istickboy

After a few months researching drone art, I published an essay about how artists have interpreted unmanned warfare inside the deviantART community. I looked at everything from the sketches of John James Audubon to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Check out my deviantART gallery of drone art to see all my inspiration. Here's an excerpt from my article: "Unmanned airplanes and other robotic fighting machines will obsess popular culture for years to come, and deviantART has already become a hub for drone art. Artists have tagged more than 19,000 posts with the word "drones" inventing everything from robots with laser cannons to My Little Pony drone h

When I was a kid, I submitted stories to a couple mystery magazines. My family didn't have a computer at the time, so I hand-typed these short stories on a battered typewriter I found at a garage sale. The work was mind-bendingly dull, but you learned something when you had to crumple an entire sheet of paper after plunking a stray letter. Every word had to be perfectly arranged and calibrated. None of the stories ever got published, but now I write for a living. My favorite way to write now is scribbling notes with a stylus on my iPad. I feel like that kid again, scrawling a story on paper and then polishing it into something better. At the