I miss my passion
For as long as I can remember, I have drawn. In the walls, in my books, in my homework, in any paper I could find. I was never a great artist, does not matter how much people around me tell me…
On Relationships
Share your anxieties, hopes, horrors, and pleasures around relationships in this quick installation I made at the Dublin branch library in metro Columbus, Ohio. Many responses will be included in a…
Interstitial
Poem by R L Raymond Interstitial originally published in dead skunk magazine
A 9-step line-editing framework for tension-filled crime and thriller scenes
This practical framework shows you 9 steps for line editing scenes in crime and thriller fiction so that every sentence pulls its weight and delivers the appropriate level of tension.In this postWhy…
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Using AI for Fiction Writing — Directing Stories
«My glorious prose, filtered through the minds of the insane? [a sudden, consoling thought] Who knows? They might improve it.» The Marquis, using the inmates [...]
Working Toward Abstraction
4/30/26 Volunteer ParkSometimes the all-mighty algorithm finally gets it right. With my reignited love for Caran d’Ache Neocolor II water-soluble crayons, I’ve been looking around for unique or…
new art in gallery!
posted some of the art i've done recently to my gallery, inspired by some movies i like! (project hail mary and your name(
on genealogy
for when you’re here, have this of me. as time lets go of us, a song escapes the circlet in a stranger coming home; eventuality. under covers of moonlight, the folding pages yellowed in memory,…
Uncommon References: Le Corbusier, the Primal and the Flesh of Matter
In 1950, Le Corbusier began designing the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. Le Corbusier wrote that it represented ‘Liberté’ (freedom).[1] Totally free architecture. A veritable phenomenon of…
Bright Light — Maria-Irina Popescu
You’ll go down to the basement after you’re done up here, the Director says in our language. To […]
The Dream
once i woke from a dream. i opened weary eyes and limply grasped a bright and burning seeming. but, the seeming went— as easily as it came— into base gray matter, dissolved, and washed away.
PROGRAMMED DECAY: DESIGNING INTENTIONAL EROSION IN EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE
  PROGRAMMED DECAY: DESIGNING INTENTIONAL EROSION IN EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE This erosion study began with an observation of the oldest sections of the Great Wall of China, where layers of straw…
Ninety (5/6/2026)
90 days into her job at the Bureau, Judith is woken at 2AM by Janet Garcia to come in for a sitrep for not one, but three cases that needed attention.
edited by Sofia Ponte – Net Arte no Triângulo das Bermudas
Fundação MEO, ISBN 978-9729968594, English, Portuguese, 204 pages, 2025, Portugal Still largely unacknowledged by official art history and the contemporary art scene, (inter)net art remains relevant…
"What we seek in art is meaning. The meaningful carries an obligation.
A few pages from Inadvertent - Karl Ove Knausgaard - a really really wonderful book. page 27-28 page 91-92 page 65 Previous Next
jet fuel
The plane that took my love away Must fly again another day To bring her back home, here to me But maybe that won’t come to be The Strait of Epstein’s all clogged up I’m buying diesel by the cup And…
Fanfic Fanart
From: Bleepblorp HI I JUST SAW THAT YOU POSTED THE DRAWING OF THE FIC IM GOING TO CRY- THANKYOU <3333 Also hi! Hope you're haiving a good day :D WAAA thanks for stopping by! I love your fanfic so…
thirsty paper
drawing comfort from the same moon all questions of intercession reflect and project, now the traditional floodplain - you can ruin anything with the right line other things said roomy tidings…
De Vrijhof
Visiting two exhibitions: 'Klaas Versteegen' and 'See What We Make'.
PLANS Somewhere towards the end it all adds up, That which was and that which is, The old and the…
PLANSSomewhere towards the end it all adds up,That which was and that which is,The old and the new, and so on.When the year is done, there has beenAbout as much daylight as there has been night.It is…
Me at EDGEWAYS this Saturday
This Saturday (9th May) EDGEWAYS presents "Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced" with me talking about my artwork on Zoom from 20:00 BST. Attendance is free, but places are limited so…
Dan (Fire Tower Session)
Everybody’s asleep, let’s talk about him Let’s talk about high school, talk about death
The loot
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/051.html Transcript: A comic in four panels. Panel 1. The adventurer stands exhausted but proud with his sword, in the…
夏至未至
风把夏天的消息叠进花瓣里,花影落在腕间,像一句未说完的话,轻轻系在脉搏上。有些旋律未曾被吟唱,却在午后,被阳光弹成看得见的音符。等一人来听,又怕有心人听懂。
Write Now with Ela Thier
Today's Write Now interview features Ela Thier, author of HOW TO FAIL AS AN ARTIST.
Taijiquan - Lu
Continuing on with my haiku series around “Songs of The Eight Postures” attributed to T’an Meng-hsien and translated by Lee N. Scheele here is my second entry, Lu. Lu is often associated with the…
Signe Wilkinson: Editorial Cartoonist and Philadelphia’s “Attack Quaker”
In Spring 2026, editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson donated her drawings to the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives. Wilkinson is best known for her work with the Philadelphia Daily…
Introducing the Mindful Design Toolkit with even more free lessons
The Mindful Design Toolkit is a collection of free, open source templates, workshops, and resources, built to empower your design journey. To coincide with the launch, we’ve also opened up over two…
A Bellyflop Shouldn’t Hurt Like This
My head is drunk on hormones, stomach full of blood and wind. A cartoon drawl echoes over the Tannoy: paging passenger… My vision blurs as I scan the crowd in the arrivals hall. What if he’s not…
AI design has no soul, but Typography makes it whole
I generated a landing page, looked at it, and felt nothing. Not because it was bad – it was fine. But fine is the problem. Here I share what that hollow feeling is actually telling us, why designing…
Adeline Chapter Two
Click here to view all chapters of this story. Rough draft, subject to change. The benefits of saying “yes” to Mr. Cooke’s proposal were almost instantaneous, as it got Adeline a day off of work. He…
[dVerse] May 5th - Names I Did Not Answer To
Names I Did Not Answer ToBy midnight,all my old selves had gatheredoutside the locked door.Restless came first,barefoot, carrying a suitcasefull of unsent apologies.Then Ebb Tide,who knew exactlywhen…
Untitled Photo Post
Spotted on Ossington a poster for Sometimes Well, Sometimes Poorly by Dani Dazo and Nadom Paintsil .
Sunshine
You speak of layers,of scratching the surface,of descending.But what if the deeper isn’t down,but up?What if the true depth isn’t in the abyss,but in the ascent? They say you’re only skimming…
I painted a picture for the first time in 30 years today.
At school I was always that kid that would cry if I couldn’t get my drawing of two eyes look the same, Similar even, If they differed, even just slightly I’d get irritable, Tear that…
Daily Dex - Pecharunt, Ursaring, Pachirisu, Rowlet and Exeggcute
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop
how long do you take to “complete” a drawing (by your definition)? to the extent that you are mostly…
how long do you take to “complete” a drawing (by your definition)? to the extent that you are mostly satisfied with it?how long you take to complete a drawing30 minutes1 hour2 hours5…
A Knowing
I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote a prose-poem about a moment between two people. Maybe it was a dream, a memory, or just a mood.
Met Gala 2026: The Best Red Carpet Looks and Their Art Inspirations
From Sabrina Carpenter to Kendall Jenner, discover the best Met Gala 2026 red carpet looks and the artworks that inspired them, from Van Gogh to classical sculpture. L'articolo Met Gala 2026: The…
india
Along with my current gothic scripty kick and the standby pointed brush cursive, this chunky wide brush has been consistently satisfying, especially when pushed to the extreme. , , , , , He taped a…
Spanish Baroque Painter Zurbarán: Essential Meditative Moments at the National Gallery
Zurbarán painted when Spain was militantly religious, so many of his works went to religious orders in and around prosperous Seville. Often painted against nearly black backgrounds, his images are…
Ettore Sottsass: Italy’s king of anti-design
The Bauhaus dictum that ‘form follows function’ was de-throned in 1981 by the Memphis Design group. It’s co-founder, Sottsass, had used his architecture training to produce designs in ceramics,…
Tuesday poem #683 : Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi : i will leave when mountains walk
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Puffery
Read the book, Typographic Firsts Sometimes I get a hankering to see someone use a good old Blackletter, spikey Fraktur, or rounded Textura that transports me back to medieval Europe when a printer’s…