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Optimizing Art & Design as Acts of Rebellion

Art, Photography & Writing

Dec 4, 2025

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12 min read

"It takes half a lifetime"

Issue 22 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

“Your resistance is futile."-love, the borg

Nov 20, 2025

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16 min read

“Your resistance is futile."-love, the borg

Issue 21 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

“One of the most satisfying things one can experience.”

Nov 13, 2025

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11 min read

“One of the most satisfying things one can experience.”

Issue 20 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

For All Creators

Epiphanies #2 (“The Anti-Pep Talk Pep Talk”)

Nov 6, 2025

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14 min read

Epiphanies #2 (“The Anti-Pep Talk Pep Talk”)

Issue 19 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

Oct 30, 2025

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24 min read

If These Chairs Could Speak

Issue 18 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

The “F” word that needs an identity shift

Oct 23, 2025

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15 min read

The “F” word that needs an identity shift

Issue 17 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

For All Creators

Oct 16, 2025

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14 min read

Epiphanies #1

Issue 16 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

Oct 9, 2025

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19 min read

They Are Better Than You

Issue 15 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

For All Creators

Oct 2, 2025

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8 min read

Gather Your Nuts

Issue 14 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

Sep 25, 2025

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16 min read

The Boulder Always Rolls Back Down

Issue 13 - Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

Art History Isn't Just About Winning Trivial Pursuit

Sep 5, 2025

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16 min read

Art History Isn't Just About Winning Trivial Pursuit

Issue 12, Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Drunken Friends on Labor Day *revised* (and Bridget saves the day)

Aug 29, 2025

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7 min read

Drunken Friends on Labor Day revised (and Bridget saves the day)

Issue 11, Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

Aug 21, 2025

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19 min read

Risky Business is Good Business

Issue 10 Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

For All Creators

Where do you go to crack open your psyche?

Aug 15, 2025

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11 min read

Where do you go to crack open your psyche?

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

“We say they are coincidences, but we know better than that.” -Anderson

Aug 7, 2025

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19 min read

“We say they are coincidences, but we know better than that.” -Anderson

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

Jul 31, 2025

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7 min read

Unlike Most People...

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

How-To

Do you dislike 'get to work' advice as much as me?

Jul 24, 2025

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20 min read

Do you dislike 'get to work' advice as much as me?

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Poetry

The art of transforming observation into experience

Jul 17, 2025

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17 min read

The art of transforming observation into experience

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Jul 10, 2025

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15 min read

"a line is a dot that went for a walk"

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Jul 3, 2025

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21 min read

Craft = Cojones, too

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Art, Photography & Writing

Jun 26, 2025

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18 min read

Creative Cojones (part two)

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

How-To

Jun 19, 2025

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14 min read

Creative Cojones (part one)

Ideas for creating with certainty + practical ways to use them daily

Clarissa Hulsey

Optimizing Art & Design as Acts of Rebellion

"It takes half a lifetime"

“Your resistance is futile."-love, the borg

“One of the most satisfying things one can experience.”

Epiphanies #2 (“The Anti-Pep Talk Pep Talk”)

If These Chairs Could Speak

The “F” word that needs an identity shift

Epiphanies #1

They Are Better Than You

Gather Your Nuts

The Boulder Always Rolls Back Down

Art History Isn't Just About Winning Trivial Pursuit

Drunken Friends on Labor Day *revised* (and Bridget saves the day)

Risky Business is Good Business

Where do you go to crack open your psyche?

“We say they are coincidences, but we know better than that.” -Anderson

Unlike Most People...

Do you dislike 'get to work' advice as much as me?

The art of transforming observation into experience

"a line is a dot that went for a walk"

Craft = Cojones, too

Creative Cojones (part two)

Creative Cojones (part one)

Drunken Friends on Labor Day revised (and Bridget saves the day)