Hi all. Welcome to another conversation about the pursuit of creative excellence. I’m so happy that I finally get to share this episode with you! What follows is an intimate, insightful, and entertaining conversation with a true artist — Phil Desforges. I highly recommend you browse through Phil’s portfolio while you listen to this episode.
Talking Points
- How Phil developed his color palette
- The art of building a world in your art
- How photography saved Phil’s life
- Why men should open up about their feelings
- Sensitivities to music
- Why Stoicism is important to Phil
- Phil’s favorite movies and directors
- On Casey Neistat
- Following your gut vs your reasoning
- The comfort zone and consistency conundrum
- On Beeple
- The nuances of creating on certain mediums, thoughts on Tik Tok
- Getting inspired by the right creators
- The flaw of originality
- A message from Pakistan
- Spending a week without creating
- Phil’s favorite coffee and tea
- Memento Mori
- “The output doesn’t matter; it’s the outcome.”
- On being bored productively
- “Less counting, more doing.”
- The necessary constraint of mortality
- Sonder and This Is Water
- We are all living in our own bubble
- On current world conflicts, and feeling helpless
- Honing in on the skills you can’t teach
- On the beauty of flow
- Why it’s so tough to be natural on camera
- What modern people are afraid of
- On geeking out about the things you love, and creating around that
- Phil’s message for stuck creatives
Mentions in this episode
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
Symbols of Transformation by Carl Jung
