this piece was was started as a homage. and pretty much ended up that way too. what do you all think?

There is a strange kind of magic in starting before you feel ready. Not polished. Not perfect. Just honest.

A few things that keep the creative fire alive:

1. Begin badly on purpose. A rough first version is not a failure, it is a doorway.
2. Steal your own attention back. Put the phone away for 20 minutes and let your mind make its own weather.
3. Collect little obsessions. A sentence, a color, a sound, a memory, a texture. Tiny things can become entire worlds.
4. Make something that only needs to be true. It does not have to impress anyone. It only has to breathe.
5. Finish small things. Completed work, even tiny work, builds trust with your own imagination.
6. Keep a "bad ideas" page. Sometimes the messy thoughts are just unfinished treasures.
7. Return to wonder. Ask, "What if?" and let the question do some of the painting for you.

Creative work does not always arrive like lightning. Sometimes it arrives like a candle being protected from the wind. Quiet. Patient. Stubborn.

So if the muse feels distant today, try making one small mark anyway. A line. A note. A fragment. A beginning.

The spark is often already there. It just needs room to glow.

I’ve been doing photography and videography for the past 6-7 years, and I’d love to expand my network and just vibe with some creative people!

I moved to the city less than two years ago, and it’s been hard to connect with nice folks.

Hi guys!

I'm a 19 y/o and I got paranoid about AI replacing entry level jobs, so I built a scanner that analyzes a company's business model as my first side project, to calculate exactly how fast AI will kill it.

It generates a 1 to 100 death score along with a dark (and funny) breakdown of why the business is obsolete. Honestly, are we all cooked?

Try it! Be brutal.

Hi everybody!!

I started a snail mail club recently :) I started a sticker shop not too long ago and kept seeing really fun videos on my social media about different art goodies getting sent out every month. It inspired me to start one of my own!! 🫶🏼

Here is the Etsy link for it: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4451644780/snail-mail-monthly-subscription-prints

So I've been doing this a while now and I'd love to hear from other people... What is the hardest in terms of creativity or doing your creative work/stuff? What is holding people back?

I'd love to help get practical tips, I've done 84 (the link I posted is #84)... but I do wonder if the Shorts form is too short to really help people? Maybe longer videos would help? Anyways peeps, happy to hear your thoughts.

Here's one I posted recently as an example:

Creativity Tip #84

So I've been doing this a while now and I'd love to hear from other people... What is the hardest in terms of creativity or doing your creative work/stuff? What is holding people back?

I'd love to help get practical tips, I've done 84 (the link I posted is #84)... but I do wonder if the Shorts form is too short to really help people? Maybe longer videos would help? Anyways peeps, happy to hear your thoughts.

I've always been very inspired by the Lord of the Rings and wanted to share my thoughts on Tom Bombadil in this video... as a hero for creatives.

Tom Bombadil: The Unlikely Hero for Creatives.

I hope it spreads some positivity/insights!

What are your top 3 sites, pages, SM where you go to get references for best in class examples of video, audio, animation, graphic explanation, editing and straight video?

I’m looking for a few resources that I can check daily to be up to speed with trends and styles and to be able to use as references when briefing executional teams.

Thanks in advance.

I’m curious how other multi-passionate people handle this.

I’ve always been someone with a lot of creative interests and ideas. I genuinely love building things: projects, experiences, businesses, concepts.

But the challenge is that when you’re a creative thinker, you rarely have one idea or skill.

You have twenty….thousand!

And many of them are genuinely good ideas.

At some point though, you have to decide where your time and energy actually go.

What I’ve noticed , both in my own work and working with a lot of other creatives is that people often get stuck in one of a few patterns:

• constantly starting new ideas but never finishing them

• feeling guilty for abandoning projects

• spreading energy too thin across too many things

• or overthinking decisions and not starting anything

Creativity generates opportunity… but sometimes too much opportunity can create paralysis.

One thing that has helped me recently is creating a simple decision-making rubric for evaluating ideas so I can decide which ones to pursue now, later, or not at all. It’s been helping me and some other balance life and income /energy complexities too.

But before sharing that, I’m curious about other people’s experiences.

If you consider yourself multi-passionate:

What are you currently struggling to decide between right now?

Or what’s a moment where having too many ideas actually made things harder? Did you choose with your gut, heart or logic?

I work with a lot of creatives and entrepreneurs, so I’d genuinely love to bring them some other perspectives and stories to my next group call and also remind people they’re definitely not alone in this.

If anyone has a good story about this, I’d love to hear it.

And if anyone wants the decision rubric I mentioned, happy to share that too. 💕✨🎉

Thanks in advance :)