Spring Is Back

finally washing my Scott Fraser British selvedge denim which there are many debatable ways to do, one is in the tub so they don't lose too much indigo

this was the first wash so there was so much starch that i guess i didn't get it all cuz they can literally stand on their own.

the St Patricks day street party in Eleanor's neighborhood was on their street this year.

the adult end

Fairfax Inn, Filipino food

I think we watched the Oscars with eric and yumi when we got back.

we forgot our anniversary again and it was our 10th, so we last minute that day got a reservation at Tokyo record bar which is a misnomer, there was nothing tokyo or japanese about it. You can't request songs, the food wasn't japanese, and it seemed like no one working there was japanese. They did have some cool equipment like this preamp.

This suntory premium malts was $14 and probably only 10 ounces, which makes me mad cuz in japan its 63 cents at an izakaya and a couple dollars at a nice place.

Mocca fest put on by the Society of Illustrators. I volunteered this year and was just at the front door.

Google (and tech)went from being loved to evil

Laserman

went swimming for the first time, immediately rolls in dirt

Poby stayed at our house

 

Life After Asia Must Continue

At the Society of Illustrators Members Open show, this is my piece

Victor Juhasz (he's on the board)

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz came to talk to my class

a trip down to Virginia

We were the only non south asians in there which is cool to me when you can be in america and be transported so completely into another culture.

the first 2 howling photos were alerts but the last 3 are just from when i randomly look at the camera

from the D building illustration classroom at FIT. You could throw a rock and hit jessica weber's (formly on the board) studio right across from us

March April Combo

Palestine encampment at FIT. There was a period of weeks leading up to graduation where campuses across the US had students posting up protesting the war in gaza, the US involvement and funding of it, etc and eventually they were all cracked down upon, usually violently, with students expelled, jailed, etc for standing up against genocide. These students were sending themselves to the meat grinder to stand up for the people of Palestine

Maya giving my class a tour and talk at Poster House

met up with Jack Tsai after like 16 yrs

gravity bike rack for free

I did a talk at the Poster House but this is the only photo i have of before the set up. lots of people came, the most i've talked in front of that's not FIT students.

oh found one

went to outside philly to help bartlett move into their new house and got philly cheesesteaks on the way back. 

we thought this coreopsis was dead

you can find the best stuff on the street in park slope. I loved this as a kid even when i didn't know how smart and existential it was and now i have one of my own.

Noah's X birthday party in virginia, nerf gun party

an insane rowdy for kids st patricks day thing down the street where the feral kids were like 10 ft in the air flopping around and surely someone must have flopped onto the pavement from that high

trying to get respite

had to get a vehicle inspection at bayridge subarau and walked around, bay ridge is different

marinatin' pork loins in sake, for what i can't remember

fort hamilton distillery in industry city has a brand new pool room

finally tried the monjayaki kit steven and kimie gave us from japan yrs ago, really not the same without the teppan/plancha/flattop 

last oden of the season

seed startin'

after one of the society of illustrators openings

the industry's 3 greatest conceptual illustrators Pete Ryan, Chris Gash, and Jon Krause all were there and bro'ing out and doing shots

Ditmas Park neighborhood of brooklyn has victorian houses

and here we are at Tim O'brien's house, pres of the Society of Illustrators for 8 years

went to a Palestine protest by walking from our house over the brooklyn bridge but it was raining the whole time and it sucked real bad

Ollie the cat