Posts by Eva Avenue

Now Sam’s living in NYC in a basement with housemates, a head full of new songs, and not much else.

Engaged Presence Practice grows your ability to interact in helpful, authentic, playful and expressive ways AND to gracefully respond to social overload.

Using a printer, paper, scissors and tape, I designed a shirt for Balloon Fiesta but called it Baboon Fiesta. Here’s a video of how we screenprinted them.

What are we thinking about when we watch things explode in the night sky? Do we dream that night about the beauty of War?

The last time I saw Sam Miller, we were on a long, long walk across town having a bitch-fest like two ladies knitting at the gin table.

“I know that’s crazy, ” I said. And he said I must go for crazy. Keep crazy ideas at the top because that is a force that will carry me along in my career.

In 2011 I curated a group show called I ♥ Cops in response to APD abuses of power, and similar abuses by out-of-control cops around the nation.

I’ve known plenty of very talented artists who just couldn’t get their careers going cause they weren’t willing to go down to the mines and dig it up.

I first met him before all the face tattoos, back in Florida when he was 15, painting his eyelashes white and sewing other people’s hair into his own hair.

For those of you still staring out the window and in need of another distraction, I present to you 10 exceptional posts from our first year of publishing.

As far as best practices, nothing is more important than building personal, meaningful and sincere relationships with people in the industry. It really takes a village to make a designer successful.

Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman have been operating Axle Contemporary, a mobile gallery on wheels, since 2010.

I gave her my email address but thought nothing would come from it. A few days later, I got an email which proved how wrong I was. I couldn’t believe it.

Neuropsychologist and professor of neurosurgery Rex Jung explains how creative people tend to have frontal lobes with lowered integrity. In a good way.

Today, most people know me for my professional demeanor and cool charm (yeah right). But I wasn’t always this way. When I started training as a professional journalist at the Daily Lobo, one of my big fears of sounding stupid would rear up when I’d call someone. The phone would ring ring ring, they’d say, Read more ›

If your clothes are all stained and torn, your posture sucks and your attitude isn’t authentically charming, you’re an easy write-off.