I spent the last few days house-sitting my aunt and uncle’s place way out in rural, western Mass. It was very pretty, very quiet, very lonely, and very un-Netflix-y. I watered their plants and went for long walks in the woods and talked with more animals than people and tapped into my inner Ron Swanson and… Continue reading Home Is Where the Art Is

Four years ago–super bored in class—I made an acrostic poem (?)/list (?): Courage; collaboration Risk failure; resort to childhood instincts Exist in the moment Adapt (willing to evolve) Time (with and without—perspective gained) Inspiration (myth of originality) Values; validity of all ideas Immersion Trance (R-mode) You, your flow   Like with most stuff we made… Continue reading C.R.E.A.T.I.V.I.T.Y

Last month, I started mentoring an eighth grader on his “Capstone Project”—a self-driven, semester-long, thorough study on anything of interest. The student loosely focused on ideas of originality—especially in electronic music—but wasn’t sure how to proceed. I gave him some of my favorite reading, some of the stuff that got me hooked on creativity a… Continue reading Trying Not To Try