PoemTree
A poem: a short, playful one about where poems grow.
Read →On Beginning to Write
A short note on why I'm starting to keep a written journal alongside the paintings.
Read →Parenting
The best way to be a good parent is to lead by example. Noisy, obnoxious parents tend to have noisy obnoxious kids. Lie a lot? The kid will too. Fight a lot? K…
Read →Looking back, looking forward.
Concentrate every minute on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice; and on freeing yourself from…
Read →Creativity
Creativity is defined as the use of imagination or original ideas to create something. That definition seems pretty straight forward. Unfortunately though, I t…
Read →My Career
Hobbies Drawing / Reading / Design / Animation First Job Tattoo Millennium: Piercing Apprenticeship Tattoo Apprenticeship Tattoo Flash Illustrator Graphic Desi…
Read →Real People
Behind the perfect feeds and the doom-and-gloom news: real people, quietly trying to make it.
Read →The Thing
Best sci fi concept ever conceived?
Read →More Stories
There are these stories that we tell ourselves, the story of who we are, the story of what we do, the story of where we come from. You are not the colour of yo…
Read →Monkey See
Most creatures are, from a human frame of reference, extremely stupid. A lot of creatures have very rudimentary brains, yet they survive and thrive. Even the d…
Read →Apocalypse Meow
The world was turning the way it always had, people going about their lives, animals going about their business. No one can remember anymore exactly when it ca…
Read →A person's character.
And the lack thereof.
Read →Sisyphus Syndrome
Why I keep pushing the same boulder of questions uphill, and why I’ve made peace with it.
Read →Strong and Fragile
On what it is be human.
Read →The language of animals.
I enjoy the language of animals, it's not spoken with the tongue, but rather expressed with the whole body. It is honest and primal, no room for sales pitches,…
Read →Cinemagraphs
This post is a summary of my short lived blog about my love of Cinemagraphs (and Animations), as well as my attempts at making them. It all started (as with mo…
Read →The “meaning” of life.
Why nothing is inherently meaningful, why that’s freeing, and the one kind of meaning I think is real.
Read →Terraformed: a short story
What if humans are biological weapons created by sentient machines, designed to terraform planets? The humans are "programmed" to remove trees, kill other orga…
Read →Knowledge: a short story
SciFi idea: in the future, all knowledge is downloaded to the brain (Matrix style) the catch? People are divided into social classes based on the bandwidth spe…
Read →Reflection
A poem: a conversation with the stranger in the mirror.
Read →Practice
"Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something." Jake the Dog
Read →Art
I've always been interested in art, I'm particularly drawn to Chiaroscuro in painting and Comics Art in drawing. I've spent a lot of time with traditional mate…
Read →Art for fun vs Art for money
In this post, I am going to chat about the psychology and motive behind making different kinds of art (as the title suggests) but I'll also touch on the gradie…
Read →The stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves.
The many versions of myself I’ve lived through, the stories behind them, and the one I want to tell my daughter.
Read →Star Trek, so what’s the big deal?
How I became a Trekkie late in life, my take on every series, and why I watch it for the science fiction.
Read →A letter to my daughter.
A letter to my five-month-old daughter, written mid-bath-time and mid-hiccups.
Read →Let me introduce myself.
Who I am, what I care about, and why I started writing.
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