There’s a new game, called Love, just released last month by one-man indie developer Eskil Steenbert. If you have time, you should check out the gameplay demo video, it looks very cool and interesting and unlike anything else out there. Like with most indie games, it’s also astonishing it was created by just one person.

About a month prior to its release, its creator wrote a post explaining his reasoning behind, god forbid, actually charging money for the game, and in the middle of it all was this quiet indictment of the conventional wisdom:

“… The idea that we can produce more things, with higher quality, and fund it with smaller payments seems unrealistic to me.

“The smart money is not the ones trying to survive on microscopic payments, but the ones creating a platform to skim money from them. Apple wants the games on the Appstore to cost next to nothing, so that people buy more iPhones even if its not sustainable for the vast majority of developers. Google wants to you to think that you can become an overnight millionaire when everyone suddenly flock to your lolCat page with google ads on it, when they really make money on having millions of websites with their ads on that get a few hundred views each.”

And it makes me wonder whether this brilliant internet business model of giving your work away for free and then making money off the eyeballs is going to work when all the eyeballs are doing it too.

On a day filled with people’s impressions of Apple’s latest, the two paragraphs at the end of this otherwise-unrelated post by Leigh Alexander is my favorite thing written yet (and dare I say ever?) about the iPad.

Saw an article tonight, via Metafilter, on the Six Myths of the Art Market. All six are essentially variations of the same thing: it is incredibly foolish to buy art as an investment. You’re just asking to lose money. Seems like the subtext could easily be interpreted as don’t buy art — troubling words, to say the least, for someone like me who makes and sells art!

Seeing as I currently have a number of works available for sale, allow me to set the record straight on my own views:

I want you to buy my art. I’m happy to sell you my art. And I would love to sell enough art to make a living from just selling my art. But please don’t buy my art because you think of it as an “investment.” That’s not what art is for. That’s not why I created it. If you’re going to buy my art (and I really would like you to), please do it because you really like the art.

If you only buy art that you like, you’ll never end up with art that has no value.

A couple more watercolors from this week’s live model session.

Look for more acrylic paintings coming soon. I’ve got a few that have been brewing for some time now, and I think it’s all gonna boil over if I don’t finish one of them soon.

The model in this most recent session had the most incredible tattoo. Sadly, I was only able to work it into one of these paintings. I’ve had plenty of models before with cool tattoos, but this is the first time I’ve ever felt like if I didn’t draw the tattoo I was somehow cheating.