A mid-life crisis pushes a mild mannered Simon and Garfunkel fan to go skydiving. Andy Christie is co-owner of Slim Films, an illustration and animation studio in New York. He is a Moth GrandSlam Champion. Visit him at www.AndyChristie.com.
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Without meaning to sound like a Grinch, Christmas always seems to be a time when everything is pulled out of you, from you. A time of peace? I don’t think so. More like a time of frantic cramming as the end of the year looms; the need for ending cleanly, everything done, tidied away so […]

So where do we go from here now that 2010 looks like its going to be one of the toughest years in recent times? In the art sector there seems to be relief. Cuts weren’t as bad as people feared and The National Campaign For The Arts is taking credit for it. Fair enough I say, take the credit […]

 
In the beginning everything was clear. The road lay ahead and the maker was anxious to get started. It all seemed so simple. He had read about those that went before him and was in no doubt that he too could find his way. Know his mark and make it. And so he left the […]

 
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most […]