Clearing the Creative River
November 23, 2023 When did this obsession with social media take hold? Was it when my dad got Prodigy in the late 80s and I was suddenly connected to people via message boards? I made connections there I don’t think…
Category creativity
Ideas Many of Us Hold that I Invite you to Challenge
Your writing/art is too basic, immature, pedestrian You are not a real artist No one cares or will see what you create What is the point of art?Don’t you have better ways to spend your time? You write/create the same…
For the Hell of It
I love the Austin Kleon newsletter because he always links to an artist I have never heard of in a medium I have never really explored. It always leads to somewhere I would have never found on my own. This…
On Self Criticism
This last week I was listening to an episode Kevin Smith’s podcast where he interviewed Gerard and Mikey Way from My Chemical Romance. The interview is five years old, but one thing I took away from it was something Kevin…
On Creativity
Sometimes I feel like the Internet is full of people trying to sell themselves or build an image. In many ways it seems like creativity has been lost to attention seeking. People will do whatever it takes for the likes,…