I usually remember my name...this is ridiculous

Here's a clip showing autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire who is able to draw detailed cityscapes from life- amazing stuff!

San Francisco Culture

While attending Adobe's Education Leaders Bootcamp this week I had an opportunity to spend a few hours checking out the city's art and music scene and it blew me away. The city has always had an enormous amount of creative elements but the amount of cutting edge art and music has grown a great deal in the last year. I'm a huge fan of SF based graffiti and art magazine Juxtapoz so it's not too surprising that the graffiti scene has grown in town but there are also a growing number of local shops and mags like Kid Robot and Giant Robot (which are totally unrelated) reflect the art scene. In addition to graffiti art the city has a huge number of fine art galleries for both contemporary and classic art and photography.

In the music scene there are some great small venues around town which showcase local performers and Haight Street also has Amoeba Records, the largest independently owned music shop in the world where a music fan can get lost for hours. The SF Gate has a great online guide to all the shows going on if you're in town and it seems like you never have to travel too far for some cool music. The biggest regret I have is that I didn't have more time to explore the art and music so next year I'll be coming in early with my sketchbook.

Now for a drawing.

Here's a new illustration I did for a local magazine, L.I. Pulse.

Blogging for beginners...

Here's my first blog. I never thought I'd be "that guy", but here I am. I always thought blogs were a boring list of things that people think might be important but that no one else could possibly care about. I changed my mind when I started writing and illustrating my first childrens book and saw a bunch of really useful illustration blogs. I never thought it could be pictures! I get it now, sorry bloggers for having misjudged you. Below is a boring list of things that I did today:

Woke up
Got breakfast. Eggs and sausage.
Got more coffee.
Drew 4 pages.
Got lunch.
Thought about Oprah.
Got more coffee.
Took a walk.
Got pizza.
Went to supermarket. (more coffee).
Came home.
Let cat in.
Found blogs, rethought blogs.
Wrote this.