As I transition from my sabbatical back to work, I’ve been mapping concepts from art and jazz onto design. Here are some takeaways, along with sketch notes I made during a few saxophone master classes with the wonderful Alexander Mathias. Let's get to it. The more you
TIL: You can vibe-code your way into existential dread 🫠 As I've started transitioning back to the world of the working, I’ve been playing with some LLM-heavy viiibe coding. In this case, it meant coding with the help of AI to build out a little workshop generator. The
When does structure give us a greater sense of freedom? When does it constrain or contain us instead? 0:00 /0:29 1× For the past 4 weeks I’ve been hammering my head on a jazz standard called Autumn Leaves. This tune is notorious for its back and forth
I haven’t really been making too much art. Well, not really in the way that I’d imagined. Instead I’ve been clocking hours on the craft side of drawing and playing saxophone. Specifically I’ve locked in on putting in at least 3 hours of drawing and 90
Fresh feelings on the first 2 months of a sabbatical.
I did it. I’m doing it? I’m taking the next 12 - 18 months off of work to focus on illustration and jazz saxophone. I’ll be the first to admit that these are two modest pursuits of mine, but I’m curious to see how these back-pocket