Well, the first big change is the name. When you see the finished painting you will know why the new title is “Dayton Dreamscape.” As you can see from the Studio section, the painting started out realistic, but as with most of my realistic stuff, I got bored quickly. Enter the bird. [...]

View the finished piece Dayton Dreamscape

Just saw my first live Cirque du Soleil performance. “Delirium” was an eye-slapping good time! They incorporated two large, transparent “screens” onto which they projected images that the worked both as design elements and/or interacted with the performers. My fav character, the Gate Keeper or “Stilt Man” (as I call him), crossed back [...]

While listening to a 2001 archived program of the greatest radio show on this planet, This American Life, I was introduced to the concept of “The Flow”. This term was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced “chick-SENT-me high”), a Hungarian psychologist, which refers to the time when an individual experiences transcendant joy and satisfaction during [...]

Mark and I attended the Detroit 7th Annual Dirty Show on February 10, 2006 with our friends Leslie and Nena. What a great time!
In general, the quality of work was similar to last year’s show, but the subject matter seemed to have a greater range from more subtle, sensual work to more [...]

Taken from Jason Santa Maria’s site
When Giving a Critique
Ask questions. Critiques should be more of an investigation than an interrogation. Try to understand why the designer did something before suggesting that they do it another way. Basically, try to understand the problem they’re trying to solve.
A critique is not the time to show how smart [...]