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Sometimes writing in my journal feels too much like work, so I turn to my storyboard Moleskine and doodle instead – it’s never difficult to fill a simple little rectangle with something that comes to mind. I never try to read too much into what comes out on the page and you shouldn’t either. I [...]
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Every now and then I drop into “Google Insights” to take the pulse of popular opinion. Today I thought I’d see what the state of play is with the relative popularity of mythical creatures. Not surprisingly, fairies rule. But, not for much longer? While gnomes hold a steady baseline there seems to be a rising [...]
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Reflecting on the last year of creativity after having quit my full time job in order to pursue some creative stuff that had become too lively to be confined to evenings and weekends, I have learned a few lessons: 1. It Takes Longer Than You Think Firstly, until I tried to give myself over to [...]
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I have kept journals since I was about 15 years old and they have always provided a rich fermentation of ideas that has fueled various creative projects over the years. Earlier this year I found things getting a bit stale (as they do periodically) and I switched to producing a “doodle a day” instead of [...]
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This afternoon I got a postcard … from myself. About seven weeks ago, I was embarking on the four days of heady alternative reality that was Greenbelt 2011. The good folk of the Feig community based at Gloucester Cathedral held a Communion service in the midst of a lavish feast for what looked like about [...]
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This wasn’t intended to turn into a regular feature of the blog but it seems to have been popular so here are some doodles from thelast week: Previous doodle posts: A Doodle a Day Part I A Doodle a Day Part II
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