Crisp weather Lunch Rest: illustration by heavylox

knatty color: illustration by heavylox.

long day Color: illustration by heavylox

opps, thought i was using water color crayons, turned out oil crayons got mixed in...: illustration by heavylox

Classic Five Head

Disc-Man Hanger onner

face Rester

White Hair, by heavylox

device Central, man and his machines

Knatty dread in a midtown

Ipod movie watcher: by heavylox

There I am, jabbing at the page with my pen, like a pig in shit, not a care in the world. When I’m happened upon by some german tourists. A family, mother father and two teenage girls; How sweet. Since they are not from here they were walking in an unorganized pack, there family tethers invisible, but there, would snap and reunite as they each snaked through the other pedestrians. As they had a set safety boundary they would spread out until tethers stressed to there limits would as if elastic pull them back into a huddle where they could remark amongst themselves about they they had seen on their little micro forays through the crowd. Well the limit was reach and they all came colliding back together surrounding me. Frau 1 noticed me drawing, and the the family motion came to a screeching halt. As they had been clamoring to get to specific place and had almost past it in their hurry. But now they were here. I heard other german from Frau 2; she pointed and then looked at dad. HE said something about new york street Kunst. a 5 minute debated ensued, amongst the family. I was not asked to participate, i as it turns out was the subject, and thus needed to focus on subjecting and not confuse the issue with any real facts or person-ness. These people were so close to me they could have been a devoted wait staff, in fact there were a few times when other people walking by, due to the, ‘whats thats crowd doing’ curiosity factor other people paused to see what was what. Is it considered decent etiquette in german to crowd a stranger and talk about him as if he weren’t there? What is the size of generally regarded personal space in germany? If reaching into my pocket from a seated position we touch, and your standing uup, all signs point to a violation in personal space. Remove the possibility of the incident happening on a train or other means of transpiration, take away, the idea of a popular restaurant or coffee bar, youre clearly crowding the plate. Back up off me SON! This is New York City, you dont me like that. I could be that guy that all your friends back home warned you about. That, let me make the trip a memorable one with a smile, No no, all of you should be in the picture. Yes i know how to use this. Stand a little closer, a little closer. And, im doing a runner with your camera FOOLS! Another tourist jacked. Luckily for them, they didnt have any cameras out, and running back inot the office with stolen tourist gear seems a lil foolish, oh and im also not that guy. SO i sat there, and enjoyed the show. They didn’t break the fourth wall nor did they respond to my attempt at it, so be it. Shortly their time was up and, with german efficiency each exhibit regardless of interest was allowed 5 minutes and then to keep the schedule, it was on to the next one for them.

Ive been on this kick to find some new letter shapes, and while perusing flickr i was reminded of Raekwons first album cover “only built for cuban links”. Keep in mind my mind a mash of loose ends and wildly obvious missed connections. At the time i had never really paid any attention to type, in fact I didn’t really pay much attention to any type after that for a long time. but at the time i was fairly floored by the combination of upper and lowercase letter fragments. the formation of legible letters from letter pieces was awesome to me. And it went no further, I’m sure i found some shinny bit of paper and forgot all about the awesomeness of type and thus never got the chance to let my mind wonder past the initial admiration into the pasture of how can i use and or otherwise apply this to things i do. I missed the distillation of what was happening, by committing it to a ‘oh i like this’, and promptly moving on. A short 15 or so years later i found myself reminiscing about it, remembering the essence over the execution, and digging it up confirmed that. But the essences was there in my mind, i just never it gave a change to gain any context. When given the right clues the mind and fight through abstraction and wrestle it into recognition.

• Say as much as you can in as few words as possible.
• Over indulge by way of restrictive and economic consumption.
• generalize enough to form specifics.
• circle, square, triangle.

digital previs; rath

earlier sketch, trying to work out omissions.

Star Trek Sexy: rath UPS COD 3a

Had a great day monday despite it being combumboclot day. Painted a piece i think i like and wen i came time for the photos i got the worst glare, that made a good photo impossible. It hard even n good conditions to photograph shade moving towards black but ate no black… I’ve learned my lesson, in future. never paint anything i care about at this spot as i will never got a photo this is the 3 or 4th time in as many years Ive done this spot, and not once have i got a decent photo. Always a god time and and good people but the lack of decent photo stings a bit.