Pleased to be participating in the Sketch Your Mind virtual Conference! Lots of cool folks sharing their approaches to visual thinking - should be exciting & generative! My talk is Thursday October 16 at 12pm PT (I’ll share process…). Site & free registration sketch-your-mind.com/2025/session...

So, I guess Bluesky gets this post also: I'm going to do The Artist's Way again. It's been 20 years or so and I've been feeling pretty uninspired. Maybe I'll Substack about it? But I'm trying not to get ahead of myself, so I'll start with just buying a notebook.

Good news: there's a reasonable wooden floor under my disgusting carpet. Bad news: went to post this on Instagram only to find that Instagram is now 100% Tiktok, which I regret because I liked following artists and seeing pictures of my friends' lives.

I would like to watch a fantasy ethnographic cooking show where you get a list of unlimited ingredients and maybe one or two random constraints like having to use a certain cooking method or rules about how certain ingredients can be used and you have to invent a whole harmonious type of cuisine.

#comic #animalart #joy

Why is there so much more autism now than there was in the past? Probably v̶a̶c̶c̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶x̶i̶n̶s̶ changing definitions and testing protocols, but also on a longer scale "gene variants linked to autism [and cognitive ability] may have been positively selected for." Thanks for that, science.

I refuse to use chatgpt when I´m researching my podcast. It´s very difficult to enter a curiosity rabbit hole with ai. A.i will give you specic answers and present a dead end. When I offload my curiosity like that, I don´t get the brain tingles that invoke lateral thinking

#JAMESHILLMAN ON AUTHORS AS PARENTS, INITIATIONS AND ANCESTORS

"Books too can be mentors, even providing a moment of initiation. #RDLaing, writer, philosopher, and revolutionary psychiatrist, tells of this discovery in a small public library, while he was still an adolescent in the 1940s.

This is the most disturbing one I’ve seen today…maybe more of an “interactive infographic”

mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

Looking at maps and data about the modern world, we can forget everything is dictated and shaped by the past. From ancient continents to terrible atrocities, our world is a product of history, and understanding that past can be key to helping us better understand the present.
-🌟🗝️

This is the score to my piece ‘Falling Water’ based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece - one of my favourite places in the world
Listen here if you like - recorded in Abbey Road Studios
#Composition #Architecture #Music #Graphics

https://buff.ly/3OxBl4s

If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetic Character, the Philosophic and Experimental would soon be at the Ratio of all things; and stand still, unable to do other than repeat the same dull round over again.

- #WilliamBlake, 'There Is No Natural Religion'

Thanksgiving. Thursday is sacred to Thor, known for smashing shit, as you may be inclined to do with the dinnerware this evening.

It could have been Wednesday, sacred to Odin. Easier on the plates, but much weirder.

Thor says go for it; it's not your fault. The walls need repainting, anyway.

1. [repost] Reading a great book called The Logos of Heraclitus that describes how Pythagoras may have sort of discovered the concept of #analogicalthinking by noticing the harmony strings make at different ratios and thus the correspondence of pattern between the different domains of number & sound