Through his leadership, Little Cinema has grown to win multiple awards, establish itself as a true pioneer in ‘immersive’ and experiential, and has grown to become the go-to agency for producing Hollywood’s biggest hybrid and virtual events to the likes of Netflix, Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, HBO Max, Amazon Studios, ABC, CBS, & Nat Geo while expanding its reach globally into Europe with its Netflix partnership. Jay’s true talent lies in his ability to creatively connect, direct and bring together a collection of different ideas, talents and technologies into singular spectacular outcomes. In this episode, we chat about risk and naïveté, the critical role of play in the creative process, his collaborative work with House of Yes [https://houseofyes.org/], and building Little Cinema in the spirit of collaboration, hard work and fun. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support [https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support]

Mick Junco [https://www.mickjunco.com/] is a painter, illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NY. His work merges the mundane and the strange in a combination of still life, landscape and portraiture. It is often as playful as it is quietly provocative. In this episode we chat stick-to-it-iveness, how he made his way from analog painting to animation, and merging professional career and personal creative practice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support [https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support]

Shayna Klee [https://www.shaynaklee.com/home] is an American multimedia Artist and Youtuber [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcZEPPdyeNDRKII4XLS3I0A] living and working in Paris, France. Through video, installation, sculpture and performance, Shayna creates works that are visually tumultuous, appealing to immersive scales, patterns and vivid colors. Her practice is multidisciplinary and variable: from multimedia theater pieces to writing a book [//amazon.com/Purple-Palace-other-poems/dp/2957709708/ref=asc_df_2957709708/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=509073194148&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14063159948569408744&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004349&hvtargid=pla-1224185071372&psc=1] (The Purple Palace & other poems), Shayna seeks to tell stories and create worlds that are both utopique and fragile; where she acts as both consumer and performer. In this episode, we discuss building community in a virtual space, her upcoming film series project "Tales From the Digital Realm", moving from Florida to Paris, and the central vulnerability that frames her work. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support [https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support]

Nasrin Jafari is the founder and designer of Mixed [https://mixedbynasrin.com/], a New York City based fashion brand and textile studio making a name for printwear. She designs statement prints and pieces that inspire you to embrace your mixed identities and be seen in full color. In this episode, we chat about building her brand in a global pandemic, how she connects her personal identity to her public brand, and her ways of approaching and embracing diversity within in her career, business and creative process. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support [https://anchor.fm/ongoingness/support]