We are all sorting through reflections of the last year and it is such a profound moment that is woven in so many complex emotions.  As the Founder of One River, I have so much respect for the challenges that small business owners have had to face…exactly one year ago…

There is something about the human brain that I find fascinating.  As a lover of music, I have been profoundly moved throughout my life by the simple act of listening to a song. There is no question that there is a chemical experience that connects the ear to the brain…

When I was a kid, my family spent our summers in the Catskill Mountains in New York State. My days were spent at camp and the nights and weekends with friends and family. We weren’t rich and this wasn’t fancy, but it was so important to me that every year…

Over the last ten plus years, I have put in my 10,000 hours to better understand what drives artists to do what they do and how to create a school that teaches people to have fun and make compelling artwork. Along the way, I have also learned about the unique…

Some of my favorite contemporary paintings are in many ways more than just paintings. Quite often they are collages, or assemblages of materials of unrelated objects that help to make the finished artworks look more complex than the simple flat finish created by a typical painting. For example, Zach Harris…

Ten years ago, I threw my whole body into studying contemporary art. While I was trying to decode what made the art of that moment different, one of the first emerging artists that piqued my interest was Eddie Martinez. I remember going to a bunch of art fairs and thinking…

“The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative”.   Inspiration is such a powerful word.  You seemingly can’t have any great accomplishment, creative or not, without profound and clear inspiration and quite often, the most compelling concepts are learned directly from others. …

I captured this photo last night as the sunset was creating a constantly changing, kaleidoscopic picture of the sky.  I was watching TV and when I saw what was happening out of the corner of my eye, I sprang off my couch and ran outside with no jacket as if…

The phrase “begin with the end in mind” is something I often fall back on when I am challenged with working on a creative project or figuring out a task.   I can make an argument that this is the single most important thing for building strategy…and that can be…

I was shocked and saddened when I learned of Tony Hsieh’s death this weekend. While I never met Tony, I watched him share his stories about Zappos over the years and viewed him as an artist whose medium was building people centric business experiences. In 2010, I read Tony Hsieh’s…