I will say Akin Collective (where my studio is) is a unique model in Toronto, and we’re very lucky. They negotiate with landlords for access to buildings that are slated for redevelopment but currently sitting vacant, so the spaces are crappy and our presence is temporary, but it works well for me!

So for me, renting a $240/month corner in a shared studio collective is cheaper and more feasible than either taking classes once a week, or getting in with a pottery studio that has a membership model. It’s TINY but I can keep my weird hours and habits happily.

It depends so much on your circumstance! I make ceramics and I’m a renter and I simply could not materially do it in my home without hazard and making my landlord so mad. HOWEVER, having a membership at a pottery studio is like $300-500/month. And taking classes is often a similar price.

Generally no! Unless it’s family, who channel invites through me, and it’s implied that *of course* I’ll bring him.

Ben this is FANTASTIC

I’m with you on like 90% of these but you’re literally the first person who I’ve heard say something like this and I am RELIEVED not to be alone and HERE FOR IT.

I get why people feel impressed by AI art sometimes—cause it makes a whole thing you couldn’t do, to an arguably high level of finish. But you’re also fundamentally missing the point that the awe you normally feel in encountering someone’s art is about surprising decisions they’ve *made.*

Thank u Rita! Coming in with exactly what I needed to hear! 🥹

Britt: “This knife tattoo is too hardcore for me.”
Also Britt: “I made these severed fingers, do you like them?”

Yes I mean I love active parents of all gender and also Ricken might be the scariest person on this (very scary) show.

Woah dude this is wild! Congrats!

Daaaaaamn I just read the latest update and that card art is Inspiring af. So excited.

Congrats Daniel! This is so exciting!!! 🎉

Never sure whether something’s an image, an object, or “content”