Sneak Peek
Things are moving along with my sci-fi adventure novel! I’m thinking October, but the hard and fast date is not fixed yet. There’s still a lot to be done, which is why I’m not sure of the date. So until then I want to share a small slice of the cover art from Tacoma artist Chandler O’Leary. It’s just a small hint of what is to come. So very excited to share the rest soon!
Me … in watercolor
The awesome Tacoma artist Chandler O’Leary painted a watercolor portrait of me in her sketchbook last month. I’ve been meaning to post it here, but if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll see it there too. Chandler, among other projects, has a cool new site called “Drawn the Road Again” that is a watercolor/sketchbook travelogue. The whole site is illustrated and painted and it looks fantastic. (Side x Side helped her out with building it, hence the awesome portrait as a thank you). You can also expect to see Chandler’s artistic sense on the cover for my science Read more…
Creative Blogging Round Two: Arts and Entrepreneurship Edition
Last week's post on creativity was mostly about the personal side of creativity, talking about both engineers and artists. I want to touch on the economic side of creativity, and talk some ideas about what the Internet means for creativity in a city like Tacoma. The Internet is Really Really Great (for creativity) Consider this hypothetical, but very common, example of why the Internet is great for the arts and creativity: An artist wants to sell her art as greeting cards, posters, t-shirts, etc, to make some extra income. She can use the web as a virtually unlimited and virtually Read more…
From the Comments! More on Creativity
I want to highlight a comment from Lance Kagey on the previous post. He talks about both the engineer and the artist and the wide spectrum of creativity. His brother, an engineer who spent hours dreaming and imagining new ways to build integrated circuits. And he talks about the artists, who spends their time over a hand-cranked press creating posters once a month. Both the dreaming and the doing are on the creative spectrum. Small excerpt: When Tom Llewellyn and I started Beautiful Angle we had a specific conversation about trying something new. "If we could take money out of Read more…
A Long Post About Creativity
Last Sunday’s panel on creativity was part of the programming for the Tacoma Reads book, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. The panel was very good: how creative people worked, why they worked, what they got out of it, etc. What was lacking is that which I think lacks from most discussions of creativity: a real investigation into the spark of creativity. It lacks because it’s so hard to quantify, and it’s so situational. So, I think I’m going to turn this into Creativity Week here, and try to get a post a day up about it. I’ll talk about Read more…
Arts Symposium this weekend! I’m on a mock funding panel at 12:20 Saturday. Good insight for grant applicants to see how these panels work.
We'll be considering fake applications for arts grants and debating them as we would a real panel. If you've every thought about applying for grant applications, seeing the inner workings of a committee will hopefully be helpful! Details here.
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