Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art
Give me a Facebook “like,” and I will send you a postcard with a personalized, hand-drawn sea blob. Send your snail mail address to tbc(at)stanfordalumni(dot)org. Do it. It’ll be amazing.
Hand-Drawn Sea Blob in your Mailbox Read More
Washington, DC is filled with the remnants of remnants of if emergency call boxes from a time before modern communications and the 911 system. You can see these metal skeletons and intersections …
Art on Call Read More
Below are photos from Baltimore’s Kinetic Sculpture Race, a celebration of weird, home-made, man-powered vehicles sponsored by The Visionary Arts Museum. All of these contraptions had to locomote through mud, water, and the streets …
Kinetic Sculpture Race Read More
I recently finished reading Adam Mansbach’s Rage is Back, a novel steeped in the history of New York City Graffiti. The main character, Kilroy Dondi Vance, is the son of …
Mansbach’s “Rage is Back” Read More
Below is an old stencil from the once prolific DC street artist BORF. I took this picture on the way home from the grocery store the other day. BORF is …
BORF Returns Read More
I learned about the phenomena of yarn bombing after someone knitted a sweater onto a tree outside my local library. More research led me to images of fabulous examples of …
Yarn Bombing in Takoma Park, MD Read More
Graffiti artist Hense painted this church in Southwest, Washington, DC. You can read more about the project by clicking here. It’s part of a grand plan to bring a new museum …
Graffiti Church Read More
On my drive to work each morning, I pass a house with several large metal sculptures in the front yard. Internet research helped lead me to the creator of those …
Interview: DC Artist Setsuko Ono Read More
Here’s an early-morning picture of a speed camera with a robot head. By the time I came back in the daylight to get a good picture, the robot had been …
Speed Camera Robot Read More
Salvador Delvisco runs Free Art Friday DC (FAFDC), an event that encourages artists in the area to leave their work out in public areas in Washington, DC, offering it up …
Interview: Salvadore Delvisco on Free Art Friday DC Read More