Creative Perspectives

Whit Lauren spent years beating herself up for procrastinating on creative work she loved. Then she swapped self-judgment for curiosity — and started asking better questions.

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.

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.

Photographer William Josephs Radford on Transparent: six months removing his father from family photographs, pixel by pixel, and what that process revealed about memory, grief, and erasure.

Composer Klimenko VG on 20,000 generated versions, the distinction between generation and production, and why AI abundance makes human judgment more important, not less.

At 22, Matthew King started The Secret Entrance with a simple question: why do the random, spontaneous parts of life disappear as we get older? Experiment 001 is his answer.

Colombian circus artist Mauricio Vanegas on learning the Wheel of Death, fracturing two vertebrae and coming back, creating original tricks, and performing with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas.

Christopher Valentine completes his Damara/Valiant Knight trilogy with The Valiant Alliance: a 1960s sci-fi hero story about hope, DC mythology, and what modern superhero stories have forgotten.

German artist Claudia Schmidt on Candy Decay: surreal paintings where skulls sit next to strawberries, and monthly postcards that travel without envelopes because they were never meant to arrive untouched.

Writer Oleksandra Fomichova on attention as creative currency: why inspiration doesn't disappear, why protecting your focus isn't selfishness, and why you're the one holding the hourglass.

Autistic indie author Jonah Baird on using generative AI as an accessibility tool, writing three novels, and finally finding a creative process that fit the way his brain works.

Australian digital watercolour artist Phillip J Gordon on using mistakes as method, disrupting the grammar of a medium, and following the work past the point where it feels safe.

A high school English teacher and oral traditions scholar makes the case that podcasts, social media, and spoken word aren't new — they're humanity circling back to its oldest form of storytelling.

Photographer William Josephs Radford reviews his own catalogue as a hostile critic would, dissecting the provocations, the try-hard concepts, and the grief that runs underneath it all.

Graphic designer Stephen Willard lives in two creative worlds: strict design by day, and abstract digital art that maps the neurological chaos of epilepsy. On order, memory, and release.

Fine-art photographer Madhur Dhingra on spirituality, consciousness, and the search that took him through Himalayan monasteries from Ladakh to the ghats of Varanasi.

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.

Kjell Nilsson, the Swedish weightlifter who played Lord Humungus in Mad Max 2, has died at 76. Remembering the strange humanity of the wasteland's most reasonable villain.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chicago photographer Marianne Drenthe went from ICU nurse to award-winning family photographer to iPhone artist with a flea market microscope lens. A deeply personal essay on creativity, loss, and finding your way back.

Koji Suzuki, author of Ring, died in May 2026. A look at how his cursed videotape changed horror cinema globally and sent a generation of fans back to the Japanese originals.

Alain Loubeau on Hell Grind, the AI-generated feature film that didn't actually premiere at Cannes, and why the hype around AI filmmaking is getting ahead of the reality by a long shot.

From grunge to goth to nu-metal, music subcultures were supposed to fade and die. The internet had other plans. A deep dive into why alternative scenes never truly disappear.

Since August 2018, Marvin Harding has logged hundreds of UFO encounters from his Maryland home. With government disclosure now mainstream, he's finally sharing his story.

On Memorial Day, we remember five creative people who left their art behind to serve. A photographer, a musician, a poet, a writer and a painter. None of them came home.

Lebanese tattoo artist and painter Houssam Mahmoud Gebara works between realism and surrealism, exploring how fine art and tattooing both emerge from the same inner movement.

Audio engineer and producer Miguel Dembora shares a practical 3-step framework to beat perfectionism in the studio and explains why shipping at 90% is the secret to growth.