Happy Mother’s Day
Family holidays, like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, are much more to me than a time to thank our parents for raising us and making us who we have become. They are great opportunities to take a long look at the personalities and lives of the people that make up our heritage. The women in [...]
Kids Will Be Kids
Kid’s games and the adventurous stories that they tell each other are wonderful. Watching an adventure unfold in their expressions and actions is particularly fun. No toys or props necessary and nothing that we adults would truly appreciate or even fully understand. Just good old fun.
Bodies In Urban Space | Willi Dorner
My friend Guney Oktar (and The First Few field reporter) happened upon a unique and thought-provoking street performance over this past weekend in the Beyoglu district in Istanbul. The traveling event is known as Bodies In Urban Space and is created by the Austrian choreographer, Willi Dorner. Mr. Dorner describes the work as a “temporary [...]
Photoshop Goodness | Textures Along The Way
Its amazing what you find when you’re not looking where you’re going. Looking up, down, around, under, and to the sides makes walking difficult, but there is just a never-ending assortment of “things” worth seeing.
The Harbor Yard | Fall Is Coming
Fall at the water’s edge is a favorite time and place of mine. The Fall sky casts an entirely different light on the water and on everything that has slowed down around it. Actually, a perfect time for some fishing- and the reason for heading over to Southport, Connecticut’s harbor yard last weekend. The sign [...]
Photoshop-Ready Textures
I’ve always been a very faithful Adobe Illustrator guy, but have found myself using Photoshop more and more in recent months- and really loving it (I feel like I’m cheating on Illustrator). The Photoshop application has so many great texture-creating tools in it already, but every now and then I need something a little more [...]
Phone Booths | Nostalgia in a Cell Phone World
Faye Dunaway and George Maharis (both looking extremely cool) making an important call on the set of “The Happening. (photo via Corbis) With the proliferation of cell phones, we loose out on those private moments our parents had during their public phone calls. Nowadays, we’re all out-and-about, with the world sharing in on our conversations.
Robert Mars | Visual Storyteller | Chronicles of Americana
I would be surprised if Robert Mars sleeps more than an hour a night. As both the full time design director of Zoo York and full time fine artist, he has managed to squeeze two full lives into one. With all that going on in his day-to-day though, he manages to remain friendly, positive, and [...]
13th St. Revisited
I first eyed this wall on the corner of 13th St. and Gansevoort, NYC before the new year. I checked in again in January and then took photo above just a few days ago. I just love how the artist community has “collaborated” on it during the past few months.
The Old with The New
Barcelona Please excuse the unintentional travel blog feel of this post. There are so many beautiful things to see in old cities. A lot of these “things” are of what physically makes up the city itself. Old buildings, walls, and streets all show the city’s historical blueprint. Nowadays, especially in our relatively young US cities, [...]
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