Quiet Before The Storm

"It's always quiet before the storm". No kidding...Approaching hurricane Sandy cut our Mystic trip short yesterday. We rushed back from the Museum of America and the Sea at Mystic Seaport, where we have an on-going gallery and augmented reality exhibit.

The day before, Saturday, was eerily quiet. Not a sound, not a movement. Like a stage-set. Gorgeous. Sunday morning, the winds picked up. We hit the road home around noon.

Now it's Monday. MTA shut down the public transportation system. Schools, office buildings and NYSE are closed.

Stay safe, all of you on the hurricane's path.

Drawing Music :: Applause Magazine Cover Story

One of my concert reportage drawings was commissioned for the cover story in the current November/December issue of Applause Magazine. It feels amazing to see this drawing in a print publication. Thanks to Maire, the design director, for finding me.

Poignancy Of Beauty

In today's life drawing session, while looking at our model, I kept thinking how really beautiful people have a certain poignancy about them. This quote sums it up:

“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

 

  

My Favorite Brazilian

Fall life drawing continues. Here's the one and only Kika. Best model, ever.
 

Fall Life Drawing Begins

In tonight's life drawing lecture, Margaret Hurst showed Paul Klee.
His quote "A drawing is simply a line going for a walk" is the best reminder to...let it go...

Drawing Music :: So Percussion & Matmos : A John Cage Celebration at Carnegie Hall

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. 

I'm frightened of the old ones." 

~ John Cage

Back in March, So Percussion and Matmos (with Dan Deacon, Cenk Ergün and Beth Meyers) celebrated John Cage's 100th birthday at Carnegie Hall. The show had many surprises. So's Josh Quillen shaved a beard, for example, half-way through the concert. Also, Eric Beach was cutting celery under a mic. My favorite instruments that night, aside form vegetables and already familiar cactus, were large conch shells filled with water. 91 minutes of wow. Here are some drawn memories.

So Percussion playing the cactus.

M.C. Schmidt reading.

The conch shells with water

Cutting vegetables

Adieu, Summer...

Fall has arrived on my landing page >

Electro-Swing Party Poster 2

Most recent event poster for my friend Deejay Spinach who produces electro-swing dance parties in NYC called "Swingin' Penguin". Come by on October 26th! And check out last year's series for the same event here >