Creative work, updates, and curiosities.
I used to delete abandoned pitches and dead sketches the moment they embarrassed me. These days they live in a searchable library with tags, dates, and a standing invitation to come back. Here's how the system works, plus the three kinds of failure I've learned to keep.
A museum guard once told me that visitors almost never look at the middle of a room — they commit to the first wall, then start scanning for the exit. I've been editing my portfolio around that sentence ever since. Here's what changed, and the attention checklist I now run before anything goes live.
Not a best-of list. A shelf of small, strange, under-covered creative finds from the past year — a tool, a micro-community, a format, a habit — each with a short note on what makers can actually take from it.
For years my best work sat in a folder labeled 'not yet.' This is the story of why I started posting the half-finished, the abandoned, and the frankly embarrassing — plus a simple three-line template anyone can use to do the same without feeling exposed.
A look inside the weekly 45-minute sketchbook session that feeds my finished work, from the prompts and cheap materials to the recurring mistakes and tiny decisions that make a rough page useful. At the end, there is an open invitation to try the same exercise and share your page for a future community roundup.
Tightly compressed vertical stories can feel more emotionally precise than bloated short-form series. Here is why I am making 60-second storytelling a creative priority in 2026, with lessons from recent experiments and a practical craft checklist for US collaborators and fans.