—Seth Godin
If you’re someone who’s itching to start your own ‘thing’—make art, open a store, bake your own pies—then you really need to read The Icarus Deception.

Taken from The Combustion Chamber

Mark Wagner is badass.

via Colossal

…off Kanagawa

Lynd Ward, Self Portrait, Woodcut, c. 1930

Al Held, The Big N, 1964, Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Carl Andre

via Hyperallergic

What is wrong with artist, Jonathan Schipper?

This sculpture is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days, simulating a head on automobile collision. Each car moves about three feet into the other. The movement is so slow as to be invisible.

Shame on you, Schipper. Shame on you.
via today and tomorrow

So some some guy built a complete SLR camera from parts he made on a 3D printer.
If you’re wondering what industry is the next one of be disrupted, this is it. Manufacturing is in for a rude awakening. Some people think it’s a big deal Apple is starting to make Macs in the United States, but it’s nothing compared to the grassroots movement to make anything right in your home.
Oh and I love how The Verge article refers to him as a ‘maniac’.
Humans like to do that. Anyone who’s not middle-of-the-road, anyone extreme is labeled a ‘fanatic’, or ‘obsessed’.
It’s actually called passion and it’s required to make art.
Don’t let people make you feel bad about what you love to do.

I’ve posted some new prints for sale up at Society6.
I have to say, I’m really digging how the illustrations look on the iPhone cases.

“One of the finest protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
—Alain de Botton (via swissmiss)
This is one of the reasons I’m not going to be bummed when my Kickstarter project misses it’s funding goal next Friday.
I have a lot of creative things cooking right now.

@whoisgambles

Looks like my project is Kickstarter of the Week in Dwell Magazine. Neato.
Pointed out to me by my friend Promila.