In today’s over caffeinated episode, Dan and Paul consider why we create, tease episode 037 will be on YouTube, and announce our competition to win a copy of Lewis Quail’s ‘Big Brother’. Simply post about The Idle Hands Society on Instagram before the 10th June 2022 to be in with a chance of winning. Don’t forget to tag us so we see it! Full details at the end of the episode and on our show page.

After a break, Dan and Paul are back!

We catch up and share some of our plans for The Idle Hands Society. Then we completely lose focus and discuss the ethics of street photography and photography assignments before finding our way back to our topic for the day.

Dan and Paul talk to a good friend, amazing photographer and brilliant businessman, Danny Jack.

We talk about Danny’s productivity, how Danny started his wedding photography career, working with amateur cats, Paul confesses to being an arsonist, shooting 60+ weddings in a year, outsourcing the tasks that are barriers to earning more money, our get rich quick schemes, and how pizza saved Danny’s life.

Happy new year and welcome to the Idle Hands Society Podcast - in this episode, Dan and Paul briefly catch up after the chaos of the festive season.

We’ve both had Covid on the run-up to Christmas and the last couple of weeks have been a blur. We look back at 2021 and spitballed some things we’re working on this year.

Merry Christmas and welcome to the Idle Hands Society Podcast - in this episode, Dan and Paul talk to photographer and artist, Karl Bailey.

We discuss Karl’s early start in professional photography and it’s effect on his personal work, coming back to old work, Karl’s work in progress photo book exploring his relationship with his father through his family’s photo albums, Karl’s time living in China and planning to move back to Asia, going back and doing a photography degree, why Dan’s wrong about the way he thinks about photography, one of the problems with modern life, and whether or not we have free will.

We talk to vocalist, songwriter, producer, Kevin Mark Trail about Kev's new album 'Heart String', working and touring with Mike Skinner as a member of The Streets, the writing process, being self-critical, learning by teaching.

Welcome to the Idle Hands Society Podcast - in this episode, Dan and Paul talk to visual artist, Jaime Gili.

We discuss being a rebel, creating accidents, Jaime’s background, challenges in art, the importance of exploring your voice before you share your work, Venezuela, and lots more.

Dan and Paul talk about Paul’s current project, Not So Far. Strap yourself in for a looser than usual chat. You can see the photographs he’s made for this project on his Instagram @paulbenceuk.

Welcome to the Idle Hands Society Podcast - in this episode, Dan and Paul talk to the Documentary Photographer, Martin Salter. We discuss the release of Martins first book ‘Memory Lane’ which happened due to a chance interaction on social media, his career so far, and a lot of philosophy.

Dan talks to the Visual Artist, Sarah-Jane Field. We talk about SJ’s shift from photography to broader visual arts, starting a creative career in acting, how doing a degree gave SJ structure in her work, recently starting a MA at Central St Martins, collaboration on creative projects, how living through historic events could shape art, sometimes having a playlist for a specific project, trying to make sense of the world through art, photographing actors, and SJ’s tiny thing that brings her joy.

Dan and Paul talk to the Documentary Photographer, Ed Thompson. We talk about publishing photography books and crowd funding for his new book In-A-Gadda-Da-England, how the next big thing for Ed might be a trippy documentary film, living in the moment and visualisation, lucid dreaming, and cave paintings.

Dan and Paul talk to the photographer, Dan Baker. We talk about the nostalgia of seaside towns in the UK, enlarging from acetate, the problem with doing a degree, how a lady named Deb taught Dan to loosen up, ripping around Cleethorpes on an electric skateboard, trying to avoid the inevitable connections with Martin Parr, Paul’s new project ‘not so far’, what we look for when we start our creative process, a breakdown of one of our favourite Dan Baker images, Paul asks a great question, and Paul and Dan Higginson prepare to shoot a wedding together.

Dan and Paul talk to the artist, Seppe De Meyere. Seppe shares his start as an artist, we contemplate the nature of existence and creativity, the need to make art, the UK leaving the European Union, and the joy of a good biscuit. Seppe plays us out with a jam on his modular synthesiser.

Dan and Paul talk to photographer, philosopher, filmmaker Sean Tucker. We discuss moving to Yorkshire, coping with adversity, mindfulness, the church, learning to talk in public, Sean's new book 'The Meaning in the Making', where ideas come from and getting inspired, whether Paul is an artist, and burning photographs.

Dan and Paul talk to New York photographer, Jason Little. This conversation has been a long time coming as we’ve been talking about Jason’s work since the start of the podcast. We discuss Jason’s documentation of the Black Lives Matter movement, the power of documentary photography, how Jason started in photography, we drag Jason into our ongoing film versus digital debate, moving to a big city, working in New York, guns in America, and feeling uninspired.

Dan and Paul reminisce about some of the lessons they’ve learned by chatting for a whole day in today's episode. We share the difficulty of sharing these conversations publicly every week, announcing our move to a fortnightly release schedule. Reach out if you want to sell your work through the Idle Hands Shop. You can now support with The Idle Hands Tip Jar. We dive back down the UFO rabbit hole; maybe we live in a simulation? We get back on track give you a sneak peek at some upcoming guests. And you’ll be rewarded with an exceptional treat if you listen to the very end!

In today's episode, Dan talks with composer and sound designer Sefi Carmel. We discuss how Sefi works with Dolby Atmos and the future of mixing music, his start in the industry, telling a story through sound, our mutual love of Blade Runner, coping with imposter syndrome, controlling synthesisers using only your brain waves, the changes he had to make due to pandemic, why Sefi believes composers, sound designers, musicians and voice actors will tend to work remotely in the future, and why we shouldn't worry about the proliferation of rubbish art because of the internet.

This week, Dan and Paul talk to London based photographer, Josh Edgoose. We talk about being shambolic, his first book Brilliant Parade, Josh’s early commitment to colour photography, long coffee-fuelled photo walks in London, Paul’s views on his own personal work, having someone else reviewing your work, photographing strangers without being creepy, Framelines on Youtube, the power of categorising your work, being inspired by gear, Josh’s love of his city, humour in photography, clawhammer banjo, how Dan and Paul’s work has changed since starting the Idle Hands Society Podcast, our two pence on the film versus digital debate, each of our photograph’s that could have been, and Pauls Wandle Trail project.

This week Dan and Paul are reunited to talk about art, music and Margate with artist and Cane Yo collaborator Alex Wilby. We talk about Alex’s feelings on commissioned work, Disneyfied disease illustrations, what music taught us, being inspired by graffiti, working with limited or no colour, drawing on an iPad, what Alex would be painting if nobody were watching, and Alex and Dan nerd out about synthesisers.

In this episode, Dan Higginson and Paul Bence introduce themselves and explore the topic of finding your artistic voice. Neither of us is experts on this topic, but we enjoyed working through it together. Hopefully, I enjoyed listening in on our conversation.