A Chip Butty for a Chip Buddy

A delicious + joyful Valentine's Day to all the "foodies," "gourmands," and plain ole food lovers out there. Here's a card I made for my own home grown foodie to celebrate the day.

The Wonderful In-Between World of Chinglish

The New York Times has a brilliant article and slide show about the many wonderful phrases that at times emerge when Chinese is translated to English. Here are a few illustrations to accompany some of the very poetic results.

The Little Grass is Sleeping. Do Not Disturb It.

Slip and Fall Down Carefully

See the original sign here.

Fragrant and Hot Marxism
(outside a restaurant)

Execution In Progress
(on a Caution - Wet Floor sign)

Crime or Punishment?

I did the cartoon above for Columbia's BWOG this Sunday on 'Crime & Punishment' the book that all students read must read as part of the 'core' or general required class.

And then I did the following sketch based on the idea if there were a Crime or Punishment

board game. Retro-style to what Electronic Arts is doing and just the kind of thing for masochists & neophyte burglars.

The very talented Professor Gulati

Here's a drawing I did for Columbia's Blue & White Magazine. The article was about Sunil Gulati, who is a (very popular) lecturer in Economics at Columbia University and is President of the US Soccer Federation. The picture will be printed in the 'Mapril' Blue & White.

New drawings

Last summer I was walking to work and picked up a leaf. This humble little leaf has been a wonderful source of inspiration. It is now a sad, faded little thing that I carefully keep in a cookie tin. Here's a sketch of one angle when it a freshly fallen.

I've hunted all through Central Park & have my own personal leaf-hunter in Ohio. Sadly, I've not yet found a leaf with such a beautifully ambiguous form. In the m

ean time I've been drawing trying to capture it at many different angles before it disintegrates into tine leaf-flecks. Below are a series of large scale (around 5' by 3') charcoal drawings on translucent paper. Eventually the work will go onto a light box frame. The drawing on the left is a work in progress; the two on the right are finished pieces.