I often go through a cycle. I get excited about making something, I think and dream about it, but when it comes to actually doing the thing, I hesitate. I …

I took a break from blogging, primarily to focus on the why of art. And what I came away with was this: don’t think, just do. (and stop asking why!) …

Guess what! I truly surprised myself by actually blogging daily for 6 months straight. I didn’t think I would last this long. But now I feel a bit tapped out and …

I honestly don’t feel like writing, or making, or creating right now. I recognize this as my normal ebb and flow of creativity. These tidal cycles of expressiveness seem to …

I learned about the concept of the dérive from the book Creative Acts for Curious People. The book is from the Stanford d.school, and it has a series of practices …

My friend Parul recently interviewed me on her Monday Positivity YouTube channel, and the topic was multi-potentiality. She asked me: What does it mean to me? How has it impacted …

On Saturday, I had the opportunity to give an online workshop to my Puttyverse friends on box assemblage. I’m a big fan of the artist Joseph Cornell, who is pretty …

Lately I’ve been thinking about how I use Instagram. Not as a way to chase likes, but as a way to curate. I follow artists whose work makes me pause. …

I got a goofy idea in my head, so I turned it into a stop motion animation. Enjoy. https://tbpodcastvideos.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/BTV+Shorts+-+Popsicle+Stick+Gang+The+Doctor.mp4

I’ve been thinking about how cognitive overload shows up for multipotentialites like me. Here’s what I’ve noticed: Sometimes I get stuck in decision paralysis because there are just too many …

I have an idea for creating an AI dispatcher for my model railroad. One I could call on a phone and get a voice response back. It doesn’t seem that …

Here is another vintage painted sign for my model railroad, this time for a winery. It’s a paper decal that I sanded so that it was thin enough to show …

I’ve been using a rhythm to guide my creative practice. I call it absorb, reflect, respond. In the morning, I’ve made it a habit to absorb something new, often by …

In 1982, Joyce and I signed up for a puppetry class together. It was one of only two college classes we ever shared (the other was American Sign Language). Our …

For years, I knew a few things about myself. I was a generalist. I thrived in roles like test engineer, software config management, and freelance dev, not the linear track …

For Stokefest 2023, I was invited to create an activity for the B0ardside booth, a collective of four artists, myself included. We were set up near Ocean Beach in San …

I went to see the Wayne Thiebaud exhibit at the Legion of Honor. It was called Art Comes From Art. I had seen a few of his cake paintings at …

Lately I’ve been thinking about creativity, the self, and sentience. Part of that comes from some great late-night talks with friends. Part of it comes from my work with LLMs. …

Well I started making my Flow Spark app yesterday, and today I finished it with the help of ChatGPT and vibes. It includes: Codeigniter 4 backend running on Apache 2 …

This week I had an idea for an app that I want for myself. It’s sort of a Tinder for multipotentialites, except the images are projects I want to work …

There’s a section of my railroad that will be a big city reminiscent of San Francisco. As I was thinking about what I wanted to include and it dawned on …

A friend wanted a voice changer for Vorgoth, their Dragon Age character, so I consulted ChatGPT. I started by asking which microcontroller could handle real-time audio effects, and after some …

Lately, I haven’t had time for my art or hobbies. Client work and family responsibilities are taking up all the space. It sucks. As a multipotentialite, I have a ton …

I started blogging because I wanted a daily writing habit. I’ve stuck with it for five months now. It helps me think. It helps me explore. I write the posts …

Some of us get obsessed with small variations. I’m one of those people. When I was a kid, I noticed things. Two Märklin gondolas, one had a grey interior, the …