Sometimes the hardest part about being creative…is appreciating the fact that you get to be creative. It isn’t coal mining. You’re not digging tunnels in a war-torn country.Yes, you can be creative while doing those jobs, but it isn’t your job to be creative.As an artist, no matter your craft, if you had a chance […]

Every artist wants to create like a master. To have the perfection and the grandeur of a timeless piece.But there isn’t a cult of masters.They don’t sit around and drink their own Kool-Aid.They craft, they fume, they tantrum…they destroy.Leonardo’s clay model horse was used as target practice by French archers until it was nothing but

How’s that New Year’s Resolution?How’s that dream comin’?It’s hard to climb a mountain without watching where your feet go. Those small steps matter.When I used to run marathon’s, I hated the idea of running a marathon. I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around it, and focusing on the length was like staring at a clock. It

Being crafty can be good. Success can be good. However, it can also be bad.It can be used to deceive and to manipulate as much as it can to create.The ends do not justify the means.If you are going to ponder something. If you are in your foxhole noodling on a way to live up

If you want to be good at something, don’t act surprised when you do that one specific thing.If you want to be arrogant, I’m not your mom, be arrogant.  As long as you can back it up when it matters, that’s between you, your team, and whoever writes your checks.It drives me absolutely crazy to

There may actually be nothing better than waking up before your alarm and realizing that you don’t have to get up yet.Knowing that you get to postpone the inevitable kick to the face the world is going to provide you that day, nuzzle back into the pillow and bring the blanket back up is a

The Warrior Sloth does not make threats. Their’s is a war of attrition. They simply exist with the relentless knowledge that those they pursue will know of their pursuit long before their arrival.If you have to be slow. At least be steady. Let that be the lesson. It takes much longer to build something than it does to destroy it.Take

Every day you chip away at the stone of your project, is a day of measured progress. Make a mess. Be crazed.The battlefield isn’t a black tied red carpet event. In the creative field, you don’t go to work. You go to war. Every day. Unknown forces. Multiple fronts.  Life…You’re just spread too thin. I get it. You need more help. More money.

When Plato wrote the Allegory of the Cave he didn’t have our society in mind. Smart phones and streaming services weren’t around. There was just a cave with shadows dancing on the wall. The owners of intellectual property are rarely the face of the product. Streaming services have a skip option for credits.  They offer the option to skip

The Bore War You are at war. A war of distractions. Of no time. Of broken self-promises.It is a stifling war of attrition.How are you faring?Do you feel creatively fulfilled?Are you all caught up on your streaming?How’s your social media feed?Are you spending more time wishing you got more done than you are actually trying