This is how you play the game: the goal is to draw a person and be as innovative and surprising as you can. Start at the bottom or top of the sheet by drawing the very tip of that person. In this case, I started at the shoes. Fold the sheet so that only the [...]

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for 4 days last month i turned my phone off, left it at home and lived as usual. but life felt different. like a reminder that life is worth celebrating even without having to constantly send a text, a photomessage, or call to say this is what i saw, this is what i heard, this [...]

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TRAVELLING JOURNAL CALL

 
Well, it’s the week week and I feel compelled to start something.
The last travelling journal I send out is two people away from me and yes, it’s time to launch a new one.
 
 
If you want to play, email me.
Or just comment here and I’ll get back to you.
 
 
There’s place for all kinds. Come play.
 
UPDATE:
OK! we’re good [...]

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How I work

 
 
This is a brainstorming map of some ideas for a canvas I want to do for “A”.
[click to enlarge]
I’m always curious about how other people work. How other people do or make the things they do. The working process. Writers. Artists. Journalists. Innovators. I like to know how they came to that final peice.
Most big [...]

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The Portrait Exchange

Exchanged portraits with Andy DiConti. In my room after a long movie so here’s a crude photograph version of my
 drawing of him.

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Sharing the Magic

I’m just back home after a while of travel and as always, travelling opens me up and expands my mind in a new way. A little bit of travelling whether to another city, a continent halfway across the globe, my own city, even just in my mind bends my mind in ways nothing else can. [...]

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The Glasgow Manifesto

The drive for a better, kinder, more adventurously lived life has begun again. I want to allow my life all the richness and experience it was born to see, do, receive, give. I’m in Glasgow starting a year of newness and experience. What do I want to do, what do I hope of this year [...]

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YES TO GIGGLES

I haven’t said YES in 5 days.
So today I’ll say it. I’ll do the things that I long to do and face the things I long to face.
I want to say yes to class from 8am to 6pm
Yes to looking out of my window at the stars when I should really go to bed and [...]

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Ex.ot.ic (eg.zat.ik) a.introduced from a foreign country; not indigenous; unusual or colourful.
  
For some, the exotic is India. Its Portugal for others. The rich Orient full of myths and stories for yet another.
  
The “exotic” has come to stand for the richly stimulating; it is associated with a sense of far away, hard to reach ideals. Ideals [...]

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The Leap Into Luxury

Spontaneous Writing Booths Do not feel left out when you school, Zen Centre,church has a carnival, bazaar, rummage sale. Simply set up a spontaneous writing booth. All you need is a pile of blank paper, some fast writing pens, a table, a chair, and a sign saying “Writing on Demand”. They choose the topic and you [...]

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