I’ve been interested in some recent articles reexamining the ‘creative class’ as defined by Richard Florida a decade ago. More specifically, I’m interested in articles that discuss cities and the artists/ creatives/ funemployed who live in them. As someone who fits into this category, I love where I live but simultaneously don’t feel supported or …
These drawings, by the way, are done in a tiny notebook about the size of an index card. He got up too quickly- I didn’t get very far.
I have started furtively drawing people on the bus on the way to my internship. The northbound Damen bus before 9am has the perfect composition of variables that make this possible: relatively empty bus, people’s general morning sluggishness (less movement), and the fact that my route starts at one train stop and ends before another …
After much deliberation, work has finally begun on a project of (hopefully) 7-foot-tall proportions. Uncertainty Monster. If my 3rd grade teacher could see me now… he’d have tears in his eyes that I actually did papier mache of my own volition, without the slightest hint of a temper tantrum.
All my single ladies…
I don’t work in the fashion industry anymore, but I think I have enough credibility and aesthetic sense to say: Just Don’t Do It.