my daily practice

winter light

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hardcover edition

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the stitcher of sheep

subway preacher

sparrow party

the opposite of stress ball

my daily practice

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This double-sided bookmark is a tool for cultivating peacefulness. Based on enduring principles of rehabilitation such as repetition and incentivization, the design provides a framework for identifying a daily peaceful practice and keeping track of your progress in meeting this goal.

crystal-paper-wand

If you played rock-paper-scissors with a crystal ball instead of a rock, and with a magic wand instead of a pair of scissors, who would win a showdown between a crystal ball and a magic wand?

my daily practice

silk clementine

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lessons from the toybox

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I have a block of wood I use as a pedestal to pose stuff on and photograph, a prop that’s interesting to look at, but not so interesting that it gets in the way of whatever is posed on top of it. It’s a cross section of an old cypress post I pulled from the scrap pile of my dad’s work shed. It’s dotted with holes: natural wood holes and holes made by nails. Five of its six sides are sawn smooth. The sixth side is rough with chunky splinters.

the opposite of stress ball -- screenplay

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THE OPPOSITE OF STRESS BALL




(CAPITALIZED words indicate that the stress ball should be either SQUEEZED or UNSQUEEZED, as indicated.)


SCENE 1:


(Hand holds a soccer ball stress ball.)

what spirits lurk in birds

SO I’M SITTING on my bike, looking up at the sky through a camera. It’s 6:15 in the morning — in real life not a dream. A man waiting for the metro walks up to me and says, “Hey man, I was gonna ask you for fifty cents, but, uh, what are you looking at up there?”