Weekly 5 is a round-up the past week’s creative news, discoveries, and happenings in my world!
Best thing that happened in my world this week:
“Only Happy When It Rains” is a song written and produced by American alternative rock band Garbage. It was released in September 1995, and is known for its tongue-in-cheek lyrics parodying the typically angst-filled themes of mid-’90s alternative rock. In Phoenix as of late, it feels like it hasn’t rained here since 1995! But on January 29th, after a 159-day dry streak, we finally got measurable rain, and it made me very happy!
Thinking can stop you from making:
From Coffee In Drawings Out on Substack —
A diagram of the flow of information when drawing from life.
I think most of learning to draw is about finding your secret shortcut around the self doubt loop.
–Andrew James
Artist discovery: Tara Axford
A mixed media artist working with print, collage, fibre and photography, Tara draws inspiration from her surroundings and is deeply inspired by what it means to live creatively. The forgotten, the weathered, the discarded appeal to her. Exploring her surroundings she likes to ‘zoom in’ on an environment, observe it, and abstract the essence to create something new, asking the viewer to experience something they may have previously overlooked, with fresh eyes.
– taraaxford.com
In a chronically online world, people are finding respite in ‘junk journaling’
From Mindfulness on CNN
Crafting blogger Jennifer Perkins says she’s been junk journaling for more than a decade, before she realized there was a term for what she was doing. She considers the hobby an iteration of zinemaking, the self-published DIY medium that she engaged in as a teenager in the ‘90s (and that is seeing its own resurgence). Perkins, 50, also traces the form to mixed-media journals such as Keri Smith’s 2007 hitproject “Wreck This Journal,” which encouraged users to unleash their creativity by filling and defacing its pages, and K&Company’s Smash Books, which prompted users to glue or tape in items from their day-to-day lives.
Playlist of the week:
