A collection of posts and essays from my blog covering art history, exhibition reviews, film & animation, graphic design, advice for artists and philosophical musings. For articles on painting background, theory and techniques, please visit my other blog.
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- California Dreamin' and American ways. Travel musings in 10 chapters - Part II
- California Dreamin' and American ways. Travel musings in 10 chapters - Part I
- One year in the Netherlands
- Punk in a cardie
- Slowly typed words on 5G & time pressure
- The golden ball of courage
- If the world is ending in 30 years
- The Imperfect Notebook (or my first "Meditations")
- What Type of Artist Are You? Non-quiz
- One year in Portugal
- Lisboetas (Part I): Fascinating Female Artists from Lisbon
- A Studio of One's Own
- Animated music videos for when you need a good cry
- The Problem with Photoshop, CGI and Insta-Lies
- No sugar and all spice. Be the fearless & feisty 5-year old you once were.
- Home: Dream, nightmare & utopia
- The Fall of the House of Usher cover design
- Women, love, relationships in selected animations
- Waiting for the marshmallows: on patience & delayed gratification
- Cats, ravens & madmen. Edgar Allan Poe in animation.
- Blissful uncoolness & comfortable solitude. A weekend in Berlin.
- Dark strangelands in music videos
- Neons. On preserving the endangered type.
- Women, art & obscurity. Seers, Knights, Lassnig.
- Art meets facts. Animation in documentary films
- Retro dreams in retro animation
- Against the tide. Element Talks conference afterthoughts
- 3 logos I like: Geek Girls Carrots, Moderat, Jadłonomia
- The art & science of kissing
- Game & graphic wonders of Alice in Wonderland exhibition
- Lot in Sodom cover design
- 3 logos I like: Krayewski, Mariage Frères, Disconnect
- Polish poster just after the war
- The remarkable effects of praise & criticism
- "Direction Courtesy" campaign ads
- Women in Chanel N°5 film ads
- New website & the icon challenge
- Faith, delusions & Woody Allen
- Left, right and wrong: political labels & biases
- The art of competing and losing in Settlers of Catan & everyday life
- Unlikely homes: Jing Jin City & Miracle Village
- Beautiful obsession of 4 Indie Game Designers
- In search of La Dolce Vita: Breaking with the nine-to-five
- Black Dogs, Storms & Rhapsodies
- Jean Paul Gaultier & different kinds of beauty
- Man and Machine
- Making colours & "noncolours"
- Creative DNA: Deconstruction/Reconstruction
- Sex fantasies in comics
- Dear Modern Diary. E-journals & life-logging.
- The Good Fight
- Avant-garde animation from artist/composer duos
- Is the grass greener across the English Channel?
- A Paean to Green
- Recharging in the comfort zone
- Painting with scissors: Matisse at the Tate
- Storytelling in life, art & business
- Imperfections in art & wabi-sabi
- Nine warriors of art who conquered their age
- Facebook: no space for failure
- Ruin Lust or Ruin Lost Opportunity
- Solitude, routine & art
- Show & Tell [Part #2]
- The art of collage: paper & scissors rock!
- Artwives: Eva Švankmajerová, Dorothea Tanning & Lee Krasner
- Strange Little Girls
- Me, Myself & I. Self-portraits.
- Show & Tell [Part #1]
- Magic in the gutter. A few words on comics and sequential art.
- In awe of flesh & bone
- Beauty & terror
- The Art of Tidying Up
- Feline fetishists
- Departing from a safe zone
- The love & hate of portraits in Vienna 1900
- The art of storyboarding
- What I like in animation
- Painting sex & pleasure in Japan and beyond
- Overheads Under Your Heel
- Edward Gorey & Other Daring Gor(e)y Stories
- USP: Unnecessarily Strained Procedure?
- Who is an artist?