The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own.  I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before.  In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find.  Please DO NOT send me your work.  I do not take submissions.   Today’s featured artist:  Billy Delfs Detroit to … [Read more...]

Paul Dimalanta Tell me about this promo. At the beginning of the year, the marketing plan was to edit down my email list, go to more portfolio shows, and follow up with printed mailer follow-ups. After getting all my print collateral designed and printed the pandemic hit, and people could no longer meet and no one was at the office. My initial reaction was to just wait. To pass the time I broke out some puzzles to complete with my wife that were saved from our yearly tradition spending time with friends in a cabin in Tahoe over New Years. We would snowboard in the day … [Read more...]

Pictured: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Pictured: thermal pools and mineral deposits, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. RV road trip with family and friends through Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and Utah, July 2020. PIctured: buffalo, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. PIctured: Eddie Mitchell, store owner, 74, Greybull, Wyoming. PIctured: Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota. Pictured: Old Trail Town, Cody, Wyoming. Pictured: streetscape, Greybull, Wyoming. PIctured: Rocky Mountain goat along the … [Read more...]

  I’ve been thinking about this column for a long time now. (Six months, maybe eight.) I even wrote it once, but then decided not to publish, as it didn’t feel right at the time. Thankfully, today is the day, due to some unforeseen coincidence, or divine intervention, depending on your perspective. It began two days ago, when I was scrolling through Instagram, and came across a photo of a very attractive, naked young woman, getting into a swimming pool. (Or something like that, it was a quick look.) The image reminded me of something out of Playboy in the 80’s, and I … [Read more...]

The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own.  I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before.  In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find.  Please DO NOT send me your work.  I do not take submissions.   Today’s featured artist:  Bob Stevens An agent pal … [Read more...]

Heidi: Your graphic design, painting, and drawing work have now evolved into motion, why the evolution? Sajid: Evolution is because I am more interested in designing the process as a game to be played and the resulting work is a byproduct of it and with each play, I get more and more at ease with the game, allowing me to enter a state of flow. The point is to take it to a level where you don’t have to force anything and let it happen on its own. Allowing the impulse to just nudge you into the action of getting the work done. Furthermore to explore the horizons of my … [Read more...]

  A friend of mine   A guy I know A dude I hung out with in summer camp A boy I traded baseball cards with in middle school A human with whom I communicate via Facebook messenger A person A bro I liked back in the day   He remembers everything.   We have a long-running, ongoing chat with another summer camp friend, and we like to talk lots of shit. About sports, mostly, and the assholes we went to camp with. But there are also memories bandied back and forth from middle school, as that was the last time we were proper friends. (Like I said, this guy remembers … [Read more...]

The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own.  I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before.  In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find.  Please DO NOT send me your work.  I do not take submissions.   Today’s featured artist:  Cade Martin I have a … [Read more...]

  Part 1. The Intro   I went to Houston six months ago. Went is the past tense of the verb to go. In Spanish, it’s ir, and in French, it’s aller. So I would say Je suis allé a Houston. Do you remember what it means to go places? To leave your home, or your town, and transport your body somewhere else, to a different city, or state, to a different culture, with a different landscape? Honestly, I kind of forget what the sensation feels like. Six months ago, I did something that was, at that point, second nature to me. As you know, if you’ve been reading regularly, I … [Read more...]

The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own.  I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before.  In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find.  Please DO NOT send me your work.  I do not take submissions.   Today’s … [Read more...]