Winners never quit and quitters never win, right? No, that’s not it. That’s not it at all. Very often, winning absolutely hinges on quitting. Quitting bad habits. Quitting to settle for less. Quitting your addiction to mediocrity. This isn’t a feel good piece. This isn’t something to fill you with hope, and fuzzy feelings. About…
Author: timpangburn
The Extreme Importance of Nihilism
Did you know that primitive snakes like boas and pythons have the remnants of a pelvic bone? Yeah, they call them pelvic spurs. They usually have the remnants of a femur just loosely floating inside the muscle as well. It’s something that no longer serves a purpose; or if considered in different light, did it…
Red in tooth and claw
We live in a society that boasts self mastery and ascension as part of the whole person. Our triumph over our animal nature is available in a 3 week course. If we attend the right seminars and successfully perform the exercises in our “best you” workbook, surely we will be an enlightened creature who can…
Wolves in wolves clothing
I’m restless, yet I refuse to get off my ass. I have a hundred things to do, yet I refuse to get off my ass. I have time sensitive matters to attend to, yet, you guessed it, I refuse to get off my ass. When I was younger, sitting on my ass and playing video…
I acknowledge my role as destroyer of worlds
I would say the planet is dying, but I know the planet will go on. I doubt there’s anything man can do that would permanently destroy the planet. This is a 4.5 billion year old rock that has been ravaged by cosmic radiation, volcanoes, and meteors. Surely man is as big if not a greater…
Wait, am I a professional?
If we’re talking professional tattooer, then yes. But if we’re talking professional artist, well, not quite. I always tell people I am, but it’s a lie. I’ve rarely looked at tattooing as art, but rather an artistic skill, like a dude who makes custom crown molding. There’s no doubt about the artistic skill involved, and…
Don’t give up your (weird) dreams
When I started Art Machine Productions in 2010, my plan was to expand out into art shows, original art sales, prints, shirts, art reference material and books; just about everything related to art. Hence: Art Machine. I wanted to have this force on multiple fronts that was known not just for great tattooing, but for…
You’re Depressed, and I Understand
I’ll go ahead and get this part out of the way real fast. I’m moody. Like, strings of medication moody. I don’t tolerate crowds, socializing, or stupidity very well. I’m quick to point out the downside of everything. I’m a 100% natural born, certified grouch. If you know me, then you know what I’m going…
Sifting chaos
We crash and collide with objects in our paths, endlessly bustling through our seemingly random lives. We’re ants criss crossing the same worn down trails, following the ant in front of us, to an end we barely acknowledge, much less understand. We build, we breed, we increase our footprint on this chunk of rock hurtling…
Aw snap, my bad bruh
My email was broken Turns out that there were some settings that were off in my email that wasn’t allowing any messages to be forwarded to the proper email address. When I found it, I could see that messages were sent, but couldn’t access everything to respond. So what happened was I’ve lost every email…