Babble + Yak

Hello!  I n May myself and Jess took part in the Whitley Bay carnival online.  The following is a ‘brief’ take of an interview that we took part in as part of that event.  For ease of reading we have highlighted the questions and bullet-pointed the answers; the original transcript is over 5000 words……. E-Right, Im recording J-Here we go…… Hi Everyone, we are Emma and Jess, we run babble and yak together which is a blog we started about a year ago.  It is all about the creative, working for yourself but not by yourself being each other’s sort of virtual cheerleaders-it seemed quite fitting to share our understandings on a blog for other creatives to share their experiences.    Emma and Jess  We have known each other a long time and had planned to show together this year at Whitley Bay for the first time but for obvious reasons this didn't happen! So, we decided to do something virtually together instead.   Last week we put out a call for...

Yak As months go, January is pretty loaded.  Expectations are high, motivation is at its most powerful new me; new you, new everything.  I don't buy into this much (I did for many years, but honestly, you're good as you are) but I do love a list and a plan.     Social media has a lot of positives, and my personal favourite is Instagram, but it also has a fair amount of negatives.  With January and creatives there is a mass of new planners, success sharing from 2019, goal planning for 2020, exciting opportunities and that is all great, I am genuinely happy for those successes, art gets a rough deal and its great that people are making progress.  For me though, its one big comparison of what I haven't achieved, to goals I haven't met, to work I am just not capable of making.        For me, comparisons have always been around.  At school, constant comparing with others on where their life was going, boys, body's and grad...