Human
Whenever there’s a lull between posts, it’s not because I have nothing to say. It’s usually because I have too much to say. So much that I can’t put the thoughts in order. I’m unable to focus on one thing long enough to formulate the words into coherent sentences, then spew them out in blog […]
I’ve been learning a lot of strange new words for strange intangible feelings. Mostly because I experience a lot of strange intangible feelings, and without words to name them, I feel lost. Sure, I could jump into how words are cages, and pigeonholing emotions and states of mind is faulty guesswork, but I think in […]
It dawns on me quite often that there’s aspects of my life I’m not happy with. That’s not to say I don’t have a good life, or that I would trade it, but there’s always something we would change if we could. The thing is, we can, we just don’t. So those aspects I see […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]