Bye Bye Sketchbook

I finished my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project and sent it in yesterday. I'm glad to have it finished, and a bit sad to say goodbye to it forever. I got very engrossed in the little stories that presented themselves every day as subjects. I didn't always know what they were about, but I knew they had meaning. This kind of looking at daily-ness (if that's a word) is becoming more and more important to me, and nudging into my work more often.

Do you know Inca Pan?

I might be the last person on the planet to discover this illustrator. He is Inca Pan, Taiwanese, and you can  look at his Flickr stream if you have more time to burn! The image below is via Heloholo. I like the dreamlike, narrative quality of his work. His access to the intuitive is really a gift.

Inca Pan

The Sartorialist Blog

I'm getting ready to go to NYC for a few days, so I had to visit the Sartorialist to see what is going on fashion-wise down there. I lucked out because there is a great little YouYube film just up today on how the Sartorialist films his subjects. He talks about leading a visual life and the pleasures of getting to relate to things visually every day. I love fashion as the fluid, immediate art form of the streets. It turns out that my basic uniform of jeans, sweater, scarf, and clogs is worthy of this blog. Not that I look like this in my uniform.

The Sartorialist