Create more meaning.
My Pilgrimage to Jordan Peterson
True JP fanboys are required to make this journey once in their pathetic lives to justify the suffering of existence, save the dead father, and take their place in the eternal hierarchy, buck-o.
36 pages_13pt font_8006 words
Began 2/5/2023
Disconnected?
1427 words
8 pages
8.5inx11in paper
“We join Albert Camus in speculating if the only logical thing to do now is kill ourselves... In the taco bell drive through, pondering Absurdist Existentialism.”
“The Tryhard”
A story about the transformative power of not being good enough.
5866 words.
27 pages, wide margin.
8.5inx11in paper.
BOOK.4 - HOW THE BONEYFIDDLER GOT ITS BONES
Back in time (1910 Portsmouth) Ben encounters the haunting and avoided Boneyfiddler, who some claim is a dangerous vagabond, others the son of Satan, others a cannibal...
Nothing is what is seems. Ben must discover the real truth of the Boneyfiddler, avoid fiddle-driven insanity, find keys, and stop the Portsmouth Music from being devoured (as-in eaten) forever.
(P.O.V.) YOU TAKE THE ENTREPRENEUR’S JOURNEY!
In collaboration with the SSU Kricker Innovation Hub to bring their 8 program progression of entrepreneurship to life with Storytelling and Visual Metaphors
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The King Sayeth!
BOOK.3 - WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR ART WHEN YOU DIE
Herein this short story collection is held and essay answering this question “WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR ART WHEN YOU DIE?” along with other stories about Art, Death, and the things in-between:
(i.e.: Sherman family legends, Tolkien tree stories, freelance graphic design woes, romantic Kroger employees, manic writers encountering frog daemons, cloud-based trans-humanism, the meaning of pain, 3000+ days of sobriety, creative but risky funeral home commercial ideas, Diogenes-type homeless people yelling profanities on the streets of Chicago, and revelations about what art actually is.)
WRITING AS A FIRST COMMANDMENT VIOLATION (SHORT STORY FROM BOOK.3)
The story is a kind of dark inspiration from the following Henry Miller Quote
“I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believe in you. Perhaps one does it just because nobody believes; perhaps the real secret lies in making people believe.”
-Henry Miller
Specs—- WORDS:3295 —- 10 pages
THE MEANING OF BOXING…(ROUGH DRAFT.4)
Heather and I went to the USA sanction boxing event at the Elks Lodge in Portsmouth, Ohio. The event inspired this piece of journalism / essay - following the tradition of New Journalism:
SPECS:
7,000 words
28 wide margin pages
MARCH.4
300 DAYS OF DAN (SUFFERING)
Specs:
Shown in the Southern Ohio Museum's
Cream of the Crop 2021 Exhibition, as Nick Sherman's art submission.
Entitled: "300 Days of Dan"
-- Medium: Pen & Ink --
Selling for $2 a square.
Each day was as heartbreaking as the next, I will admit. Day after day, I drew 1 square, 5 minutes at the most per session, measuring about one square-inch drawing per square, and watching the tragedy that is Dan's life unfold over the weeks and months. Then finally, as almost a relief to his weary soul, Dan was brutally murdered-- but! --it is written that there shall be an avenger of blood, and so, Whinchester (he lives!), that ugly and divine beast, sought to realize this prophecy...
*looking back, there are numbering errors…i’m sorry. It reads right to left and top to bottom!
66 IDEAS FOR FREE SOCIETY
Why? Creativity benefits most from the free exchange of ideas.
THE CREATIVE BRIEF NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE…
Delivery every other Friday!
-Stories, Married Artist Adventures, Cool Creative Friends, Mild Solicitation
HOW TO START A CREATIVE CULT (IN 66 EASY STEPS)
“The guide we’ve all been waiting for” - Chris B.
A narrative-driven self-help book following ambitious college art students who in attempting to discover True Creativity accidentally start a dangerous cult….
“META COMMENTARY” SHORT SHORT STORY - VIDEO
“This all leads up to something.
The fork in the road. The unironic global scale presentations of your future. Your future. Red or Blue...”
Photo by Clem Onojeghuo from Pexels
(META 2) — THE FINAL TERRIFYING FRONTIER OF ADVERTISING TO PRIVATE EXPERIENCE (SHORT STORY)
“But I think…I think that a world that can make you into, like, whatever it wants to make you into…slimy cheese dust…that’s no world worth living in…”
“KROGER GUY” SHORT STORY
A short story inspired by a recent Portsmouth Little Theatre performance.
Art inspires more Art!
“THE CLOUD” SHORT STORY
“A story about the powerful magic of tech eternity, the necessity of death, and a brutal legend of loving sacrifice.”
DEAD END JOB (A NOVELLA)
IMAGINE: you have a soul-crushing day job.
You tell yourself that you're different, that you won't end up like them, that this is just a temporary job, a stepping stone into the bright and promising future of your dream career!
But then you realize you’re going to be stuck for a non-metaphorical ETERNITY
Pictured: "Der Tod als Freund" (Death as Friend) by Alfred Rethel 1851
“WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR ART WHEN YOU DIE?” - ESSAY
And so, for better or for worse, I opened the shiny Pandora’s Box that is Apple Safari and thumbed in the question:
What happens to your art when you die?
Nick’s Office…”Make it Beautiful!”
“The Freelance Graphic Designer” ESSAY
My personal essay about why Design is Not Art, and the implications of the Design Anarchy Statement that: “I wanted to be an artist, but instead, I became a graphic designer”
DOWNLOAD: “30 HARD COPY VOL.2”
Concept: I write 100 journal entries in a running word document.
I select 30 of those entries and clean them up...then I share them with you.