One day's harvest

From our gorgeous lil' organic garden down the street, Bella Vista. Here's BR watering and picking green beans with our friend Naima.

cling vs. freestone

Yes indeedy, being the Central Valley agriculturally raised kids that we are, my brother and I (bonafide former 4-Hers) actually do know how to can, preserve, and dry our bounties. I missed the actual harvesting party out in Brentwood and goshiso lunch at Lucy Arai's house, but was around later that night to pit the apricots, peel peaches and watch Doug sterilize and cook the fruit down. Our rad mom STILL to this day teaches food preservation and nutrition to local kids in the Clovis/Fresno area and remains crazy active with 4-H, both nationally and on the Fresno Fair level. 

Spaaaaace Baaaaaaalls

What do you do the day after a big holiday involving colored fire, bbq pork, hot tubs, jazz standards, baby nieces in a new house, and new/old samurai flicks? You go to West Oakland to play miniature golf created by art collective Space 1026, that's what.

mockturtle linoblock

originally commissioned for a Mute Socialite poster, but its a little bit homeless at the moment since I couldn't do the job in time for the cd release party (bleh.) nods to the woodblock master, Barry Moser.

recently, from the sketch book

BookWorks at the San Francisco Public Library

The books are in the cases, lit and in full glory over at the San Francisco Main Public Library....111 outrageously beautiful and wierd books handmade by book artists from around the world. This is my third, count 'em, THIRD time organizing the show, and I don't know if I get better at it as much as I get seasoned. For anyone who has an appetite for remarkable range of books in their myriad possible forms, sculptural, traditional or otherwise, I highly recommend checking it out- I think it just might explode your notions of what a book can be.

BookWorks exhibition is on the 6th floor Skylight Gallery of the SF Main and will be up until September 26th. Just a hop across the street from Civic Center BART.

For some photos of the cases (courtesy of ace photographer Kate Godfrey), go right here: