Dubious Marketing

It's the selling thing...I am devoting a lot of time to promoting on etsy these days, and the creativity tends to pop out when it can. In this case, I am showcasing a plastic wall candelabra sconce thing from the 60s in some kind of Venetian fantasy. Making interesting photographs works to some extent as an outlet, and then again I can feel divided. It's an old issue, when I was an illustrator (back when we were all going to live in the broadband and be rich as Croesus) I worked digitally, so the creative footprints vanished as they were made, a little sparking in the air. Nothing to show, but nothing to carry.

Swings and roundabouts?

New Day x 365

Mission Twilight

The last three photos show the windows of 826 Valencia, where there is an installation representing the Lilliput section of Gulliver's travels by artist Lynn Rubenzer.

Happy Holidays!

Unless

Above, a swing installed on Valencia Street.

I couldn't find the name of the artist.

The rest of the Mission twilight photos tomorrow.

Hello - Okay!

Yep, I'm okay. the etsy store has been going reasonably well, and I have been madly packaging and running to the Post Office during the season (above you see a duo currently on offer on etsy- a cheesy winking man and a hand making the Okay sign - wearing a flesh-colored pinkie ring!). My plan is to take a little time to say hello to some people I have been missing in the blogosphere, and to do a little Mission photo essay for the end of the year - twilight and holiday decorations).

Next year, I'll try to post a couple of times a month anyway - at least until the Holiday wave breaks overhead once again.

Do you know these two?

I believe this is a rabbit riding a pig. Something about the red hair on the pig is making me think Spanish or Mexican. If you have any thoughts, let me know in comments. I'm about to list them on etsy but would like to know a bit more.

New Ride (ready for the Holiday)

Spotted in a neighborhood trashcan- Looks like someone is getting ready for Halloween.

In the Mission

A few shots from the trip into the Mission to take down the show at Paxton /gate.

Before we have eyes

Do we see in the womb? 

Is that why we keep searching for patterns?

Tomas Serrano

Above is one of the brilliant cartoon sequences of the very talented Tomas Serrano. He has a new website here, visit for more brilliance (his Woody Allen is a favorite of mine):http://www.tomasserrano.com/