My name is Shawn
I am a digital artist, design fanboy, sometimes writer, sometimes podcaster rarely found without a cup of coffee in-hand. Welcome to my website.
As someone with AuDHD, the list of things I find interesting and currently dominating my full attention span changes daily, weekly, monthly… you get the idea. If any interest picks up enough steam, it gets a spot here. Scroll down to see the ones I decided were worth the time to build a whole section for.
Writing
So much of my life is spent typing but very little of it has felt like actual writing. I get bursts of inspiration to write more and with greater consistency, and much of that is what you’ll find here or on other writing platforms I push my work out to like Medium or Substack. In a world where we are constantly pushed to feed a content engine, I sometimes find that push motivating, but I’m frequently more inclined to pull back and nurture my own space with thoughts and ideas that may not burn as many eyes but remain “mine”. In my career, a “Source of Truth” is a popular theme and one I’ve found valuable. In theory, all of my writing will have a place here in my SOT, and parts of it will have clones out in other parts of the internet. But all of it should be available here.
Photography
MySpace photos: gone forever. Thank god.
Informed by a brief college education, graphic design work, and a lot of hobby photography self-teaching, I wield a phone camera more often than I have a DSLR ready at hand. This is the result.
The occasional photography project happens, but much of this is just the world I live in seen through a wannabe photographer’s eyes. My longtime work is finding a consistent style in the mess I create.
Podcasting
Started out of an interest in audio engineering, my podcast attempts are infrequent but something I’m proud of. While I explore whether the editing life is for me, the archive of my episodes across a couple different iterations can be found here.
Every new episode will also have a spot here, so check back from time to time to see what I’ve cooked up in Reaper.
Design
While many designers devote their entire site to the projects they’ve worked on, I’m too much of a jack-of-all-trades to allow the random design projects to dominate an entire domain. I spend too much time just building this website to throw together another for my design work. Hopefully this will suffice.