Tag: Project

  • June 24, 2023

    June 24, 2023

    Crafting a pen from wedding flowers is my latest endeavor. Gluing delicate petals to a dowel, casting them in resin, and turning them into pen blanks requires patience and attention. It is a slow and uncertain process, but the fusion of sentiment and craftsmanship makes it worthwhile.

  • Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 5: What’s the Point of My Podcast?

    Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 5: What’s the Point of My Podcast?

    I didn’t make much headway with the podcast this week. I got so far as figuring out what the podcast is about, what you’ll hear on it, and who might want to listen to it. I also only read one chapter of the book I bought, and have yet to answer the question that it…

  • Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 3: Keeping Track of Your Ideas

    Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 3: Keeping Track of Your Ideas

    Anecdote In a 2013 study, researchers Kathleen Vohs, Joseph Redden, and Ryan Rahinel found the that a disorderly space can have a positive impact on behaviour. They found that people are more likely to be creative when in a disorderly space than when in an orderly one. They did this through three experiments.

  • Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 2- The Structure of Each Episode

    Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 2- The Structure of Each Episode

    We are living in some strange times right now. COVID-19 has covered the entire globe. Here in Ontario, a state of emergency has been declared. Toronto is eerily quiet. There’s almost a 1984-type feeling to all of this with so much of the information I’m getting coming from the television. I hope that you’re all…

  • Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 1: Introduction

    Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 1: Introduction

    There’s a great quotation by Ira Glass: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is a gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s…

  • Idea About Ideas

    Idea About Ideas

  • The First Week of Summer

    The First Week of Summer

    It’s been a busy week. It feels like I haven’t had a day off since the summer started. Between applying for jobs and starting a one-month intensive course, there hasn’t been much time for me to enjoy the first week of summer. Next week, I start a week-long job marking exams, while still having to…

  • #25x1000MundaneWords

    While having my morning’s coffee this afternoon, I was thinking about the post that I put up last night. I was thinking that there has to be something more that I can do, something simple, to bring attention to a current event that has gripped me.

  • Sketches and planning a zine

    I finished my coursework for today, today. In fact, I finished it in good time. Well, it was late but it was on time.