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Category Archives: Inspiration

Midnight Affair

July 27, 2010 – 1:00 am

So I came across this: And it seduced me into doing this: What seduces you?

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So. What’s Your Art?

July 19, 2010 – 1:00 am

{If you’re reading this via email, click the title to watch the video.} Here’s what I know: What you do, every day, becomes part of who you are. Scraping pennies or rolling naked in your dough, you’re trading your brain power, your creativity and your most valuable asset – your time – for your daily [...]

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Just Break

July 14, 2010 – 1:00 am

Your insides are twisted coming outside fraying at the seams. And pushing ahead pulls you under. Hungry, and needing to be filled, you give yourself over – listen for the voice that does not come yet you remain a stranger – suspended but sometimes we break. And you resist hold while what you need recedes. [...]

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Fear

July 6, 2010 – 1:00 am
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How Do You Want To Feel?

June 2, 2010 – 1:00 am

I ache. I’m getting pushed and pulled and jostled in this space I’ve claimed as my own. This space – where you’re reading – right now. It’s the tension between where I could be going and where I need to go. For me. For my work. For my creative pulse. I will not ignore my [...]

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I See Music – Green Eyed Love

May 21, 2010 – 1:00 am

The legend. ‘The Green Muse’ by Albert Maignan 1895 Courtesy Musee de Picardie, Amiens. The nouveau connoisseur. The gentlemen’s club.

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I See Music – Worrisome Heart

May 15, 2010 – 1:00 am

When I hear her, in this way, like this: I see this:

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A Little of Her & A Little of Him

May 5, 2010 – 1:00 am

Bedrooms are tricky. Loaded with innuendo and fraught with undercurrents of sexual tension and personal intimacy, I’m often left to piece together a private language I’m neither invited to learn nor want to share. But how else to understand how to design – mm, no – design well if I’m not offered the chance to [...]

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I See Music – Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing

May 2, 2010 – 1:00 am

mm. That was easy. Photograph at top right by Ellen Von Unwerth

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The Case of 3am

April 30, 2010 – 1:00 am

I frequently wake at 3 in the morning with an intense case of the ceiling-stares. You can learn a lot about yourself when you’re laying in the dark, chasing fleeting thoughts and shadow ghosts. Vivid imagery will dance across my mind, taunting and teasing with intensity so deep I’m compelled to create. Yet sometimes the [...]

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I See Music – Do What You Have To Do

April 23, 2010 – 1:00 am

When you need to hide come to me Crawl in and unravel I will hold you through the fragile night and release you when the daylight comes

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Volcanoes & Creative Juice

April 19, 2010 – 1:00 am

There are some projects that slowly seep into your creative consciousness like a leaking faucet.  Drip… there’s the window treatment… drip… there’s the wall colour… drip… there’s the moulding profile… drip… drip… aaaaaand, project finished. Then there are the, “Dude, what the hell happened to my creative juice?” sort of projects.  Like, crickets.  As in, [...]

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