We blogged about things to do before we die in the Polaroid Bucket List. One commenter announced his life long ambition to be featured on JoshSpear.com. While we do have an active “send us a tip” button on the top right of your screen, it caught our eye. We had a look and it’s some really good photography. Zip over to Fillmore Photography to see Michael Chen’s work and take part in your fellow reader’s blistering creativity. Keep up the good work — and you can now tick off “be featured on JoshSpear.com” from your bucket list.

I — for the most part — adore working at home. I am lucky to have a big space, by New York city standards anyhow, all to myself, but I still lack a dedicated office space. My dining room does double duty as my office around eighty percent of the time, but I’m okay with that; I get a decent amount of light, I rarely feel stifled and everything I need is within reach. A life of freelancing took some getting used to, and while I found distractions (like television, noisy kids off school during the summer, the desire to bake instead of work) a bit rough at first to zone out, once I dedicated a space to work in, things were a million times easier for me, and my productivity and ability to multitask grew exponentially. I’ve included a full list of my workplace staples after the jump, but tell me this: what kind of environment do you need to work in to be the most productive you can be?

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We generally keep our SpearTalks participants under wraps until the day the interview is actually published, but we’re so stoked to have Joshua Davis (ie: PrayStation creator, Apple Pro alum, Dreamless.org founder, Flash and Web-design deity) on board that we’ve decided to add a special section for questions submitted by you guys. If you have any burning questions, you can submit them here, as a comment (they won’t be approved; we’ll just compile them and send them along), use the spankin’ new tip submission widget at the top right of this page, or you can email them to us. Get them in by Sunday, then stay tuned for what’s sure to be one of the most inspiring and insightful SpearTalks to date.

Hi guys.

Here’s the deal: We’re on a mission to give you more of what you want. Things are evolving, as always, here at joshspear.com, and we’d love to hear your feedback. Your input is essential to helping us make sure we wind up with something useful, and not just, like, a third boob which at the beginning may seem like lots of fun, but really ends up being totally weird.

So today — if you don’t mind sparing a minute or two — tell us what we’re doing that you like. Or hate. Or wish we had, but don’t. Tell us anything you want, because we are going to hang on every word (because if not for you, we are not, etc, etc). Unless, of course, they are stupid suggestions wherein we’ll politely ignore them in public and laugh about them in private. Kidding!

Happy weekend.