Posts Tagged ‘art’

This performance has been years in the making. In a sense, you could say it’s been a lifetime in the making. On November 6th, 2025, my brother Ian and I gave a “talk” at the amazing Beyond Tellerrand conference in […]

I was finally able to execute a piece I’ve had in my head for who knows how long. “Follow your energy” is advice that I give freely and strive to follow in my own life. Listen closely to your energy; […]

Seeing David Byrne last night for the first-ever performance of Who Is The Sky was one of the best and most impactful concerts/experiences of my life.

A reminder.

This is awesome. Artist Marina Kappos created a whole series of symmetrical paintings inspired by her relationship with her twin sister. This resonates with me as my mom is a twin. And is also an art teacher! But also! My […]

So much great stuff here. We want to be seen. Appreciate everything endlessly. Reach out to people to say nice things Go down all the rabbit holes Truly amazing.  

Beautiful.

I came across this great post by my friend Cameron Moll on LinkedIn. He says: Telling designers they shouldn’t use high-fidelity designs early in the exploration process can be the equivalent of telling an artist they shouldn’t use paint and […]

And then she asked an interesting question: Is it art if it wasn’t your idea? I was glad to answer “yes,” and explain to her why — that all art is a copy of something — though I wish I’d had the presence of […]

This is freaking wild: Retired country maths teacher Robert Martiensen created thousands of artworks in secret. Dude created over 7,000 works of art without telling anybody. That blows my mind.

I’ve spent the last two years thinking about doing these two projects, and the actual effort to bring them into existence only took two weekends. I arrived at an important insight: if you find yourself frequently revisiting an idea you […]

Once upon a time, I had the word “artist” in my bio. Somewhere along the line, I removed it. Maybe it was because I was preoccupied with what I do for money. Maybe it was because I’m not a professional […]

For day 17 of making something every day in December, I continued to work on a can art project. Once again, not much to look at, but I find the act of cutting and painting these cans to be really cathartic […]

For day 15 of making something every day in December, I continued to work on a can art project. Still not much to look at right now, but a little bit of progress is still progress.   Making things in […]

For day 14 of making something every day in December, I started an art project involving cutting and painting a bunch of aluminum cans. It doesn’t look like much right now: I’ve done some projects like this in the past, […]

Awesome site featuring a bunch of amusing animated gifs. And boy do I love me some animated gifs. Via Its Nice That

I’ve started a new painting.  I’ve been reading Kandinsky: Complete Writings On Art which chronicles the work of my favorite painter of all time, Wassily Kandinsky.   Kandinsky practically invented non-objective art (art free from any real world representation).  At first […]