[Photo Credit-Andrew Marr via The Daily Mail] Andrew Marr, the BBC Broadcaster, recently shared his struggle to recover from a near fatal stroke and how art helped move him beyond this difficult experience. The Daily Mail’s thorough article on this process showcases Marr’s beautiful artwork from this difficult period, as Marr himself makes comment on […]
Richard Diebenkorn on Beginning a painting [Video] Richard Diebenkorn’s exhibit made an appearance at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate park, in September. The exhibit of Diebenkorn’s artwork from his years at Berkeley included some of his best paintings and sketches, making it a particularly captivating look into Diebenkorn’s creative process. On the gallery […]
Songs find their way into literary masterpieces often times, adding context, capturing the mood of the story, allowing the reader to enjoy an external frame of reference grounded in the real world. I love discovering new music via literature, and I find it helps to understand the author better as well. Certainly music inspires everyone, […]
Poetic Lyrics Poetic lyrics really add to the song quality and add depth. A great poetic lyric has the ability to make the listener think deeply about the world they live in, staying in their mind throughout their day, or even a lifetime. From The Beatles to Bob Dylan, memorable lyrics can absolutely make the […]
Photos by Melissa Madison Fuller via Andrew Comb’s Website Andrew Combs keeps his Worried Mind Focused on Writing Great Songs Andrew Combs is a worried man with a worried mind, but this Coin Records artist writes music that won’t get you down. Instead, it’ll leave you inspired. Just when you thought that all the […]
Explore Creativity in L.A. at the Blackwing Experience In case you haven’t heard, Palomino will be hosting an event celebrating creativity and the history of pencils called the Blackwing Experience in sunny Southern California this month. With the vibrant creative history of the greater Los Angeles area, where better to host this event than the […]
Old Time Music Making a Comeback Old Crow Medicine Show’s music is a blend of Old Time music with the stage presence of a hard hitting rock act. It’d be difficult to find a band in contemporary music who has so successfully amalgamated the roots music of America’s past. With uptempo rhythms, banjo and fiddle, […]
3D drawing may appear on the surface like a passing trend in the tech industry, but is it more than that? Recently, The Huffington Post reported that scientists at Oxford are using 3D printing to create artificial human tissue. Simply put, the applications for 3D printing are only beginning to be discovered, and artists as […]
The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were announced last week. As artists and drawing enthusiasts, the team at Studio 602 was particularly anxious to see who won the Editorial Cartooning category. This year’s award went to cartoonist Steve Sack of the Star Tribune out of […]
Comedies from the 80’s and 90’s had a peculiar, charm to them. Brought to life on the screen by brilliant filmmakers like John Hughes—who crafted some of the most memorable films of the decade, Robert Zemeckis, and others, the films of this golden era are still being discovered and embraced by moviegoers, today. I was just a […]
