Different Perspectives

The way my four year old daughter sees me:



The way my twenty year old nephew sees me:

Why Draw? Richard Serra.

You might also like to know what William Kentridge, Jim Dine, and Mauricio Lasansky have had to say about drawing.

Orange Beach, Alabama

photograph by Dave Martin, AP

I gotta find me a good "project".

All of these "Not Now, I'm Busy" things are now available for perusal in chronological order on FIMP.

Orson Whales by Alex Itin

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I don't want my fifteen minutes, I just want to go viral.

This Is Your Brain On The Web, OMG Cat!

Harnessing The Awesome Power Of Social Media To Make A Better World

Getting The Word Out

All of these "Not Now, I'm Busy" things are now available for perusal in chronological order on FIMP.

Not Now, I'm Busy

Rachel's Shark Has Such Teeth, Dear!

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it … ah … out of sight.

Ya know when that shark bites, with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, though, wears old MacHeath, babe
So there’s nevah, nevah a trace of red.



More of Rachel's drawings here, without Bobby Darin, or Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht for that matter.

Jason Polan drawing at MOMA

Portrait Session

How To Make Good Pictures

Now if I could only find the manual that explains why. . .

Betty & Pies

"Betty & Pies", a beautiful little slice of rubber-stampishness found on the inside lid of an "American Sign Printer" set from 1935.



I suspect that I have a habit that I share with a lot of other printmakers out there; collecting old printing toys and tools. You can never have too many things that can take ink and make a mark on paper. I'm not sure how many rubber stamp alphabets I own.



This one's missing the J and K, but it has a wonderful star and ampersand, and the lid of the box is enough to make it a treasure. That ink pad is pretty nifty too.