Steal like an artist: ‘You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes’
Who to copy is easy. You copy your heroes—the people you love, the people you’re inspired by, the people you want to be. The songwriter...
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How to sustain momentum when we’re already on a roll
We all know what it feels like to be on a roll. The enthusiasm synchs up with the effort to produce a feeling of...
The making of Isle of Dogs + VSCO presets for the film
Twenty-seven animators worked on the new Wes Anderson flick Isle of Dogs. This video demonstrates some of the techniques and challenges they faced in production. According...
Making magical machines
We live in the age of robots, where machines powered by AI can drive your car, deliver you breakfast in your hotel room, or reorder...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers 400,000 free high-res images for remixing
Since starting a year ago, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has made 400,000 of its images free to download and remix. The project immediately...
Artist converts beach rock into a great white shark
When mixed media artist Jimmy Swift traveled to India in March 2015, he saw a jagged rock on the beach. He immediately knew what to...
Stephen King: ‘Writing is refined thinking.’
“Writing is refined thinking.” Stephen King...
Picasso: Art as a form of diary
Art is where our mind’s eye merges with reality to create a theater inside our head, resulting in the form of a diary. This was...
Henry Rollins: The One Decision that Changed My Life Forever
Talent is overrated. Hard work, discipline, grit, and consistency are attributes that increase your chances of getting what you want. Luck is a matter of...
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
Francis Bacon painted ghostly, violent images. Some say he emptied his darkest thoughts on canvass, mostly as a manifestation of his relationship with his sadistic...
Blasphemy? This artist sets works of art on fire 🔥
What is new instantly becomes old, a permanent attrition. At least that’s perspective of artist Maaren Baas, who took a blowtorch to Gerrit Rietveld’s iconic...
Visuals: Faceless portrAits
Atop Adrift Adjacent Afar All photos by Wells Baum People from behind + Story + Favorite place + Faceless...