New art

So, after giving up my studio in DUMBO earlier this year, I decided that this was an opportunity to change mediums. Oils were (in the way I used them) extremely messy and it wouldn't be prudent to turn our apartment into a Jackson Pollack. I found that there are large format printers out there that will print your digital work on canvas and decided to give Adobe Illustrator a shot. As it turns out, you can get some pretty fantastic results when you blow vector art up without it looking cheap. Once I received the printed piece in the mail, I had it stretched on canvas and wouldn't you know, it looked great. The printer I was using redesigned their site and now nothing works. I assume it works great on IE for Vista, unfortunately I am on a Mac at both work and home. Anyway, here are a couple examples:

The Other Alps
A Wind Blows Through
Orange and Red Jackets
Mother/Child

Rocking the Caatskills

Sister Lenore got married last Saturday and everything went off without a hitch. Rob and I managed to get through our speech without one blasphemous utterance or use of props. Later I requested to sing with the band as a parting gift to Marc and Lenore. I chose The Kinks "Girl You Really Got Me" because of it's rather simple lyrics:

Girl, you really got me goin'
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

You really got me
You really got me
You really got me

See, don't ever set me free
I always wanna be by your side
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now

Unfortunately I think someone might have slipped some alcohol in the punch and all I could remember was YEAAAAAAAHHHHH YOU REALLY GOT ME NOW!!!

Peep the video compliments of cousin Matt:

Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KCokhmMmbjs

Part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=itsN78ex-cg

Special thanks for brother Rob's dance accompaniment.

I am Hip-Hop

Yesterday I ventured up to the wilderness surrounding Penn Station known by most New Yorkers as "Craptown". As I stood on the corner of 33rd and 7th waiting for my friend Hsu I noticed a passerby sporting a shirt which stated "I am Hip-Hop". I had no idea. All this time I thought it was a movement in music which had it's start in the Bronx back in the late seventies.

A short time later, as I strolled back downtown to my office, I passed a girl wearing a shirt which declared "Hip Hop is Dead". So sad. Life can turn on a dime.