My thoughts on life, design, and simplicity.
It’s hard to believe that 2022 is almost upon us. Although calendars are always with us via our electronics, I really enjoyed having a physical calendar to look at. That's why I decided to continue my MPStudios standard-issue Wall Calendar for 2022. Fully revised &…
Read MoreI am back at The Barn! This time with artist & instrument maker Caleb Byerly. At this event, Caleb plays the Salimbaa-it’s an ancient tribal instrument lost to time until…
Read More“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Benjamin Franklin
Read MoreI am back at The Barn! This time with my good friend Joel Kilmer. As a musician, you have a group of artists you really enjoy playing with, and Joel is one of those artists. It's been a while since…
Read More“Change brings opportunity“ -Nido Qubein
Read MoreI’m back playing at The Barn, this time with special guest Georgian Banov and friends. It was a wondrous time of joy and fun! So sit back, grab some popcorn and join in the celebration…
Read MoreI interact with the world differently than most. In fact, according to experts, only about 12 percent of the world is like me...left-handed. When designers go about creating our modern world, they aim to design for the majority of people. This design bias is everywhere from…
Read More“Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength… It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.“ -Charles Spurgeon,
Read MoreThe climate narrative has been the same for over thirty years- we need to get off fossil fuels yesterday or suffer consequences. With this idea now deeply entrenched in the current culture discussion, how in the world would it make sense to advocate using even more fossil fuels? Alex Epstein attempts to answer that question and more in his book…
Read More“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.“ -Milan Kundera
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