8.28.10
New CicLAvia postcards and doorhangers designed by me and photo via Joe Linton who will be door-hanging them this weekend with some volunteers.
7.31.10
Not Enough to Waste is a water conservation campaign that Joe Prichard and I have been working on for the Green LA Water Subcommitee.
6.14.10
We Are The Art is finally here! I worked with artist Elana Mann and the MOCA Education Department on this book. It documents a collaborative performance by Elana and a group Culver City High School students. The book juxtaposes the art the students learned about with the works they created for their final performance. Congrats to Elana on the Getty Museum aquiring this and several of her other books for their archives.
3.15.10
We came down to Guadalajara to experience the Vía RecreActiva. Hundreds of thousands of people fill the streets on Sunday morning.
1.1.10
A good way to start the New Year: In my mailbox this morning, I found the winter issue of GOOD magazine that I worked on as a guest designer, with guest art directors
Jessica Haye and Clark Hsiao and the rest of the GOOD team.
11.16.09
The Last North American Megafauna: 5 Portraits. New illustrations that I contributed to the new issue of Mammut Magazine.
11.16.09
Metro Gold Line to East LA is finally open. Stephen, Bobby, Adonia and I took a bike ride down the alignment to check out the festivities.
10.30.09
Stop by the Warwick in Echo Park in November to see this poster by Joseph Prichard, along with new printed versions of my Street Furniture Postcards and a story about an endangered kangaroo rat that I worked on with Vera Brunner-Sung.
9.20.09
Happy Happy installation at LACMA by Choi Jeon-Hwa, as part of the Your Bright Future exhibition. People were running around in these towers of plastic goods made in Korea!
9.18.09
CicLAvia does Parking Day LA. Thanks to Aaron Paley for hosting!
8.7.09
Today I made some paper models at GOOD with Casey Caplowe, Atley Kasky, Sheli
Ben
-Ner, Daryl Brook, Jessica De Jesus, Isis Kraus, Jamie Loos, Jacqui Oakley, Jonathan Park, Sonja Rasula, Jared Schorr, Ana Serrano and Alissa Walker.
Art direction by Brian Rea. Photo by GOOD, taken from their website.
8.7.09
Today I took a tour of Public School No. 9 - the new arts high school in downtown LA with
Metro Creative Services. Awesome amazing facilities, designed by Coop Himmelblau. These students are very lucky.
7.11.09
Car free at g727 for the CicLAvia workshop with James Rojas.
7.03.09
Acela high speed rail in Boston.
6.29.09
Stephen on the High Line.
6.14.09
Some programmed motion graphics made by Jeremy Landman. Projected at
Simple Pleasure: Leaving Records for the New Utopia at Studio Number One.
3.09.09
Also, I should mention, this book that finally summarizes the work of director, artist, and graphic designer Mike Mills is out. Designed by me and Mike, published by Damiani, and edited by Aaron Rose. It is organized, not linearly, but by colors, concepts, and emotions.
1.22.09
Some photos from the Griffith Park Observatory.
11.30.08
November brings many exciting things: A new president, a new apartment, a new job,
a new age, and good times with old friends.
11.17.08 Burning.
9.30.08::
You have 20 days left to register to vote in California, and in only five weeks, you can vote on a lot of important issues. You can vote against the ban on gay marriage, you can vote for high speed rail in California, you can vote against animal abuse of livestock. You can also vote for an intelligent, reasonable president who will protect (and restore) our civil rights, get us out of Iraq, and into the things we need like healthcare, jobs and homes. You can also donate to the Obama campaign here.
9.09.08::
Echo Park is one of the oldest and most eclectic neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The area west of downtown to Echo Park Lake was first developed in the 20s and 30s and was one of the only racially integrated neighborhoods in the city at that time. It became a little known creative center and was the home to many artists and writers, as well as the original center of the Los Angeles film industry.
By the 1960s, the same indifference by that had allowed the neighborhood to develop so organically had led to poor planning and urban decay. New housing had ceased to develop, as city planners hoped that downtown might expand westward into the neighborhood instead. The construction of the 101 freeway cut through the neighborhood center, driving out businesses on Temple street and effectively marking the end of an era.
9.04.08::
Ways to wasteless featured in the first issue of Mammut Magazine! A collaboration between Roman Jaster and Matt Merkel Hess.
6.06.08::
In the summer, it's good to just lounge around in the sun.
5.16.08::
Crackerjacks 2008
