Spent my recent birthday in the Bahamas – a highly recommended way to honor the passing of another year of your life. The sun was hot, the water was cool and Neil and I saw a barracuda while snorkeling! The drawing above is from the harbor town in Nassau; a fairly typical island scene. The […]

Our studio has launched an updated version of the website, designed and executed by our own member Eddie Pena. Check it out here: studio1482.com. Above is my opening illustration; one of the new features of the site is that all nine of us have our own entry as well as the group. You can find […]

Well, it’s 2008, unbelievably enough – those of you who were born before 1975 understand my meaning completely! I so remember plotting where I would be when the millenium turned – the year 2000 – and not being able to even imagine life beyond then. The post-2000 years have been terrific. Above is a detail […]

Happy New Year 2008! This one promises to be a good one…my horoscope said so! Enjoy the evening everyone. This is an illustration of Times Square on New Year’s that I did for the Hyatt hotels…personally I’ll be home with friends, not trying to brave the crowds and cold on 42nd street!

Well it’s the last weekend before the LAST weekend before Christmas. A perfect time to stroll up Fifth Avenue and check out the holiday windows on display. This is an illustration I did for Lord & Taylor’s Nutcracker Suite holiday window displays a year or two ago. What a dream job – as a little […]

Since the story on Central Park came out in Go Do It #3 – the Urban Poetry issue – several people have asked about the reportage job I completed for the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York’s Columbus Circle. Specifically, how did the hotel use my drawings of the park? Above is one of the […]

Announcing the publication of Go Do It magazine, Volume 2, #1, titled, Urban Poetry. Go Do It is the magazine of Studio 1482. This issue features stories about urban spaces and places, full of diversity, sensitivity, and humor. Featured stories: The Shape-Up, a description of a Washington Heights urban grooming ritual told in words, photos […]

Just returned recently from a quick trip to San Diego, California, where I attended the opening of the Art of Digital Show. It was held at the Lyceum Theater Gallery in the Horton Plaza. My video short, “Collective Innervation”, was one of eight video pieces exhibited, along with many examples of digital photography. (The photo […]

Spent the weekend in Pennsylvania, just painting and relaxing with my friend Neil. We went to the Brandywine Museum, where N.C.Wyeth had his studio and home…man, that N.C. really knew how to live! It was amazing to look around at the countryside and just SEE all the fabulous colors and expressionism that he brought to […]

“No kelen kelen” is a West African term meaning, ‘no deception’, and it’s the title of the new CD by JoJo Kuo. (The photos and design of the CD were created by yours truly.) The cover photograph was shot in a little basement club on Houston Street where JoJo was performing. What a fun shoot […]