The web is a beautiful thing. Bits and pieces of one’s creative past, for good or for ill, can resurface out of the ether and provide amusement and a sense of perspective.
As it turns out, over 80 years worth of student newspapers from Davidson College, my alma matter, have been saved in [...]
Dante’s Inferno has been inspirational lately. Not to imply that I have been in a “living hell,” or that “the straight way was lost”, (though I’ve certainly been accused of the latter.) Rather, the visual aspect of Dante’s verse has been a peculiar kind of nourishment for my imagination. In what some may [...]
Of all the stuff I learned in College– the factoids, cocktail party tidbits, habits bad and good, and actual truths (yes, real, actual truths)– one of the more lasting practices I retain to this day is that of journal keeping. Not necessarily of the Robinson Crusoe “today I found coconuts… tomorrow, more coconuts” variety. [...]
I recently joined this professional creative networking network, and I have to admit I’m impressed. Myspace may have been fun for the first few months, back in ought-four, but it quickly became clear that it was 1) for younger (i.e. teenaged) folks, 2)overrun with overzealous “friend-makers”, and 3) kind of a crappy application, always “blowing [...]
Recently I’ve been merging traditional drawing and painting with digital imaging. The illustration here, for a performance by my band Nitehawk, shows a combination of good ‘ole pencil rendering, combined with a pass or two of inking, then scanned and “finished” in Photoshop.
A nod or two to James Jean is in order, in particular for [...]
