If youāre good at art, you can make it yourself. If you arenāt, buy something from an artist at a local farmers market, craft fair, or art gallery. Hereās some small paintings i made for my friends for christmas.
buy your friends art or buy a strangers art. not the mass produced stuff but that weird little sketch or painting or whatever. support folks, sometimes you find out 20 years later that someone was in the whitney biennial and you have one of their drawings from when they were a teenager and thatās pretty cool. buy stuff for $25 or $2000 or whatever you can afford - give your money to artists when you can!
You get to not only support them and their work, but itās the gift that keeps on giving as you get to surround yourself with the creative output of your favorite people.
Love the vibes of this channel. My favorite series of his is the āUnremarkable and Odd Places in ___ā. He basically finds liminal space type places in popular video games and shows them off, and then muses about life for a while. As someone who barely plays video games, I still find the videos entertaining and oddly comforting. Overall itās a very chill time.
