Tatiana Gulenkina
@TGulenkina
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Creativity and high-performance coach, designer, visual artist 🎨 Published in Harper's, Wired, Juxtapoz ✨ Start your transformation with me 👇
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Love how San Francisco does events these days:
- No alcohol
- Daytime (everyone needs to be in bed by 9 pm with a perfect sleep score 😁)
- Ice baths
- Supplements buffet
- Trampoline
- Push-ups as an ultimate dance move?
Thank you
@bryan_johnson
@chefjeffsf
for organizing 🙏
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New 1/1s from Things Merging and Falling Apart are now available on
@withFND
I started this project after a bit of a soul-searching within photography. As someone who really enjoys working with her hands, I missed the physicality of analog darkroom...
🧵 below
#nftphotography
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Soaking in all the generative art magic at The Digital Art Salon✨
@__thedigital__
@artblocks_io
@dmitricherniak
@MonicaRizzolli
#nftcommunity
#generativeart
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The image below is not AI-generated. It was painted by a prominent Italian futurist artist Benedetta almost 100 years ago, in 1933, and has a mysterious title "Synthesis of Aerial Communications".
This esthetic is currently making a comeback in digital art, design, and beyond,
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This is Carmen Herrera, a renowned Cuban-American painter known for her minimalist works. She didn’t sell her first painting until the age of 89, and didn’t achieve international stardom until her mid-90s.
If you think it’s already too late for your creative pursuits, keep on
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One common thing among creatives is that many of them have unconventional habits they swear by. If you look at creativity as a skill, tying it to a particular action (or a set of actions) can help to “get you in a mood” more easily and, over time, create a compound effect. Here
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In honor of women's month, here are 5 photo-based artists you should follow. By using dance, textiles, and other tools, they take work beyond what's possible with a camera alone:
@klea_mckenna
@ellabarnesart
@yatreda
@sanja_marusic
@IrinAngles
Image: The Guide by Ella Barnes
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“If you look back, we used to sing and dance. We didn’t even have a word for art. It was all we did.”
- Susan Magsamen, founder of the Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins.
Humans are literally physically hardwired for aesthetic experiences, we all want to feel something. Art
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When a person first starts coming up with something truly new, what often shows up is primal, almost animalistic fear.
Creative force can feel erratic and threatening but what's it's trying to do is to get you unstuck.
There is no controlling it; from this point on, there
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One creative practice that has truly stood the test of time is journaling immediately upon waking up. Labeled as "Morning Pages" by Julia Cameron in her acclaimed book, "The Artist's Way," this ritual is simple yet effective method for unlocking self-expression.
Understanding
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Was surprised (or rather not surprised) to learn that
@Kickstarter
is working on a new protocol to help creatives fundraise for their projects in web3 👾
Thank you
@CeloOrg
for such a (re)generative day of talks and connection 🌱
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This might sound deeply unsexy but creative geniuses are often simply work-ethic geniuses. Nobel prize winners, for example, overall produce nearly twice as much work compared to their colleagues in the same fields. This attitude of keeping your head down and getting to work
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Artists are often thought to be in the grip of what Plato called a "divine frenzy" and touched by the "tincture of madness" as identified by Aristotle. This linkage of the arts and psychological otherness, even madness, still remains the subject of extensive discussion.
A few
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As Susan Sontag eloquently expressed in 1964, "Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit)," encapsulating the role that it plays in inner growth.
One of the most profound meditations on the spiritual dimensions of art came from the legendary painter and art
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Excited to release an intimate collection of 8 portraits, at 0.4 ETH
I was drawn to working with cyanotypes because of the immediacy of the process and the texture of paper which easily absorbs water and can be treated in various ways
#NFTCommunity
#nftart
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Working for a specific payoff is the reason why so many people find themselves stuck in being “not creative enough”.
Our limited notions of what we can produce are often rooted in desire for social approval on one side of the scale and desire to break away on the other. This
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The impact of AI on the next generation of creatives will be profound, in ways that are both exciting and uncertain:
Emergence of New Art Forms and Genres
As technology continue to evolve, it will give rise to entirely new art forms that blur the boundaries between human and
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Recently, I’ve been fascinated by a growing phenomena of “Sunday painter”, or someone who, constrained by the demands of their day job, business and/or childcare, reserves their creative pursuits for a handful of hours over the weekend.
While this expression may carry notions
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To all of my fellow creatives: instead of aiming to be “productive”, try to stay in the flow this week, at least for a couple of days 🌊
Flow state is a term from clinical psychology, yet anyone who's ever lost themselves in their work (in a good way) is familiar with it. This
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Some of the most brilliant people I know are “shadow artists” who end up engaging in more commercially viable creative affairs, such as running a marketing agency or a video production studio, often at the cost of pursuing their original aspirations.
We are all driven by the
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Finding the right balance between structure and chaos is a key to increasing your creative output ⚖️🌪️
Chaos is the raw energy of life, the unpredictable force that sparks newness: random ideas, unconventional perspectives, fresh takes… Embracing chaos involves allowing the
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if you feel that your work is not being understood or is out of sync/ahead of its time, you might want to look at the story of Hilma af Klint. She stipulated that her paintings should not be shown until at least 20 years after her death, believing that only future generations
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Top limiting beliefs that creatives unconsciously use to shoot themselves in a foot:
Belief 1: Being Creative is Egoistical
Don't ask me where this came from, but there is this notion that creativity is a self-indulgent pursuit reserved for the narcissistic and self-absorbed.
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When you feel like you desperately need a brain break, try leaning on these 5 creative pattern breakers as a form of active recovery 🎨
Decades of research by Prof. Bill Lucas, Prof. Guy Claxton and Dr Ellen Spencer resulted in definition of creative habits of mind and associated
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Even if you can't hold a paintbrush, there is a lot to learn from the artistic process. Here are top 10 creative strategies that can make your day sparkle:
1. Embrace the Mess:
The most groundbreaking ideas often emerge from disorder and disruption. Embrace chaos as a catalyst
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As Jackson Pollock once said, “The painting has a life of its own, I try to let it come through”.
So when people mention that they are not creative, what they often mean is that they have a hard time getting past an inner Censor. “Creating” turns into thinking something up, and
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"What we play is life" - Louis Armstrong.
Creativity isn’t something conjured out of thin air; it's deeply rooted in the mud of everyday experiences since that's all we got. But with a skillful observation, ordinary moments can be transformed into extraordinary art.
Here are
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Creativity is not only about how it looks or sounds but how it’s embodied:
Virginia Woolf often described the physical sensations of writing. She spoke of feeling a "rush" of energy and a sense of being "swept away" by her ideas: “I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I
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Creativity has traditionally been reserved for artists and inventors but these days, since most of the organizations are forced to propel into the unknown, business and engineering schools have to include it into their curriculums one way or another. HBS, for example, has
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The best side effect of meditation is that it becomes virtually impossible to check out. Even when it seems like your life is falling apart, there is still an unfolding miracle of life, and you can’t stop watching.
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Wishing everyone happy holidays… it was a truly magical year: for creative community, makers and dreamers, myself and my art 🪄
Now it’s time to unplug & celebrate with some non-fungible humans!
(image: Untitled, Things Merging and Falling Apart)
#NFTCommunity
#nftphotography
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Love for creatives is more than a feeling, it's often the lifeblood of their work, a force that propels them forward.
That kind of inspiration can certainly come from a myriad of sources - nature, music, prayer - but creatives, for better or for worse, are known for their
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To have a consistent creative output over a period of time, it takes more enthusiasm than discipline.
Enthusiasm is not merely a heightened emotional state, but an expression of both commitment and vulnerability, an unwavering resolve to engage with the practice, no matter how
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One of the "dirty secrets" of meditation is how much pleasure you begin to experience once you settle into consistent practice. Most of the popular Buddhist psychology still revolves around suffering, wise discrimination, etc. which isn't wrong but leaving out the elaborate
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Being creative is a compliment from a universe.
Look back at your memories, and most of the times you’ll find that it was your favorite song/book/garment/photograph that carried you through the best and the worst of times. Remember how much you enjoyed discovering new artists
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While everyone is hyping up AI art, it’s important still to differentiate between image/music/text generation and recognition - and seeing, writing, creating. ..
Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it. Any animal can look at things and
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Everyone likes talking about biohacking and the next big supplement that will solve all the problems but one of the best things that I discovered in recent years was intuitive eating.
My issue was that my weight would fluctuate quite a bit, 30 lbs in a span of a few months, and
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The constant hustle of running your own business or working a challenging 9-5 can can surface a feeling of running on empty, leaving one disconnected from an ability to imagine.
Creative burnout can manifest as a lack of motivation, difficulty in generating new ideas, and a
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For me, there has always been a huge difference between making an artwork and making art, but it wasn’t so easy to describe. Until I came across this:
“I do not sketch, I draw. There is a difference in principle. A sketch is a product of looking-at, a cerebral conceptualization.
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“The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in the ability to produce miracles when they are needed”, - Mark Rothko
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Many artists I worked with explored IFS (Internal Family Systems) in therapy or coaching at least once - but what's so fascinating is that there is often a common pairing of a "creative child" and either supportive or restrictive/indifferent parent.
Creative child
Creative
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Been having such a relaxing break that almost forgot to claim
@RugRadio
pass. My intro to the space started with listening to
@farokh
in one of the clubhouse rooms almost a year ago so this feels like a full circle, can't wait for 2022 💖
#NFTCommmunity
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It is difficult to see completeness. There is always a suspicion that something could be different, that no art or god or level of awareness that can be perfect, that there is no perfection on this Earth. Some consider it a useful skill to find a bit of black and white in
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@_jeffnicholas_
@CryptoTedLasso
you forgot to mention that the pool is not heated and it’s raining 😂😂
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@mattmedved
Hours (days and weeks, really) of my precious non-fungible time spent of useless discords 😅
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Big thank you to a fellow artist and
@theRAWdao
member
@claudslr
for kicking off the auction for a 1/1 print + 1/1 NFT.
It always warms my heart to see mutual support that exists in
#nftphotography
space like in no other 💙
Bidding is on for 22 more hrs!
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One uncomfortable truth is how unpredictable creative field is, even for more established players. You can never become a master, really, because there is always more to learn.
After 10+ years of hard work, it becomes even more difficult to accept the mystery, the change and
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A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner
One of the keys to increasing your creative output is aiming for completion, not perfection. Constantly fixing things and having unreachable standards results in internalized refusal to let
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Creators and digital artists have to equally navigate the challenges and opportunities of crafting an authentic on-line presence, whether you're concerned about AI or not. However, the more unique your voice and your storytelling line is, the more difficult (and legally
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Had a chance to visit the trifecta of SF third spaces: Center SF,
@thesfcommons
and Groundfloor. Seeing new modes of interaction - playful, warm, open to possibilities - blossoming right in front of me was way more impressive than any GPT-4 updates.
p.s. nobody asked me what I do
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Finally got
@justinaversano
Cognition piece in the mail, and it really resonated with this week’s events. After the news of the draft in Russia and several family members and friends being affected, this free falling figure with a big Why and a wide open eye is me on the inside…
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Nothing says holiday season like a heartwarming story from an Uber driver on the way to the airport 🎄💕
“I am originally from Tunisia and have been a competitive swimmer my whole life. Married early, unfortunately, my first wife has left me and moved to Europe with another guy.
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Sometimes, silence is the most accurate ✨
1/1 cameraless photography piece, to be added on
@withfnd
soon
#nftphotography
#nftart
#nftcommunity
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Gratitude and creativity are more closely related than originally thought: both are characterized by the same levels of theta wave brain activity, resulting in more expansive and receptive mental states.
Recognizing that what you have is already enough can be an ultimate power
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Sandy and Angel... Or perhaps sandy angel? It felt very auspicious to mint this poolside embrace by
@richardrrenaldi
on the very last day of Miami Art Basel. And to
@QuantumNFT
- thank you for another beautifully executed drop
#nftphotography
#NFTCommunity
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Photograms were original photographs - before cameras and film, the artists were able to place objects on a light-sensitive paper and expose it to light, imprinting various shapes and textures. Still fun to do 100+ years later!
#nftphotography
#NFTart
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This image happened when one of the vessels that I used to make circular photograms broke, with shards of glass and water everywhere, and I was lucky to capture this beautiful mess on paper.
1/1 available on
@withFND
at 0.4 ETH
#nftphotography
#nftart
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4 Quadrants of Flow:
As elusive as it seems at times, flow state is nothing but an appropriate setup + practice. By moving through the quadrant one during the first couple of hours of your day, you can focus all of your time and energy on quadrant four - doing the actual thing.
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Seeing so many new creative co-working/co-making spaces pop up really warms my heart 💜
Over the past century, artist communities have played pivotal roles in shaping new cultural and intellectual landscapes:
Black Mountain College, an experimental school in North Carolina,
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Pain draws your attention to detail, love draws your attention to infinite
🖼️: Agnes Martin, Untitled
#2
, 1992, Guggenheim Museum
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Yes sex is great but have you ever spent a night in a darkroom with some great chemistry? 📸😉
🖼️: 1/1 photogram on type C Fujifilm Crystal Archive paper + 1/1 NFT
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Come work with me at AI-related startup in Hayes Valley (basic, I know… 🙈)
We’re hiring a senior product manager, senior product designer and senior software development engineer in test. Great team (including furry companions), cool office, competitive pay, flexible work hours
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This article mostly focuses on dating but I’d say that it’s 100% relevant to creative pursuits, as I witness in my coaching. There has definitely been a greater shift towards risk-aversion, approval-seeking, and general “safetyism”. When I go to small art shows by new artists
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These two 1/1
#NFTs
are coming soon - I hear from so many that it reminds them of continents or maps or underwater imagery... guess it goes along with the feeling of exploration and discovery that I'm getting working with darkroom photography ✨
#nftphotography
#NFTCommunity
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Grateful for this magical space that gave me an opportunity to believe in myself and my art again - and meet amazing folks along the way. None of it would have happened without ppl being so kind to explain what the hell NFT is, collect, give feedback and send gms 🙏
#nftcommunity
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Creative dormancy often occurs when one has to face significant life changes, such as responsibilities of a new parent, and manifests as a temporary hiatus combined with a sense of apathy towards work.
If you’re feeling rusty and unsure where or how to pick up that thing you
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@KylerCora
You had many replies, and it's great that we have access to this technology, however, based on the experience of GFs who are now in the process of going through IVF with their (once frozen) eggs: no number of eggs can guarantee genetically normal embryo or healthy pregnancy 😢
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The first image was created in the 1920s, the second one in 2020s.
Dadaism emerged in the early 20th century as a reaction to the chaos and devastation of World War I but it recently made a huge comeback. The movement's core principles of absurdity, spontaneity, and
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GM! Since it's the first Friday of the new year and a Russian Christmas today, I'll be gifting a framed print (1/1 photogram made in a darkroom) to a collector of this piece, whether they see this post or not 🎁 ✨
#nftphotography
#nftart
#NFTCommunity
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Creativity can be one of the most potent catalysts to living not only better but also longer.
Just one (!) art activity a month can increase life expectancy by 10 years, according to the authors of the research paper published in the British Medical Journal.
Their findings are
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My excited face as I just got gifted new
@bryan_johnson
Blueprint olive oil. The thing about supplements is that, at a certain point, it becomes pretty much impossible to stack a large number of them without worrying about negative interactions (especially if you're also taking
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Can't decide what I like more: the details of the high-resolution digital scan or the depth of the darkroom print. Both pull me in and make my head spin 👁️👁️
New 1/1
#nftphotography
piece listed on
@withFND
#NFTs
#NFTCommunity
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2/6 One of the techniques I loved was light painting which could look like taking long-exposure photographs in the dark while making various shapes in the air with a flashlight. Photograms go even further by completely eliminating the need for a camera.
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By not getting 8 hrs of sleep, you're risking to... miss out on your dreams 🔮
Dreaming has long been revered as a window into the subconscious, a realm where the imagination can finally roam free and act as a catalysts for new ideas.
Dreamwork has prominently entered our
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If you want to take your meditation practice to the next level, join me at the magical container that is
@BerkeleyAlembic
this March for not one, not two, but three remarkable weekends:
- March 3: The Practices of The Recognition Sūtras with Christopher Wallis
- March 15-17:
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Photographers, what do you do when someone tells you that they can't look at the camera?
I(m)prints is a series of portraits on vulnerability and memory. Each 1/1 NFT also comes with 1/1 cyanotype print.
#NFTart
#NFTCommunity
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The rivalry between Michelangelo Buonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most fascinating examples of jealousy in art history.
Both were contemporaries in Florence during the early 16th century, a period when the city was a vibrant hub of intellectual exchange. Florence's
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It's hard to explain sometimes what I do in the darkroom and what cameraless photography even is but
@klea_mckenna
does it so beautifully! Check out this thread and her upcoming drop at
@QuantumNFT
next week 👀
#nftphotography
#nftart
1.
#NFTphotography
meet Cameraless Photography. 👋 There is a whole wondrous world of truly analog images made with light sensitivity, but no lens or camera. This was the earliest form of photography and it is still thriving. Here are some of the greats:
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Some of my favorite cyanotype pieces tend to happen halfway between intense discipline and letting go of all effort - or maybe it’s about having both 🔹
1/1 handmade cyanotype of paper, 8” x 8”, 2023
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One of my favorite meditation teachers of all time, Michael Taft aka
@OortCloudAtlas
, is doing a weekend retreat here in Berkeley, June 18-19. This is a rare opportunity you don’t want to miss, and sliding scale is available 🙏
Hope to see you there!
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For creatives, vulnerability and resilience go hand in hand: you have to be 100% vulnerable when making the work and roll with the punches the rest of the time. I’m fact, the ability to walk this fine line, knowing when to allow yourself to retreat and unravel, and when to push
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Creative Mapping is one of my favorite techniques for organizing thoughts through a knowledge graph - a network of nodes (ideas) connected by edges (relationships).
This approach allows to see the big picture while also delving into key details, and can benefit writers,
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"Oceanic states" is a theory about creativity that looks at pre-verbal and pre-logical, and was first mentioned as "oceanic feeling" by the French novelist and art critic Romain Rolland in 1927 in a letter to Sigmund Freud. Inspired by the Hindu mystic Ramakrishna, Rolland was
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I wonder what GM would sound like in Lootlang?
DROPPING NOW:
An entire language generated and stored on the Ethereum blockchain. Feel free to use Lootlang in any way you want, even for your daily schluba.
Contract:
Discord:
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AI will inspire a whole new crop of art genres that won't be necessarily AI-generated.
One of the great recent examples is Mere Mortals at SF Ballet, a modern take on the tale of Pandora opening her mysterious jar in the tech capital of the world.
Pandora is the first mortal
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When I started working with darkroom photography, I quickly realized that random finds and natural forces are playing a bigger role in art-making that we’re willing to admit. Excited to add some new
#NFTs
to my page on
@withFND
:
#nftphotography
#nftart
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Over the last 5-10 years, art schools sadly stopped doing well, with many of them downsizing due to low enrollment, or going completely bankrupt. Society has leaned on deductive reasoning as the backbone of rapid advancements in technology, and educational systems have ingrained
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I(m)prints, a collection of 1/1 cyanotype portraits, will be available at
@opensea
Monday, 9 am PST. By subjecting them to natural elements, I wanted to play with materiality of the medium and vulnerability of photographic memories.
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4/6 I set a starting point but due to so many variables, I'm typically unable to predict the final result. Since there is a lot of trial and error, only a small number of images, less than 1%, make it to a final series. I see them as gifts that were given to me by light and time.
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If you're looking to jump-start your own personal daily meditation practice and want to find a balance between too much agitation or too much sleepiness, run don't walk to
@kathryndevaney
meditation course. In-person only, Wed nights at
@BerkeleyAlembic
✨
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Writing is, arguably, one of the most useful skills one can acquire to differentiate themselves, whether they are already a part of the creator economy or not.
Blogging and podcasting have become main avenues for self- and professional expression, and you can use quality
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Sundays are for slow walks & exploring & staring into the density of the woods & making art. This one is inspired by one of my heroes, Agnes Martin, and her line drawings________
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Was looking through the images for upcoming mint and a quote came to mind, from Georgia O'Keeffe I think: "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for"
🖼️: 1/1 NFT + 1/1 C print
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After 10 years of daily sitting practice, the only meditation project now is gentle unraveling of the soul
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Crafting and maintaining creative resolutions for 2024 can set the stage for a year of discovery and growth. There are 3 main aspects of this process that can turn into obstacles - but all of them are workable:
1⃣ Understanding where you're at now - can be painful since one has
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3/6 Objects are placed directly on light-sensitive paper and exposed to the light source, leaving imprints of various opacity and color. In my case, I played with liquids, glass, plants, and organic shapes that get shifted around so the resulting images are completely abstract.
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