One day last April I took some time off from the Second Avenue Subway drawings (ok, I had lunch first, it was kinda cold out that week). As I sat in my favorite restaurant I got in a quick drawing from within Nicks on the upper east side before heading out to cover what looked […]
View post →Got a nice email from Ben over at The Launch Box the other day and realized I never posted this one here. It was the image of the day two weeks ago on Studio 1482s One Drawing A Day site that we started in June. Thanks to HOW for giving us a little mention this […]
View post →It’s been a couple of months since I have been down to the construction site on Second Avenue and actually since I have been on the blog to see where I left off—promotions and schedules and all sorts of work related stuff. So of course I was surprised to find that I had two drawings […]
View post →Recently Studio 1482 members Greg Betza, Despina Georgiadis, Michele Bedigian, and I were proud to send out our new campaign entitled “Seasons.” It was both the culmination of many months of personal and group efforts as well as the launching of an even bigger body of work to come. While Greg, Despina, and Michele have […]
View post →So, one hundred and one days ago I decided to make the trek down to Washington, DC. Not merely as a supporter but as an artist, reporting on the event. The idea struck me just before the election. This was going to be pretty historic no matter what happened, the day it all started would […]
View post →I don’t know why I like that phrase so much, I guess it hits me the same way seeing someone who can actually draw does. The phrase obviously, not the hammer. That would just hurt. Which I wouldn’t like. But I do like all the analog connotations it conjures. It just evokes some potential. Idle […]
View post →Just off 2nd Avenue, sitting beside the western end of Century Lumber on the south side of 97th Street on Manhattans’ Upper East Side—not quite Carnegie Hill, not quite Spanish Harlem—are two 100 plus year old apartment buildings. They are the only such structures on the street. Ten years ago they were the only residential […]
View post →As the summer passed and my days escaped me, I noticed that there was a different kind of daily routine to the reworking of the west side of Second Avenue. Having dug up and moved the utilities last fall and into the spring, and then moving to the other side, I watched as the avenue […]
View post →Right about the time that it became visibly obvious that something was brewing along Second Avenue in the spring of 2007 The New York Times published an article about the eventual possession and demolition of a corner building on 97th and 2nd Ave. Century Lumber sits on the southwest corner of the intersection and has […]
View post →Or more to the point, good luck crossing. Work on the East side of Second Avenue went much smoother and was completed more quickly than that on the West side of the avenue the many months before. It may be in part to increased efficiency from all that the Skanska crew learned, less work on […]
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