Making art can be a challenge. Tonight it would have been easy to stay comfortably seated at my kitchen table and eating my dinner. Making art meant having to get up, grab my cameras, put on shoes and a jacket and drive around town to the best place to see the sunset. Dinner will wait. …
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When Other People Kill Your Creativity
Recently, I was working on what I’m sure would have been a great blog post when I received a snotty text message from a friend on an unrelated topic. Stupidly, I stopped typing to pick up the phone and read the message. It took me ten minutes to stop being pissed off and start typing …
Are You Really Wasting Time?
I don’t think it’s possible to waste time. Sure, we’re only given so much, but how can you waste it? Waste money, sure. Waste water, or food, or fuel? Definitely possible. How can you waste time? It passes at the same speed regardless of if you’re using it to watch bad Alaskan reality TV shows …
Art vs. Craft
I know a few people from my previous years of blogging who get pissed off if you refer to them as practicing a craft. From Dictionary.com: Craft means “an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill.” That’s not bad, right? It doesn’t indicate you’re doing something important with colored paper and paste …