pacific northwest- port townsend. sequim.

a trip to washington for norm and myla's wedding.

port townsend.

waterstreet hotel

nash's farm- washington's second oldest organic farm. nash gave norm and myla a free range pig as a wedding gift.

i had one of the best meals i've had in years at alder wood bistro in sequim. artisanal locavore seasonal foodie food in a tiny town that seems to consist of one or two streets! it's REALLY good. both norm and myla have connections to the restaurant. myla works there and norm supplies the lumber for the wood fired oven from his small scale logging operation. chef/owner gabriel made planked local salmon for the wedding and closed the restaurant (on saturday!) so all involved could attend!

in this small community about 300 people showed up for the wedding. while some of us came from far and wide most of the guests were from sequim. in some ways the sequim scene reminded me of wellfleet on cape cod, but the cape landscape is stunted and cute, in sequim it's enveloping and ambivalent. the land of twin peaks and hank stamper.

1:30 am 9/12/10. greene st. soho

flight 93 memorial.

the makeshift memorial at shanksville pennsylvania. taken a few years ago.

scenes from ground zero yesterday.

ground zero 9/11/2010

chrissy and aurora in harlem, 2007.

paul richard- the stephen colbert of street art?

shepard fairey

video of paul richard hanging signs on the shepard fairey mural on houston and bowery (from his website- link in the post below.) i must have been the last person in america to know who shepard fairey is. my friend mary finally hipped me. for my birthday she gave me a ticket to shepard fairey's dj gig at the ica in boston. this was the infamous show before which he was arrested by the boston police for tagging, preventing his appearance. instead of informing the crowd, the ica took people's WHOLE tickets at the door- NOT returning the stubs, apparently a deliberate attempt to prevent attendees from claiming any compensation. so, though fairey later returned to the ica and did a dj night, the people who had paid to attend the original event were out of luck (though mary was given a ticket to the re-party by another friend- yay!) the party and the gallery show were loads of fun anyway. the building is spectacular! but the ica's underhanded policy was galling. i made this commemorative t shirt and gave it to mare. some have suggested that the arrest was a publicity stunt, but i've met the assistant district attorney assigned to prosecute the case, who is adamant it was entirely genuine (assistant district attorney adam foss, with fairey, below, not my photo.) after obama's election fairey was probably the most celebrated graphic designer in the world and there was a lot of prestige for the city in hosting him. only in boston would the powers that be do everything they could to screw it up.

personally i love the shepard fairey obama posters and the early obey and andre the giant stickers/stencils, but a lot of his current work feels lame to me (especially his bowery mural.) now days he seems more like a good commercial graphic designer than soulful street artist.

williamsburg

williamsburg bridgedijital fix

paul richard guerrilla sidewalk art. i went out on a couple of dates with paul when i lived in boston in the 80s. now that i live in new york he's constantly under foot.
evolution now crab skirt.

same spot on the williamsburg bridge one week later.

another paul richard- a "drip painting."

good bloody marys brooklyn

diner. the bloody marys come in two sizes small ($6.) or large ($9.) large size comes in a pint glass. these bloodys are hot, horse raddishy and peppery. they make their own mix.

this pacific north west barn is a beautiful letterpress wedding invitation we recently received. it seemed to compliment the tobacco barns.