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So proud this was selected to be among the hundreds of wonderful pieces at Sketch Party San Diego. I like it and #sketchpartysd
I also worked on a small F-15 yesterday. Whoosh! (And hooray lost storage items)
So honored to have two pieces among such amazing artists’ works! Thank you @labodegagallery @sketchpartysd 3rd Annual Art Show is amazing! Lots of art cheep! #sketchpartysd
First thing made by me on my cheap new drafting table. Early Merry Christmas, y’all.
I acquired a drawing table from Craigslist for cheap and it makes me very happy!
Kelly and Gwen in action, FlyBall!
Materials for custom leads, collars, tugs, etc. San Diego FlyBall.
I did not purchase this and that’s for the best but it’s got personality.
Used my umbrella. Rare here in San Diego.
I am not a Gundam or Transformer… I AM VOLTES V! #sketchpartysd #voltesv #sandiego
X marks the Thanksgiving prep (from last week)
Christmas tree building. Last night.
San Diego is great because a simple movie date can turn magical!
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary. (It’s restorative, I hear).
Budget conscious haul from Designer Con: sticker by @jesssdraws and book by @davepressler and @mondonews Iron Giant limited edition Machinder version. And a bonus lil’ robot! #designercon
“SHUT UP AND DRAW!” —a message from @davepressler I can get behind. #designercon #robotselfie
Designer Con has been fun. Inspiring! #designerCon
Swami’s is always on point. Here with Kelly @hellokellykuhl on the way to Designer Con.
We did not win at Space Trivia tonight.
My fridge magnets are pretty great.
This should be fun. Big fun crowd for @jscalzi & Cixin Liu
It’s a good feeling when a friend gives you 3 robots in one day. Look at these little ones! Thanks Chris!
The other night I got to see @proopdog laying it down for the Greg Proops Film Club.
Even a non-painter, when faced with a canvas to recycle, two acrylic paints and a little time—must paint.
Miniaturized Mom’s ofrenda. She’d’ve liked it.
Classic film viewing in a classic venue: The Third Man at @sidgrauman The Egyptian in Hollywood with @proopdog Greg Proops. I can smell the popcorn already.
TRUMP DON’T SURF • DON’T LITTER
Kelly in the pool in autumn.
I met this Garibaldi in Baltimore in January. I felt like I understood them because I’ve been an expatriate, too.
We get extraordinary sunsets sometimes. The left and right were taken just a minute or so apart Thursday night.
I didn’t stay long but I was very happy to be at Red Wing for Joelle’s birthday. She’s always full of fierce truth and I found out Friday she has a heckuva set of pipes. Happy Birthday @tenthmuse!
From January. I could watch my Dad with his grandsons all day long.
First ofrenda ever is for mom. It is the Day of the Dead. We remember those who have moved on and take joy that death is just another part of life.
My teammates for Harry Potter Trivia are amazing. #kyloron
Walter & Scarecrow! Happy Halloween!!!
Hello friend. “I’M SHOMER SHABBOS!” #happyhalloween #waltersobchak
Parts.
Yesterday was full of art and friends. A whirlwind. A most excellent day.
Day of the Dead
I found the “ARTLUNG” stamp which I was sure had been lost forever! Who is up for a postcard or pen pal?
Emptied out Storage last weekend. It was an accomplishment! Much help from @leahblooms in the weeks prior.
“Joseph Arther (sic) Crawford”: Batman Shrinky Dinks® from about 1975 before I could spell my middle name.
Brutal Fall day.
Me & Kel
Scenes from 1994: spirometry at Los Alamitos Medical Center, The Tick, Quiz Show, Shawshank Redemption, Universal CityWalk, Comic Gallery on Balboa Ave.
Chinchillas at closing time, yesterday.
SAT JUN 19, 1993: I remember the glee with which Sharon & Chris revealed the event they were taking me to was a Barry Manilow concert. I was a music snob and she forced me to admit he was a helluva performer. We miss you Sharon!
I’m kind of a sticker collector now but I have more stickers than surfaces to put them on.
I’m gathering pieces for an Ofrenda. It’s a cultural thing I grew up with only in passing. But it’s 8 years my Mom’s gone this year. And it feels right.
VHS out of storage. Now I need tools to encode video to digital. Again.
My grandmother, Jean wrote this note in 1993. Landline. Erin’s been my friend a long time. My grandma was more than 10 years out from the stroke that changed her life and forced her to re-learn everything, including writing. It was also the era when I’d come back to San Diego on vacation. I miss her. I disagreed with her consistently but loved her dearly.
I’m pretty sure Bob Brett drew this. It’s of me in 1994. Yay diaries and scrapbooks!
My friend Chris was early learning what laser cutters could do and I’m proud to have this on display again!
“Obviously, you’re not a golfer.”
Visited the jungle after dinner last night.
Inktober, barely. #inktober2018
I’m still proud of my glue-gunning this past weekend. #crafting #gluegun #corkcrafts
Cube Cat makes an appearance for #inktober #inktober2018 #cubecat
This office has a disco ball and a gong. Good talk on ethics and design and technology tonight. #uxspeakeasy
❤️❤️❤️ just a few decades ago ❤️❤️❤️
What is bilateral symmetry anyway? #sketchpartysd #inktober #inktober2018 #holdAMirrorUpToIt
This Star is EXHAUSTED. #inktober #inktober2018 #notPatrickStarfish #day7day8
Today I went through lots of old stuff and used a glue gun to assemble wine corks into a pyramid that I then put buttons on! (Among other things). CRAFTING!
Kate Clyde, fabricator for @museumofman just spoke on creating interactive experiences @sdmakerfaire and was inspirational! #sketchnotes #balboapark #sdmakerfaire — “putting the fun in profundity”
DAGGER IS NOT CHICKEN / #inktober2018 #inktober
under her SPELL • #INKTOBER 4 • #inktober2018
Inktober 3. #inktober #inktober2018
THERE IS NOTHING SO TRANQUIL AS MAKING MARKS WITH NO AGENDA #inktober #inktober2018
Poison. #inktober #inktober2018
I made a friend bodysurfing. He was using a sprig of seaweed to ride waves. Waves with some height and real power from Rosa. #bodysurfing #oceanbeach #sandiego #crabs
Serious young man. And a goofball cousin (me).
My dad and sister. NYC Christmastime 1992.
Great talk by Danny Kimm this morning at #cmsandiego on smartphones, screen time, and human connection. thanks @creativemornings_sd
Airport selfie, 1992. Headphones and listening to CDs I had to carry around with me. Ah, the past. Let’s not romanticize it.
So cool in ‘92. Me and my sister @ Griffith Park.
No really, @sketchpartysd last night was great. #sketchpartysd
Young Yondu, maybe. #sketchpartysd Amazing 3 year Anniversary turnout! Here’s to @sketchpartysd
Was looking at code. Just doing cleanup in archival directories on my website and in a file with a time stamp of August 22, 2001 — hidden in an HTML comment— here’s a copy and pasted email from my mom. I encoded an audio tape of the night before their wedding and asked how old everyone in the tape was. I sure miss you mom.
Action Corgi. A few weeks ago.
Pacific Surfliner southbound coming into Old Town.
That was the week that was.
Me. With an Ultraman costume, Saturday.
B+
Scenes from yesterday—Little Tokyo, Japanese American Museum. A great time.
Grendizer & Me @ Anime Jungle
The Neptune abides. #sketchparty #sketchpartySD #stoke
Terrific breakfast beverages at Dru’s Wiffle in Santa Monica. Bloody Mary & coconut latte. The chicken & waffles were terrific, too.
If Summer’s over, how’d I catch all those waves today? #stoke
Dogs allowed again. Safety first, Gwen.
“Softly smile, I know she must be kind.” Thank you Uncle Jody, for introducing me to great music and sharing with me opinions about what music MEANS.
On Saturday visited the California campus of @bastyruniversity here in San Diego. They do naturopathic treatments of various kinds and had impressive array of natural ingredients in their kitchen. They had a broader range of health care modalities than I expected.
Yes, Meshuggah Shack has a to robot on their bar. No, that’s not why I like them. Well, not the ONLY reason I like them.
This mural by Alex “Ali” Gonzalez is one my Mom would have loved. Mom last lived in Los Angeles in 1977 but the whole of Los Angeles is imbued with her presence. Whether it was the time Chris and I drive to LA from San Diego and I got home at 3am on a school night and she was madder at me than I’d ever seen her or would ever see her be mad again. Or the times driving in the VW Beetle from Alhambra to LA County to pick up my Dad. Or being on Sunset Blvd within striking distance of my sister’s birthplace. And yesterday there was this, her favorite man singer for decades. And in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” yesterday there’s that moment where Eddie Valiant picks up a novelty sword to fight with and it’s the Singing Sword, useless save for the fact it’s a 1940s-style caricature of Frank Sinatra singing “Witchcraft.” My Mom died in 2010 but I carry her in my eyes and feelings and memories.
The El Capitan is a marvel.
