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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 is…
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Par Avian (2004-2014) 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…
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oof. Pencil? What's this alien medium? Surely an anomaly. Anyway, I've started a new sketchbook.
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Somewhere between the Atlantic and the rest, on January 23rd. Nassau, 2020
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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…
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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…
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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…
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"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,…
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