Flickr is full of interesting pictures and sometimes some of good ones are not *explored*. I am looking for young artists every day. Today I stopped by on Paul Octavious’s photostream. He is an photographer and designer living in Chicago. Paul played with the clouds and took really interesting shots.
I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. — Mike Tyson

Music surrounds us every day, except we can’t hear it, but just feel it. I was searching for music shots and I found a Vancouver based photographer David Seetoh Lang. His photos became more interesting when you read the behind scenes story.

Eat when you can. Sleep when you can. Charge your camera, phone, and computer batteries always. Sleep on tables in the back of U-Hauls. Have the jet engine of your plane run into a fuel track when docking at an airport bridge. Blaze life. Drunk Dines.
I know people who are active everywhere, in various sectors. I was overactive too until I talked to human resources and personal branding experts. They told me I should focus on things I like the most, things that I wanna work with in the future. After some balancing between the ambitions Art and blogging were the main answers, and that’s what I’m doing right now, here on DwA.

Photo by Tom Watson. He is currently a product designer for Facebook, designing their mobile products. Tom is an (I don’t like this word) amateur photographer too. I’ve found this photo on his Virb profile, which inspired me to write this article.
There is a situation when you have to drop some habits and start thinking about the future if you care about your career. I suggest you to write down the list of what you’ve done and what you are planning to do. For example, my plan was to start a new blog and connect my main passions art and blogging. First of all I wrote my blogging plan for 2010 and started working on design. After one month Die without Art (DwA) was born as my today’s *full-time* activity.
It seems Michael Jackson left the trending topics on Twitter and the other media is forgetting him too. Am I wrong? This illustrations by an norwegian illustrator and designer Rashid Akrim, are here to remind you about the *Billie Jean* legend. Urban use of bright colors perfectly cheer up the dark side of the tragic (true) story.

Owning driving license opens up many possibilities. I’ve got mine one month ago and you can call me *On the road* begginer. From now I can work on the ground, wherever I have to. But what happens when driving becomes writing? No, it’s not dangerous, do not worry it’s very creative. Two typographers Pierre and Damien and a pro race pilot Stef collaborated to design a font with a car. Sounds extreme, right?

Wake up your photos because the frames may be boring and static a bit. With the awesome Doodle Frames you can scribble a new one every day. Draw speech or thought bubbles, write notes or reminders for yourself. This product comes from Photojojo and it costs $15.
It’s great for telling the story behind a photo and adding a title or description.

Exploring is such a fun, I’ve found this animation on Vimeo. It’s about crazy animated animals, kinda animals, who are moving all around the real space. Many different bright colors increases the whole adventure. Music is following every move, and that’s what I specially like in this animation.
Director/Animator/Characterdesign: Kristofer Ström * AE/Filmmaestro/Cutting: Erik Buchholtz * Producers: Bart Yates, Nicholas Wakeham * Studio: varelsen / ljudbilden * Music: Minilogue
The first month of creativity and story sharing passed as the fastest train. If you followed that “train” every day, you know I’ve published over twenty articles through several categories such as photography, film, illustration and design.
Google Analytics makes me happy every midnight when I check the stats. I’ll keep those numbers my secret, but the percent of change is absolutely for the public – 188,300.00%. Are you kidding me, Google?
Today’s article is about a guy who grew up on a farm in rural New England. He’s name is Jeff Luker and he really, really likes to travel. He studied filmmaking but then began traveling the USA in hope to conjure the spirits of Eggleston, Frank and Sternfeld. Jeff has spent time in New York City where he worked in the photo and fashion industry. Then he took another trip though and ended up in Portland, Oregon. Where Jeff lives currently, although he has the travel bug, so he never stays anywhere too long. I said he likes to travel.

Lost Names is a series of photographs that are about loneliness, heartbreak and quiet moments. All of these photos were taken over a three year period of extensive travel throughout the United States.
Finally some clothes and fashion design. I’m glad to present you a swedish fashion designer Lamija Suljević and her *Balkan inspired* collection. It’s important to note that you can see this collection right now during the Stockholm Fashion Week.

Lamija works mostly with luxurious garments and old hand-made techniques such as crochet. Half of her collections is hand made crochet (100% wool).