For those of you with children, those who have friends or relatives with children, or those who just enjoy children’s books with beautiful, whimsical illustrations, Aileen Leijten’s new picture book Hugging Hour! is out now. For the locals, there will be a book release party at the charming space that is POMME in Brooklyn on [...]

I wandered through the gourmet grocery store called Balducci’s on 8th Avenue and 14th Street last weekend. In addition to being a winter wonderland of cheeses, it also had these cute holiday cupcakes I couldn’t resist photographing. The store itself is visually striking, occupying a domed 1897 landmark building that used to be a bank. [...]

I had been meaning to go to HanGawi restaurant for months but had an unbelievably difficult time getting anyone to go with me. Something about the phrase “Korean vegetarian place” made most people immediately lose interest. Fortunately, I finally made it to this little K-Town gem last weekend and enjoyed a meal that was well [...]

This recent article by Michael Lewis, author of the infamous book Liar’s Poker, is long but once you’ve read it, you and your former office mates can sit around the flaming garbage can and discuss the finer points long into the cold, cold night: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom

I’ve been getting increasingly miffed at all the fun things I’m not doing while I tend to Very Important Life Matters™, the latest being getting drunk. Also on my not-to-do list: seeing Party Central USA‘s new stage show, Riding an Inflatable Hotdog, at the PIT marching in the annual Village Halloween Parade being part of [...]

The Del Close Marathon starts today in New York City. $25 gets you into over 150 shows running nonstop Friday through Sunday. Come check out my group if you’re in town! Falling Anvil Sunday, 12:15 pm Urban Stages 259 West 30th St (between 7th & 8th Ave) New York, NY 10001 http://www.delclosemarathon.com/

My Art of Editing instructor commented this week that we are now halfway through the semester and asked if anyone has any questions or comments about that fact. I do. I want to know when we are going to start discussing the Art of Editing. Because so far we’ve watched a hodge podge of sometimes [...]

Hello! I’m back from Spring Break, and I’m ready to finish up the final month of Sound Design. For the rest of the course, I’ll be creating the soundtrack for a short film in ProTools using the audio recordings previously gathered in Washington Square Park. As an extra twist, the instructor is having each of [...]

Armed with a collection of freshly recorded sounds from the previous week’s recording adventures in Washington Square Park, I entered this week’s Sound Design class ready to dive into a real ProTools sound editing session. Of all the things covered in the course, I figured the part involving computers would fall right into my comfort [...]

because air conditioners are heavy and city apartments don’t have enough storage room. Yes, this is a short post. I worked 60 hours this week, attended two three-hour evenings classes, started memorizing a sketch for this Saturday’s Sketchubator show at the PIT (at 11 PM – be there!), watched To Have and Have Not, and [...]