On our road trips, when we were young and the hours would make us unruly, my mother would say “Hey, look at the horse in that cloud!”, or whatever she saw and we’d say yes or say we saw something else. She always saw our suggestions and in this gazing game the unruliness would pass. […]

Martin Villeneuve had a dream of making a film when he was a child. With all the hope in the world he was not going to be getting the 25 million dollars he would normally need to make such a feature film. But he did, for a 10th of the cost. How did he do […]

“There is a tradition of auctioning original works of art donated by artists to raise money for charitable causes. There are many good causes that hold such events. No matter how good the causes, though, I have come to the conclusion that artists must stop donating to every single one of them.” So says, art […]

I love the challenges that Seth Godin put out there in the marketing world. But there are some that I have to share as a challenge to those of us marketing our art… Writing tip: say it backwards If your writing feels like nothing but easily defensible aphorisms, as if you’re saying things that are […]