The Idea Box Journal

Would anyone who’s gotten a tattoo of my paintings be interested in talking about it? I’m thinking this could be a fun video conversation. Hit me up if you’d like to discuss and share your experiences! ⭐️🧡✨

Bill & Ted are back. I made this to celebrate

Full video is now up

Here’s a 30 second preview of the first In Conversation video on the topic of Genre & Originality with Jay Neely.

✨New limited edition bookmark available (for free) at Brookline Booksmith. ✨

Since the doors have reopened the community has been as supportive of the shop, as the space has been a source of comfort to the community. Speaking from my own regular visits, Booksmith is a special place.

I wanted to create an image that would capture an enthusiasm for summertime, the return of vibrant nature, the joy of summer reading, and show our support for Black lives. 

The Portland protester who faced off with military police last month wearing nothing but a beanie and mask bowled me over with her bravery. She said in a recent interview “Nobody has weapons here. I just wanted them to see what they’re shooting at.” 

I painted this to commemorate her and keep the support for Black Lives Matter going strong. The fight for equality continues. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

While sketching ideas for a painting I’ll be sharing soon, I got the idea to craft little plant worlds inside of bottles. Here are the results of our two terrariums 🌟🍾🌿🧚🏻

If you’d like to make your own, I recommend the guidance of Serpa Design on YouTube. 

Dormant for centuries, the internet brought new life to the loathsome and cruel creatures known as trolls. They live to create turmoil and conflict. Just like Trump. If you encounter a troll, ignore them. They hate that.

I made a video of all the Android:Netrunner card illustrations I painted over the years. You can watch it here.

I’d like to share an app to that can bring a touch more magic to an otherwise less adventurous summer. It’s called Randonautica. The makers of the app didn’t invent the activity, but they did bring it into the mainstream. I’ll explain with a short story.

A friend and I met up a few days ago to hang out. I told him we would try out Randonautica together, with a brief explanation of what it is. The way it works is we would come up with an intention and then see where the random location generator would lead us. The generator determines coordinates within your given area. We declared our intention as Friendship. We drove about ten minutes from my apartment to the coordinates, which took us to someone’s house. Seemed like a bust. We pulled over and noticed a Little Free Library. We looked through the books and I said, “Hey you like the author Pete Hamill don’t you?” My buddy said, “Yeah I do. Only a good friend would know that… There’s our intention!” We both were inspired to pick out a few books to take with us.

With limited travel these days I recommend trying Randonautica out for yourself and inviting in potentially magical moments. If you look up other people’s stories, you’ll see there are some crazy encounters being reported. ✨