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Art

Nebuchadnezzar sketch

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Art

Nebuchadnezzar Sketch

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Essay

On Creativity

The Hyperloop Alpha When Elon Musk announced his concept of the Hyperloop Alpha around this time last year, the reaction in the press was something like total astonishment.  He was disappointed in California’s approval of a bullet train that was one of the “highest cost per mile,” and “slowest” in the world.  In one sweeping […]

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Portrait of Addie DeLong

Addie O’Neal DeLong–quickly drawn during a meeting— doesn’t really look like her.

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Blog Essay

Al Jaffee at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art

A retrospective of the artist’s work *Portrait by Drew Friedman 12/12/2010 When Al Jaffee walks into the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in SoHo, the room suddenly comes alive. Admirers of the eighty-nine-year-old artist fall into orbit around him, asking for autographs. He obliges the clambering fans by handing out bookplates with his logo […]

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Futureproof

Sketch inspired by William Gibson’s book, The Peripheral

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Willow Locke

Orphans of the Harp

Uptown 110th street stop. Followed her into the park. She walked across to Harlem Meer. She sits on a fallen stone in the shadow of Fort Clinton near the footpath and begins to play. Her case open to collect coins. I am watching from the shade, a stand of trees growing near the lake. White […]

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Willow Locke

Oh sweet girl, full of woe, dry your tears, I love you so.

She heard her sister cry out from her bedroom on the second floor, a heart-rending shriek. “Zil! Zil!” she wailed. Zilpah ran up the grand curving stair to her sister’s room. She eased the door open to see Shek sitting up in bed, a cutout of silver moonlight illuminating her dark silhouette. “It’s mama, Zil!” […]

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Paradise Lost