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 […]

I can’t believe that the World Trade Center attack was six years ago. Actually, I can, it almost seems like a dream. That’s a cliche, but true. I can remember looking up and seeing those towers fall. Everyone screaming and then, everyone quiet. We didn’t know how to react. We still don’t. I was drawing […]

Well it’s good to be home. Very shortly after my return from Asia I was on a plane to Orlando to teach a reportage class with my friend and fellow studio 1482 member Margaret Hurst. We were in Epcot, and of course I went to the Japanese pavilion. I was mooning around there, practicing my […]

My last night in Tokyo I sit on my sister’s terrace and gaze out at the Tokyo Tower. As much as I miss New York and friends, I will be sorry to leave this town. Tokyo is a fantastically lovely, and loveable, city, and as a (somewhat New York-centric) native of the Big Apple I […]

Kyoto is not exactly what I expected from looking at all those Hokusai prints. It is a mid-sized, fairly modern looking city located about 2 1/2 hours by high speed train from Tokyo. There are trains, buses, cars, crowds, and the usual Pachinko parlors that seem to be everywhere in this country. But the Gion […]

I saw 1,000 toriis in Kyoto. Did you hear me, ONE THOUSAND TORIIS!! Going up the side of a mountain. Creating a tunnel of red, orange, pink and mauve through a forest of green and moss. UNREAL. This is DEFINITELY where Christo and Jean-Claude developed their idea for the Gates in Central Park. C’mon Christo, […]

Coming back to Tokyo felt like coming home to New York. By the time my sister and I got to the airport in Beijing to head back, we were pros at the aggressive, non-waiting-in-lines way of life in China. Going to the money exchange to turn our yuan back to yen required a football style […]

Guilin, in the Guanxi province of China, is in the southern part of the country, unlike Beijing. As such, it is somewhat tropical. It rains heavily every day at 4 pm. The feeling is lush and the landscape is gorgeous. It is really more the China I imagined than Beijing. There are majestic mountains, pagodas, […]