Spent a fantastic afternoon time-traveling with my friend Julia today – riding on the NYC vintage train! Once a year, the MTA brings out a train with old cars, from the 1930s, and runs a few special shuttles between 2nd Ave in Manhattan and Queens Plaza. (In Queens, obviously.) What fun! The train itself hasn’t […]
View post →Recently I had the opportunity to draw the Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s west side from a bird’s eye view. The yards is the rail yards – where the MTA houses subway trains when they’re not in use. So the MTA has leased the air space over the Hudson Yards and it’s going to become a […]
View post →Last week in New York City we had the special treat of seeing Nick Cave‘s HEARD! horses galloping around Grand Central Station. It was a beautiful spectacle, and the best part for me was that they really geared it to the kids. The raffia horses with the Tibetan/Mongolian inspired headgear were on display all week […]
View post →Upon visiting the upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans, I found many deserted and condemned houses. The area didn’t receive as much of the massive flooding that the Lower Ninth ward did during Katrina, so more of the buildings are standing. However, six years after the hurricane, many of the homes have open rooftops and […]
View post →Last week I traveled to New Orleans, one of my favorite cities in the US. Neil received an award from EPRI, an engineering organization, and was there to make and listen to presentations, as well as attend the awards dinner. During the day, while Neil was busy with the conference, I ventured out into the […]
View post →Egyptian-Americans and others demonstrated in Manhattan today, calling for the resignation of Egyptian President Mubarak. The rally began in Times Square and was followed by a march to the Egyptian mission at 44th St. and Second Avenue. I was out of the city for much of the day today, but I did get over to […]
View post →My book, September 11th, 2001: Words and Pictures, has just been published by vero press. The book is a first hand account, through my words and reportage drawings, of the events of September 11, 2001 and the weeks that followed in New York City. The drawing shown above is from the book, portraying police officers […]
View post →Last week Neil and I took a few days to visit Washington DC. We had a chance to go to the Newseum and visit my drawing from September 11th displayed there – I had not seen the exhibit until now. I felt very proud that my work was there, I almost cried when I saw […]
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