Making failure more ordinary, by speaking to those who have experienced it. Exposing yourself to the mere idea of failure helps to break down the isolating walls we build around ourselves when a project doesn't go as planned.
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This mutual struggle that lingers in the creative atmosphere is rarely spoken about in a positive way. It’s seen as a downfall, and something to be embarrassed about sharing. Projects that fall short are written off and banished to the idea graveyard, never to be revisited for fear of incompetence. This age of abandonment where it’s easier to throw away the broken in favour of something new is detrimental to our creative ethic. If our coat develops a hole, instead of taking this opportunity to teach ourselves a new skill and mend the coat, we get rid of it and buy a new one. This attitude towards objects has also informed our way of thinking towards projects. When running into a dead-end we abandon the idea, declaring it fruitless and unable to lead us anywhere instead of rethinking and trying to develop the idea differently.
Initially titled LowLights, I wanted to create a space that’s utterly detached from social media, like Instagram (although we do have a page to keep you up to date), that’s aptly referred to as a ‘highlight reel’. When you’re repetitively exposed to a certain idea, message, or ideal, they start to become your ‘normal’. By viewing work that has concluded in failure, words about failures by the people who experienced them, and listening to conversations around this formidable concept, I hope the idea of failing yourself becomes less daunting. I will be discussing dead-ends, failures and tribulations in person with all creatives who let me.
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Join the movement and relish in your failures, for without them you would remain in the same place.
what we can offer you
The podcast is hosted on Anchor, but can be streamed over a range of platforms, including Spotify. The main idea behind the podcast is to put forward a personal, less formal approach to the subject. As creatives on social media, we brand ourselves as professionals, and in turn sand down any personal aspect of our work in the hopes that we are malleable for different clients. When you put the personal element back in, you become more relatable to those in the same position as you. When talking abo
through problems that feel isolating to deal with, you realise 80% of the creative industry faces it as well. Hearing people speak eliminates the space between the speaker and listener, but also allows us to take our guard down and be people who are creative, not just people who are constantly producing.
Depending on where you get your news from, sometimes articles surface on the subject of creative burnout, but conversations like these between people are rarely heard out loud.
With an emphasis on failure, these conversations aim to bring a tangibility to this movement.
THE PODCAST
Ramblings
Topics that swim round in my head for a while end up in this segment of the website. These are more opinion based on my part, and take form in more of a 'here's what I think', rather than 'lets discuss this idea'. These topics will inevitably be biased because they are completely made up of my own thought and sources that I research.
The first post you can find here is the initial failure that lead to the start-up of Debacle. By showing the images that came of this failure, one I consider among my worst, I'm showing full transparency. I also want to be as much in this as the people I feature. Although this is for anyone and everyone, this is also for myself. I hope that by being honest and sincere it will bring with it a realness that you can relate to.
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Other written interviews or specific posts, like the one with Milly, will appear in the Confabulations tab in the menu.
youtube
The YouTube channel has jut been launched, and so far we only have one video up of the podcast with Milly Golightly, but this will change soon as I have a few ideas are in the works! Most of you, the readers and listeners, are visual creatives, so making visual content is a must.
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When topics aren't best communicated through text or voice alone, they will appear on our youtube channel and then embedded here on the site for easy access.
