About this podcast
Why is there something rather than nothing?
This podcast is a philosophical and psychological exploration into the act of creation. Follow the paths to personal liberation, creativity, music, painting, deep thinking and the art of the intelligent conversation.
ONE LOVE!
Episodes
The newest 50 of 332 episodes
- Alex Behr and Animal Kingdom · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 331Alex Behr [https://www.alexbehr.com/bio-alexbehr] is the author of the story collections ANIMAL KINGDOM and PLANET GRIM, both on 7.13 Books, and the poetry chapbook GRIEF STICK…
- Sophie Dunér · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 330Sophie Dunér [https://sophiedunermusic.com/]is a singer, songwriter, composer, arranger and visual artist from Sweden who has lived and performed in the United States and Spain…
- Lawrence Q. Markx · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 329Lawrence Q. Markx [https://questionmarkx.me/]was born on December 20th, 1980, in Miami, Florida—also known as Little America, or Cuba Adjacent, depending on your politics and GPS…
- Di Slaney and Manor Farm · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 328Di Slaney lives with her husband in a Grade II Listed, 400 year old farmhouse in Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire with more animals than is sensible. She runs Manor Farm Charitable…
- Steven Seidenberg and The Architecture of Silence · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 327Steven Seidenberg [https://www.stevenseidenberg.com/artwork-1] is an artist, poet, and philosopher whose collections of photographs include The Architecture of Silence…
- Kazu Haga and Fierce Vulnerability · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 326Kazu Haga [https://www.kazuhaga.com/] I have lived in Buddhist monasteries. I have spent the last twenty-five years in social justice movements. I have sat in hundreds of circles…
- J Webster Sharp · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 325Podcast Host Ken Volante here. I am pleased to present J Webster Sharp, who is my favorite, illustrator, like, ever. Jemma has created The Scrapbook of Life and Death, Fondant…
- Vanessa and Isobel Stockard tackle The Universe · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 324Famous Painter Vanessa Stockard [https://www.instagram.com/vanessastockard/?hl=en] and her adventurer-space-mind-explorer-daughter Isobel tackle The Universe! A Something Rather…
- swinewomb · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 323Swinewomb [https://www.instagram.com/swinewomb/]is a Southern Gothic psychosexual horror play set in the deeply religious town of Caleb's Rest, where two siblings unravel in the…
- Victor V Gurbo · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 322Victor V. Gurbo is a roots revivalist singer-songwriter whose work blends folk, blues, and Americana into a sound that feels both timeless and contemporary. Backed by a…
- Jadon Allen and Guilt! · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 321Guilt! is a clothing & video company founded in Portland, Oregon, by Jadon Allen. Each creative work from the company draws inspiration from street art, life experiences, and…
- NOX SINISTER with Nathan Shapiro · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 320Nox Sinister [https://www.nox-sinister.com/] is hard to pin down into just one subgenre of heavy metal. They use a blend of techniques borrowed from NWOBHM, thrash, progressive…
- Something Rather Than Nothing Trailer · 1 minListen to Something Rather Than Nothing one of the world's biggest indie podcasts! Explore ways to creativity, paths to philosophy, ideas to transform and introductions to…
- Rachael Renae and How to Prioritize Play · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 319Rachael Renae [https://rachaelrenae.com/] Rachael Renae is an artist, play enthusiast, and creativity hype gal based in Detroit, MI. She helps people prioritize play to overcome…
- 'On the Phone' Film Premiere with Kenny Sale and Matthew Kyle Levine · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 318When a young influencer lands a dog food sponsorship, she recruits her estranged mother to co-star - hoping to turn a work obligation into a chance to reconnect. As she…
- k.g.m.r. and The Rockford Files aesthetic · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 317kgmr is a composer, songwriter, keyboardist, field recorder, sampler, and noise maker. kgmr writes for solo piano, rock trio, larger ensembles, and electronic instrumentation…
- Cryptic Divination from the soil of Eugene, Oregon · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 316Influenced by bands like Opeth and Cynic, Cryptic Divination is a unique "second generation" of sounds from '90s death metal to '70s prog rock. Utilizing heavy riffs, clean…
- April Fox and Deep Dark Yoga · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 315April Fox has been teaching yoga in Portland OR since 2014, and running classes to doom metal since 2016. 🌒Deep Dark Yoga 🌘 is slow, gentle flow to the sludgiest, heaviest tunes…
- Lee Upton · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 314Introduction to Lee Upton: [https://regalhousepublishing.com/lee-upton/] I am a multi-genre author, not because I'm polygamous when it comes to genre, but because each genre is…
- SWOON with Caledonia Curry · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 313Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon [https://swoonstudio.org/about], is a contemporary artist and filmmaker recognized around the world for her pioneering vision of public artwork…
- Darrin Doyle · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 312Darrin Doyle [https://www.darrindoyle.com/] was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He has worked as a paperboy, a janitor, a mover, a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesman, a Kinko's…
- ART BAR Magazine · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 311Art Bar [https://www.artbarmagazine.com/] is a thick, coffee table Art Magazine, printed in the U.S. on high quality paper stock. The features are about the lived human…
- Keeli Littleleaf and Indigenous Fashion · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 310A proud powwow dancer, cultural educator, and fashion visionary, Keeli Littleleaf [https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=keeli%20littleleaf]continues to blaze trails wherever she…
- 'Connoly' with Stefan Diethelm and Bradly Valenzuela · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 309Stefan Diethelm [https://stefandiethelm.com/about] is a Swiss and German artist, originally from Uzwil, Switzerland. He fell in love with performing at a young age, was trained…
- Crystal Skillman · 1 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 308Crystal Skillman [https://www.crystalskillman.com/] is an internationally award-winning playwright, fictional podcast writer, and comic book author who has written for Stories…
- Patricia Lynn · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 307Patricia Lynn [https://www.patriciamlynn.com/] is a playwright/actor who has worked extensively in NYC independent theatre. As a writer, Patricia fancies herself to be a gothic…
- Victoria Astuto · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 306Victoria Astuto is a musician, composer, videographer, and educator based in the Hudson Valley. Her debut EP, The Place features clarinet, saxophone, flute, bass clarinet…
- Leanna Renee Hieber · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 305Leanna Renee Hieber [https://www.leannareneehieber.com/about-1/] is an actress, playwright, ghost tour guide, audiobook narrator and the award-winning, bestselling author of over…
- Blair Borax · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 304Born on the East Coast, and home to the West, Blair Borax's relationship with music began unexpectedly in 2016, when a friend gifted her a cheap guitar. Since then, Borax has…
- Jesi Bender · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 303Jesi Bender [https://www.jesibender.com/child-of-light.html] is an artist from Upstate New York. Her work leans towards experimental historical fiction that interrogates the…
- Jen Michalski · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 302Jen Michalski [http://www.jenmichalski.com/]currently lives in Carlsbad, California. She graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with a BA in English and received her MS in…
- Ophelia Darkly · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 301Ophelia Darkly [https://linktr.ee/opheliadarkly?utm_source=linktree_profile_share
- Calvin John Smiley and Abolition · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 300Something Rather Than Nothing Podcast Episode 300!!! We talk ABOLITION. Calvin John Smiley, [https://www.cjsmiley.com/] Ph.D. is an associate professor of sociology at Hunter…
- Katie Marie · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 299Katie Marie [https://www.instagram.com/cosmically_kt/] is a Cherokee/Choctaw educator, Indigenous Wisdomkeeper, and decolonial guide who works at the intersection of healing…
- Annabel McConnachie · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 298Annabel McConnachie [https://www.backstage.com/u/annabelmcconnachie/] (she/her) is an actress, writer, singer, dancer and content creator. She is originally from Sydney…
- Sophia Hembeck · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 297Sophia Hembeck is a bilingual writer and artist based in Edinburgh. She has published three books (Things I Have Noticed, 2020 & Things I Have Loved, 2023 & Thiings That Are…
- LIVE at Browsers' Bookstore with Abe Richmond and Pete Dryden · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 296This episode was recorded and captured LIVE on Independent Bookstore Day (April 26, 2025) from Browsers' Bookstore in Albany, Oregon. Pete Dryden: Photographer…
- Craig Randall · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 295About Craig Randall [https://www.craigrandallwriting.com/home] - I've loved stories and literature and writing for as long as I can remember. For just as long, I've also…
- Kola Shippentower · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 294Shippentower is named Co-Captain of the Oregon Ravens Football Team! Kola Shippentower is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. She…
- Meghan Lamb · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 293Meghan Lamb [http://meghanlamb.com/about.html] is the author of Mirror Translation (Blamage Books, 2025), COWARD (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), Failure to Thrive (Apocalypse Party…
- Raechel Wolfe · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 292Raechel Wolfe [https://www.instagram.com/r_the_wolfe/] is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Portland, OR, whose work spans film, writing, modeling, and Creative Direction. She…
- elle nash will you deliver me · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 291elle nash is an electrifying writer based in glasgow, scotland this is about her book 'deliver me' - At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her…
- Vanessa Stockard · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 290Vanessa Stockard recently visited the podcast for the 3rd time! Vanessa Stockard was born in 1975 in Sydney and spent her formative years in a small country town in the Mid…
- Aaron Keuter and show bits · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 289Aaron Keuter [https://aaronk.tv/] is an editor, motion designer, animator, and visual effects artist in Portland, Oregon. Aaron creates show bits Something Rather Than Nothing…
- Rachael Tyrell · 1 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 288Rachael Tyrell aims to create art that reimagines classic pinup aesthetics through a contemporary lens. Working primarily with Sharpies and various inks, she crafts pieces that…
- Lady Ro · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 287Lady Ro [https://www.instagram.com/ladyro.jpg?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==] is a Baltimore based indie folk rock musician. Formally know as Baby…
- Tina aka poler.t.ina · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 286Stop in and enjoy this lovely chat with dancer Tina! We chatted a bit of horror, a bit of art, a bit of dancing, standup comedy and constantly challenging yourself. There was…
- Squirm! with Kels & Tess & Kenny & Jenny · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 285Enjoy a lovely and vulnerable chat with Kels & Tess. Host Kenny and Co-host Jenny explore health, excitement, sex, p*rn and the powerful things that move us. Kels is a producer…
- Albany, Oregon Teacher Strike Special! (with Liz Craig, Dana Lovejoy and Voices of GAEA) · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 284SRTN Podcast presents a special STRIKE episode from Albany, Oregon. SRTN gives you an up to the moment report on the brave educators of The Greater Albany Education Association…
- Besa Tetova · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 283Besa is a film photographer and model who resides in Chicago. Her work is largely editorial, drawing inspiration from old Hollywood film noir and the creative direction of Sofia…
