Here you'll find my 'microblog': 19 snippets too short for a dedicated place on my site, but still worth sharing, for your interest, and for my records. (Ordered reverse chronologically.)
2025
In late December 2024, I attended an Are.na Channel As Gift workshop hosted by Laurel Schwulst. Such a fascinating idea! These are my notes from attending.
Gifting as a verb is more nourishing than the noun.
Gift giving is often separated as its own love language, but you could argue all other love languages involve giving a gift.
Attention and time are the ingredients for a good gift. Being a good gift giver is about listening, appreciating, and considering. You make connections between disparate things and the people you love.
Living with the intention of generosity is gift giving at its core. Even something an email can be a gift: putting in effort shows you care.
A wonderful gift is a Venn diagram of what you and the recipient enjoy. A moment of connection often becomes more important than the material thing.
Thoughtful digital gifts: a memory capsule of photos, a playlist, a reader of recommended articles or books, summarizing your shared existence, an imaginary museum, reasons they're loved, and a to-do list of fun activities
Gifting as an infinite game is a constant back-and-forth, a way of life.
Unrelated fields overlap in unexpected ways: new insights in disparate connections.
Save everything you find interesting. You never know how it might inspire you.
If there ins't a word to describe what you're exploring, there's opportunity there.
Art is a language. And just as we study books to find how we write, we can study artworks to discover how we express ourselves.
Each painting sings the same song, uniquely.
When you discover something new, you want to find others like them. If the creators share their influences, you'll discover something unique. So share yours.
The beauty of mixed media is you can mix and match often separate senses for surprising results. For example, sheet music as artworks.
Learn the rules of software to break them to make art with unusual constraints.
Rules are freeing when overwhelmed by the limitless of creativity, but breaking them and creating beyond them is often where the most fascinating ideas come from.
If you're stuck on a problem, working it out on paper can lead to breakthroughs.
Our taste influences what we make. Begin with what you love and build upon it.
The computer is a creative assistant, a portal to inspiration, or an art medium. Experiment.
Creative processes as programming scripts.
Book or zine making is such a rewarding process as it allows for constant experimentation.
Paper is an excellent tool for processing information and engaging with a work.
