In mid-February, I traded a good friend of mine an empty parking space at my home in Barcelona for a leg of Jamón Iberico Bellota Pata Negra. Of course, this meant that I needed a carving stand in order to properly enjoy this glorious pillar of food porn.
Read MoreAlongside earning our boating licenses, Evgeny and I conceived an idea to find, purchase, acquire, fix up, customize, christen, brand, berth and then sail our own boat. Realizing a mutual dream of freedom, adventure, creativity and fun, this whim slowly became a reality.
Read MoreSometime after moving to Spain, my good mate Evgeny and I hatched a plan to learn how to sail, earn ourselves watercraft licenses, buy, fix up, customize and berth an old sloop, then set sail for adventures upon the seas. Now, in 2022, that dream is becoming a reality.
Read MoreDuring the pandemic in late 2020, I received an offer to join a design team in Spain… and in March 2021, my partner and I moved from Berlin to Barcelona. That role didn’t exactly work out, but a referral did. Now, 1.5 years later, 38 has been my favourite year of life thus far, and as my old friend Jenn put it, I’ve “reached another form - not a new one, but the realization of one that was always there.”
Read MoreWandering through a random ancient alleyway in Florence in 2015, I discovered a very large piece of street art. After five years, I finally uncovered the original artist(s) and collaborated with them to digitize this black and white paste-up and turn it into a massive chenille back-patch.
Read MoreFor almost twenty years, I have been compiling thoughts, entries, doodles, photos, art, conversations, stories, dreams, rants, events, travels, anecdotes, advice, observations and commentary about everything in my life. After transcribing more than 1000 pages, I’m now shaping this work into a formative memoir, separated into four (or five?) books.
Read MoreI compiled a 90-second video about DANKOMADE as part of a 2018 WeWork Creator Awards application.
Read MoreEarlier this month, I was curious about what emoji's were proposed and approved for Unicode approval this year... and realized that there was no sloth included. Naturally, I opted to address this, and created my own set of Sloth Emoji.
Read MoreOriginally compiled in 2013 as part of a career-focus effort, this annually-edited list of 5-year professional, personal and spiritual goals has evolved and grown into something beyond it's original purpose.
Read MoreA symbol of both oppression and freedom, The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, unifying East and West Berlin. Monuments and memorials draw hundreds of thousands each year to view the remains of this solemn reminder, whose message has become even more important as the Western political atmosphere echoes it's affects. Clever Halloween costume satire was, thus, inevitable.
Read MoreOne day in May, I decided that I should resume painting. I visited some art shops in Berlin; it seemed to me that all of the models I found were either too flimsy or lacked panache. Thus, I took reference photos and began to plan and construct my own extra large, customized, rolling, adjustable, stable art easel.
Read More'Reclaimed,' 'found,' 'repurposed,' 'recycled,' 'salvaged' or just plain 'stolen,' some of my favourite furnishings have been made with shit I've either found or lifted from various places. It was this scavenger craftsman impulse that lead me to imagine and eventually construct a customized pipe and board open wardrobe.
Read MoreI've been entertaining the concept of a man-sized sloth costume for about five years... and, on the best night of 2015, I finally realized it.
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I've been entertaining the concept of a man-sized sloth costume for about five years, and this year, I'm finally going to realise it.
Shed whatever stage fright you might have, ignore the paranoia that you'll somehow ruin the day, find your cadence, have a shot, speak clearly and own that shit. It's worth spending the money, taking the time, traveling half way across the world and realizing, because hey -- how many times does that kind of opportunity arise?
Read MoreIt is interesting to compare Canada's biggest city to somewhere like, say, Berlin. Though both share a familiar presence of creative culture, Berlin's creative class has emerged and permeated the city as a result of a more liberal European sensibility, inexpensive living costs, an extensive transit infrastructure, and a strange series of societal circumstances. Forced to (literally and figuratively) rebuild three times over the last one hundred years, Berliners are resilient, determined, diverse and resourceful people.
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