Creative Disobedience
Welcome to Creative Disobedience, a podcast complete with insight for artists and anyone else searching for self-discovery. All content originates and comes from the conversations of Donald Black, Jr. and Ali Black.
Donald is an artist, thinker and visionary who has spent his whole life working to discover who he is, and he has been sharing what he’s learned with others along the way. After realizing that traditional schooling and education was selling him somebody else’s dream, he decided to go in his own direction and discovered that nothing—no school, university, gatekeeper, or curator—could teach him who he is.
Creative Disobedience brings you information uncensored, unfiltered and unabridged to illuminate truth and offer raw and transparent advice for anyone looking to grow and find a real response to one of life’s ultimate questions: Who Am I?
Creative Disobedience is the active and professed refusal of an artist to obey certain spoken or unspoken laws, demands, orders, or commands of a society. By some definitions, Creative Disobedience has to be uniquely imagined to be called creative. Creative disobedience is sometimes equated with radicle expression or artistic resistance.
Episodes
Jan 23, 2022
Jan 23, 2022
54 min
In this episode, we’ll talk about goals and get D Black’s take on setting goals. We’ll also discuss some of D Black’s current goals and get his thoughts on what gets in the way of accomplishing a goal.
Jan 16, 2022
Jan 16, 2022
53 min
This episode is all about D Black’s reputation. Some call him arrogant, mean, complicated, smart, witty, challenging, serious and a host of other things. Let’s find out how D Black feels about these labels and how he defines himself.
Jan 9, 2022
Jan 9, 2022
49 min
This week on Study Me, we’re discussing D Black’s photograph, “Self-Imprisonment,” which placed 3rd in Nikon’s International Competition in 2007. We’ll get D Black’s thoughts on defining self-imprisonment and what this piece means to him.
Jan 6, 2022
Jan 6, 2022
26 min
Today we’re discussing the pros and cons of submitting your work to competitions, awards, prizes, etc. We’ll find out what happens to D Black emotionally when he’s preparing to enter a prize or competition.
Jan 6, 2022
Jan 6, 2022
55 min
Welcome to StudyMe! In this episode, we’re talking with our featured artist, Donald Black, Jr. (a.k.a. “D Black”) about discovery—covering everything from discovery vs. finding to when he discovered he was an artist to when he discovered the traditional art world wasn’t for him, and much more.