Smell it up.
Smell it all up.
This is Start with this, a podcast featuring Night Vale creators Joseph Fink and me, Jeffrey Cranor.
Each episode we discuss a topic, then give you two assignments.
Something to consume and something to create.
The five senses.
Art is hard.
Starting is hard.
If you want to start somewhere, you can start with this.
You can start with this.
When we ask someone to envision something, the word envision is already biased towards sight.
They're thinking about colors and size and shape.
And while we can certainly ask people to imagine the sound or think of a smell or taste or feel of something, there is no equivalent word to those senses like envision is for sight.
Writing for a non visual medium like podcast or print, I think we feel the need to fill people in on what they cannot see.
Of course we do.
But these mediums also lack smell, touch, taste, and sound.
We cannot forget those things either.
What we see is only on the surface and it's a vibrant facade, to be sure.
But let's not forget about the taste of cumin, the smell of a dog's fur, the sound of a wood floor, and the feel of a chalkboard eraser.
I'm Jeffrey Cranor, smelling like stale jeans here with Joseph Fink, who sounds like an old friend.