outside is Magic
by Christopher San Agustin
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Art Is Design and Design Is Art | Makenzie Brown
Art Is Design and Design Is Art | Makenzie Brown
About this podcast
A podcast about the intersection of creativity and the outdoors. Each week features honest conversations with creatives inspired by the outside world.
Episodes
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- Art Is Design and Design Is Art | Makenzie Brown · 44 minMakenzie Brown knew what she wanted to do when she was three years old. Then she spent the next twenty years getting foggier about it, the way everyone does. What snapped her…
- Why He Stopped Filming Other People to Focus on His Own Riding · 52 minThe first trick Christian Rigal ever learned on a BMX bike was a tree ride, at a Burger King in Moraga, California. Twenty five years later he rides mountain bikes for a living…
- He Spent Years Making Logos Bigger. Then He Built a Brand Without One. | Ornot's Matt Quann · 54 minMatt Quann spent his design career being asked to make the logo bigger. So when he started his own cycling brand, he took the logo off entirely. Thirteen years later, Ornot is…
- He Got Airlifted Off Mt. Baker, Then Taught Himself to Sew Left-Footed | Spencer Kadas · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 8Spencer Kadas quit his data science job at 31 to be a ski bum for a year. No grand plan, just one question: will I regret not doing this? A year later he bought High Above, the…
- How One Engineer's Instinct Became a Cult Outdoor Brand · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 7What does it take to build an outdoor brand the whole industry starts referencing? For Kyle Siegel, founder of Raide, it started with a problem, not a brand. In this episode we…
- Why Your Process Doesn't Have to Look Like Anyone Else's | Cait Oppermann · 1 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 6This conversation got me fired up. Cait Oppermann is a photographer and creative director in Brooklyn who runs her own studio, FLOWERS, and she's spent her whole career quietly…
- How Steve Crandall Built an Entire World Out of a BMX Bike · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 5Steve Crandall is the founder of FBM, the BMX brand he started as an inside joke and an art project that turned into a bike company. Today he runs RadShare, a grassroots…
- Why Being a Beginner Again Matters with Michelle Wilcox · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 4Meesh and I have known each other a long time. Mutual friends, overlapping rides, the kind of friendship that started by crossing paths in the same places and got real once we…
- When the Path You're On Stops Feeling Like Yours — Max Young · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 3Max Young and I came to this conversation from the exact same spot. Two senior creatives, a decade-plus in, standing at the same crossroads and asking ourselves the same…
- She Spent 12 Years at Patagonia. Then She Built Her Own Brand. | Laura kinman · 1 h 14 min · Season 2 Episode 2Laura Kinman spent 25+ years in the outdoor industry, and she didn't plan to start a brand. Then, in October 2024, she was laid off from Patagonia while flying home from Vietnam…
- Process, Self-Belief, and the Bike as Teacher with Braydon Bringhurst · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 1In this episode of outside Is Magic, I sit down with Braydon Bringhurst, a professional mountain biker, filmmaker, public speaker, father, and the founder of the Hard MTB League…
- Authenticity, Gratitude, and the Long Road Forward with Jarrod Allen · 57 minIn this episode of outside is Magic, I sit down with my longtime friend Jarrod Allen. We go way back to our BMX days, and over the years our paths have continued to cross through…
- Finding Common Ground with Kyle von Hoetzendorff · 48 minIn this episode of outside is Magic, I sit down with Kyle von Hoetzendorff — one of the first people I met when I moved to Portland, and someone I’ve respected for years across…
- The Truth About Creativity, Identity, and Growing Up with Jake Webski · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 23This episode dives deep into creativity, identity, and how to stay grounded when life keeps changing. Jake shares lessons from Instrument, Google, cycling, fatherhood, and…
- Learning to Get Out of Your Own Way with Brett Stenson · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 22In this episode of outside is Magic, I talk with illustrator and designer Brett Stenson about creativity, style, community, and the long, messy path of figuring out who you are…
- Why Creative Growth Starts with Looking Back with Sean Steed · 33 minIn this episode of outside is Magic, I sit down with Sean, a creative working at Rapha, to explore how architecture, design, and sport all intersect through storytelling and…
- Focus what matters most with Sage Cattabriga-Alosa · 58 minIn this episode of outside is Magic, I sit down with professional skier, artist, and filmmaker Sage Cattabriga-Alosa for a conversation about creativity, mentorship, and what it…
- The Beautiful Mess of Growth with Serena Rio · 44 minIn this episode of outside is Magic, I sit down with artist, mountain biker, and psychology student Serena Rio for a conversation about fear, creativity, and the art of stepping…
- A Little Update · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 19This week there’s no guest, just me. I wanted to take a moment to share where the podcast is at, why I started it, and what I’ve learned 16 episodes in. I talk about the…
- Finding a Voice in Photography with Bryan Banducci · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 18I am joined by Bryan, someone I first met in the NYC cycling scene and really got to know on the Oregon Outback, a 364 mile ride across Oregon. We talk about growing up around…
