What bothers me about the world we have built Sometimes I look around and think we have accidentally wandered into the plot of a ridiculous super villain movie, except there is no James Bond turning up at the last minute to blow up the secret headquarters and save everyone. There is no dramatic…

Happy International Shark Day!

Kevin Bacon wants to become Kevin Bean. It sounds like the setup for a bad dad joke, but beneath the pun sits a serious question. What kind of food system do we actually want to support? Kevin's idea of encouraging people to eat beans instead of meat on Wednesdays comes from a place I can respect.…

Staring Contest - My Visual Dream Journal andycmarshall.com/2025/07/11/m...

My Visual Dream Journal – Day 5 - New Beginnings - Sometimes a new beginning does not arrive quietly. Sometimes it arrives like a storm through an open window, tearing apart the rooms we thought we understood and leaving us standing in the middle of the mess, wondering what comes next. This…

Mastering Hyper-Realism & Creative Content with Alexander Notarangelo | Fork in the Road Podcast andycmarshall.com/2025/05/27/m...

Taking inspired action @sabet.bsky.social Fork in the Road Podcast

Chocolate – My Visual Dream Journal – Day 4 There is no correct amount of chocolate. There is only the moment it stops tasting like something and starts becoming something you are doing while you are thinking about something else. I have noticed that when things feel heavy, I do not really eat…

Don’t get stuck in one version of existence The immortal jellyfish has been sitting with me a bit lately, not as some perfect symbol, more just as a strange reminder that life does not always move in a straight line. It drifts, it changes conditions, and when things shift in a way it cannot…

It’s easier to let the daily grind smother your creative spark than it is to fight for the time to nurture it. But those who do fight? They’re the ones planting seeds of beauty and originality in the world.

What can artists learn from the Honey Badger

The Forest Harp – My Visual Dream Journal – Day 194 Every time I sell a piece of artwork it reminds me that the most interesting part is rarely the sale itself. The interesting part is that something which began as a private thought, a half remembered dream or a strange idea inside my own head…

Mastering Murals and The Art Business with Cat Dean | Fork in the Road Podcast andycmarshall.com/2025/03/25/m...

The honey badger does not give a f**k andycmarshall.com/2026/03/16/t...

W is for Water Deer - Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet

Crazy in the Coconut My Visual Dream Journal - Day 4 Life seems to be made almost entirely of contradictions. How can I love handmade art and artificial intelligence at the same time? How can I create art that celebrates nature while using technology that consumes enormous amounts of energy and…

P is for Platypus - Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet

Snakes Alive – My Visual Dream Journal – Day 2 A collaboration between my private subconscious and the collective unconscious. I use AI as a tourist's camera, capturing fleeting images from my dreamworld before they vanish. Like Polaroids developing in reverse, they dissolve back into the noise of…

The Healing Power of Art: Synesthesia, Dreams & NFTs with James Lee | Fork in the Road Podcast andycmarshall.com/2025/03/12/t...

A honey badger does not need a couch Buy – Wolverine Original 1 of 1 -$95AUD andycmarshall.com/2026/04/06/a...

Fuck You – My Visual Dream Journal – Day 1 (again) For the last four years I have been poking around in the NFT world like a bloke sticking his hand into hollow logs looking for treasure and mostly finding angry spiders. I started on VoiceHQ. It shut down. Then I moved to Revel. It shut down. Then…

What’s an animal that you’ve never seen in a kids book?

Persistence is how rare animals survive. Persistence is how ecosystems recover. Persistence is how artists cross the invisible line between being overlooked and being undeniable.

Perhaps the most alien creatures in the universe are the ones sharing this world with us right now.

From Corporate Job to Full-Time Musician | TortureTwinn’s Andrew Devin on the Fork in the Road Podcast andycmarshall.com/2025/09/16/f...

The Truth Behind UAPs: Unidentified Anomalous Pussycats T-Shirts Available Now andycmarshall.com/2025/01/05/t...

Animals and Art at the Fork in the Road

Is the vampire bat too scary for a kids book, or exactly the kind of uncommon animal that belongs in one? 🦇

How Aoife O’Dwyer Found Freedom as a Full-Time NFT Artist | Fork in the Road Podcast andycmarshall.com/2025/08/27/h...

I’m drawing a brocket deer, tiny, shy, and endangered, and it hits me how much it feels like artists today. Both live in worlds where everything is sacrificed to the god of money and convenience. Forests get bulldozed, attention spans get mined, and creativity gets undervalued.

Just make the art you love and put it out into the world

I like that it can sit on a couch behaving itself while quietly asking questions. Are you leaning back into comfort, or are you leaning forward into something that matters.

The reality of the starving artist - Chris Choi - Fork in the Road Podcast

If you’re ready to bring a bit of ocean magic to your walls, my rainbow dumbo octopus wallpaper is just the thing

Some vision board manifesting ai bullshit right here. 😆 I gotta get me a studio… a real one

to anyone juggling life’s endless demands while still finding time to make art: I see you, and I’m in awe. Admiring the Art of Making Time andycmarshall.com/2024/12/10/a...

make something meaningful even when there is no guarantee anybody will notice

We search the skies for wonder while stepping over it in the grass. andycmarshall.com/2026/02/25/w...

Sometimes the most radical thing an artist can do is build a life that allows their creativity to keep showing up year after year.

Hypno Bat Howler is a perfect storm of everything I love: uncommon animals, optical illusions, layered storytelling, and the strange joy of letting your art howl.

Deep beneath the ocean, surrounded by toxic chemicals and scalding hydrothermal vents, it survives by farming bacteria on its own hairy claws.

The Season of Possibility: Lessons From the Xantus Hummingbird

Meet the ragged toothed shark With rows of long needle like teeth sticking out in every direction, the ragged toothed shark appears permanently grumpy and ready for trouble. Yet despite its fearsome appearance, it is surprisingly calm around humans and is considered one of the less aggressive…

I Share My Favourite Luxury With a Jumping Spider The jumping spider does not build the classic spider web most of us picture stretched between branches waiting for prey. Instead, it creates a tiny silk retreat. A little sleeping chamber woven from fine white threads and tucked beneath a leaf,…

Live longer. Extend your life. Beat ageing. Outsmart death.

We are shaped by what surrounds us

Early influences for the Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet

A Water Deer from South Australia Finds a Home in Germany A person in Germany has just purchased my "I Am an Uncommon Animal" Water Deer T shirt, and I still find it amazing that artwork created on our little farm in South Australia can find its way across the world and connect with someone I will…

I surprised these two in my fridge this morning. What do you think they were talking about?