Here are some drawings I’ve done at various NY Vision Festivals over the past couple of years.

I can’t remember who this guitarist was.

Here’s one of Cooper-Moore. This concert was the first time I had seen him and he’s now a real favorite.

I’ve always liked my albums that Bob Stewart. It was a great treat to catch him live last year!

I saw a really good show last spring. It was just a little bit of luck that I saw it. My wife and I were in Paris and, as I don’t know the city, before we left I searched online for live jazz. I found this Craig Taborn solo concert at Sunrise-Sunet. It wasn’t easy to get a sense of what kind of jazz Taborn specialized in just from a web search but he had played with good people so I decided to try it. I’m really glad I did, too… He really is an incredible musician…

Incidentally, at the set break, I met another Brooklynite who actually lived in my neighborhood. He was a musician who was touring Europe with his band, Pitom. I haven’t run into him since I’ve been back or gotten a chance to hear his band but he was a nice guy and it was funny running into a neighbor halfway across the globe….

I put down hooky kid a few months ago… It’s just about done. I may go back into it sometime but for now, I’m thinking 3.5 years is long enough

It’s been almost a year since I last posted a new image of where I am on my latest work. just posted it on my artwork page: http://ahsodes.com/auto_thumb_generator.php or vist it directly here -> http://www.ahsodes.com/images/art/hooky_kid_2009-10.html

some sunsets from the past spring/summer

Well, If you really must know, it’s been going very slowly.  I’ve been working on hooky-kid for a long time and I just finished a small piece I made as an xmas gift.  They’re all on this page in the last row – http://ahsodes.com/auto_thumb_generator.php

heh…

I started another embroidery a couple of months ago – I just decided to scan it and add it to my image gallery. I really haven’t had any time to work on it for a long time but am hoping to get back to work on it soon.

update: 9-5 – haven’t been working on this as much as I’d like, but  here’s the latest

Last night I ran into a cool store on my way back to the subway (I had tried to go to Academy Records on 10th St but, alas, it was closed) – Forbidden Planet. Pretty cool in it’s own sweltering, non-ac endowed way. Had it not been so hot, I probably would have stayed longer…

Anyway, found this great compilation of Little Nemo comics… I have always (since I was very little) loved Winsor McKay’s drawing style and the dialogues always crack me up. An example:

“[frame 2 - some characters are loading a giant red polka-dotted ball/capsule with Nemo in it into a cannon]

per 1: Come! You fellows! Put that ball in that muzzle and be quick about it!

per 2: You are too high boys. Low er down!

per 3: Now it’s all right

per 4: Get a move on you. Low er it a little

[next frame - the cannon fires]

per 2: Ooh!Umm!

per 1: My! I put an awful big charge in that cannon!

per 3: Ooooof! My ears are busted!

per 4: Wow! That’s a roarer! Oowow!

Nemo (from inside the capsule): I don’t like this, one little tiny bit not one tiny weeney bit.

Princess (also in capsule):Oh! My!Don’t you? I do! I think it’s fine!”

I suppose a lot of the dialogue comes from the times (early 20th C) but it seems to be different than I can remember hearing anywhere else representing that era…