NEW VIDEO - Everyone's Creative Tries a New Medium

In which I try to overcome my instinct to be camera-shy and embrace a format that probably works better for me.

Hi,

I made a video about Everyone’s Creative to try to open this up to a wider audience and restate my general thesis for this project. If you’ve been reading my work here for a while, it will be mostly familiar ideas, but in a new flashy format! A moving picture!

Give it a watch and let me know what you think!

I have been avoiding turning a camera on and recording myself talking into it for years. I like writing, but it never really feels like the final form of my work. This newsletter/blog has always had a bit of an unrealized form that I always imagined it taking but avoided, because, honestly, it’s a bit embarrassing.

It’s easy to write things and publish them semi-anonymously, even if you use your name and photo. There’s an undeniable vulnerability to being on camera that I have found hard to overcome. But why is that? I think, honestly, for me it’s because you don’t turn a camera on and talk into it for hours and then edit it for hours and then put it on the internet unless you want people to see it. By putting it out there, you’re admitting that you want something to happen. You have an ambition. What if it sucks? What if people perceive you?

Years of writing have led me to the realization that I don’t feel fulfilled by only writing, and so I’m trying to get over myself and make my work in a form I enjoy. I love making movies, editing, animating (and, yes, writing) and I actually do feel like I’m good at talking. So, I’m going to try this out for a bit.

Everyone’s Creative will still be a written newsletter, too, but I’ll be trying to make more videos for my bigger ideas and when the format suits it. Writing a newsletter is obviously much faster than making a video, so quick, time-sensitive ideas will likely always be written going forward.

Thanks for following along! If you think anyone who doesn’t know about my work would like it, please share it!

Video Credits

All work used in this video is either public domain or shared under a Creative Commons license. If I’ve made a mistake and used your work incorrectly, please let me know so I can either fix the attribution or remove it from the video. You can reach me at info@everyonescreative.net

I always try to link to the source of materials used. If something from the video isn’t linked below, it is either original work or a direct link couldn’t be found. Reach out to me if you want to know more about a source.

Music & Audio

Happy Airlines by Milton Paredes
Drama Strings.mp3 by younoise
Twinkle (1) by Alexia205
bell ding 1.wav by 5ro4
Tate Britain gallery lobby ambience by Kalou
R11-44-Radiation Geiger Counter.wav by craigsmith
Improvisation with Sopranino recorder.wav by piermic
CLICK_212.wav by Jaszunio15
Vinyl SFX by Anthousai
tea_cup02-drag.wav by andre.nascimento

Video

Falling Confetti in the Room by Cup of Couple via Pexels

Typefaces

Reglo Bold
by Sebastien Sanfilippo

ANRT Baskervville
by ANRT (Atelier National de Recherche typographique)

Avara
by Raphaël Bastide, with the contribution of Wei Huang, Lucas Le Bihan, Walid Bouchouchi, Jérémy Landes

Images (in order of appearance)

Figure Studies (verso)
Perino del Vaga, c. 1530/1540 | via NGA.gov

All Gizah Pyramids
Photo by Ricardo Liberato, 2006 | via Wikimedia Commons

Abbe Breuil in Lascaux Caves at La Mouthe
wellcomecollection.org | via Wikimedia Commons
CC BY 4.0

Historisches Fahrrad
W. Bulach, 2013 | via Wikimedia Commons
CC BY-SA 4.0

Simon Bening: Self Portrait
Simon Bening, 1558 | via Wikimedia Commons

Apollo 11 Launch
NASA, 1969 | via Wikimedia Commons

Chopin Polonaise Op. 53
Sourced: Heineman Music Collection (Unbound), Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Music Manuscripts and Books | via Wikimedia Commons

Soldering Process
Mrshaxac, 2025 | via Wikimedia Commons

Austria - Gottweig Abbey
Photo by Jorge Royan, 2009 | via Wikimedia Commons
© Jorge Royan / www.royan.com.ar / CC BY-SA 3.0

Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycle at The Forks in Winnipeg
Photo by Fil.Al, 2020 | via Wikimedia Commons

Light Switch
McNairBF, 2025 | via Wikimedia Commons

Finger Engraving
Montreal Type Foundry, 1865 | via Archive.org

Merry Company on a Terrace
Dirck Hals, 1625 | via NGA.gov

Human Brain MRI
Olleyolin, 2024 | via Wikimedia Commons

The Jester
Jost Amman, 1586 | via NGA.gov

Group of Male Figures Conversing
Hubert Robert, probably c. 1754/1765 | via NGA.gov

Forging Shells, The Slaves of the Wheel
Joseph Pennell, 1917 | via NGA.gov

The Battle of Fornovo
Master of the Battle of Fornovo, 1495/1506 | via NGA.gov

The Celebrated Vincent Lunardi Esq. Accompanied by Two Friends in His Third Aerial Excursion, Taken from St. George’s Fields, in London
Francesco Bartolozzi after John Francis Rigaud, 1784 | via NGA.gov

P.S.

Here’s a little extra for anyone who reads all the way here: I noticed that my title in the video for the chapter “Creativity is Embarrassing” has a spelling error on “Embarrassing” (it’s missing an R) but I decided not to fix it because it’s a funny word to spell wrong and it’s kind of exposure therapy for my perfectionism.

Love you! Have a great day!