Two-Ten

Hello, amazing-creative-hilarious people who speak to me

through this box...

Go and have a great new decade!

xoh

Alpha g

Moody Monday: Thaw

Alpha Cap M (as in Murray)

It also occurred to me that this could be an "MMT"

But I decided not to push it, since it's Christmas :-)

Journal Excerpt: Assistant Art Directing in1987

The production end of graphic design was

so drastically different back then.

(I love posting about it.)

When I graduated from Art School, I was hired

as the assistant art director, at Success! Magazine.

One of my responsibilities was to "order the display type."

Back in the day, headlines & decks were

set on a machine called a typositor.

Lettering Directions is the company we used,

and some sassy lady named Fran

was my contact there.

Sometimes she would say things like:

"Ach, we're so busy today, people are waking-up

from the dead & ordering type!"

Is Fran alive somewhere, dreaming of heads & decks?

Caps & Small caps?

Fran?

Snow Day...12/20/09

So many faces in the snow...

Currier, Ives & Herbert.

A change in direction.

Perhaps too late.

waiting...

...on pins & needles.

A selfless act...

Temporary suspension of varmint status.

(granted for shoveling Mina's steps.)

Great job, #1!

Alpha P

NYT Help Wanted, 1989

The frigid weather & threat of a weekend snowstorm

has me looking inward once again. Last winter, some of

my old journal entries

were the most commented on, of all my posts.

This time, I'll start gently, with a help wanted ad,

saved from the New York Times.

How would my life be different today,

had I gotten this chic job?!

Where is the person who labored

over these tightly writ sentences?

Are they still creative directing somewhere?

Or have they been one of many lay-offs in the past 5 years?

Maybe they quietly slipped away to an upstate farm?

Moody Monday: 12/14/09

H is for Harbor

Slipped on an E...

and lived to blog about it.

Ungrateful Roses

Rescued from the snow.

Why Is 6 afraid of 7?

Because 7 8 9!

Get it???

7 8 (ate) 9!!!!

hahahahahahaha.

Alpha T

Alpha Cap M

or an E, face-down on it's nose.

Skyline, 1982

I did this drawing in 1982.

I found it in Mom's house on Thanksgiving,

and smuggled it home in one of the varmint backpacks.

I can't stop looking at it:

1) for obvious 9/11 reasons

2) how the phuck did I ever have the patience to draw all those dots??

3) and umm... why does the hand have 6 fingers!!???

4) why would Art School admissions

allow me in, with a 6-digit hand?

Special K

I was shooting for the V, but went with the K.