Guest Author 7/22/26 Guest Author 7/22/26

Painting Starts Where Words Stop

Abstract oil painter Melissa Friendlich on flow, burnout, motherhood, and finding her way back to the canvas. Why abstraction became the language she'd been missing.

Guest Author 7/20/26 Guest Author 7/20/26

Interview with Actress Dawna Lee Heising

Actress Dawna Lee Heising on building characters from scratch, what strength on screen really means, and the long list of horror, sci-fi, and action roles ahead.

Guest Author 7/17/26 Guest Author 7/17/26

Tattoo Artist Spotlight: Vic Tamian

Tattoo artist Vic Tamian on apprenticeship, black and gray, chasing trends and handling the pressure of no undo button. Fifteen years between Little Falls and Manhattan.

Guest Author 7/13/26 Guest Author 7/13/26

Building Worlds for Stop Motion Animation

Stop motion filmmaker Victor Oliveira (Stopmovic) on building miniature worlds from cardboard, 3D prints, and patience. One handcrafted frame at a time.

Guest Author 7/10/26 Guest Author 7/10/26

Original Fiction: Displacement

A figure navigates an ordinary Saturday with extraordinary dread. An original piece of literary short fiction from Phil Allard, author of Returning from Silence.

Guest Author 7/8/26 Guest Author 7/8/26

Artist Spotlight: Samah Kthar

Queens-born, Detroit-based occupational therapist and abstract artist Samah Kthar found painting after grief, a museum visit, and a moment of seeing art that required only honesty. Her 10-year journey in her own words.

Guest Author 7/6/26 Guest Author 7/6/26

Books Do Grow on Trees: What Writing a Vampire Novel Taught Me About the Creative Process

Hungarian author W. L. Know went from outlining a mermaid novel to writing a vampire serial killer thriller. A witty essay on seeds, gardening, and how books find their own shape.

Mike (founder) 7/4/26 Mike (founder) 7/4/26

What If There Was A Star Wars Horror Movie?

Star Wars has always had horror hiding in it. Is a horror project in the works at Disney? Here's how a real Star Wars horror film could work.

Guest Author 7/3/26 Guest Author 7/3/26

Bold Expressions: When Colour Becomes Courage

Australian digital watercolour artist Phillip J Gordon on his Bold Expressions series — where asymmetry, charged colour, and fluid unpredictability become a form of emotional honesty.

Guest Author 7/1/26 Guest Author 7/1/26

I Study Oil Recovery for a Living. I Wrote a Crime Thriller for Fun.

A petroleum engineering PhD candidate wrote a dark crime thriller in the cracks of his research schedule. Karthik Sivaraman on logic, fiction, and why the two were never really enemies.

Guest Author 6/29/26 Guest Author 6/29/26

The Short Film and the Shaman: Making Helicopter

Director Ari Gold lost his mother in the helicopter crash that killed Bill Graham. Here's how he turned that grief into a Student Oscar-winning short, and why the healing took twenty more years.

Guest Author 6/26/26 Guest Author 6/26/26

Nearly Burned Down My Uncle's Food Stand. Here's What It Taught Me About Writing.

Christopher Valentine nearly burned down his uncle's food stand. What followed was a reflection on Viktor Frankl, Eiichiro Oda, and why embracing your foolishness might be the best thing a creative can do.

Guest Author 6/24/26 Guest Author 6/24/26

With Love From Ukraine: The Visionary Art and Resilience of ShivaOm

Since 2012 Andrii Averin, known as ShivaOm, has created UV-reactive installations and sacred geometry art for festivals worldwide. A conversation about Ayahuasca, optical illusions, and making art while Ukraine is at war.

Guest Author 6/22/26 Guest Author 6/22/26

Art Saved My Life. To Return the Favor, I Built NewBohemia.art

Evan Greenberg spent six months building NewBohemia.art…a free, verification-first platform for human-made art only. Nearly 1,000 verified members and counting. This is why he built it.

Guest Author 6/19/26 Guest Author 6/19/26

I Never Planned to Become an Artist: The Work of J.E.

A year ago J.E. made his first drawing during a difficult period. Twenty-five pieces later, the former elite athlete based in Spain has become a visual artist working in acrylic markers on cardboard.

Guest Author 6/18/26 Guest Author 6/18/26

Field of Dreams to John Wick: 4 Films for Movie-Loving Dads

From Field of Dreams to John Wick, a movie-loving dad's essential Father's Day watch list — with a few extra picks for good measure.

Guest Author 6/17/26 Guest Author 6/17/26

Tattoo Artist Spotlight: Kevin Ligabue on Japanese Geometry, Heavy Blackwork, and the Art of Non-Attachment

Kevin Ligabue left tech and oil to open Future Ink Tattoo in Oakland. A conversation about Japanese Geometry, heavy blackwork, suminagashi, and why ego is the hardest skill to master in tattooing.

Guest Author 6/15/26 Guest Author 6/15/26

Returning from Silence: A Skeptic's Near-Death Experience and the Question Science Can't Answer

Phil Allard's debut novel follows a skeptical chemistry teacher whose near-death experience refuses any scientific explanation. A philosophical thriller that unsettles in the best possible way.

Mike (founder) 6/14/26 Mike (founder) 6/14/26

The Artmobile: When Museums Brought The Art To You

Before the internet, museums did something radical: they loaded real Rembrandts and Picassos onto tractor-trailers and drove them to rural America. The story of the Artmobile.

Guest Author 6/13/26 Guest Author 6/13/26

The Aliens Have No Clothes: A Review of Spielberg's Disclosure Day

Spielberg returns to sci-fi with Disclosure Day — a film that asks all the right questions about alien disclosure and humanity's response, then refuses to answer a single one of them.