Hudson New York

went upstate to Hudson, NY and other places for Jen's birthday

F U you idiots you're gonna contemplate this cardboard ring in the window of this gallery while we laugh at you

Hudson NY seems like where middle aged people with money go to walk down the few streets with expensive galleries and antique stores.

This book store with a bar in it was cool

tasting menu with a lot of courses at the Crimson Sparrow.  An expensive dinner that the birthday girl didn't remember that much of.  The alcohol pairing that she insisted on didn't help either.  3 glasses of sake and 3 glasses of wine and a whole afternoon of bars.  Annoyed face

Olana State Historic Site was the home of Frederic Edwin Church, one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting.

Poet's Walk in Red Hook, NY

Illustration Week 2015

Illustration Week 2015

Don't trust Pete Ryan

The American Illustration party at the Angel Orenz foundation is the biggest illustration industry party of the year, as if there are any others.  Illustrators and art directors from around the world come to nyc for illustration week and this party.  (photographers too but they stay on their half of the venue).

open bar leads to people gettin crazy at the after party in greenpoint

Raquel Aparicio stayed at our house for a bunch of days.  I stayed at her house in Valencia when I lived in Spain

oh look who's got a hipster F$#@ haircut now Bob

last CSA pick up for the season

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Chris Vision, and Scott Brundage

James Bascara, Richie Pope, John Lee, Jonathan Bartlett, and more came out

IO also from Valencia came out

CSA problems

Dadu at work in the Pencil factory studios

tried to make dan dan noodles, didn't really work out

farmers market from the window of bob's/jill's pad

pretty delicious Mediterranean food at Bustan in the upper west side, north african Shakshouka def better than greek shakshouka 

Halloweiners

the bearded lady, crown heights

In the eye of the storm fire department in crown heights

random bag of free knives on the street

saw this before it the show was taken down

Alexander Hamilton's grave is visible from the street down in the financial district at some church.  He's been gettin' a lot of popularity since that hip hop broadway show about him came out.

I went into prospect park into the woods and was rootin' around like a weirdo rapist in the daytime to find the perfect log below for my halloween costume

Halloween day time morning, atlantic ave

by cobble hill park

Log Lady from Twin Peaks

Audrey Horne from Twin Peaks

neighborhood kids while we were passing out candy.  We ran out and had to borrow from the neighbors

Virg and Chris were Warhol and Basquiat

Abilene is a solid neighborhood bar

Kateri's birthday uptown

Fall Illo Sweep 2

A study suggests that slouching may be children's natural thinking position as it frees the brain of one less thing to concentrate on when problem solving.

5 "coaches" for educational software that pop up in the program and guide the student. Unfortunately the project was killed.

sorry Yoon you won't be inspiring any young students

I redid this one cuz I wasn't happy with the original
Client: Kult (Singapore)
I chose Collapse, by Jared Diamond (the author of Guns,Germs, and Steel) as the book I would create art for for Kult's literary collection. Collapse is about the collapse of great civilizations like the Mayans, Easter Islanders, etc… there are something like 7 factors that seem to cause the downfall of societies. One that seemed to be uniform throughout was that societies would cut down their trees, the soil would blow away etc... and then they were f’d. One sentence that really resonated with me was: “What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it?”. It’s haunting and sad we are on the same path.

Police raid on the Black Panthers strong hold in the Desire projects in New Orleans in 1970. Amazingly the stand off ended non violently. Pro-Pathers members of the community surrounded the building holding off the police who even brought in a tank called the “War Wagon”. 3/4 spread for New Orleans magazine