From the Blog
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What do you do with artist’s block?
There would probably be a billion more artists in the world if we stopped interpreting artist’s block as the end of the road. Have you ever experienced a creativity drought? No ideas, no oomph, just malaise and blank pages? That, my friend, is artist’s block. “You’re not good enough to keep doing this,” the monotonous…
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Inspiration and Motivation
What keeps an artist going? Is it a cup of coffee and a blank notepad? Or is it a white canvas, a fresh set of paints, and a hundred ideas? Is it knowing that everyone will love what you create? Or is it the relaxed, accomplished feeling you get after finishing a project that keeps…
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5 Things Covid Should Have Brought Back (But Didn’t)
The 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic provided so many opportunities for style shifts. And by that I mean we had the chance to recreate the 50’s, and we didn’t. It’s hard not to idealize the Boomers’ heyday. From the death of tailored style to the decline of affordable domestic help and florists, we’ve lost a lot of…
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7 Questions, 1 Very Bad Year
Since literally nothing is happening this year, writing, blogging, and documenting in general has been difficult. In this unprecedentedly dull time, creators are challenged to reach deep, deep into that top hat just to pull out a fluff of rabbit hair, let alone a whole mammal. So I’ve turned to the New York Times for…
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What’s the Hardest Chinese Character to Write?
Everyone’s gonna tell you it’s biáng, but it’s not. Biáng is easy to write, actually, because it’s constructed purely of radicals, and commonly used ones at that. All you have to do is add together: 穴月幺長言馬幺長刂心辶. Easy as pie! (Especially if you know the poem) But this isn’t the hardest character. Let’s go through the…
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