Cabe Lindsay
Stellar storyteller, strategist, and leader in mission-driven media.
Cabe Lindsay, M.A., is the creative director of Arise Media Studio in Austin, Texas. Arise specializes in documentary-style storytelling that builds trust and inspires connection. Our nonprofit branch, Showya, provides professional media support to emerging artists, entrepreneurs, and healers, helping bright ideas take flight. Cabe’s body of work spans documentary films, published books, original music, and fine art.
Outside the studio, Cabe is a rad daddy and a lifelong learner. His creative projects celebrate everyday beauty and the shared spark of human experience. With a blend of artistry, authenticity, and vitality, he helps people feel seen, supported, and ready to shine. Through film, photography, and creative strategy, he guides clients in expressing their truth, elevating their presence, and connecting with purpose.
Conceptual Art
Fine Art
The Art
“Flower Songs” is Cabe Lindsay’s fine art series blending watercolor painting with digital enhancement. These unique artworks feature human figures with a flower for a head—symbolizing the harmony between people and nature. The series highlights three pathways to wellness: holistic health, connection to nature, and spiritual growth.
The Artist
As an artist, Cabe transitions between various forms of artistic expression, but his creative voice remains consistent: whimsical, heart-led, and rooted in reverence. He embraces the playful and the soulful, balancing lightness with depth, and making room for humor, honesty, and wonder in every medium he touches.
The Intention
Cabe works in a state of flow that blends curiosity and joyful experimentation. His guiding philosophy: “Bloom where you are planted.” The work invites others to create from that same place—through the act of blossoming by choice, resilience, and alignment. These artworks are offerings, not performances: made in service to bright ideas.
“Walk In Beauty” is the artwork showcased here. Two blue deer walk side by side down a red dirt road through a desert canyon, symbolizing a sacred way of life. The man, dressed in rugged cowboy attire, and the woman, in a flowing red gown, blend elegance and strength as ravens soar above—guides of transformation and spirit. With stars above a white setting sun, this scene honors the sacred “red road” of purpose, respect, and reverence for the natural world.
Would you consider showing your encouragement to the artist by buying a gift, or sharing the art and spreading the joy? You'll find a wide variety of gifts for sale, created by this artist on Red Bubble. Merch includes framed art, stickers, posters, notebooks, phone cases, magnets, mugs, and T-shirts. For custom art commissions and unique prints directly from this artist, reach Cabe Lindsay by phone: 512-230-1646 or email: cabe@cabelindsay.com.
Books
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Youth Fiction
Wyld is a youth fiction novel series that invites young readers on an adventurous journey through Wild Wyoming. It's an epic coming-of-age story of high school students getting to know their nature, through wildlife encounters, self-discovery, and belonging. These novels show that people of all ages can move hearts, spark imagination, and contribute to a more beautiful world. His numerous books span genres but share a common purpose: to inspire discovery through artful storytelling.
Children's Lit
Be Well Bee is a classic children's book. It began as a successful Kickstarter Campaign, completed in 2013 with an epic book launch party shown here. In this story, a remarkable honey bee meets her destiny, when she learns about a snow lily, on the verge of extinction. She does everything in her power to pollinate this flower. Cabe Lindsay's additional children's books include: Brave Spirit, I Walk In Beauty, and Wild Wyoming—books designed to nurture imagination, courage, and a sense of wonder.
Nonfiction
Cabe Lindsay's nonfiction title Big Idea Patterns offers fresh frameworks for creative thinking and innovation. He wrote the book as his master's thesis. His creative writing also includes a four-part art book series: Always Never Sometimes (Roots, Breakthroughs, Blooms, and Fruits). These books explore the roles we play in life through evocative imagery and poetry.
Music
Cosmic Butterflies—Far Out & Heartfelt
Fly into the wild meadows of Cosmic Butterflies—an Austin-based musical group whose music is more than melody with a message; it’s a journey. The songs are open doors, blending the energetic pulse of psychedelic rock with the earthy warmth of folk, and genre-bending dance tracks in progressive house, creating an experience we call folkadelic. Whether you’re on a road trip, around a campfire, in a yoga session, or walking in nature, our music is made for feel-good adventures.
The band's albums—Colors Flying, Lover Songs, And a Dancing Bear—showcase this range. Songs carry listeners into the heights of sensation, the depths of connection, and the middle ground of co-creation. Cosmic Butterflies is more than a band—they’re a movement of harmonization, led by peace, grace, love, and truth. Stream the music at your pleasure. Tune in on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon… wherever life takes you.
Medicine Song & Watercolor Animated Music Video
Brave Spirit is the #1 single from Cosmic Butterflies’ album Colors Flying, a medicine song about courage that blends myth, melody, and movement into a timeless tale. The song evokes indigenous influences and cowboy poetry alike. Its music video—crafted entirely from hand-painted watercolor animation—brings this mythic world to life, where two souls from different tribes meet by destiny and discover love, bravery, and connection with the sacred. With flute, guitar, and drum guiding the way, Brave Spirit invites listeners to embody courage, honor the mystery, and dance with the spirit that rises with the moonlight.
A Journey of Love and Freedom
From the 2024 album Lover Songs, We Used To Run by Cosmic Butterflies tells the story of two wild souls who meet in nature and share a spirited dance. With a psychedelic rock sound and a Santana-inspired groove, the song evokes the imagery of two sacred horses running free, their love thundering through every vein, and their flight carrying them into boundless skies. The music video blends this mythic love story with a visual celebration of freedom, memory, and connection to the natural world. At once tender and powerful, We Used To Run invites listeners to remember where they come from—and to feel the eternal pulse of love that sets us all in motion.
A Song Exploring the Ranges of Fear and Love
Home, written by Kate Lindsay and performed with Cosmic Butterflies, is a visionary song that journeys through the depths of fear and the heights of love, carrying listeners into a timeless space of healing and connection. The music video brings this spirit to life with imagery of human flight, ocean immersion, and heavenly reunion, symbolizing surrender, resilience, and creativity born from community. Featuring a rich blend of instruments including cello, flute, harp, piano, guitar, bass, and drums, along with angelic vocal arrangements, the song evokes emotions that range from lullaby-like tenderness to the soaring energy of celebration.
Films
Wisdom for the Future, Spoken from Tradition
Directed, filmed, and written by Cabe Lindsay, Voices of the Grandmothers (2021) is a documentary that carries the living wisdom of indigenous elders into the modern world. Through intimate interviews, prayerful imagery, and story-centered filmmaking, Cabe weaves a cinematic invitation to remember our shared roots and listen deeply to the teachings of the Earth. The film asks a simple but urgent question: “The Grandmothers are speaking—are we listening?”
Featuring Grandmother Flordemayo, Grandmother Perci, Grandmother SaSa, Grandmother Moetu-Taiha, Reverend Grandmother Eila Paul, and more, the documentary honors voices of strength, healing, and cultural continuity. Cabe’s vision for the film was to create both a prayer and a call to action—one that invites viewers to walk with wisdom, restore reverence, and carry these stories forward for future generations.
A Story of Resilience, Community, and Hope
Directed, filmed, and co-written by Cabe Lindsay, Pontiac—Roses Through the Thorns is a documentary portrait of a city shaped by industry, loss, and unshakable spirit. Through on-location cinematography, archival storytelling, and firsthand accounts from residents and community leaders, the film traces Pontiac’s journey from its automotive legacy to the creativity and resilience still rooted in its streets today.
The documentary serves as both a love letter and a challenge—reminding viewers that every place carries stories worth tending, just as roses push through concrete to bloom. The full film is currently in festival submission and available for private screenings. The official trailer offers a first glimpse into the heart of Pontiac and the people who continue to rise through adversity.
Podcasts
New Media
Trending Techniques and Creative Leaps in AI Animation
The 2025 music video for “Path of Love” by Cosmic Butterflies features a polar bear cub in an epic search for his mama bear, at a fragile time of global warming. This represents the current trailblazing AI animation capabilities of Adobe Firefly in a short film created for the AI Animation Competition by Promise + Curious Refuge. Another example of Firefly's AI generative art is “Close To You,” from the album Lover Songs (2024).
These three pioneering AI animated videos come from the early era before AI generative art met the masses. Deforum Stable Diffusion and Google Colab were the specific technologies we used generate these stunning animations. Before generative AI art hit the mainstream, these underground tools allowed boundary-pushing artists and innovators to create stunning, dreamlike visuals—especially for music videos. This era was a kind of digital renaissance, where open-source innovation met poetic imagination.
Comedy
Veggie Bros–An Animated Adventure About Two Talkative Eggplants
Meet Larry and Leon—two talkative eggplants who discover they can think, feel, and even scoot across the cutting board. What begins as small talk quickly turns into big questions about life, fear, friendship, and bliss—all under the shadow of a kitchen knife. Veggie Bros is a surreal cartoon about resilience, humor, and finding joy in the most unlikely places. Playful, philosophical, and just a little absurd, it’s as if Pixar met Monty Python in a vegetable drawer.
The Veggie Bros story first sprouted in 2004, when Arise filmmaker Cabe Lindsay began drawing eggplant cartoons for an organic farm marketing campaign. Decades later, these quirky characters evolved into a full-fledged animation project—brought to life during the creative quiet of 2020. At its heart, Veggie Bros is a story about willpower and perspective. What happens when two veggies wake up to their own consciousness? They start questioning everything—and discover the power of gratitude, humor, and choice along the way.
Beyond its laughs and lovable characters, Veggie Bros celebrates creativity as a form of resilience. The series is designed to delight children while offering tongue-in-cheek wisdom for adults—encouraging everyone to look on the bright side of life and dance with whatever’s on the cutting board.
A quirky, upbeat, original disco funk song in the vibe of Chaka Khan, for a friend wishing to hear her name in a song. Music by DJ Dancing Shoes. This music video is part of the World of Woo series—a metaphysical comedy variety show exploring identity, absurdity, and glitter.
Enjoy a reimagined version of a beloved early Disney film, now available in the public domain. This fresh edit breathes new life into the classic with an newly created soundtrack that pays homage to the enchanting melody of the original. Experience the magic, nostalgia, and the timeless charm in a new way. Whether you're a lifelong Disney fan or a newcomer, this remix offers a unique artistic reinterpretation that celebrates the enduring legacy of Disney's early masterpieces.
World of Woo—Comedy Tarot Reading
Step inside World of Woo, where tarot cards, crystals, and psychic visions collide with comedy. In this episode, Jim visits Miss Lala for a tarot reading to seek guidance on romance, and destiny. But between vegan dragon smoke, Archangel Gary’s feather, and the Death card, things get hilariously out of hand. Performances by Cabe Lindsay and Audrey Love.
World of Woo is a comedy variety show, putting a playful spin on all things woo-woo. Expect laughter, parody, sarcasm, and magic. Our intention is to help normalize the woo-woo. This is meaningful work, because spiritual diversity is often marginalized, ridiculed, or misinterpreted in popular media. We aim to spark curiosity, hold conversations, and honor all walks of life.
“Be bold. It is said that ‘fortune favors the brave.’ So, too, does creativity favor the curious and the courageous.” —Maria Rivera
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Specialties
Video Production • Photography • Art Direction • Digital Marketing Strategy • Brand Development • Copywriting • Integrated Campaign Management
Success Stories
Trailblazing Films • Health & Wellness Training Libraries • Videos w/ 1M+ Facebook Views • Cinematic Music Videos • Inspiring Books • Heartwarming Photo Campaigns
Social Networking
Experience
Creative Director
Arise Media Studio
Austin, TX
6/14-Present
As the owner of a five-star-rated media studio specializing in documentary-style video production and visual storytelling, I oversee the full lifecycle of ~500 videos per year. Beyond videography and photography, we build media-rich websites, social media content, motion graphics, and integrated marketing campaigns. My work blends creative strategy and hands-on production, helping brands communicate with clarity and emotional impact. I lead a rotating team of artists, serving clients with calm, organized efficiency. We serve organizations in tech, wellness, and community development, producing media that strengthens brand identity, builds trust, and inspires connection.
Art Director
Watershed 5
Austin, TX
8/08-4/14
Directed print, web, and video advertising for clients in real estate, education, and wellness. Designed and developed brand identities, ad campaigns, websites, videos, and marketing assets in collaboration with creative and account teams. Balanced fast-paced deadlines with high design standards.
Web & Graphic Designer
Prizm Development
Dallas, TX
8/07-8/08
Designed 30+ media-rich websites for healthcare clients, combining UX strategy, SEO copy, and branded visuals. Produced ad campaigns and video assets that improved patient engagement and client retention.
Marketing Director
Visual Learning Systems
Missoula, MT
1/05-5/07
Led marketing for an educational technology company, helping expand national visibility. Created a 200-page website, product videos, and communications that simplified complex software for educators. Played a key role in positioning the brand as an industry leader.
Education
Master of Arts in Advertising
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
9/09-5/11
Graduated from the world-renowned Texas Creative program, with a dual focus on copywriting and art direction. Coursework emphasized strategic thinking, marketing communication, and brand storytelling, blending creativity with analytical rigor. Additional studies included media planning, integrated marketing communications, and campaign development—laying the foundation for a career built on artistry, authenticity, and effective visual communication.