Morning doodle. #creativesandbox #creativesandboxway #doodle #doodles #doodleart #doodleartist #doodlesofinstagram #dailydoodle2017 #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #abstractart #originalart #originalartwork #pigmamicron #blackandwhite
Jackson Pollack Dog Poop and Right-Now Reality
We’re dog sitting.
We do that a lot, because although we don’t have a dog ourselves, my parents do — a German Shepherd named Chloe — and that’s the arrangement we have with them: anytime they travel (which they do a lot, especially to visit their grandson, who lives on the other coast), Chloe comes to live with us.
And this time, Chloe got sick.
Really, really sick.
As in digestive tract sick. Both ends.
And one thing about Chloe, is that she has this habit of walking while she poops. I have no idea why.
She’s perfectly still when she pees, but when she poops, she takes a hike.
It makes our back yard into a bit of a land mind situation.
And yesterday, well, you know the artist Jackson Pollack?
That was pretty much our living room. Except with dog poop.
On white Berber carpet.
Though to be fair, it hasn’t [Read more…]
LCN 124: There’s No Competition & You’re Not Selling Snake Oil
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“You should meet Ted,” I said, “he’s also into mindfulness and improv.”
It was lunchtime at the Applied Improvisation Network (AIN) conference this past weekend, and I was talking with another first-timer to the conference. I felt rather pleased that I was connecting people that I didn’t even know!
But the guy — let’s call him A — seemed skeptical.
“Yeah, I met Ted,” he said. “But I don’t know… We live in the same area, so aren’t we competitors? And really, aren’t all of us here at the conference competitors?”
It was a valid question. 200 improvisers, who use improv in our work in an applied way — i.e. Applied Improv — convening together for four days.
Aren’t we competing for clients? Competing for business? Competing for scarce resources?
Well, as I said to A, that’s certainly one attitude to take. You could look at the 200 people at this conference as competitors, competing with you for scarce resources. End of story.
But is that a useful perspective? [Read more…]
Snapshot from My Studio: August 23, 2017 at 07:53AM
A little bit of knot doodling in my early morning studio (aka my bed) to start the day. ?
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LCN 123: Listener Spotlight—Janet Fowlow’s “Tiny and Daily” as a Therapeutic Life-Saver
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It’s another Listener Spotlight today! Listener Spotlights are exactly what they sound like: I feature a podcast listener whose life has been changed for the better in some way, big or small, from the podcast.
Today’s featured listener is Janet Fowlow, who applied for the Listener Spotlight by writing an iTunes review, and sending me the following email:
Hi Melissa!
I’m a huge fan of yours, and a long-time listener of your podcast. I found out about you through Cory Huff (TAA). I wanted to officially raise my hand to volunteer to be a listener interviewee for your podcast.
There have been so many times I’ve listened to [Read more…]
