An illustrated parable to growing as an artist by IdaEva.
So true, and applies all the same to any ability to create something.
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Bloom like an artist
An illustrated parable to growing as an artist by IdaEva. So true, and applies all the same to any ability to create something.
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Seryn unplugged in my living room
To get a band to play in your living room, there are several steps to make it happen. Find an intimate setting large enough to fit a band and their equipment. Get owner of said place to agree to let a band play in their intimate setting. Ask said band to play in said intimate…
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Review: Looking for Calvin and Hobbes – Nevin Martell
Nevin Martell writes reverently of Bill Watterson in Looking for Calvin and Hobbes. The far reaches that Martell goes to find out who Bill Watterson really was, took him into the world of cartooning and going into the depths of Bill Watterson’s past. Numerous cartoonists were interviewed: Jim Davis, Bill Amend, Lynn Johnston, Stephen Pastis…
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What I learned from 46 days of no Facebook
In keeping with the Catholic tradition of sacrificing something for Lent, I chose to give up Facebook. In the past, I’ve given up chocolate, sweets, dessert, beer, alcohol, caffeine, soda, (listening to) music. Forsaking a technological medium that seeks to connect people, and purposefully disconnecting from it, goes against the instant gratification of modern life.…
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Cranking
Merlin Mann tells a moving and personal story about creativity, priorities and life. Sometimes the cranking made something special that will be really useful to people who badly need the comfort and help. But, a staggering amount of the time, my cranking has produced joyless and unemotional bullshit that couldn’t comfort, help, or please anyone.…
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Review: R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now
Every Day Is Yours To Win could fit into New Adventures in Hi-Fi, while That Someone Is You bounces around like Radio Free Europe from 1983. … Discoverer’s lead riff sounds like Finest Worksong Oh My Heart has a bit of Drive Every Day Is Yours To Win, a shimmery uplifting ballad with simple melody…
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This post is full of awesome
The word awesome seems to have become the go to word to describe anything as remotely delightfully cool. In fact, there’s even an Awesome Foundation. In naming the Awesome Foundation, Hwang said the word captured the organization’s aims perfectly. “Awesome conveys surprise and delight, and that’s at the core of what we’re trying to do.…
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The story of Z. Vex effects pedals
Z. Vex creates handmade and painted guitar effects pedals, a business that started as a hobby. Vex: “My first Z.Vex pedal was an improvement on an Apollo Fuzz-Wah fuzz, which was the Octane. I showed it to Nate at Willie’s American Guitars in St. Paul and he immediately ordered three. I hadn’t planned on going…
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To cull or to surrender
In an insightful piece of enjoying and consuming art (of all kinds), Linda Holmes discusses the sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything. Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That’s the moment you realize you’re separated…
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Fuel/Friends Springtime 2011 mix
Heather at Fuel/Friends has posted a mix of spring songs, Used Hearts/Fresh Starts. Most of the songs are on the alternative, indie, folk, pop side of the music spectrum, with the occasional deviation, and she has them ready for you to load up into your portable music device.