What is The Fire Jar?
Welcome!
This is a blog / newsletter featuring a wide mix of drawings, exercise suggestions, fun thought experiments, big questions, and small prompts.
A curated playground of art, movement, and occasional shower thoughts.
It's produced by Jeremy Finch.
And many collaborators.
Creative kindling.
In bite-sized formats.
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Motivations
I started this project because I love making things. And because I wanted a regular creative accountability mechanism. A blank canvas. A public forcing function.
Here's the origin story.
And my reflections, after 100 weeks.
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Ponder a timeless paradox.
Enjoy some animated beats.
Read the user manual for your brain.
Listen to a playlist (one / two).
Hear my early parenting thoughts.
Peruse woodcut prints or photos.
Learn how I design these graphics.
Check out a deep-dive TV review :
Enlightened / Battlestar Galactica
Great science fiction places familiar topics into unfamiliar settings so that we see them from new perspectives.
And uses this as a mirror to reflect our human shortcomings.
Here's why I think an early-2000s TV space opera is more relevant today than ever.
BSG mega-thread 👇 pic.twitter.com/tVGWiQ4avB
Three topics I'm drawn to :
1. Learning and knowledge
2. Bodies, health, and movement
3. Arts, design, and creativity
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Values :
Design
Respect your time, trust, and attention.
Questions
Ask for feedback. Listen patiently.
Balance
Mind-body, big-small, serious-silly etc.
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