Category: Misc.
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Bears’ loss and Precious poster
The Bears lost to the Saints in the first round of the playoffs today.It was an extremely tough loss – cemented by injuries that benched three key defensive players and two offensive. Even if the Bears had won, they would have lost to the Packers next week, but it’s still a fairly brutal way to…
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Wild Days
Today, a group of protestors stormed the U.S. Capital building. I think it was genuinely the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Instead of pondering and writing more on that… I’m just going to share some of the art I did today. Goodnight all…
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2020/21 Billboards
Back in June, on my way down to Chicago, I just passed an electronic billboard on the highway. In the time it took me to pass, it flashed through three different signs. The first was an advert for an online mask store. The second was a hospital sponsored message that read “Black Lives Matter,” and…
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Chess and Max
“An interesting person is a person with interests.” I watched the first episode of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit this evening. My senior year of high school, I wasn’t very involved at my school. I did, however, play for Mundelein High’s first ever Chess Team. I was board #2. That semester, there was a foreign exchange…
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Thanksgiving, 2020
Normally, on Thanksgiving, there are seven people in the house running around wildly. Preparing and cleaning or packing and cooking. Usually, it’s not a day of reflection or peace of thankfulness. It often comes with arguments and more stressful comments than genial quips. This year, though, we had just an aunt over for dinner. We…
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Human energy capsules
The fact that we can just store energy in tiny capsules is so cool. Why can’t we store human energy, actual human energy, in little capsules as well? I brought this idea up with my brother Ryan. “Well, ” he said, “it really just depends on what human energy is. Maybe videos of people are…
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Sunday night
1. I spent the evening cranking away to get the Pigeon finished so I can print it before I head home on Tuesday morning. 2. I’m starting to get pretty jazzed about this story idea I’m playing with…3. I started a new masterclass today – Dan Brown – and the first 30 minutes were great.…
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Stop talking small
Yesterday, I finished Malcolm Gladwell’s wonderfully enjoyable MasterClass. Today, I started David Sedaris‘ MasterClass. I hadn’t read any of Sedaris’ work until starting the first volume of his published diaries, Theft by Finding, last week. One of the things he talks about in the first section of his class is the abolishment of small talk…