Hello internets, how are you today?

Me, I need to get to work, but you distract me so easily!

This is a flyer I helped with for a Semilla event. I did the drawing. Nothing fancy but I like the overall outcome.



This is an older picture, back in Davis with Semilla. I am helping out in retouching a painting by the spectacular artist Alicia Siu, in the green. Her artwork is spectacular and a huge inspiration to me. You can see some of her stuff at http://alicia.nuai.org/

Here I am thinking about how my favorite blogs didn't update for a while....and I myself of course don't put up anything either. Not that I'm anybody's favorite blog, but I do need to keep with it, especially since I'm going through a bit of a funk on starting and finishing things. Sigh...


Graduate school this semester is being a mixed blessing. I love learning but have been unmotivated with school work and I am not feeling as creative as I would like to be. I have a backlog of things to accomplish and need help. But enough whining, up above is a final self portrait print.

On Politics...

I admit, I want Barack Obama to win...not because I hate McCain or I'm a "raging liberal"...but rather because I think he can be a realist as much as people make him out to be an idealist. This post won't be long on my beliefs or political analysis. Rather I just want complain that reports are now coming out that states may be illegally removing people from the voter rolls. Whether it's a conspiracy or not, it can have a very real impact on the outcome, with so many variables at play ("bubba vote" for example). So although the polls may indicate a tight race in some cases, all of a sudden people find out they can't vote and then we're back in a situation where the election is decided by a very small number. That's scary, even if it's how "democracy works"...

As one report stated, in one state, for every new voter added to the roll, officials may have removed two...

I'm afraid because that would favor McCain since it's the Democrats who have registered more voters.

On a lighter note though, I'm happily surprised by "Rednecks for Obama"...maybe they can play an unexpectedly significant role...

...and I'm back.

Hello internet....how are you?
I still haven't quite figured out why it's so difficult to keep a blog. Maybe because I don't really have anyone to be accountable to...such as readers. I think it's easy enough to update daily if not weekly...I just end up not doing it!!

I have a friend who can post with way more regularly...and that is really to what I aspire. Well, I'll keep at it. For now, here is another image of a self-portrait print that I am working on for a printmaking class. It's still very much a work in progress. Show me some love internet.