The Drake

South Philly Cottage

Camac Street

A building in drawing form

This is some corner in South Philly

a walk up Passyunk Ave.

Back Windows, Rittenhouse Square

Daily Philadelphia...

Most of my drawings are done from photos that I take on my daily travels through the city. Philadelphia is a place were you need to keep reminding yourself to look up. So many amazing buildings have been converted into Dollar Stores and CVS pharmacies. In spite of corproate America's attempts to turn our cities into generic wastelands, Philadelphia has managed to maintain it's unique history and beauty. Since many of these photos won't make it into drawings any time soon I start putting the pics up themselves--one a day if possible. Enjoy!

New Drawing

A few months ago, on one of the first nice days of the spring, i took a nice long walk from south philly up to work. I'm finally getting a chance to do some drawings from all the pictures i took that day. this first one is walking north on 17th street. when i lived on south Chadwick street and worked at Kitchen Kapers i would walk this way every day and even got a day by day check of the progress on this mural that's on the side of the building in the foreground. thus, this drawing has a special place of familiarity in my heart.

On a Friday Night...

Went to the Jamaican Jerk Hut last night to hear our lovely friend Tedford play some Reggae (mon...). The music was lovely, the night was lovely, the garden was lovely and all in all I would suggest it as a wonderful way to spend a Friday night. However, I offer you this one caveat. Don't Order Dinner. Eating was the biggest cluster fuck I've experienced in a very long time. Nothing came out at the same time. I got different parts of my meal at varying times. They ran out of what Anna ordered, but didn't bother to tell her until they brought out nothing more than a side dish for her and asked if that was really all she wanted. In fact, from what I hear, they ran out of everything. Oh, and pitchers of juice (without any booze) are $25 each. Infact, everything other than a patty (kind of like a hand held pot pie) is really expensive. Dinner will invariably be about $30-$40 dollars a person after tip, tax and corking fee (don't even get Laura started).



So, my suggestion to you, should you choose to accept it: Go to the Jerk Hut, sit on the lawn, bring your own booze, get a patty or bowl of rice and enjoy the music. Anything else will make you insane.



Finally, here's a little drawing for you--a view I see as I walk to the Jerk Hut from work.