SKETCH Episode 3

This being Saturday, the week's episode was posted today. We did a longer SKETCH (actually a little longer than the original intent for the main show - although what length of show means in this discussion is a different matter) as an interlude to next week's episode - which has turned out to have several technical challenges. These aren't super-tough challenges, they are tedious, grunt work challenges that take a bit of time. So, this week we have a SKETCH.

At some point in the near future I'm going to have a meeting with myself to work through whether there is a need for the distinction between a regular episode of PORTFOLIO and a SKETCH episode. As it stands I think there is; if for no other reason than to show that a given episode has briefly broken the 'theme' of the episodes that surround it.

These first 7 or so episodes have been (loosely) about Stock Art, but that mini-series will be coming to an end shortly and we will be wondering off in search of very different forms of creativity. I'd be very surprised if we did not come back to Stock Art, and artists, from time to time, but the show was never intended to focus solely on that topic.

There are so many ways and things that people create, and so many that I know almost nothing about. The show's primary purpose is to give me a reason and a method for doing just that; finding out more about all that cool stuff, and the people who do it.

So, for this week, I hope you'll take a moment to learn a little more about the musical work and current projects of Thomas Dolby. He's been an innovator a couple times in a couple different fields, and - hopefully - he may be creating some crazy new stuff very soon. If you have iTunes, you can hear pieces of almost all his music there. It's a good place to start.