Cary in color
Posted in in the wringer on Friday, Nov. 30, 2007
Just playing around with the Wacom Tablet. Still haven’t figured out how to use my Adobe CS3! 
Archive for November, 2007
Cary Grant
Posted in in the wringer on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007
WOOPS!
For anyone who saw the other post and wonders why this is a double, I accidentally deleted it! Here he is again.
Bird break
Posted in etc. on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007
Just taking a break after a grueling deadline. Grueling few deadlines, that is. Back later!
Vive la grève!
Posted in etc., newyorkette style on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
(An old drawing for a French July, or “juillet,”calendar submission).
That means “Long live the strike!” The French will have to find other ways to get to work!
It wouldn’t be France if people weren’t in the streets objecting to something, and not suffering alone. While I’m overwhelmed with work, and still underpaid, I am in total solidarity with them, whatever the cause! I enormously enjoyed their last transit strike. The cameraderie was what got us all to work on foot, feeling rather invigorated. At least, that was the case for those of us who are constitutionally capable of cameraderie.
Basically, the question is this: What’s the point in being French and in France if you’re going to have to live under American working conditions?
France on strike: AFP
Sunday polar bear
Posted in art, literature & other distractions on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007
(Click on the image to go to Maria’s photoblog.)
Here’s a polar bear, snapped in a photo by my friend Maria Winter, medievalist and photographer extraordinaire. Maria was a classmate at the EHESS, and underwent 9am latin theme courses with me. She was one of the only other students who actually laughed during a latin reading now and then, and so I guess we were meant to be friends.
Postcard from New York: week ending November 2nd, 2007
Posted in postcard from new york on Friday, Nov. 2, 2007
(A view from the 20th floor of the Conde Nast building).
Benito’s angels
Posted in in the wringer on Friday, Nov. 2, 2007
(click on the image for a larger version on flickr)
A friend asked me to do this from a photo of his family back in Mexico. I kept it pretty conventional, because I didn’t think I needed to get clever with someone’s family. I did it in pencil, because it would have had to be quite a lot bigger for me to use the ink and brush. The bottom is missing because my scanner is small, and I didn’t want to risk smudging the drawing with another scan. My signature is at the bottom of the long strand of hair in the middle.
The big debate last night
Posted in etc. on Friday, Nov. 2, 2007
Toilet, pros:
quick, easy expediation of the offense
Toilet, cons:
requires kneeling on the floor, also eventually requires wondering at an inopportune moment when it was last cleaned.
Sink, pros:
closer to the entrance than toilet, thus less running; higher up, less bending over
Sink, cons:
requires offending my just-cleaned sink!
Need I say more? Except maybe to add: Pret A Manger on 7th ave and 38th street.
