Welcome to the age of the AI Assistant! You may not have known you were there, but you’re there. You may not be using one, but most of you are. If you’re not using one, you probably will and you are almost certainly underestimating the impact of this coming change Read more…
No, I don’t have amnesia, but part of this idea of writing for the year is to explore who I am at this time in my life. But, that can get a bit navel gaze-y, especially since it’s me both asking and answering the questions by necessity. But, if I Read more…
Back in 2013, I set a goal to write weekly for a year. Mostly as an exercise in setting and keeping a goal, but also as a way to produce something that would capture who I was and where I was in my life in that year and also talk Read more…
A few weeks ago, a mother reached out on behalf of her son who was working on a group project for school and wanted to create a prop bottle of nitroglycerin as part of the project. She asked if I would be willing to share the label that I made Read more…
I’m sure this happens to everyone. You are sitting alone, thinking thoughts or you are still in bed and your mind wanders and your mind says, “Hey! You know what you need? You need a life-sized bust of your head! That’s what you need. I will now harass you with Read more…
It turns out my brother is a big fan of Thor. Did not know this. But, that’s cool! It gave me an idea to do something unique for him for his birthday this year. So, I decided I was going to find and print and paint a nice Thor statue Read more…
The weather is getting nasty around here, so the opportunity for outside projects decreases in inverse proportion to the increasing rain. This means it’s time to start on some other projects for a while. As it turns out, I’d been noodling on the idea of fake people. Specifically, based on Read more…
Since I was a kid, I loved movies and I loved monsters and fantasy and science fiction. I loved how they looked and how they made me feel, whether it was scary or funny or exhilarating, it made me feel something that I couldn’t find easily in my life. One Read more…
This year I made a couple of Halloween Decorations to add to our collection. One was a project I found on YouTube and the other was completely out of my own imagination. Both made me happy and were fun projects to complete! The first one was from Van Oaks Props, Read more…
My lovely wife was visiting with a family friend and I wandered through the room and one of them asked, “Could you make something like this?” and showed me a picture of something off Pinterest. I looked at it and said, Sure! So, I did. The original showed a very Read more…