For a strange week in April my algorithm feed was full of videos, commentary and analysis about a curious French-Canadian...

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What if today was your last day to make something that would define you after you were gone? What would...

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I bought another guitar pedal. (Note to new readers. I do not actually own a guitar, but I do play...

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I spent a whole month last year trying to meditate.  I read about it. I downloaded apps. I set up...

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As I write these posts and use this blog as a weekday creativity exercise I am approaching fifty. (Don’t ask...

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The first time I ever thought about “outsider” influence on an art was watching that one episode The Simpsons. Homer...

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If there was a simple and obvious way to credit the ephemeral wisdom of random video clips that pass through...

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The first time I ever thought about “outsider” influence on an art was watching that one episode The Simpsons. Homer...

Read more in my post: Inside Outsider

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📝 Digital Analog

Flip-flopping between digital art and physical media—and often the fuzzy spots in between—is a dichotomy of form that is something...

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📝 Middle Earth

I recently started re-reading The Silmarillion by Tolkien and was reminded of how the book opens: it is a collection...

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