Pixel Recess

Pixel Recess was creative podcast playground, with a very brief “interviews” with industry leading designers, developers, artists, writers, musicians, bacon and anyone creative, asking questions void of inspiration, education, insight or good taste.
A long time ago, in 2014, I started a podcast about design. But I didn’t want this one to be like every other design podcast that I heard at the time, which were both too long and too boring. So I copied Between Two Ferns and made this podcast short, chaotic, ridiculous, and fun. A recess from the self-important into a playground. I did 41 episodes, and I think they were rather fun.

Episodes

Episode:
10
Dave Rupert Is Fun Time USA

If you've ever wondered how weird and crazy this show could get, then you'll love today's episode with Austin treasure hunter Dave Rupert. Dave is best known for having the first successful animatronic beard transplant and for creating nearly lifelike portraits purely from CSS code.

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When Dave isn't practicing foreign accents, he can be found writing code while wearing gloves at Paravel in Austin BBQ TX and hosting his own talkshow about things and other things and maybe bacon.

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Today's episode is not sponsored by the film "Arsenio Hall and Eddie Murphy Present Coming Back To The Future In America".

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9
Jay Fanelli Weaves T-shirts Made of Paper and Gold

On today's very special Friday edition we have the man of the sea Jay Fanelli. You might know Jay for his work making gold encrusted t-shirts with United Pixel Workers, making design things at Full Stop Intercreative Things and doing voice-over work for trampolines and broccoli.  

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When Jay isn't weaving and sowing, he spends his time in the City of Pitts collecting drumsticks and donating used clothing to people in countries that need used clothing while following his true passion in life, the open sea and studying to be a sea captain.

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Today's episodes is not sponsored by T-shirts or Flat Design.

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8
Greg Storey Is The MENSA Eskimo

There's no need to introduce our guest today because I don't feel like it. Regardless, he's Gergory Storey, a beardless Eskimo who came to America on the back of a whale looking for gold in California but became best known for wearing Jeffery Zeldman's blue beanie on the first Thursday and third Monday of every other month.

Greg is also known for eating steak, wearing snowshoes, building igloo's, collecting iPads, avoiding the wrath of Jesus and being the only officially sanctioned AARP MENSA member under the age of 75. Did I mention he's from Alaska? He's from Alaska aka The Australia Of The North.

Today's episodes is not sponsored by MENSA, the AARP or diabetes.

Episode:
7
Kyle Steed Might Give You A Sponge Bath

Today's guest is Kyle Steed, best known for his work with the photo iPhone application program Over where he makes hand-drawn typewriters. Kyle is also known for his illustrations of cereal and pizza. Kyle is a tall man with a hat who enjoys juggling on his unicycle and watching Tom Cruise films.

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Today's episodes is not sponsored by Frito's or John Deere.

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6
Josh Long Is A Teleporting Executioner

Josh Long is best known for the fictional story about his time as an executioner (of ideas) and his ability to teleport &mdash allowing him do tackel an inhuman number of side projects.

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In his spare time Josh creates bonsai trees, spends hours marveling at the majesty of horses, is a master treehouse architecture or something and also mentors future hobos. As a southern gentleman Josh is required to say "y'all" at least 15 times a day and lives under a weeping willow.

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Today's episodes is not sponsored by chitlins or grits.

Episode:
5
Krystyn Heide Is Neither Square Nor A Girl

On today's show thing I welcome the lady Krystyn Heide, better known as Nicki Clyne's best friend or as SquareGirl™ on Twitter. Krystyn is a Designer at SquareSpace, just recently ended a long term affair with Papyrus. In her free time she designs websites for spas and lesbian coffeehouses.

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While Krystyn might only (approximately) 2,300 followers on Twitter, she does follow just 136 people therefore making her more important. She found all of my questions stupid. Today's episode is not sponsored by SquareSpace.

Episode:
4
Yaron Schoen Wants You To Enjoy The Whitespace

Today's Pixel Recess has guest Yaron Schoen also known as Ron Stone. Ron is best known for creating Twitter and killing people with design while serving in the Israeli Army. Yaron currently works at home, naked, while wearing just a yarmulke. He also probably makes an app and website and eats McDonald's while watching reruns of Murder She Wrote.

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3
Noah Stokes Thinks That Awesome Takes Practice

Noah Stokes, perhaps better known by his birth name Mother Futon, is the founder and partner at Bold, where he creates "vintage" websites made out of balsa wood or something. Sadly Noah had no involvement in LOST, but does live in California (almost near Hollywood) and has long hair like a 80s metal god.

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2
Adam Clark Has A Tender Anger

Adam Clark is the host of the podcast The Gently Mad and is also a designeper at Bottlerocket Creative. I was once on his podcast, and I was amazing. Adam is a thoughtful and analytical man, with the quiet rage of a seagull. He also has a beard and the mouth of a sailor.

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Phil Coffman Is The Non Texan Texan

Phil Coffman is better known for his huge failure, Method & Craft — a site, which aside from once being awesome, taught people how to craft things with a method and cure cancer and save lives. Phil currently is a partner (but not pardner, get it? GET IT?) at Element Creative in Austin TX where he might get drunk. Phil is also a hipster by requirement of city ordinance.