Friends invited me to house sit for them over the holidays and it was a compelling getaway from the crumbling disarray of NYC. It’s a 250mi trip that involves two ferries and because of schedules then requires an overnight. I’d done this in August so what could go wrong? Familiarity…
PAR AVIAN was a private mixtape collective that I ran with a group of 50 friends from 2004 until 2014. It was established as a music sharing game, brought on thanks to mp3 players and the introduction of ipods and lasted through the universal acceptance of itunes and digital streaming…
oof. Pencil? What’s this alien medium? Surely an anomaly. Anyway, I’ve started a new sketchbook.
I celebrate the onset of the holidays every year at the beginning of December (thought of doing a countdown to xmas this year and got called out on it. So we are starting on Monday the 9th) with a crawl through a dozen Cary Grant movies, so called The Twelve…
Originally published – JULY 04, 2005 The Summer issue of “Art on Paper” displays the fruit of a simple experiment. A young staffer (either real or fictive) sends a letter to a bunch of artists explaining the problem of being young and new to New York, with many of the…
Originally published – SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 A few years ago, I wrote a memoriam of my experiences on 9/11, in an attempt to meet head-on my anger and melancholy. This fourth anniversary reminds me of that history: the days of confusion; months of sorrow; and years of daily life that…
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” There are many ways in which I’m an anachronism and perhaps a lynchpin to that particular house of cards is a life long fascination with Cary Grant: a matinee idol comprised of dark, suave sophistication and daffy,…
In celebration of the October meme “Inktober” – a recognition for the art of inking or inkers, falling within the illustration and comics crowd – I thought I would share some sketchbook stuff. I have always had a preference for ink and have thought that Inktober is a nice idea….
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