I finished the menu board for Nina’s this morning. I always know that I’ve stayed up too late working on a project when I hear the BBC lap itself. I dropped off the 32 square foot menu this afternoon and before I had finished my iced espresso it had been expertly hung (no, not “hanged,” [...]
May 14, 2011
Thanks to all of you who have visited the roving archives of the Royal Ersatz Cartographic Society currently on display at Nina’s on the corner of Selby & Western in Saint Paul. I am positive that this is neither the first, nor the last time my maps will hang in a former or current brothel. [...]
May 2, 2011
Getting to and from the JAX Building (home of my studio) is no easy task. Thanks to the march of progress in the guise of light rail infrastructure, 4th Street has been doing its best imitation of early 1990′s Bosnia. Craters, mud, concrete, steel, lots of guys in helmets. I was not hoping for anything [...]
January 30, 2011
I have to admit — I like working with an audience. I finished the menuboards at Grand Pizza with a respectable claque. One pre-school aged boy was kind enough to offer his mitten-muffled applause once I finished. The sounds and smells (the unbelievable smells!) of pizza being made were too strong for me to waver [...]
October 11, 2010
A hearty thank you to all of you who trudged through the post-apocalyptic, light-rail construction environs of the JAX building, then up four flights of stairs (not fancy split-level stairs, old warehouse stairs mind you) and then, finally, all the way to the end of the hall to visit me and my maps. It was [...]
July 18, 2010
The traveling collection from the Royal Ersatz Cartographic Society continues its odyssey to Brewberry’s in St. Paul on the corner of Randolph & Fairview.
April 19, 2012
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