Reflections From Recovery — I’m writing while in bed, on a phone. I need the pillow support for my neck. My aching neck. With my knees bent and wrist propped on my hips, the only voluntary muscles moving are my thumbs and my eyes. The rest are things I don’t control: the rise and…

This Change is Everything. — About three months ago, Instagram announced they were going to roll out a subscription model to some creators, allowing them to provide exclusive content to audiences who pay for it. And you can set a few different pricing plans, from $0.99/mo up to $19.99/mo. But it was a relatively soft…

Alt-80’s and My Atonal Youth — I just finished watching the documentary, “Mayor Of The Sunset Strip,” (2003) about Rodney Bingenheimer, AKA Rodney on the Rock, if you listened to KROQ in the 80’s. Rodney was, really, the linchpin of that time period’s alternative music scene and broke just about every band you know from then…

Photography’s Unspoken Dialogue — A friend sent me a page from a book she was reading. It was Michael Sakamoto’s “An Empty Room” (2022), which describes the author’s experience and understanding of Butoh dance — an avante-garde form of performance art, originating in Japan in the late 1950’s. It has become quite a phenomenon…

Using Handles to Create Better Ideas — Handles are the undiscussed, maybe even gate-kept, tool that creative teams use at bigger ad agencies. It was a specialty of mine for over twenty years and I wrote them for some of the biggest campaign concepts in the country: Volkswagen, Dr Pepper, Playstation, Coors, Fisher-Price and many others. I’m…

June 20th, 2019, I found myself in a town car being whisked off to Henry Pool & Co on London’s Saville Row to get fitted for a suit. “What’s the event?” I was asked. “A dinner party with Prince Charles,” I responded, not entirely sure if that was the right…

Born Digital. You’ve heard the term. People who never knew a life where there weren’t computers, cell phones, video games, streaming music and shows, email, electric cars, drones or selfie sticks. You know, Gen-Z, and everyone after. Me, I was not born digital. I was born bored, invisible and human…

I just returned from summer travels. We hit London, Southern Italy and Hungary. If you’ve followed along with me over the years, you know that travel photography is a big part of what I love to do — not for…

There’s just something kind of heartless about A.I., have you noticed? The engines get more advanced, the renders get more dynamic, but the feeling — it just kind of stays the same. Another beautiful render to forget about in 15 seconds. It’s all too interesting. Or trying to be. The…