🎧 Core ASMR Keywords

These help with discoverability: Continue reading →

Some random thoughts on ASMR:

What I noticed looking at ASMR content is that a lot of it isn’t really “pure” ASMR anymore. It’s evolved into a blend of visual trickery, detailed sound design, and oddly satisfying mechanics. The feeling is still calming or immersive, but the way it gets there is broader than just whispering or simple sounds. Continue reading →

Why ASMR Works So Well on YouTube Shorts

(And Why It’s Not Quite the Same Thing Anymore)

There’s something quietly fascinating happening on YouTube right now. A style of content that was once slow, intimate, and almost meditative — ASMR — is being reshaped into something fast, punchy, and endlessly loopable. And surprisingly… it works. But to really understand what’s going on, we have to start with what ASMR actually is. Continue reading →

How to Create a Character

Okay, here’s how you can create a digital persona. Jim Morrison was a close friend, and we had many conversations about the work ideas. of course I have a few photos but I never was much for selfies. 99% of the time, I was behind the lens, not in front of it.

I wanted to test the new graphics features in chat GPT, so I put some old photos of Jim and some recent photos of me together through my chat GPT, and placed them in a variety of background environments, to create a story about the character Jim Morrison. Continue reading →

Backstory: “Bourbon Street” E.J. Gold

Nobody quite remembers when E.J. Gold first showed up on Bourbon Street—and that’s exactly how he prefers it. If you asked him, he’d say it doesn’t matter. Continue reading →

Why We Learn Better from the Version We Love

Music, Preference, and the Absorption of Meaning

There’s a fascinating phenomenon that shows up whenever the same message is delivered in multiple forms, like John Lilly’s “Cogitate” tape. I’m sure you’re aware that we don’t receive each version equally. Give someone forty variations of the same song—with identical lyrics—and something almost inevitable happens. A few versions rise to the top. One might feel “just right.” Another might linger in memory. A handful might become favorites. Continue reading →

It’s Just a Penny

Every so often, it’s worth taking a second look at the ordinary.

A penny, for example.

Most people wouldn’t bend down to pick one up. It’s small, overlooked, and carries almost no purchasing power in everyday life. But every once in a while, that assumption breaks apart. Some pennies—quietly, unassumingly—carry real value. Not symbolic value, not sentimental value, but measurable, transferable wealth. Continue reading →

My mother was a master silversmith, a student of Art Smith, one of the most famous modernist silversmiths on the planet — his work — and her work — appears in several books on modernist jewelry of the twentieth century. Continue reading →

How to Create a Digital Singer-Songwriter

Building a digital artist isn’t as complicated as it sounds. At its heart, it’s just a blend of imagination, music, and a few modern tools. Continue reading →

The Art of Video Hunting on YouTube

There’s a difference between watching videos and hunting them.

Most people open YouTube the way one opens a faucet—turn it on and let whatever comes out, come out. The algorithm feeds, the viewer consumes, and somewhere along the way the sense of discovery quietly disappears. Continue reading →