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Spotlighting the work, stories, and creative process of independent artists, filmmakers, photographers, writers, designers and musicians.
Featured articles
A disgraced programmer takes a job at a military academy and finds himself alone with ghost stories, local history, and a building that doesn't quite feel empty. Part One of a serialized horror story set at the real Wentworth Military Academy.
Nuremberg-based blackwork and ornamental tattoo artist Misha Bardak on teaching himself the craft, the Roman numeral story that still makes him laugh, and why every tattoo artist needs to be a psychologist.
Vocal coach turned music marketer Laurelanne Davis on what happens before release day: playlist pitching, press strategy, short-form content systems, and why one person sharing a song still matters.
Australian digital artist Phillip J Gordon on his three-current process: urban geometry, floral watercolour, and abstract oils, and how Photoshop and Lightroom bring them together into large-format prints.
Ben Cibula spent months querying literary agents for his debut novel, pitched over a hundred, and self-published instead. Here's what he learned about traditional publishing — and the tool he built from the experience.
Phil Allard on why "Wish You Were Here" is rock's greatest song: Syd Barrett's ghost, Roger Waters' restraint, and why the song works by refusing to fill in its own blanks.
Artist Marina Imar on her Avant-Garde Cats series, the digital project "A Cat's Time" (猫の時間), and using geometry to preserve the character behind every simple form.
Writer Oleksandra Fomichova on the moment she realized she wasn't creating anymore, she was manufacturing. On soul-driven work versus content engineered for approval.
Argentine illustrator Laura Nagel on "Forgotten Fairy Tales": whimsical digital illustrations of lost folklore, liminal spaces, and the creatures that live where nature and magic meet.
Italian author Massimo Lorusso has written with voice technology since 1993. Here he makes the case that authorship has never lived in the fingers — it lives in selection.