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insight

I don’t need convincing that your product is good because I already love it

Don’t you, as an online content creator, wish you were paid just a little when you mention a product that you use everyday. I think I’ve mentioned Pilot G-tec pens a gazillion times on this blog, with Apple, Faber Castell and Arches following close behind. I’d be a little better off if these companies paid [...]

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The Implosion – I’m really a geek at heart

I don’t know the exact date that I drew this on but it was sometime during mid to late 2009 while sitting on the couch in the living room and likely it was late at night as it is right now when all is quiet with the moon shining and snow melting and everyone is [...]

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Artist Tip #22 – Just Doodle

Sometime last year I updated my Facebook account saying something along the lines that I couldn’t draw and wasn’t finding any inspiration in life. A cousin of mine, Marc, commented on that Facebook update by simply stating “Doodle”. This is one of those times when I wish Facebook had an internal update search engine as [...]

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Etsy feels like an addiction

And I should know because I am an addict.
Four and half years ago when I was being treated for GHB addiction my doctor asked me what I planned to do for money. At the time I was just discovering the beauty of blogging and all the possibilities that it held: a way to share my [...]

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ThinkBakery Blog Talking Shop Interview

I was asked recently by the ThinkBakery blog to do an interview. It’s live now!
And to quote the opening of the interview:
I have had the pleasure of lots of email correspondence with successful self-employed artist Jessica Doyle. I posted about her on Design Milk, and she went above and beyond my “Do” list. She is [...]

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Rolling Roses (down the highway of life)

For a while there… nothing was coming together; ink lines, paper cuts, pens with caps off, all were left wandering aimlessly in the studio with unfinished lines, scraps of paper and ideas yet to bear fruit. That kind of sums up the last few months of my life.

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Step by Step List – How I made a million dollars on Etsy!

First I drew an ink drawing on pretty paper.

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Smelting Self Confidence

I walked into the kitchen to wash my hands and met a ghastly hilarious sink filled with smelt. It took me by surprise. I stepped back, laughed and walked to the bathroom to wash there instead.
My uncle had been ice fishing for smelt and Mom was thawing out the frozen fish for cleaning, then cooking.
Later [...]

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3 Ways to Positively Change You

1. Don’t visit the Etsy forums. EVER. period.
These days the Etsy forums resemble a mad hatters tea party on acid except everyone is serving nastiness and it’s become non-positive in every way shape and form. I can’t weed out the negative anymore. They can and will suck your creative spirit dry. As of today I [...]

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Synchronicity

As human beings we search for connections, look for validation and adhere to the norm. Every now and then a new idea emerges from the masses taunting older symbols long since ingrained within the societal stigmata.
This idea softly floats about joining itself to others through the senses in both unconscious and conscious ways. Once spoken, [...]

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Life beyond Death after Indignity and before Google

Indignity can stem from not doing the things you want to do. You begin taking on someone else’s creation when you are not whom you are. Really, don’t you think that when you are feeling out of sorts and not choosing to be who you are then don’t you think it’s rather unbecoming of your [...]

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If I was Elected Mayor

When I am elected mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick…
I will triple public transportation.
I will double the tax the Irving Corporation’s pay to the city for polluting it.
I will force fines and public cleanup on people who think it cool to camp out and swim in our drinking water on the East Side of [...]

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Artists Tip #15 – The truth behind the struggle

The truth behind the struggle
You hear people speak of the struggling artist. It’s almost a romantic notion to have that said to you or about you if you are in fact an artist. I hate that notion. You never hear of a struggling physician or a struggling carpenter. Only artist’s seem worthy of such a [...]

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Feel Good. Not Guilt.

Hard to Read?
Click the image and become my contact on flickr so you can see (read) the larger scan of this journal entry as I am OCD when it comes to writing.
A page written in the moleskine cahier on November 15, 2007.
At the time of writing this I was nearing the end of the dreaded [...]

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Go in with a Positive Attitude

On my way to work yesterday I was complaining about having to go to work to my father, dreading the uneasiness (not the work itself) that seems to have rested over my place of employment. When we arrived at the store I opened the passenger door to get out and my Dad says to me [...]

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The Paxil Taper Caper

Since the beginning of July 2007 I have been diligently tapering off Paxil… ever so s-l-o-w-l-y. These past few weeks have been the roughest. The first few months of tapering were doable, tolerable and generally well received by my mind, body and soul.
Let me elaborate on the following from this post please:
2 – Tapering off [...]

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Time to stop doubling and begin quadrupling

We are, in the fourth dimension.
The average person knows the most of all.
The other people, understand it.

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Read, observe, absorb and respond

…thru writing so others can read, observe, absorb and respond to it all. I have written before about the realization of being connected. Connected to everyone who has access to the internet; how it can be overwhelming, informative, joyful, heartbreaking and even downright funny. The human race has never had the ability to communicate simultaneously [...]

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Sometimes we do things to protect ourselves from slaughter

Sometimes we do things to protect ourselves from slaughter. The things we do don’t hurt anyone mentally nor physically. So why do we need protection to begin with. It could stem from years of questions mostly from within yourself to yourself. But on a deeper level we don’t know ourselves to begin with; we just [...]

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Implied Potency

What exactly happens when you have reached your full potential? And what exactly is one’s full potential? Why must a person always strive to be more than they already are? Isn’t it enough to just be? Deciding whther to change one’s personality is next to impossible. Only through brainwashing could this even be conceived. I [...]

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