The Universe has a funny way of putting you in repeated contact with new things you think about, the more often you start thinking about them. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of what it actually means to be yourself, and the implications and freedoms of what being yourself actually are. So naturally, by the laws of attraction, I’ve come across a few people lately whose apparent ability to be completely and unapologetically themselves, has absolutely stopped

“You stop explaining yourself when you realize people only understand from their level of perception.” - Jim Carrey I’m going to do something a little different today. This time I’m not going to talk about relationships, I’m not going to talk about love, I’m not going to talk about moving on or closure or any of the usual stuff I normally like to write about. Today, I want to write about maybe the most important thing I’ve learned this year, and something I think might really

Weltschmerz is a German word that loosely translates to "world-pain" in English; it's used to describe the kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. It attempts to explain a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness. The Butterfly Effect is the name for the phenomenon whereby a tiny localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, somewhere down the line. ** I’m always preaching m

Closure. It’s a concept that has captivated me for years—I'm pretty sure it's what most of my art is about; it’s what I attempt to explore and understand in different shapes and forms through film, through writing, through music, and sometimes through other people. How do you know once it’s been achieved? Is closure something you can feel developing organically over time, or is it something you create for yourself with intent? Can you decide to find closure, or does it find y

In the past year I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be an artist. Can one become an artist? Is one born an artist? Are we an artist simply because we make art? Or is it more about a state of mind and having a certain consciousness about the world around us? Is it a lifestyle first, or a perspective on life that inevitably grows into a lifestyle over time? I don’t pretend to be an expert on art—I’m actually far from it. So that’s never what this blog is ever going