Wake Up

Wake Up

The Visual Arts for Missions school that I am helping run had a talented Thai artist come and teach about using mixed media. This week was to be the culmination of all our hands on artistry from weeks prior. Pan has a vibrant and flourishing art ministry near Bangkok...
Hey Artist!

Hey Artist!

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has...
Hollywood

Hollywood

Hollywood has a formula for success. Did you know that? It’s based on a three character model and three act layout. With these elements Hollywood has found THE recipe for success. A blockbuster. Understanding the structure help me know where to begin when...
Hollywood

I’m done trying.

Over the course of the last few years I have grown accustom to being in the position of student. I was in the mindset to be a receiver of information, wisdom, ect. In that place of extreme learning I think I deprived myself of something precious. Poising myself to be...
Empowering Not Coddling

Empowering Not Coddling

I invested 15 minutes to listen to this TED talk with Meg Jay. Initially I was offended. I’m in my late twenties and making eye contact with thirty. I LIKE when people say, “Your thirties are the new twenties.” But she CHALLENGES that our twenties...