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The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #266: Adding Vocals to "Once Upon a Dream" and Creative Community 2

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #266: Adding Vocals to "Once Upon a Dream" and Creative Community 2

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast · Joshua Blum

September 14, 202025m 5s

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Originally aired on September 20, 2014.

This week, I'm adding vocals to "Once Upon a Dream" and discussing more on the idea of creating a creative arts collective.  To start, I ended up creating a private Facebook group called Thirteenth Hour Arts - For Creators, Not Haters.

Here's the premise I've copied from my inaugural post there:

Welcome to The Thirteenth Hour Arts Collective - a place to create, not hate!

There are so many ways to be creative in the world. Although I publicly create books, music, and toys for The Thirteenth Hour stories, those are informed by a number of other things, like 80s films, new wave music, martial arts, dance, and so forth.

I'm sure you have or had many things in your own life that are kind of the same. Please share them here - you may inspire someone else (or yourself) to make time and space for creative pursuits!

When Logan's hoverboard flies in The Thirteenth Hour, it emits a cloud of rainbow colored smoke.  There were rainbows all over the place in the 80s (Rainbow Brite, Skittles, Reading Rainbow, etc), and if not exactly rainbows, plenty of kids' shows used the idea of different colors coming together to represent strength or unity through diversity and/or teamwork (Voltron, Captain Planet, etc).  Rainbows encourage us to look off into the distance, towards that ephemeral spot where the rainbow ends.  To me, they have always represented hope and possibility for the future, so I'm using them as a symbol for this group to represent creativity, especially the diversity of creative pursuits and people that practice them in hopes that it can be something we all share in and benefit from.

 

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