C.A. Hall's Blog

Finding Lights On

As a creative exercise Lynda Barry often suggests people to vividly visualize a scene from their past. She suggests a granularity I had never considered with things like: look down at your feet & what do you see. This process has been something I find myself doing, not as a journaling habit but rather as something that has invaded my meditation.

Perhaps that's a few steps ahead of where I should have started. I've gone back to meditation. I abandoned the practice out of laziness but with all...

Thanks-give-in

Cold weather makes me anti-social. Ok. Yes, I'm already anti-social but cold weather makes it worse. And to be fair I'm not really anti-social so much as introverted. Many of you may not believe that I'm introverted but it is in fact true.They say that extroverts get their energy from talking to and being around other people and that introverts get it from being quiet and alone. Extroverts need to charge up. Introverts need to re-charge. Well, I am distinctly in category 2. While you may have...

Some nights

Some nights you settle in for a simple movie, just something fun, nothing challenging, nothing original, or overly deep. Some nights you settle in for one of those movies and suddenly find that every little detail resonates with you and your life like they were hidden easter eggs; hidden for you in a three-star-happy-ending-style film. These are the kind of films you end up owning a rewatching years later looking to recapture those tiny revelations. They are the movies that people laugh at wh...

On Grief

Grief is a strange process. You forget and remember and forget and then remember and on and on until the two begin to blur together and we're left only with a sad sence of remembered forgetfulness. And in the end it's the guilt of everything slipping away that holds on the longest. Maybe that's why we need tombstones, because they're cold and hard and heavy and they won't drift away like the memories of conversations and jokes and the exact dimensions of the faces that have passed. In the end...

On My Back (Like a Turtle)

Woke up this morning and my back was surprisingly free of pain. For the past few months I've been dealing with a bulged disc (possibly two). For those of you who don't know what a bulged disc is, I suggest you look it up. I knew nothing about it and still, to this day, find it easiest to describe as spine shit leaking out (which isn't exactly a medical term.) As a consequence my neck, shoulder and upper back muscles are overloaded. They are so rigid that even the physical therapist can't get...

Obsessed With The Curse of Oak Island

I'm completely obsessed with the TV show The Curse of Oak Island. Normally I hate reality TV because of how staged and artificial it is, but Oak Island has fascinated me for a long time. I don't know if I believe that there is anything extra-ordinary on that island, but I do believe that with a TV network propelling it, we may finally find out. Sure, they may drag it out for 10 seasons but fuck it, how else are you gonna afford that level of treasure hunting?

Interview with Lord Colin O'Neal

Website and social media:

LordColinOneal.com
Instagram

Your description of yourself & what you do:

I’m an artist, I love painting and drawing. Mostly I love working with watercolors and ink. I’m a Bay Area type of person, grew up here in the San Fransisco Bay Area, meaning I love the outdoors and my hobbies consist of scuba diving/freediving quite a bit and I’m a pretty avid Crocheter these days.

What turns you on creatively?

I’m obsessed when a concept crossed my mind that i find interesting. Like...

Interview with Eva Murray

Website and social media:

GOODREADS
FACEBOOK

Your description of yourself:

A sweet daydreamer who is the author of a new book of photos and essays, Seeking San Francisco, just published on Blurb.com; a novel, The Odyssey of Izzy, edited by San Francisco author Michelle Richmond; and a collection of short stories, Something Came Over Me, both on Amazon. I went to Camp NaNoWriMo in July and worked my second novel, Silicon Valley Zombie.

What turns you on creatively?

After reading “In a Kitchen Where...

Knowing When to Stop

Neil Gaiman said in his 2012 Keynote Address at The University of the Arts:

...the biggest problem of success is that the world conspires to stop you doing the thing that you do, because you are successful. There was a day when I looked up and realised that I had become someone who professionally replied to email, and who wrote as a hobby. I started answering fewer emails, and was relieved to find I was writing much more.

Similarly, I woke up the other day and realized that I listen to podca...

Interview with Koak

WEBSITE
INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK
TUMBLR

Your description of yourself & what you do:

I am a visual artist and writer. Currently I’m working on several projects.

Silk Screened Poster for The Devil Makes Three

I just finished a digital comic for Scrawl Magazine. I’m working on a new set of commissions for the band The Devil Makes Three. I’ve also just started a body of large-scale pastel drawings, called Noodies, for a solo gallery show. But my main focus right now is writing and illustrating a comic book...