A good blog, I suppose, is a workshop, a place to hash things out, itself a working studio. So I like the title in that sense.

More personally and specifically:

(1) My wife and I have always called our amalgamation of freelance work — joking a bit because it sounds so pretentious — “The Thulson Studios.” It made a natural title for a blog where I talk about that work. I just wouldn’t want you to take it too seriously.

(2) Except … I do love the word “studio,” coming from Latin for zeal or devotion; it’s a wonderful etymology for the way we describe, in English, both the process of learning and an artist’s physical workplace. If I’m a student of how art interacts with society, I suppose that this blog is one of my primary workplaces. Each of the posting categories becomes a workshop of its own, a place I can assemble ideas and test them out. Each navigational point of entry, I hope, becomes a place of its own for collaboration.

That meaning — a place for students/devotees/artists to work together — seems like the highest and best meaning of “studio.” And those places, online or off, are what I work constantly hoping to create.