Out Of The Blank

#319 - Hallie Cat (Glassblower, Artist)

Hallie is a Philly artist using forms of glass to create unique pieces from pipes to sculptures. Coming from a passion for art and going to college to study found herself wanting to create things of her own. Lots of things can be difficult when it comes to glassblowing such as being a woman glassblower she talks of the stigma behind it when making a piece but in the end her work shows a true talent for glassblowing.

#318 - Joshua Snarr (Professional Sushi Chef)

Joshua is a professional sushi chef in Sacramento CA, coming from a background of construction and looking for something new when he found craigslist. Finding an opening in the sushi business and not having any restaurant experience prior he dedicated his time to food and in specific sushi. Even planning on travelling to other places to discover the amount of culture and food differences that can happen when you experience an origin of a food and truly taste the difference.

#317 - Travis Lynch (YouTuber & Food Reviewer)

Travis an aspiring YouTuber and podcaster trying to break in the new world of technology where doors have opened out of the regular 9-5. Travis started out his channel with food reviewing which is becoming a very popular concept today because of the whole trend of eating healthy a weird thing takes place when we get the satisfaction of food pictures and someone eating it in a video. Branching off of his food reviews and heading into podcasting where we can see how most start with a couple friends hanging out and bringing in a audience to their group conversations making people feel like they are part of the click.

#316 - Martin Curtis (Tour Guide, Fossil Hunter)

Martin is a qualified Mountain Leader and has spent the past ten years leading groups both with his own long distance walking group and at a Purbecks-based Duke of Edinburgh group. He is a fossil enthusiast and is eager to pass on his knowledge of how to find them and what they are. Martin knows from first-hand experience the wonder and excitement of discovering something that has lain hidden for millions of years and takes similar pleasure from being able to help first-time fossil hunters do the same. In 2018 Martin was rewarded for his hard work as a guide and won a Gold Award at the Dorset Tourism Awards for 'Guided Tour Of The Year'.

#315 - Derry O'Byrne - (Woodworking Artist)

Derry is a woodworking artist out in Ontario who has had a passion for creating things made from wood since he can remember. The art he creates completely resembles his memories of his walks through nature truly finding inspiration that he can instill in a work. Using some things like resin to create things that look like they belong in space or even a recreation of a river in a table the amount of time and work put into each craft is spoken for itself through his art. Woodworking is a skill and hobby that is starting to be re-looked at and sparked a generation to truly put down the grasp of the cell phone and just create and relax finding it as a form of therapy.

#314 - Brian Rodgers (Amtrak Worker, Fossil Hunting)

Brian lives out in Memphis TN, works at the train station for the popular New Orleans line and spends his time fossil hunting. We hear stories of people finding treasure and go on the hunt with a metal detector but come up empty handed. Brian helps show that it is a lot easier than you would think all it takes is a little bit of effort and time and the amount of fun and learning experience you can receive is endless. The more fossils he comes across he finds himself researching and wanting to understand more about the things we might look over could be a priceless fossil.

#313 - Thomas Hicks (YouTuber/Reviewer, "Cereal Snob")

Thomas is well known for his cereal reviews being popular on his YouTube channel focusing on all those nostalgic boxes of cereal we all love or remember. Cereal with or without milk everyone might enjoy it but not all of us eat it the same from the classics to the newer ones that flavors seem questionable this food is perfect anytime of day and brings a nostalgia effect to most of us. Being a YouTuber is strange never would we have thought 10 years ago this would be a job but the power of social media has changed the world and opened it up to many possibilities. It only makes sense we would create a cereal like sour patch kids because why not.

#312 - Dr. Judith Pardo-Pérez (Paleontologist, Ichthyosaurs)

Judith studied Biology in the University of Magallanes in Punta Arenas, Chile. doing her Ph.D in the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Completing postdoc in Paleopathologies which were developed in the Natural History Museum of Stuttgart in Germany under the supervision of Dr. Erin Maxwell currently working as a paleontologist in the University of Magallanes in Punta Arenas, south of Chile on the exploration and findings of the Ichthyosaur. Dinosaurs were around long ago and the more and more we look for these prehistoric beings the more we uncover more about common species and the worlds secret history.

#311 - Adam Eskdale (Ph.D Student in Earth Sciences)

Adam is a Ph.D research student within the Earth Sciences department at Royal Holloway University of London. We can talk about the earth and how its environmental issues are becoming more relevant as resources are getting used society is looking for a change. The earth holds many secrets from various metals and minerals it seems to be endless Adam is interested in the colorful rocks that people like to look at but his interest is more of classifying and understanding more about the place we call home.

#310 - Niko Nicolaides (Blade-smith, Culinary)

Niko is a blade-smith out in Detroit primarily making and selling knives for culinary purposes for chefs or the average home cook. Being a blacksmith is probably one of the best name-drops for a resume making this old school craft that was once the key to surviving relived in a newer society where creativity is starting to re spark. Knives are made and specialized for many different reasons for show or to be a useful tool much of my fascination comes from the late night commercials that came on and you watched because the remote was just out of reach. Blacksmiths a craft that will never die out because of the fact we always need tools and preferably one hand made is a little more special.