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Mighty Men & Monster Maker

Dan dos Santos

I take a real enjoyment in going back to the things that inspired me as a kid, and got me into art in the first place. Lately I've been on a kick of re-watching old television shows I enjoyed as a kid (introducing them to my children now), and re-reading the comic books that later inspired me as a teenager. There's no real "reason" for doing this. I'm not trying to bone up on basics,…

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INSPIRATION vs PERSPIRATION

Greg Ruth

November 20, 2025 - As artists we always in making our work, dance with two partners, and we are often held to the same regard as most pop cultural ideas of art making, the artist pondering some vital landscape... the artist receiving like a ball of light the revelation of some new piece... When in fact more than 80% of the total experience of making art is sweat and grit and work. It speaks well of the distilled and potent superpowers that inspiration possesses that it would despite its marginal affect, occupy such a lofty and present sphere, but an idea with out tangible agency is a carpenter without a hammer. Inspiration: the Muse or the lightening strike... (or whatever you want too call it), hat out of no where blossoming of thought and invention whether it s a…

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