Recommended Listening
Event Horizon: How Creativity Works with Anson Mount and Branan Edgens
by John Michael Godier
Anson Mount, actor/writer/producer, and Branan Edgens, editor/cinematographer/effects makeup artist, are longtime friends and the creative team behind the podcast The Well.
These two professional creatives have joined forces to interview a variety of other creatives about their lives and their creativity. But before we talk about their podcast (and I promise you, I will), I highly recommend that you listen to this interview.
I have to issue one warning about this podcast. It does have commercials (which you can skip), and I am in no way endorsing (or condemning) any of the things being advertised. I find this necessary, given that some of the ads I heard were somewhat questionable. You may not hear the same ads, or you may not find them problematic, but for my own sake I wanted to make that clear. With that out of the way, let's talk about this episode.
I would love to add a picture of Anson Mount (or Branan Edgens), but I don't have any pictures I own rights for and I don't want to violate any other creative's copyrights.
Godier is an excellent interviewer; he asks good questions and then gets out of the way so his subjects can answer them at length. This works well with Mount and Edgens, both experienced storytellers who are equally relaxed and articulate in front of a microphone. The combination makes for an hour that goes quickly with equal amounts of entertainment and information.
One thing I found particularly refreshing was the two subjects' response to the question about having performers and celebrities on their podcast. It seems that while these two are well-connected in the entertainment industry, they speak with Godier about their deliberate choice not to focus on those obvious choices.
Their other tenet, the basis for their series, is the belief that everyone is creative, that the impulse to create, to tell stories through our art, is a basic human impulse. Throughout this interview they reinforce that belief. I am sure we will come back to that when we talk about the actual series episodes.
The series itself focuses on their guest, not as much on the hosts, and as a result we don't learn as much about the hosts. This interview will provide a good introduction to the hosts and their approach to creativity, and to the thought process behind the series.
I hope you enjoy this introduction to Mount and Edgens, and I look forward to recommending episodes of their series in the near future.
Event Horizon podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZlh7wJ3Dnc