Telling stories

A little over a year ago, I appointed myself Washington Park’s artist-in-residence. I’m not sure the people who run the park ever knew I was their artist in residence, but it didn’t matter. A self-appointed artist in residence doesn’t require anyone’s approval: that’s the singular benefit of doing it this way.

You want to rapidly extract as much information as possible, so you can figure out what you like and so that you can pattern match, and you want to communicate as much as possible, too, so you can filter people who wouldn’t fit you anyway (which is why keeping a blog is good).

When you slow down and really break a topic down, you start to realize there isn't enough clarity in saying, "I want to write about X." And the reason so many writers sit down to write, only to give up 5 minutes later, is because this is the first BIG realization they have to confront. They thought they knew what they wanted to write about, only to... See more

“When you realise that the dumbest person in the argument is on your side, that means you’re on the wrong side.”

Too Late is a construct, one I don’t need to buy into. Too Late reduces the power of possibility. Too Late is a lie, one meant to keep us from imagining new futures for ourselves and the world. Too Late doesn’t need to be a rule I constrict myself with. Too Late leaves so little room for what could be.

Think of the difference between putting your hand in a hot oven versus putting it in a pot of boiling water (don’t try this at home!) — in the oven, your hand can withstand significantly hotter temperatures for longer than in the water where it has to interact with many more particles.

Like a visual or brand system, your soundscape is experienced as a whole where each element speaks to one another. Consider how your sounds live together within a coherent world. Does it sound physical, digital, musical? Experiment with different “worlds” of sound early on to find what aligns with what you want to say. Surprise yourself. Try someth... See more

Storytelling is a primal instinct (people have been telling stories much, much longer than they’ve been reading or writing about them)

I’ve found that the more we lift each other up, the more we ourselves are lifted . What we give away comes back to us tenfold.