Renaissance Oaf? What the--

A renaissance is a re-birth. Outside of its use as a label for a certain period of European history, the word is usually used to refer to the re-birth of an individual or a set of skills. These days the term Renaissance man is usually applied to someone with an unusually wide variety of artistic and intellectual pursuits.

Hey there. My name’s Sean Craven and I’m working hard on living up to the above. I write, I create visual art using everything from pencil and paper to computer graphics programs to photography, I make music. I have a layman’s interest in the sciences, particularly paleontology, I’m the kind of cook that inspires gluttony, and at one time or another I’ve dabbled in everything from sculpture to film. I’ve been either blessed or cursed with the kind of magpie mind that accumulates facts and phrases in a relentlessly higgledy-piggledy fashion.

I entered the workforce at thirteen as a janitor and left it at thirty-seven, courtesy of a couple of bad discs. For the past seven years I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a living. During the Web animation boom of the late twentieth century I had an income over the poverty level for about a year while I wrote scripts for Mondo Media but then the crash came and washed my beautiful career away.

Now I’m back in school and working on a number of projects I’ll tell you about in another post. Since I’m unsuited to most jobs now that I can’t stand or sit or lift for any amount of time I’m trying to figure out how to make a living using my creative skills.

And that is what this blog is about. It’s me, trying to remake myself into a new oaf, one capable of earning a living. I have another site – seancraven.com – that’s an outlet for my art and humor and so on. It’s more intended for public consumption. This one is going to be a tool for me to use to keep myself on-track. An artist’s public diary. And, hopefully, a record of my re-birth.

Take my word for it – this is going to get weird.