Obviously, painfully staged photo of Michael James Schneider
photo by Summer Olsson
I’m Mike Schneider. After 20 years working in retail management, I put my career on pause for a year to start a life doing only things that fulfill me creatively and artistically. I paint, direct, write, am an amateur interior designer, and have done theatrical set and production design. I’m not a blacksmith, but I’m okay at everything else. Well, people have told me that, but these people usually turn out to be liars.
This blog started as kinda a dry chronicle of my process in the summer of 2012. Then the shit hit the fan: I got my heart broken, and I started looking inward. I made a lot of interesting discoveries, and these seemed to resonate with a lot of people. I don’t claim to have the answers for anyone, least of all myself, but I’m having fun on the journey. Or at lest pretending to on social media.
What do I ultimately want? I wanna make a living doing creative stuff! I’m starting from scratch here, and I have a lot of work to do. I self published a book. I’m surviving being single, and then not being single, and then getting my heart broken wide open. I interview people on the same journey. And I listen to awesome music while doing it.
Hey there. I first knew you when the winebox boyfriend went viral few years ago. I started following you on twitter and then went to this blog and read everything including the story about your brother. I realized that seeing you on twitter and reading your posts here just show me that human can have so much layers although in the end it’s only one person. I probably don’t make any sense to you.
Your wonderful work helped to pull me out of a dark place after a shocking and unexpected collapse of a relationship (that turned out to be a bullet dodged), thank you so much! Do you sell copies of your photos? I’d absolutely love to buy a photograph (or a few!) and frame it for my wall, it would mean a lot to me, is it possible, pretty please :)?!!
Thank you for being the straw that broke the camels back in my failed relationship. Crying and laughing at the same time while scrolling through a saved file of your work that I’m sure will get me through this.
I love your work. Please please oh please release the next part of Th Tropic of Never! I am super eager the see how it continues.