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Art on IG

Are you on Instagram? I've been posting fewer posts here on Fly but updating frequently on IG some of my recent drawings and inspirations (like that beautiful photo of Esperanza Spaulding top left and Lianne La Havas' single cover on the top right), and fun outings. See more at @andreapippins. 

The Bombe Surprise

Loving this fun collection from the London based label, Bombe Surprise.

Creative Tip of the Week: Are You A Doer?

I am a true Aquarius. A thinker and definitely a dreamer. As a child I spent a lot of time in my imagination, creating worlds with my color pencils and words. Writing was a fun past-time for me. I have tons of old notebooks from that time, filled with drawings and stories from my grade-school years. (I was/am also a true nerd.)

These worlds I created were places I wanted to see and be a part of and they always generated new ideas and projects that I wanted to execute. At some point.

Thinkers and dreamers are the folks we need for innovation, exploration, and providing solutions. These are the folks who ask the questions no else would think to ask. Like, what if people could fly? Or what's on the other side of the ocean? We need these questions, but we also need those same folks to be doers.

I have idea books filled with questions, ideas, and projects I'd like to pursue. Most of which no one could probably complete in a life time. But how sad if none of them are never executed?

Another classic Aquarian trait? We are easily distracted — but in today's tech and social media obsessed culture most of us are and fall victim to never-ending scrolls. Then of course life distracts with it's many obligations. But these are all excuses keeping us from exploring the dreams and questions we all have. For me, putting my head down and spending more time making and less time on my phone and watching TV has been my effort to be more of a doer.

Coupling our ideas with action puts those ideas into motion. Any effort, any tiny spark of energy towards the idea will ignite the project and give it life. It doesn't matter how long it takes, just do something when you can until it's done. 

Let's be dreamers who are doers.

So what will you do today towards executing one (or more) of your amazing ideas?