“Just Make A Game About It”
Sometimes, when I express frustration that I’m not able to figure something in my life out, a friend of mine (who is decidedly not a game designer) will needle me […]
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Art is a Gremlin, but it’s YOUR Gremlin
You have to show up for your art. It will pout if you don’t. Your art wants to be picked up, played with, joked with, and present with you. It
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Doneness
A grad school professor of mine once related some wisdom to our class: “every artist has a certain percent ‘done’ at which they will stop working on a piece. For
Vulnerability in Practice
I listened to a podcast recently in which the guest, a visual artist, was saying that it is the job of all artists to be vulnerable and to make that
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Ghost Brain
Today’s post is for everyone with a backlog of creative projects a solar system wide and a galaxy deep. Ideas exist in the way ghosts exist; they can’t take corporeal
L’appel du vide
L’appel du vide is a French phrase for ‘the call of the void.’ It refers, literally, to the feeling we get when we’re high up, looking way, way down, and
Perfection Worship
Perfection is alluring. It’s shiny, calming, and I imagine it would feel really good to achieve. You know what else would feel really good? Wearing pants made of clouds and riding around town on a 20-foot-high panda named Jedediah. Too bad those things aren’t real. Too bad perfection isn’t real.
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The Art of Rest
Doing things is important. I am a big fan of doing. But on the flip side of the same coin is not doing and not doing is also important. As it turns out, it takes just as much energy, dedication, and grit to not do something as it takes to do something.
New Year’s Resolutions: Your Own, Personal Interactive Experience
New Year’s Resolutions are interactive experiences. They just happen to suck most of the time. As a designer of interactive experiences that gamify philosophy, chaos theory, self-growth, and paradigm shifts, I’ve been experimenting with New Year’s Resolutions and gamification for years.
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