Shing Yin Khor is a multi-dimensional artist, almost literally. She’s a cartoonist, illustrator, sculptor, and installation and experimental artist. She works across many media, technology, and ideas. She says she’s entered a new phase of her career over the last five years, and we talk about her work, empathy, and how she got here.

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Show notes

• You should definitely follow Shing on Instagram, visit her Patreon, and read her on Twitter
• Jim Woodring, a cartoonist with a comprehensively different world, also created a 7-foot-pen
• Does it require 10,000 hours to master something? Not really.
• The Center for Otherworld Science
• Portal's protagonist is a woman
• The Blue Ox Bar at the XOXO Festival
• The Popeye movie was filmed in Malta, and the former sets were turned into a peculiar theme park
• The Harry Potter “Warner Brothers Studio Tour” outside London is actually a celebration and explanation of all the beautiful craftwork that goes into making those films
• Resistance Cranes raised $10,000 in October 2018 to aid refugees and immigrants