and i will sing my tune until my voice is gone

I had about a million hours of podcasts to listen to at work today, and the last one that I listened to before I left the office for the day was a special broadcast from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, via their Re:Sound podcast — an hour long talk from Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad, and…

make me think

Inspiring me today: PrismYard: a user-curated gallery of vintage cameras. Yum. Prague Daily Photo: a long-time resident of my RSS reader, I’ve been craving a trip to Eastern Europe lately thanks to them. These amazing photos from Dixie Pixel owner Tara Kneiser. Esquire’s photo shoot with Jon Hamm. (More diner photoshoots pls. Fewer bathrooms shoots…

don’t you know that you’re paid to be funny

For those of you who know me, you know that I have a long and complicated history with Comedy; comedy with a big C, a stand-in for amateur and professional improv, sketch, stand-up. For those of you who don’t know me that well, well: I have a long and complicated history with Comedy. I have,…

so much has changed in a year

I just finished off what was, hands down, the most exhausting and most rewarding stretch of the last three years to date, where I’ve worked and worked and made art and cried and thrown things and worked more and made more art, all in the name of being able to make it, eventually, as a…

been a while, huh?

But things I’ve been collecting, in terms of inspiration, comma rocking my world: Postcards from America, a currently ongoing project by half a dozen Mangum documentary photographers. Their work in the American Southwest has been gorgeous and staggeringly sad, and their Tumblr is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Okay, not exactly inspiration, but college baseball…

semi-regular inspiration

Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this month. (Inspiration which I am desperately in need of, I might add.) Gorgeous illustrated letterforms by Jonny Wan. Tilt-shift Van Gogh. Now I have to watch the Van Gogh episode of Doctor Who again. This photo of Bruce Springsteen. Sweet Home Style, because I am tired of…

look at your pretty face

Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: Jay B Sauceda’s Sign Painters series. 18 Photography Tumblrs That Rock. Wayne Levin’s SWIMMERS series. Gorgeous alphabet address book sketchbook. Hand drawn coffee cup illustrations. Lost In The Trees doing a La Blogotheque take away shows.

a slight figure of speech

rhett miller @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: My friend Zannah takes amazing macro toy photographs. (A long time a ago she wrote a guide to taking photos of small plastic things which I still think stands as a pretty damn good macro photo…