Life – Page 3 of 15
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Kurt Vonnegut on authenticity
February 1, 2024 | Miscellany
I love me some Kurt Vonnegut, and he wrote this bit about authenticity in his book Mother Night. It’s timely, and I’m overdue for a reread.
Oscar Wilde on imitation
January 12, 2024 | Miscellany
I hadn’t read the entirety of this Oscar Wilde quote before. I feel like the last bit, which is always omitted, is kind of contextually important.
Fish atop a tower of rocks
December 3, 2023 | Miscellany
Still digging through some old doodles.
Robot with a Napoleon complex
November 5, 2023 | Miscellany
It’s not that robot thinks he’s better than you. He doesn’t think about you at all.
Yes, and…it’s a crow in an army helmet
October 3, 2023 | Miscellany
Enjoy this ink and watercolour sketch of a crow in an army helmet as I pretend I have any authority to talk to you about the creative process of illustration.
Little voices can suck it
September 9, 2023 | Miscellany
It’s amazing how convincing those little voices can be. They don’t even exist! How do they have so much control over my creative output?
Art and sausages and probably aliens
August 28, 2023 | Miscellany
This year for my birthday I decided to not be a depressing sack of gravel and actually enjoy life.
Firing on one cylinder
August 12, 2023 | Miscellany
Creative block sneaks up when you aren’t looking and squats in your brain and maybe the only way to get free is to tell yourself it’s okay to kill it with fire.
Missing thoughts no reward
July 10, 2023 | Miscellany
A thought occurred to me a couple days ago, and it wasn’t a complete thought really, but a bit of a thought, a seed of a thought to be sure, a possibility.