What’s the best thing you’ve gotten mailed to you?
I’ve had a lot of amazing artwork sent to me, actually. I think Flora Hanitijo was one of the first to send me something, and it was a small book of her photographs. It was amazing to me that someone appreciated the site to the point where they’d send me something really personal that they’d made, as a gift.
What’s the worst thing?
My email inbox is always flooded with press releases that have obviously been sent out to 1,000 people at once, for things that no one could possibly care about.
When you started booooooom, Was it different than what it is today? How do you plan on keeping it growing?
Originally it was just a way of keeping track of artists and cool images I came across, and then I became more and more interested in hosting projects and having it be about making stuff, not just looking at it. I am reaching out to local galleries and art schools and just trying to grow the base locally now. Still, most of the readers of the site are living in the US and Europe.
What are you working on right now, commercial and personally?
Right now I’m working on my third series of boards for Endeavor Snowboards, a music video for a band from Denmark, and slowly writing a story that may or may not become an illustrated book.
Do you wish you had more time for your personal work?
Commercial work used to consume most of my time, but the popularity of the blog has allowed me to set aside just as much time (if not more) for it during the last two months. I hope it continues to be this way.
How does your approach differ?
For a client I always ask for a detailed brief; I really want to know exactly what they want up front. I want to have a clear vision of the end product that I can move towards. If they don’t know what they want, I don’t take the job. When I make personal art I try not to think about the end product at all—just enjoy the making.
