john rawlings (1912-1970): fashion photographer extraordinaire (and american, too!)

My new favorite fashion photographer is John Rawlings, whose work I was only tangentially aware of before coming across this book of his work for Vogue where you can find additional images. Here’s another link to a lot of black-and-whites, including portraits of famous friends (Irving Penn, Alfred Hitchcock, both obvious influences). Some of the […]


starting june 6th – my annual workshop for visual artists

This workshop, in its 4th year, has been a great success, with student-participants of all stripes – from recent MFA grads to successful commercial artists returning to their fine arts roots – utilizing their new skills to gain solo shows and access to residencies. Sign up soon as space is limited. And please feel free […]


As a result, PSL is unlikely to attract players like Stokes or

It really in a gray area right now. Gray area might as well symbolize the football support of the entire country cheap jerseys, which is scattered with patches of die hard fans and complete novices. The CFL fields only eight teams, a small amount to span the world second largest country by total area. Cheap […]


One couple even sported Jacksonville Jaguars gear; they held

1154 FOOTBALL: Norwich manager Paul Lambert on Sepp Blatter and racism in football, courtesy of BBC Radio Norfolk: “There’s no place in the world for racism, let alone football. It’s not just football, it can happen anywhere and it’s wrong. If Sepp Blatter has backtracked as quickly as he has he must have known he’d […]


Once the fence was where I wanted it

If you’re good, be bold. I play with a guy who deliberately rips the right shooting arm sleeve off his T shirts, or rolls it up to his shoulder. Totally badass. “What’s upsetting is individuals from all over the country are buying Colts memorabilia and it’s leaving Maryland,” said Urban. “To me, that’s sad. From […]


acid dreams: animated hallucinations on film and in cartoons

It was an episode of The Simpsons where Homer trips on a “Guatemalan pepper” that made me want to gather cartoon depictions of drug hallucinations. Of course that clip – like many – is unavailable online (outside a bad 15 second fragment). Still, animation seemed to me the perfect medium to conjure the phantasmagoric, wonky […]