Supporting Makers
Creative people don’t work for free – or at least, they shouldn’t – you can’t pay your rent with ‘exposure’; and although many, myself included, do offer pro bono work, advice and giveaways it should always be remembered that that’s done on our terms – we choose to do so because we want to share the experience. But […]
Shooting for the moon
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech to a joint session of Congress that set the United States, and the World on a course to the moon: it was daring, ambitious, geez Louise – many thought it was downright crazy – but there it was, in black and white: We choose to […]
To find hope, clear out the toxicity
I began this version of my website as a blank canvas with a post about hope and the future, and a few months later I’ve still felt no need to trawl my huge archive of materials going back to before the Millennium for a few reasons, the first being that they’re in the past – and […]
The importance of inspiration
I don’t take many days off – I don’t mean like sick days, or weekends though, I mean days out of my studio where I clear my head of what’s going on in the shop and instead broaden my creative horizons: I know I’m bad at this, I know it’s something I should do more […]