So back in October I started a Digital Collective with a handful of my favorite collaborators! Wavpixlab is a streaming collective focused on Arts, Music, Media, and Culture. We are LIVE ONLY on Twitch, and we have started a YouTube channel where you can find older streams. We started out with free streaming Lockdown Parties, [...]
Working on design updates for my stuff, I was messing around with textures and inversions with difference blending. The original of the figure is in my rotating banner here; the trees are my back yard, and the old photo texture is from a scan of a photo of me when I was a kid. I'm [...]
This blog is for arts, media and culture, and I am an artist in multiple traditional and digital media. That means content posted here could be pretty much anything - ideas, poetry, painting, digital art, animaiton, video and audio. Today, it's one of my vector images. I have an idea for a story featuring these [...]
The stress of not knowing far exceeds the stress of knowing. You determine your own level of participation. If you don’t like it, you can’t have any. Where’s the oh there it is?
She had made a practice of caring about someone, and had poured some of her energy into it daily. The love she received was like the love a spider had for its next meal. Paralyzed by poison, wrapped up and dangling in the breeze, breathless, awaiting demise. She didn’t die. Eventually the toxic effects subsided. [...]
RBG, Digital Painting, Elli Mayhem, 2017 By request, I have set this up on my Fine Art America for those wanting prints: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rbg-elli-belle-dean.html?newartwork=true
For the autumn of 2020 I am running the following courses with TAG: Media on the Margins Every other weekBegins Saturday, September 12, 2020 3:00 PM Ends Saturday, December 19, 2020 3:00 PM This course will focus upon the intersection between media and marginalization. The course format will be a series of open online collaborative [...]
The experience of privilege is antithetical to the development of empathy. It breeds cruelty. The experience of being on the receiving end of cruelty can go two ways: one can develop kindness or malice. Often one develops both. The malice ought to be toward the instigators of the cruelty and the kindness toward everyone else. [...]
The real sand trap of writing academically is the limiting expectation that the only ideas with any validity are the ones echoing an established precedent. That's much easier in STEM than in the humanities. Giant leaps in one catalyze giant leaps in the other, and on the humanities side this breaks the mold and can [...]
The Big Book of Maven 