Things have gotten wild. It’s like the anti-vaxxers, the easily confused and the conspiracy theorists have morphed into a Voltron of misinformation. There’s Qanon, which is a crazy town of looney conspiracy theories that read just like a Madlib of famous names and conspiracy buzzwords, the antimaskers who call us Read more
I have a rather controversial opinion about sci-fi and fantasy lists. I get really pissed off when they’re all about dead people. Goodreads is running a Sci-fi and Fantasy season, and as usual, it’s full of dead people. Okay, granted, there’s a recent speculative hits section on there, so it’s Read more
I don’t think so. There’s a big name author that recently posted his thoughts in his private group. In his post, he makes some good points about how authors are not in this together and that they should guard their secrets, their freelance partners and their resources like the business Read more
Recently the Archive organization opened up the front-end library restrictions. This happened for a lot of reasons, mainly because the actual libraries were shut down due to the Coronavirus. This sparked a huge debate about publishing rights and all that crap. It’s all just noise. It’s just rights holders nagging Read more
At the risk of extreme confirmation bias, this fact proves a point I was making in another post. https://www.ranker.com/list/disturbing-black-paintings-francisco-goya/bailey-benningfield Goya at the late stage of his life retreated to a house and painted only for himself. The Black Paintings, dubbed as such by historians are bleak, disturbing, and of course Read more
I’m gonna use Tik Tok as an example here, but this generally applies to anything that might come next. As a millennial, I’ve seen the entire social media thing evolve and mature. First there was darkness, then MIRC and ICQ, then MSN Messenger, then Myspace and Hi5, then Facebook, then Read more
In an ironic reversal of my last post where I said that you shouldn’t listen to feedback from strangers on the internet, the following happened: There are Daz artist groups where we share renders and talk about stuff, I’m in a few of them. Some random person uploaded a render Read more
Having immediate feedback from your audience in the internet era is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you don’t want to spend your life thinking your work sucks and that your talents are unappreciated like Van Gogh did. On the other hand, you shouldn’t be subject Read more
I wrote a book (shocker, I know) about making products. Here’s the first chapter: The creator mindset This is less of a how-to guide and more of a mentality framework. That’s why it will take me a while to explain everything to you. I have no way of knowing what Read more
I had this post planned for quite some time now. This pic above fits my mood perfectly, and I was hoping to say how you should do what you wanna do, and that the right people will find you and follow you and support you. Funnily enough, just to prove Read more
