Another set of photographs I’ve taken recently….

We had our 2010 holiday party last night; it was held at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach, and it was a lot of fun – in addition to an ice sculptor and s field of snow, there were ice skaters performing, various foods around including a decorate-the-gingerbread-man area.

Aviva and I boarded Iggy for his first extended overnight (we did a one night test run first) and flew to Columbus, Ohio on Southwest Airlines for my mom’s 85th birthday on August 15; I brought along my copy of Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations which I read […]

Aviva has been trying out using image transfers as an underlying part of her latest artwork; this involves copying images onto special “paper” and then using turpentine to transfer the resulting decal onto canvas. Since I know how to use Photoshop, I scan and muck up the images (mostly reducing contrast and blurring them a […]

I’ll be posting pictures here of the progress getting Aviva’s studio addition built (Aviva’s mom wanted me to start this post so she could see – the power of the internet in action!). First the slab – they had to dig twice because they didn’t go deep enough the first time for the inspector (there […]