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Makers
A while back, the folks at Wired asked me to make some blackouts from their recent design issue. I thought I’d play around with the whole “maker” movement, and went hunting in the magazine for all the...
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Newspaper Blackout show in Denton, Texas
Last week I hung my very first solo gallery show up at UNT on the Square in Denton, Texas. All the pieces for the show were done in the five months after my son Owen was born—I made probably 60 or 70...
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A poem a day
Since the #NewspaperBlackout show in April, I’ve been making a poem every day and posting it to Instagram. It looks something like this (or this): It’s a good ritual before I do my “real” work for the...
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Headed Northwest
Headed to the Pacific Northwest next week. First stop is Seattle to film a 90-minute interview with Chase Jarvis. The interview will be broadcast live, Wednesday, September 18th, 11:00am Seattle time...
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Spectors Haunting May Embrace (A Halloween Blackout)
Earlier this month, I posted a blackout on Instagram and a follower commented, “Sounds like the beginning of a good tale.” That got me wondering if could tell a ghost story in blackouts for the rest...
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The holidays are coming up, which means that I’m getting a lot of email from folks who want to buy prints of my work to give as gifts. Unfortunately, we won’t be selling prints until next year. (My...
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Newspaper Blackout finally available as an eBook
My first book, Newspaper Blackout, is now available as an eBook. Kindle Nook iBooks ebooks.com Word of caution: you need to have a reasonably large, preferably backlit screen to appreciate these...
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Mission Statement
Always circling the same obsessions, I’ll often make a poem months (or years) after that would’ve fit perfectly into one of my books. This one would’ve gone into chapter three of Steal Like An Artist...
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Sentencing
I hate writing. What I really love is reading. I tell people I became a professional writer so I could be a professional reader. (Adam Phillips: “I had never had any desire to be a writer. I wanted to...
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No words
Sometimes the words don’t come. That’s when I make pictures. (And vice versa.)
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Low overhead, revisited
In today’s New York Times, a man said this about living in a 112-square-foot house: “It has maximized what I’m able to do with the young years of my life.” This is the big point I try to make when I...
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