Just Can't Not - Magnus Photo Hunt at the Lilac Festival
This episode of Just Can't Not features Chris Lindstrom (@stromie) chatting with Magnus (@magnusapollo) to learn about the interactive art he created for the 2025 Lilac Festival (@rochesterlilacfestival)!
This project has everything - a photo scavenger hunt of animal art around the park, a giant Magnus along the entrance, laser artwork on rocks, and more! This project is so Magnus and we are all excited to go check it out. Visit the Lilac Festival - it is open today through Sunday May 18th. Enjoy it!
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Transcript
Well, when you hear that music, you know it's time for another episode of Just Can't Not.
Speaker A:And this is a crossover with Mind of Magnus.
Speaker A:Magnus, how are you doing today, man?
Speaker B:I'm doing great.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker A:So we are here to talk about the Wywack Festival.
Speaker A:We're doing a little bit of preview work with the Yhack Festival.
Speaker A:So you're going to be out recording live at least one or two days during the festival.
Speaker A:So we're really excited to be doing that.
Speaker A:And reason we're talking is you've done some really cool work for the Ywack Festival this year.
Speaker B:I have.
Speaker B:I actually was brought in myself and Josie, another artist here in Rochester.
Speaker B:They reached out and they're like, listen, we have actually some funds, which is a really nice thing too, but we want to make more art happen with Rochester.
Speaker B:And I actually worked with one of the people on the team there, Lex, who has been on there for five years, give or take, working with them.
Speaker B:And I had worked with her in on the hootenanny for the South Wedge, and we had such a blast there.
Speaker B:So they were doing some more stuff.
Speaker B:He's like, listen, hey, do you.
Speaker B:We want to make some art happen for the Lilac Festival.
Speaker B:And we had a blast working with you.
Speaker B:Can we jump in?
Speaker B:Do you want to do something together?
Speaker B:Of course.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:And I, I.
Speaker B:Lilac Festival is one of those things in Rochester.
Speaker B:It's such an iconic part of Rochester, and it's one of the things that I remember when I was visit, when I.
Speaker B:Before I was just coming up to Rochester, when I first got in there, it was a thing that Lilac Festival is a thing like.
Speaker B:And because lilacs are truly one of my favorite plants, it's like nostalgia.
Speaker B:Like, my family farm was just surrounded by lilac.
Speaker B:So the lilac, the moment I smell it, it's like that I just rush back to a scene and just childhood.
Speaker B:And it is truly one of my favorite scents.
Speaker B:So the, like, festival has always been a thing that I just enjoyed quite a bit.
Speaker B:Plus amazing food.
Speaker B:I'm a foodie, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's just great food.
Speaker B:People are smiling and it's.
Speaker B:It's just a community.
Speaker B:I love that.
Speaker B:It's one of the things I like about it.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:It's so funny.
Speaker A:It's so funny.
Speaker A:You mentioned the lilac smell.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:There was.
Speaker A:We didn't have a lot of them around where I grew up, but there were.
Speaker A:There were some.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:But that smell.
Speaker A:That smell.
Speaker A:And then hyacinths because they have.
Speaker A:They cross over with smell.
Speaker A:They have that dense.
Speaker A:That dense floral smell.
Speaker A:And, like, it's so weird how all that stuff now with, like, the tasting I do and everything else defines the way I talk about tasting is through smell and how we, you know, recollecting what kind of floral is it?
Speaker A:Is it light and bouncy?
Speaker A:Is it dense and.
Speaker A:And syrupy and perfumey?
Speaker A:But there's something special about that smell.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And I know you love walking, like, walking through that.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Through Highland Park.
Speaker A:Walking through the wild wax is an amazement of both design and nature all at the same time.
Speaker B:Because Lilac, the Highland park is an Olmsted park, and Olmstead designed a handful of parks.
Speaker B:He designed, like, the.
Speaker B:You know, actually this.
Speaker B:Where Seneca Park.
Speaker B:He did that.
Speaker B:So there is scenes in Seneca in the Highland park where you're walking around this, like, convoluted, winding path.
Speaker B:And just not walking is fun, but just sitting back and looking at it, it looks like a postcard, a picture.
Speaker B:This is a real place in Rochester.
Speaker B:It's stunning.
Speaker B:Like, I actually.
Speaker B:So my art, I wanted to do.
Speaker B:I really wanted to have something that made people kind of walk around the park.
Speaker B:It's not just a single installment.
Speaker B:I made a scavenger hunt this year, so.
Speaker A:I love your scavenger hunts, Magnus.
Speaker B:People do.
Speaker B:I do it myself.
Speaker B:I want to get.
Speaker B:I like to walk, and I wanted.
Speaker B:That was free for guests to see.
Speaker B:Right now, everyone's kind of stressed.
Speaker B:We're having a lot going on in the world, and I wanted people who are already like, our prices are going up.
Speaker B:Everything.
Speaker B:I wanted a free event and something that, if you're at the park, enjoy, walk around, but get out there.
Speaker B:It doesn't cost you a thing.
Speaker B:Go learn something.
Speaker B:It was a fun thing.
Speaker B:And I was walking around, just putting art around the thing, and I just like, this is my job.
Speaker B:The Lilac Festival asked me to make something awesome, and they have been so ecstatic seeing what I've made.
Speaker B:And people have been already taking pictures and sharing stuff.
Speaker B:So, yeah.
Speaker B:And this year I did a.
Speaker B:It's a photo scavenger hunt because I didn't want all my art because normally I just put art and people take it.
Speaker B:So I'm like, I'll do a photo scavenger hunt.
Speaker B:But you know me, I still am doing a whole bunch of stuff to give away, and I'm.
Speaker B:I have three different versions of my art out there to do because I want people to have stuff take home with them, be a Good memory.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's been.
Speaker B:It's a wonderful thing.
Speaker B:But, yeah, walking around and seeing, like, the magnolias are coming out and the.
Speaker B:And just the variety of color in lilac.
Speaker B:Like, my family grew up with, like, white and, like, light, subtle lilac color, and I always wanted those dark, dark purples.
Speaker B:And walking around and seeing these things that are just so rich, rich, rich, deep, deep, deep purple.
Speaker B:Because I'm just staring at it, being like, this is.
Speaker B:This is amazing.
Speaker B:And just taking in just the whole everything.
Speaker B:Oh, my God, there's.
Speaker B:There's some colors there that makes my eyes feel like it's just so, like, so super saturated that it feels like, am I, you know, am I on something?
Speaker B:Did I, you know, what was on that hot dog I just ate?
Speaker B:You know, but it's just such a thing.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So when.
Speaker A:When we're talking about the style that you did this time, because, you know, if people know Magnus is art, and if you're listening to Mind of Magnus right now, like, you know what?
Speaker A:You know, a lot.
Speaker A:There's a lot of varieties of different styles that you do.
Speaker A:You have a couple signature styles, but what.
Speaker A:What's.
Speaker A:What's kind of the.
Speaker A:What's the vibe of some of the things that you put out that are.
Speaker A:That you want people to take pictures of?
Speaker B:So this one, I wanted people to be.
Speaker B:To appreciate the.
Speaker B:The park you're in, but also I want to have people appreciate the things that you share.
Speaker B:And this is what I did.
Speaker B:I did illustrations, much more realistic illustration, illustrations of the animals you share this park with.
Speaker B:So, like, it's.
Speaker B:And I.
Speaker B:I mean, I did take a little bit of creative liberties on a few of these, but it's much more.
Speaker B:Not super realistic, but pretty good line art with colors.
Speaker B:It's digital illustrations of the.
Speaker B:Like the rabbit.
Speaker B:You see, there's woodchucks, there's fox and couple birds and things that way.
Speaker B:So I did the things you share the park with because, I mean, the plants are covered, their plants have names on them.
Speaker B:The plants are literally have, like, the tag of not just what the Latin name is, the type of plant, something this way.
Speaker A:Which I love, by the way.
Speaker B:I love, too.
Speaker A:My God, it makes for a very interactive experience walking through a park, those informative moments.
Speaker A:I don't know the kind of stuff you've done with the zoo as well.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Where you're adding color to that, you're adding flavor to even the descriptions that exist through the artwork.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And this was very much like, if you go To Seneca Park Zoo.
Speaker B:I did the illustrations for a lot of the signs for the Seneca Park Zoo and much more realistic and they really wanted spot on realism for this one.
Speaker B:This one I have a little bit more freedom.
Speaker B:So the rabbit is a little more, a little more cartoony because I still like having that artist touch.
Speaker B:I like having that's not quite exactly that rabbit.
Speaker B:It has a bit of a funnier face or just has a, you know, a little bit of a.
Speaker B:More of a pointed nose or some sort of thing that makes it my drawing versus just a copy of a reference.
Speaker B:So I walked around, took a bunch of pictures.
Speaker B:So the rabbits I drew were actually the rabbits that got close enough to me.
Speaker B:I was sitting there one day, I was like looking at a squirrel, gonna draw a squirrel maybe.
Speaker B:And this like rabbit came up to me within 5, 10ft and just stared at me for a while.
Speaker B:I'd be like, is this rabbit gonna mug me?
Speaker B:Why is it so close here?
Speaker B:And hello there.
Speaker B:Nice.
Speaker B:And yeah, so I drew and I actually talked to the Seneca Park Zoo.
Speaker B:Speaking of them, I actually reached out being like hey, I want to make sure I touch base on certain animals.
Speaker B:And so I did a little bit of liberty on one.
Speaker B:They were just working on a project where they were studying the like amphibians.
Speaker B:So there was like salamanders and newts.
Speaker B:So they gave me a list of the newts and salamanders from western New York.
Speaker B:So I did.
Speaker B:It's a scavenger hunt.
Speaker B:So if you go to the main gate at the lilac festival or somewhere in there, they may moved around because of traffic.
Speaker B:Wise, wise.
Speaker B:But there's a eight foot wide sign, four foot tall, has a big lilac on it and a hummingbird, a ruby throated hummingbird which is a gorgeous animal and it has all the various animals you should look for on there.
Speaker B:So it has you know like, like there's a couple woodchucks on there and it's like you know who's down there because you see these random holes in the ground and you realize, you know, I love watching kids like look down there.
Speaker B:Like you know they're not put their hands in there.
Speaker B:But like what made these, what made this stuff happen?
Speaker B:So I did a bunch of realism that way.
Speaker B:And one of the things I did a little side quest of find the salamander.
Speaker B:So I chose three salamander landers.
Speaker B:One like the.
Speaker B:A juvenile like color red.
Speaker B:Red.
Speaker B:I can't think right now it is but it's a.
Speaker B:The ute was very younger.
Speaker B:It's bright red, gorgeous color.
Speaker B:And you'll see them in the park.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But so I did a little bit of a stretch.
Speaker B:There's a red back salamander that you used to see in the park.
Speaker B:You may see it in the lower wetland areas, but I wanted another bright one.
Speaker B:So there's a blue spotted one.
Speaker B:So you.
Speaker B:It used to be in this area.
Speaker B:But you know, it's a very delicate animal.
Speaker B:So you may see it in parks.
Speaker B:Maybe not highland.
Speaker B:It may be for.
Speaker B:I mean I haven't seen one, but I kind of chose the most likely that you know, are there now or have been there in the past hundred years, give or take.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So I have a little side quest.
Speaker B:So I have.
Speaker B:It's a.
Speaker B:It's a scavenger hunt.
Speaker B:It has the animals life size maybe a little bigger depending on certain ones.
Speaker B:And next to it is like the Latin name, the name and a little blurb about it.
Speaker B:And it's bright white square next to a brightly colored animal.
Speaker B:It's on weatherproof material.
Speaker B:I do a lot of my stuff on coroplast and because it's, it's.
Speaker B:It's easy, it's nice, weatherproof, you can enjoy it.
Speaker B:And the.
Speaker B:Yeah, so I have that.
Speaker B:And I have 12 animals out there, including a bird, a couple different birds.
Speaker B:I have like one on a tree and stuff.
Speaker B:I was gonna try to put them around where you can kind of find them.
Speaker B:I thought I'd like maybe put like a newt hidden in the background.
Speaker B:Then I'm like, no, I want to like have people.
Speaker B:So it's actually within the path.
Speaker B:If you can stay on the path, you'll see somewhere close, somewhere within four or five feet.
Speaker B:I have a red fox, but I like the drawing for.
Speaker B:I put that probably 30ft away, but it's on a hill with a bright green.
Speaker B:It's bright orange and it stands out.
Speaker B:And that's what I got photos of already today.
Speaker B:People have been sending me photos of it.
Speaker A:So I love that.
Speaker A:And I think that's the fun thing about doing something like that is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You want people to stretch a little bit.
Speaker A:You want them to go off the beaten path just a little bit.
Speaker B:Enough.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:But having it, hey, if somebody wants or needs to just be walking on the path, they should get some of that delight.
Speaker A:They should get some of that, that little bit of, oh, that little burst of information and like excitement that, oh, I found something cool.
Speaker B:But so what I did do I.
Speaker B:So I take that same sort of those, those materials.
Speaker B:I Still want to hide stuff around because I love the people who are going to be off trail and suddenly stumble across things.
Speaker B:So I took the animals I had and I just, I took.
Speaker B:I knocked the sign off them.
Speaker B:So it's just straight the animals.
Speaker B:And I've been hiding those around.
Speaker B:A little note in the back being like, this is from Magnus.
Speaker B:It's free.
Speaker B:Enjoy Happy Lilac Fest.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So aside from the 12 animals looking for, I've been putting a bunch of those same animals kind of in the place.
Speaker B:Like, so the newts.
Speaker B:I actually been going like literally over a hill under a shrub and kind of putting there.
Speaker B:And I, when I printed them, I had a bright white outline to them.
Speaker B:So they kind of stand out because I don't want to have stuff like I'm always nervous.
Speaker B:It's still plastic.
Speaker B:I don't want to like leave technically garbage around, you know, sort of like materials that way.
Speaker B:So I have it bright enough, you can see it.
Speaker B:So I was doing those and I've been putting them around, having a blast.
Speaker B:My third thing I did on top of that, I decided to be more eco friendly in a kind of zany way.
Speaker B:I have lasers now and I can carve my artwork into stone.
Speaker B:So I'm hiding stones around here.
Speaker B:And I don't feel bad about stone.
Speaker B:Stones are stone.
Speaker B:I mean, I can toss in the ground if it gets buried, whatever, it's a stone, maybe archaeologists, archaeologists will find it forever.
Speaker B:And so I've been hiding all of.
Speaker B:I'm also taking.
Speaker B:Making all of the artwork I've done illustrations and putting it onto stones between maybe 4 or 5 inches down to like an inch or two and on the trails, putting them around, putting them on rocks and around where the, like where the other animals are.
Speaker B:I'm kind of hiding around too.
Speaker B:So if you see an animal, look around there.
Speaker B:Maybe two or three or four or five, depending on making some more.
Speaker B:Now I'm going to be putting them all week.
Speaker B:I'm actually going to go for walks and putting new stuff up because I went around and put.
Speaker B:I put these little bumblebees or not bumblebees, like honeybees, a little sticks and they're kind of sticking out here and there.
Speaker B:And I, I put a few up and I did a lap and I came back and one was already gone.
Speaker B:And I'm.
Speaker B:And this makes me happy.
Speaker B:Like I.
Speaker B:People.
Speaker B:Like, yeah, some people would be nervous, but like, I'm so happy someone took it.
Speaker B:It's super cute.
Speaker B:It's, you know, but yeah, so the rocks.
Speaker B:I'm just going to spend all week making more rocks and making more art and just going for walks and hiding around.
Speaker A:Let's, let's talk about the, let's talk about that process for a second because that's, that's really cool.
Speaker A:And something in my day job that I'm pretty familiar with is like, you know, the higher end automation versions of laser markers where, you know, they're doing stuff, you know, it's like, like 1 second, 1 second, 2 seconds and it's, you know, etching a whole QR code and putting legible words and stuff on there.
Speaker A:And it's an amazing piece of technology.
Speaker B:And they're getting more cost effective too.
Speaker A:So I've been using scale.
Speaker A:You're using what kind of system X tool?
Speaker B:It's a X tool thing.
Speaker B:So it's more aimed at the mid range creator, xtool.
Speaker B:And I have the ultra one, I think it's called.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:It's got two different lasers on it.
Speaker B:So as an fiber as well.
Speaker B:The other one so I can carve like organic.
Speaker B:So I want to carve into leather or something that way.
Speaker B:But this one I can also carve into stones, which is amazing.
Speaker B:It has about an 8 inch, give or take, 8 by 8 sort of square space.
Speaker B:So that's about large.
Speaker B:It is.
Speaker B:It's not one of those big, big ones.
Speaker B:So it takes me about five to 15 minutes depending on size and depth to carve into stone.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:So yeah, so I had an adventure.
Speaker B:I went around one day and picked up random stones from, from the, the park itself and also actually went to the lake one day too because I was, I'm, I'm making more of this art and kind of hiding around.
Speaker B:I've actually been doing this a bit to test it out.
Speaker B:So I've been finding stones and adding art to it, bringing the stones back to places and stuff.
Speaker B:And it's been wonderful watching people catch this like stumbling across the art.
Speaker B:Like I actually, I was at Lilalic festival the past two days getting installed, ready to go.
Speaker B:And I was sitting there, I was putting some stuff, I had stuff in my hand and walking at me was this a couple women and like a gaggle of like 5 year olds and they're always running around looking around like this is the, this is.
Speaker B:The crowd's gonna see these things.
Speaker B:So I see him, I just put the rocks along the side of it and just stood back by 20 something feet.
Speaker B:50ft maybe, probably 50ft is probably the distance.
Speaker B:And I watched these kids suddenly stumble across and there's like.
Speaker B:This is a bunny on it.
Speaker B:And it was like a woodchuck.
Speaker B:And I think I maybe have like one of the.
Speaker B:I did an insect called the hover fly, which is a small fly that looks like a bee.
Speaker B:It's a bee mimic.
Speaker B:And actually that's the thing that eats the aphids off of lilacs.
Speaker B:Keeps them kind of healthy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And everyone thinks they're like a pest.
Speaker B:They think they're like.
Speaker B:And it's like a Disney level creature.
Speaker B:Like, you put your hand out, it'll land on you and hang out.
Speaker B:So I put these stones down and I'm sitting back and watching.
Speaker B:And sure enough, all of a sudden these kids find it and they just go nuts.
Speaker B:They're excited.
Speaker B:And I mean.
Speaker B:And I don't interact with them.
Speaker B:I just like watching the scene, like.
Speaker B:And, you know, so I watch these kids scooping up.
Speaker B:And of course, then they're looking around for more.
Speaker B:And they also see the other animal in the background.
Speaker B:And of course, me being idiot, I should have filmed it.
Speaker B:But I was just in the moment enjoying it so much.
Speaker B:So, yeah, I have a bunch of rocks I've been hiding around.
Speaker B:All different types.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's just a new way of hiding art I get a kick out of.
Speaker B:And it's actually, like I said, it's relatively guilt free because I am nervous with plastics and environmental stuff.
Speaker B:But rocks, a rock, you know.
Speaker B:And also I put stuff on.
Speaker B:I can put anything I want in there.
Speaker B:I'm actually having a blast making new designs for rocks this year.
Speaker A:So it's kind of a fun thing, a cool thing.
Speaker A:And that, that's.
Speaker A:That's when, you know, when the usage of technology really works.
Speaker A:You know, when.
Speaker A:When this works well is when you have something that was so out of.
Speaker B:Reach before it was completely out of reach.
Speaker A:It was so unbelievably out of reach.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I couldn't tell myself, like, you're gonna have a laser for your artwork you can build.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:I mean, is it.
Speaker A:I'm sure as a kid you're like, yeah, I'm sure you have like your James Bond moments.
Speaker A:And, you know all the lasers in your science guy too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And you know, of love knowing things about stuff.
Speaker A:Like lasers are fascinating.
Speaker A:They're super cool.
Speaker B:So I remember playing with.
Speaker B:There was a plasma cutter.
Speaker B:I remember watching and there was a guy cutting plasma.
Speaker B:Had some laser stuff going on, is etching things and cutting.
Speaker B:And I remember being probably this is 20 years ago now, give or take.
Speaker B:And I Was an adult at this point in time and still being a wonder, being like, wow, this is amazing technology.
Speaker B:And I've been slowly watching as it gets closer and closer and closer.
Speaker B:Like, Glow Forge was a thing that was a.
Speaker B:Lasers that was happening.
Speaker B:But this is a different type.
Speaker B:And I mean, it's a.
Speaker B:It's a fixed point, so it kind of moves around.
Speaker B:So people listening to this think of like a cone.
Speaker B:So it kind of builds it in that way.
Speaker B:So you can.
Speaker B:You can go so much with it.
Speaker B:But thanks to technology, now they have a.
Speaker B:They have technology to roll the stuff in there.
Speaker B:I can like laser cans if I wanted now.
Speaker B:So, yeah, they figured out how to make it work.
Speaker A:And you can kind of bring like a line image and it just carves it.
Speaker B:Just take my drawing, like my.
Speaker B:My literally my pencil.
Speaker B:Like, I can take my drawings and translate it forward.
Speaker B:Like one of the pieces of stone I made a.
Speaker B:It's actually me waving and smiling.
Speaker B:It's a drawing I did of myself, which is on the sign.
Speaker B:So I have that rock and the back of it, I can actually etch a QR code or I sign it something else this way and that one.
Speaker B:I'm like, if you find this, tag me because I have some presents for you.
Speaker B:So I have a special, like, hidden, you know, little Magnus out there stone that is.
Speaker B:So, yeah, I'll be on my Instagram if you guys are listening to me now, if you don't know me, Magnus Apollo on Instagram.
Speaker B:But yeah, I'll show some pictures on there.
Speaker B:I'm slowly inching it out this past week because I was actually nervous because when I put stuff up, people always run and get my stuff.
Speaker B:And this is not a complaint.
Speaker B:This is actually overwhelmingly impressive when people like to do this.
Speaker B:But I love hiding stuff.
Speaker B:I've been doing it for years.
Speaker B:Like the stocking at Christmas Eve and other art drops I do in scavenger hunts.
Speaker B:I was nervous.
Speaker B:I didn't want to announce it first because I didn't know if people were going to go swooping through and get it out, get it before I did it.
Speaker B:So I had to prepare for it.
Speaker B:Like, I'm here now.
Speaker B:Take these bright ones and the QR code in the back and that sort of thing.
Speaker B:So, yeah, I'm really, really excited about this.
Speaker B:And they're super happy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I love it.
Speaker B:I did a big, huge piece and one of the cool things, too.
Speaker B:I had to build the structure for the big sign.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I'm getting good at building stuff and I getting Good at building things out in the real world for to interact with the world.
Speaker B:So this is a concert venue where there's drinking involved.
Speaker B:So I now can build stuff strong enough to deal with drunk people and be.
Speaker B:I think I'm pretty much got it all set, so.
Speaker B:But yeah, and actually the funny thing is is all the stuff was donated to me from scraps and things I mentioned to someone.
Speaker B:I'm like, I'm building some things and the guy I know was tearing some stuff out.
Speaker B:He was tearing one of the studios, was tearing some walls out.
Speaker B:So I actually, I was trying to make this as kind of green as I could with being reused, upcycled everything else.
Speaker B:The only thing I had to do was a couple pieces of the coroplast.
Speaker B:And aside from that, everything has been donated and put forward by people who are fanatics and love Lilac Festival to support me.
Speaker B:And like I have a more and more having more patriot from patrons from Patreon.
Speaker B:I'm getting more of those folks.
Speaker A:Oh, so cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Which is I, I, I'm not good at asking for things.
Speaker B:I'm really not good at for asking for money.
Speaker B:But I like doing stuff so much.
Speaker B:And a bunch of people from Patreon have been reaching out to me, being like, listen, I see that when you do this, you pull it out of your own pocket.
Speaker B:And he goes, I know you're not rich.
Speaker B:I was like, I am really not rich.
Speaker B:My God, I have never been fortunate to be rich.
Speaker B:And like people.
Speaker B:I had a guy come up to me, I did a bartending, a guest bartending charity thing for the community place.
Speaker A:I saw that.
Speaker A:How did it go?
Speaker B:Oh, it's phenomenal.
Speaker B:It was a great turnout.
Speaker B:It's a Sheffield.
Speaker B:The Sheffield makes great food, great drinks.
Speaker B:I mean, Joe McBain from Tapping Mallet Fame and stuff.
Speaker B:But yeah, so one of the guys, he's a patron from Patreon and he showed up and he was talking to me and he was like, literally.
Speaker B:And he, I actually have to thank him because he sent, he's like one of my big subscribers now.
Speaker B:He put a bunch of money down and he said that.
Speaker B:He's like, listen, I, I, this has been a long time coming.
Speaker B:I've watched you bring joy for a while and I had to give you some money to do that.
Speaker B:And I looked at him like, thank you.
Speaker B:The money is already spent to do this for the, for the show.
Speaker B:The thing like I already put that money you sent me is already into making the COVID the prints for this and some other stuff.
Speaker B:And like I got some other projects I'm working on just for community and those are like it is a, it's tight budget for a lot of places right now.
Speaker B:So I'm stepping up to help out.
Speaker B:And trouble is a lot of times they like I don't have money either.
Speaker B:So I was telling him that Those, you know, a $5, $25, all of that has been.
Speaker B:Is now going to help these projects that are that, that like matter to me, that matter for the community and stuff.
Speaker B:And like that I like this money goes instantly goes right back into something else I don't like.
Speaker B:It just helps keep the studio going.
Speaker B:And I like having a studio that makes positive ripples and it's thanks to those folks.
Speaker B:So people on Patreon, you guys are amazing.
Speaker B:I send messages to them.
Speaker B:I try and get more and more to share.
Speaker B:I'm sharing more my back like the behind the scenes stuff in there and they're the people cheering me on.
Speaker B:Like I'll bounce some ideas off.
Speaker B:Like I'm doing this for a lot of festival people.
Speaker B:Like great idea or change this or something else.
Speaker B:And I love have.
Speaker B:It's nice having folks excited, as excited for me as I'm excited for the projects I'm working on.
Speaker B:Like I said, like working with, doing the guest bartending for a community place.
Speaker B:Those folks, they have community place Joseph, the other name of the other place.
Speaker B:I'm drawing a blank right now.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker B:But they do three or four different places in the city here that make huge differences in literally the community.
Speaker B:Like it helps the single mom trying to get through it.
Speaker B:And it's stressful right now.
Speaker B:So many things are going rough.
Speaker B:So helping these, helping these groups, helping that stuff matters to me.
Speaker B:I like feeling a purpose and helping others is a, is a thing.
Speaker A:So that's awesome, man.
Speaker A:And you know what?
Speaker A:I think that's the, that's a great way to wrap this up is you know, when, when you find people that you care about that you want to support, giving them the support they want in the way they want it is really valuable, you know.
Speaker A:And people love collaboration when it's done well.
Speaker A:And having people in your life that can give you real feedback is so valuable.
Speaker A:But if you do have the means, you know, show up for the artists in your life, show up for the people doing great works in the community, like my buddy Magnus here.
Speaker A:So tell people again, what can they find around the Lilac Festival?
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:And if they want to tag you, where can they tag you?
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, this actually help out well, first I want to give a shout out to Corey.
Speaker B:By the way, Corey is also a member of the Lilac Festival and he is an artist.
Speaker B:He does jewelry.
Speaker B:He is amazing, man.
Speaker B:Super supportive, amazing dude.
Speaker B:So I want to give a shout out to him right off the bat, I want to get back into the Lilac mindset here.
Speaker B:And he approached me, he's like, I just want to help.
Speaker B:I want to make something cool for the community.
Speaker B:We have a chance this year.
Speaker B:There's a little bit, some, some kind of shuffling around has been happening on some of the people working.
Speaker B:So he's like, listen, let's just go nuts this year.
Speaker B:If they yell at us, they won't do it again next year.
Speaker B:Let's go nuts.
Speaker B:So what I did is you go to the main entranceway, you'll see an eight foot wide sign.
Speaker B:You'll see me smiling at you, big beard, bearded like braided beard waving.
Speaker B:And it says the Lilac Festival photo scavenger hunt.
Speaker B:And on there it shows the animals are looking for.
Speaker B:There's even a little QR code.
Speaker B:You want to go back and find it that way.
Speaker B:If you want to learn more about it, go to the website rockwalk.com so I'm actually doing more scavenger hunts.
Speaker B:I'm going to be using the website Rock Walk Roc W A L K.
Speaker B:I'm doing those as a place for my scavenger hunts.
Speaker B:So I'm doing that one.
Speaker B:So check that out.
Speaker B:It shows the, what you're looking for for the, the photo scavenger hunt is the animals with the signs and information on it.
Speaker B:There's a QR code in the back that brings you back to Rock Walk so you're knowing the right ones.
Speaker B:The other ones that are smaller, the little like for everything from literally bees that are 2 or 3 inches to bunnies that are 2ft tall pretty much are all put around there.
Speaker B:And a little bit of note in the back, I'll say, you know, Magnus.
Speaker B:And then the stones, there's a bunch of stones, little flat stones, like picture, like the stone you see at the beach.
Speaker B:Nice smooth round ones, all sorts of ones that way then they are everywhere.
Speaker B:I'm trying to put as many as I can around.
Speaker B:I'm putting some over near the playground with the kids to find.
Speaker B:So I'm doing as many as I can.
Speaker B:I have a laser going all the time trying to get this thing going.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:But yeah, that's it.
Speaker B:That's my, my goal this year is to just make something for a community to get out there and find it.
Speaker B:Hashtag is photo Lilac.
Speaker B:Photo hunt is the hashtag for it.
Speaker B:So, yeah, just do.
Speaker B:If you find it, if you take a picture of it, even the animals, if it says to.
Speaker B:If it does, you know, if it's not the ones that the QR codes, just take a picture of it, tag that we're seeing it.
Speaker B:And if we can get.
Speaker B:If the first of a handful people that can actually get all the scavenger hunt together, find all 12 of them, we have some prizes for them, we have some art for them.
Speaker B:We have.
Speaker B:People actually can take some of the animals home if they want, if whoever the people win.
Speaker B:Because I.
Speaker B:I don't want to take my art home.
Speaker B:I want people to enjoy it.
Speaker B:So, yeah, so it's a scavenger hunt.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:And I'm also taking.
Speaker B:If you guys want to donate to it.
Speaker B:I have a couple of businesses that may want to toss a gift card.
Speaker B:I mean, this is off the record yet, I guess, as we're recording this, but there may be some.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Because I don't have any names yet, so I don't want to promise it too much.
Speaker B:But yeah, so there's some people tossing some for prizes too.
Speaker B:If people want to toss in prizes, we would take that because I just have fun doing this.
Speaker B:This is my enjoyment.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:The community needs stuff.
Speaker B:We have a lot of people that are stressed right now, a lot of people that are worried about what's going on.
Speaker B:I mean, like, it's just.
Speaker B:It's tough out there.
Speaker B:So I wanted to make something nice, enjoyable, educational, because, you know, me and animals and education.
Speaker B:But also I want to have something free for families to walk around and stumble across and find and take stuff home with them and that.
Speaker A:So, so cool, man.
Speaker A:I'm really glad you're involved.
Speaker A:I'm really glad you did it.
Speaker A:Thanks for coming over, buddy.
Speaker A:I love you.
Speaker B:Oh, thanks for having me here.
Speaker B:I love you too, man.
Speaker A: ch Adore podcast network, the: Speaker A:Open from now until May 18th.
Speaker A:Presented by Magnus, shown on the sign by Magnus.
Speaker A:Also by the animals, by the flowers, by the people, and by the amazing people that organize it, but also by art by Magnus and other stuff.
Speaker A:Cool.
