The Paper Crane

A friend who works at my favorite neigh­bor­hood book shop rec­om­mended to me that I re-read Edgar Lee Master’s The Spoon River Anthol­ogy. I’ve been slowly work­ing on an ani­ma­tion which is slowly becom­ing a pup­pet show play instead of an ani­ma­tion and some of the char­ac­ters and…

The allur­ing macabre fairy tales of Mar­cel DzamaDzama is a for­mer mem­ber of the Cana­dian col­lec­tive The Royal Art LodgeHis ambigu­ous images imply a sur­re­al­ist influ­ence. Fraught with nar­ra­tive, Dzama often uses the white­ness of the paper as a blank float­ing land­scape for his char­ac­ters. I love the…

Islands Foldhttp://www.islandsfold.com/

an inde­pen­dant pub­lish­ing company/artist res­i­dency.Love it!

Over the sum­mer I started mak­ing embroi­dered Myspace profiles…I took a long break from mak­ing these lit­tle guys but am now con­tin­u­ing with the project…More embroi­dered myspace pro­files to come in January

I like to buy used hard cover books and gesso over the pages and use them as sketchbooks.

The other day I had lunch with a friend from work and one of the sub­jects that came up was “How do I do my art all the time?” and a sub-subject of “where is art going and why aren’t there art move­ments any­more?” I’ve been think­ing about these two…

My pal Chad Kouri; amaz­ing artist-super-neon-cardiganshire-post-spell-check-renegade-slash-all-’round-hella-wicked-dude, is guest blog­ging on Book By It’s cover be sure to check out his sketch­books: and his arti­cle on Cody Hudson’s new book.

I love the work of DeeDee Cheriel (above) whom is show­ing right now at White Walls in San Fran­sisco. I really enjoy her ear­lier work, and her web­site shows a won­der­ful pro­gres­sion lead­ing up to her most recent pieces. Her cur­rent work slightly reminds me a lit­tle of…