Going through some old photos, hope you guys don’t mind. Here’s our memorial day picnic on Mt. Tam with Diana & Roman, April & Casey! Then we got ice cream in Stinson Beach! A great day! AAANNNDDDD an awesome Mt. Tam picnic photo that Jenny shared with me:
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We came back from Mexico and Brook scored us tix to the drag races in Sonoma. HELLZ YEAH! I liked watching the tiny teams of colors swarm the cars between races, the big plumes of burning rubber, and the candy coats. We packed a picnic and had to buy earplugs! It was hot and...
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Really excited to be back on the Time Travel Tuesday train with Sara from Brown Paper Bag! Head over to BPB for my post on Mexican surrealist aritst & muse, Leonora Carrington. And without further ado…Sara’s TTT post on NANCY!!! One of my favorite cartoons as a kid and whose sweet tooth I can...
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Last night we went to see “Love in the City,” at the San Francisco Film Society, an Italian film of short vignettes exploring the “raw! revealing! shocking!” realities of love in Roma in the early 1950s: abandonment, suicide, death, lust and loss. Including shorts by Antonioni and Fellini, like most classic Italian films of...
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While visiting my family in the British countryside several years ago, we stopped into the New Art Gallery Warsall and I saw these photos of trees drawing. I forgot about them for a while and today decided to try to find them again. I searched for “pens tied to tree drawings” and lo and...
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Sara from Brown Paper Bag and I have been internet buddies for almost two years now. I had to do a quick dive into gmail archives to figure out when we first started corresponding- December 2010! With a penchant for all things paper and a loving commitment to her art community, Sara has built...
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HOLA amigos, I’m back from my travels and will be setting up shop at Asterisk SF this weekend for SUNDAY STREETS in the Mission! It’s the best day to chill, grab a burrito and stroll the 24th Street strip while the road is blocked off to traffic! Come by the gallery to check out...
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I’m back in Chicago this week and made my pilgrimage to the Art Institute to say hello to my favorite paintings and check out the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. I didn’t expect it to like it as much as I did… But WOW! WHAM! BANG! to use the proper language. I was really blown away by...
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Hombres, today I am headed down to Mexico City for a two week trip of exploration and adventure! Next week I’ll be in Oaxaca and from there I’m going back to Chicago to visit friends & family. The feelings I have right now are impossible to explain….but it is my first trip into the...
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You guys….I had no idea how much I would fall in love with HAWAII! When my dad invited me to accompany him & my stepmom, Debra, for a week in Honolulu, I really had no expectations. None! Maybe traveling that way makes everything better…but maybe Hawaii just fucking rules! Here are some notes &...
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