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Thoughts of an audio ninja in Austin, Texas.

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Wally Williams, co-founder of Tequila Mockingbird, creative director extraordinaire, and one of my very favorite humans ever, answers some questions about the Austin live music scene, work, play, and creativity. Here we go.

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Creative Director, Copywriter, and all around awesome dude Michael Buss talks about fun with Land Rover, Matthew McConaughey, and other career highlights here:

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Q-and-A with Troublemaker Studios/Metric Post Sound Guru, Brad Engleking. He's worked on incredible movies like Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Sin City, Predators, To the Wonder, and so many more, all from his studio here in Austin. Let's hear how he does it.

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He just wrote a book about creativity (which you can pick up here), and now we get to talk to him about how creativity and Austin play into his own life. 2-time Adweek All-Star and Creative force behind the Chili's "I want my babyback" jingle, we are pleased to talk with Guy Bommarito.

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Damond Benningfield has been writing and producing the radio show STARDATE for more than 22 years. STARDATE is the longest-running science outreach program on U.S. radio, and airs nationally, daily. According to this NYTimes article, "the show, which is heard every day by some 2.2 million listeners on more than 300 radio stations around the country, has inspired an untold number to go out to their backyards to gaze at the stars." Here Damond takes a few minutes to answer some questions for us.

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Today we're Q-and-A-ing with the great Scott McAfee about all things advertising and creative in Austin. Scott's worked on just about every brand out there, from AT&T to Coke to Pennzoil, Chili's, Chevrolet, State Farm Insurance, Shell, and on and on. He's also famous for growing an impressive beard. Let's get the questions started.

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Today we're talking with word wrangler/brand raconteur/utterly delightful man, Cameron Day. He's clever and pun-y and we love when he walks in the studio door. Now let's chat.

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Today we're talking with Stephen Bohls, Owner/Editor at Kino-Eye Post. Stephen is fabulous with film and video, and can also create just about anything out of legos. You can check out his editing work at Kino-Eye's website, and also here.

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Our first profile here for the Creative Boom is a man who's been in and out of our studio for a dozen years, working on a wide range of projects and brands. In addition to his brilliance in the ad world, he has a twitter account on which he posts a poem a day, which makes him one of our all-time favorite tweet-ers. (Follow him here.) Without further ado, some Q-and-A with the lovely Brian Brooker.

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