Dairy

finally some brown drawings

2012-01-20T23:10:00.001-05:00

Not brown brown but close. this is a CMY mush

la ardilla gris

2011-12-08T22:52:00.001-05:00

lillly

2011-11-30T22:59:00.001-05:00

5th near apples

2011-10-19T12:52:00.001-04:00

I think this is great.

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Location:East Dr,,United States

Me, so totally owned by a baby

2011-10-11T23:10:00.002-04:00

Ed Hizzelf

ablog!

2011-09-29T22:31:00.001-04:00

2011-08-16T19:53:00.001-04:00

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Location:Vandervoort Ave,,United States

2011-07-27T02:42:00.000-04:00

Nice storm tonight, right as the day turned to night.

Drawing

2011-07-25T12:31:00.002-04:00

Phoned in

Location:Thames St,,United States

Hairballs

2011-07-10T17:15:00.002-04:00

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Location:Thames St,,United States

a hot night's lightning

2011-06-10T00:49:00.002-04:00

clamps for miles

2011-05-23T10:35:00.001-04:00

Deliciounut

2011-05-10T21:59:00.001-04:00

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Location:Morgan Ave,,United States

Naumandiabourgeoisspider

2011-04-19T23:32:00.003-04:00

kitty licks

2011-04-12T21:41:00.001-04:00

chewy grass

CRacz photography

2011-04-05T00:48:00.001-04:00

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Quilts until the 30th

2011-03-28T12:51:00.001-04:00

It's wild!!

At the Park Avenue Armory, for free

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Location:Lexington Ave,New York,United States

Saved the cup

2011-03-16T00:32:00.002-04:00

circa 91

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Location:Doctors Run,Rockport,United States

.356

2011-03-14T18:22:00.001-04:00

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Location:Linwood St,Arlington,United States

Wax Blinky

2011-03-14T08:50:00.002-04:00

Phoned in

Location:Thames St,Brooklyn,United States

2nd February post!

2011-02-28T19:43:00.004-05:00

Vanity blogs fall to pieces if one's vanity isn't peaked. I trimmed my brigham beard yesterday and feel much better about my appearance. I don't know if I've pushed into the realm of vain but the fact that I'm wondering brings me all the more closer to it. Right?
Photo by Pingree at Sarah Bednarek's Birthday Blast. Anthrax played.

Styx!

2011-02-05T01:42:00.003-05:00

Harsh. It's been tough times for our feathered friends this storm cycle. At least someone had something extra to help steer this goose straight into the great beyond.

Under the wire

2011-01-31T23:36:00.002-05:00

New Year!! we're tearing down the walls!!!

2011-01-18T23:06:00.002-05:00

Traditional Abramovitz!!

2010-12-30T18:42:00.001-05:00

Wrapping up the old year

2010-12-19T21:53:00.000-05:00

All of December, right here

2010-12-18T00:24:00.001-05:00

Wheels Keep Rollin'

2010-12-03T18:33:00.002-05:00

Whoa! with the spins already.

2010-11-14T15:25:00.001-05:00

Photo by Joe Brook (click to link and recipe)

2010-11-12T23:55:00.000-05:00

grircle

2010-10-30T10:33:00.003-04:00

2010-10-10T10:18:00.001-04:00

What's it mean?!?!? This can't just be a coincidence.

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halo 3

2010-10-08T07:42:00.000-04:00

The Empire State gets cooked again

2010-09-23T00:57:00.001-04:00

Busy September

2010-09-19T18:24:00.002-04:00

Not so many posts this month, so sorry to my loyal viewer. It's been a hectic September, but not as crazy as what's going on by my old neighborhood. They're building a kinda krazy bridge. I like it and I can't wait to drive over it.

Cractal

2010-08-30T21:20:00.001-04:00

Phoned in

Location:Pondfield Rd,Bronxville,United States

Bednarek, Sarah

2010-08-22T19:04:00.002-04:00

Sarah Bednarek's got a website!

Jen-n-Outlaw's Fish Fry Truck and Crawfish Boil

2010-08-21T20:43:00.006-04:00

above image lifted from Art Fag City

quote from below "No you can't have any!"

We got some and it was Deeelish! Jen-n-Outlaw's

2010-08-18T12:27:00.000-04:00

clumpaquake

2010-08-17T16:09:00.001-04:00

2010-08-14T02:22:00.002-04:00

I've been trying to upload from my phone with no luck, my bloggy app's busted. Here's some sweet phone vid from yesterday

Ft. Tilden swirls swoops and swooshes

2010-08-02T18:18:00.000-04:00

rubber tooth bibs rule!!

2010-07-30T11:35:00.003-04:00

and I love my new student dentist and his hands-on professor

Brooklyn Bridge

2010-07-28T12:07:00.001-04:00

This is where the bridge isn't, but was

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different (better?) video from that last one

2010-07-20T01:48:00.003-04:00

Anomalastomp

2010-07-10T19:07:00.001-04:00

YouTube Video

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I've been doing some hard travelling

2010-07-05T14:06:00.000-04:00

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First Putt!!

2010-06-20T20:10:00.000-04:00

YouTube Video

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some new 'crete in Chilltown

2010-06-15T23:47:00.003-04:00

The "Sneek Snake" after 4 bags of concrete and 1 busted mixing bin. About a zillion bags to go
For more info on the upcoming mini golf madness in Jersey, check out the Golden Door's Site

BME

2010-06-13T11:35:00.001-04:00

Brooklyn-Manhattan Expressway

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Racz jam

2010-06-12T20:10:00.001-04:00

A quick trip to the home depot and a few hours of labor and the Raczkowski clan's got a new ramp. Bring your pads cuz it's a beast.

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Golf, only better

2010-06-11T20:03:00.001-04:00

Been sculptin' up some wicked mini golf just south of the Hudson.

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I JUST TO MYSELF WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT ME IS WHATEVER

2010-06-07T13:59:00.000-04:00

BUCK

2010-06-04T01:12:00.002-04:00

Absolutely wish I had some extra thousands around

Rad stuff on the internet

2010-05-30T17:17:00.002-04:00

made by Jon Laustsen
it looks like he's installing a garage door too

2010-05-23T00:54:00.000-04:00

Gabe's starting a blog!!!

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Untangling physic's number knots

2010-05-21T16:02:00.001-04:00

Meridith's sculpture's on the roof of Nurture Art for one more week + an end.

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HazMat cleanup shuts the park down for awhile

2010-05-21T13:54:00.002-04:00

keep your blood to yourself
Helmets keep your brains cozy and the doors open.
If you want to splatter yourself please don't do it in my brand new skatepark that has such great hours (for now)

bdbbq

2010-05-09T10:40:00.001-04:00

grammerpants

2010-05-05T23:19:00.001-04:00

Newark Waterfall

2010-05-03T22:45:00.002-04:00

This (the waterfall, not the dude) was in the window of Gallery Aferro during the run of Tek'tanic, curated by Evonne M. Davis. It was a great show, people threw money at this piece and I had three others that didn't pool any money but were still great.

Hudson River Skatepark

2010-05-01T11:10:00.004-04:00

Pier 62's skatepark in Chelsea's opening May 17th! (according to yesterday's conversation with the security guard)
These photos are from last December's attempted sneak in to getting caught by security to convincing that security to pull up images for me to see on the boss's computer.
open 6am to dusk, year round.

2010-04-27T23:56:00.000-04:00

Civilization is Doomed!!!

2010-04-25T17:35:00.001-04:00

Here's the same hungry tree from 2 years ago, it's dug into the G recently

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lightning drawing with dramatic flair

2010-04-24T17:26:00.001-04:00

touching the horizon inri

2010-04-22T00:20:00.001-04:00

"HELLO!!"

2010-04-12T00:50:00.001-04:00

Cthis

2010-04-06T01:15:00.001-04:00

Gravety

2010-04-05T00:17:00.002-04:00

snail's eye view

2010-04-02T00:12:00.002-04:00

I've been trying this a few different ways and here's the first footage to make it through all the rattling that goes on between me and the ground. The battery died in the beginning of the hill so the camera was able to save the footage rather than the auto dump that comes from too many bad vibes.

Meridith talking about her art in Montclair NJ tomorrow!

2010-03-22T22:39:00.003-04:00

Disregard that last post, New Jersey transit's the best! Take the NJRR out to Montclair University and see Meridith Pingree wow the crowd with her objectular kenitastik mathletics

Tomorrow

Trapped in Jersey City

2010-03-13T19:56:00.000-05:00

Trapped in Jersey City, hold on Aferro! We'll be there in a flash of geologic time

Until then, openings at the 7-11 in Journal Sq.

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"no way Jose!, I'm spending the day on facebook!!"

2010-03-13T13:00:00.000-05:00

Onslo says he's not going to my opening tonight cuz it's too cold and wet outside. Says he gonna go on facebook and rescind his "attending". Don't be like Onslo, get off the computer and get outside. Anyways, it's not like the rain's falling, with this wind it's practically flying back into the sky!

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New work showing

2010-03-07T12:45:00.003-05:00

Tek'tanik
curated by Evonne M. Davis
March 13 - April 24, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday March 13, 7-10 PM
at Gallery Aferro
73 Market St.
Newark, New Jersey

When I'm old

2010-02-26T00:01:00.001-05:00

I'm glad I'll have plenty of stories of when I was middle aged and I had to drag my concrete mold forms for miles to and from the train station, IN THE DRIVING SNOW!!!! None of these namby-pamby automobiles!
Good workout though. I'm suuuper excited to put some concrete in this thing in beautiful downtown Newark.

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luvr

2010-02-21T21:57:00.001-05:00

Bloatphotofloat

2010-02-17T01:23:00.002-05:00

Motor Madness on the Thames

2010-02-11T23:49:00.001-05:00

Good neighbors BbbarrrrrrrRRapppp!!!

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Cheap animation

2010-02-06T00:32:00.000-05:00

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2010-01-28T18:00:00.000-05:00

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waves hello

2010-01-14T22:04:00.003-05:00

conquistador

2010-01-09T19:46:00.001-05:00

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Breaking in 2010

2010-01-08T00:49:00.002-05:00

Pringler fodder

keep breaking things

2009-12-29T11:51:00.002-05:00

9:59 of 2009

2009-12-28T18:43:00.001-05:00

Twinkle

2009-12-26T01:36:00.000-05:00

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Las Vegas, Hektor Esparza, and the spirit of giving

2009-12-24T16:43:00.005-05:00

When I was living with Hektor his most extreme moment of giving was when he sold his skate gear to buy ingredients for a huge pot of soup to feed all the gutter punks in the park. I had to stop him at the point that he was turning our apartment into a shelter. Months before he came home wide eyed from having found Jesus in the center of a big kickflip. I could go on for miles of blog but here's Andrew Kiraly's brief exposé on him and his current doings in the city of sin. If anyone wants to help out Hektor's skate based giving, or hosting an art show, anything else, let me know and I'll see to it that you get your money, space, or time to Hektor.

Hektor Esparza
Photo: Jeferson Applegate

Story and photo lifted from Las Vegas City Weekly-

Shredding sensei teaches young skaters sick tricks -- and life lessons

On a recent Wednesday, Hektor Esparza is pulling a little morning shred session at the Winchester Community Center skate park. He's carving the concrete banks, casually popping airs and nailing kick-flips, and going on and on about ninjas and samurai and God and health food and Chinese medicine and punk rock -- tying it all together, of course, with skateboarding.

"It was Sho Kasugi who got me into skating," he explains. "He was this famous actor who was in movies like Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja in the '80s. I was at Gemco or some store and I saw this skateboard with this graphic of him on the bottom." It was 1986, and Esparza was a confirmed martial-arts geek who'd never even set foot on a 7-ply. However, the ninja connection would transform his life into what might be called Enter the Shredder.

"So, see, it was the ninja that brought me into skateboarding," he says. "And now it's like full circle, because I'm trying to bring the ninja back to skateboarding."

What he means is bringing a sense of discipline, honor and self-improvement to a skateboard culture that's gone crazy at the extremes: corporate at one end (see Tony Hawk) and Cro-Magnon at the other (see the countless mayhem vids inspired by Jackass). As the skate park program leader at Winchester, Esparza schools a select class of 14 teens in a yearlong skateboarding course. But the lessons he teaches apply both on and off the deck.

"Skateboarding isn't just a sport, it's an art form, with traditions and culture," says Esparza, who readily rattles off history-of-skateboarding factoids from the advent of urethane wheels to the invention of the McTwist. "But it's also about how skateboarding can be a positive force in life and really open doors for kids. A lot of these kids come from some pretty tough situations -- drop outs, drugs, rebellion."

Esparza whips them into shape with a handful of carrots and sticks. To remain on the team, members must maintain at least a C average in school and practice some form of art, whether it's painting, film or music. He also urges them to volunteer in everything from county cultural events to food drives. "I don't want these kids to be lopsided."

Team member Josh Baldwin says the program taught him much more than a few new tricks. "He really pushes you. If you're getting Cs and Ds in school, he's like, 'Let's get those up,'" says Baldwin, 17. And when Baldwin's single-parent household collapsed and his life was thrown into chaos, Esparza was there for him. "If I didn't have clothes or a jacket, Hektor would always find me one." A graduate of the team, Baldwin hopes to eventually go pro or pursue a career in film.

Esparza also gives private skate lessons and puts together skate contests ... and is into alternative medicine and Jesus and breathing techniques and -- well, let him explain.

"I call my skate style east-west style because part of it's about health food and herbal medicine and martial arts and the Tao -- that's the east style," he says. "The west is about skating, and punk rock and jazz and ..." Ride on, Hektor.

ANDREW KIRALY

Link to older Hektor post 1 (at the Hollywood Skatepark)

Link to older Hektor post 2 (at the Horizon Ditch)

60' wind lip

2009-12-20T13:41:00.001-05:00

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Onslo and some drawings

2009-12-16T01:00:00.003-05:00

You want to hear something grody?
I thought Onslo had cancer, he's 14 now and I can't afford to take him to the vet for every worry I have. So I gave his cancer a squeeze and wouldn't you now it, cat zit. I'm excited for his meow to deepen to more of a roar.

In the womb

2009-12-12T20:16:00.001-05:00

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2009-12-11T16:16:00.003-05:00

Smart investors and savvy aesthetes are going to The Front Room Gallery tonight to buy a Matt Richards
here's episode #1144-

Mirrorballs and the art of rock

2009-12-07T17:50:00.006-05:00

A Great show at the Petri Space with Blanko and Noiry & The Family Band

scehry gehry

2009-12-02T00:45:00.003-05:00

with Kim & PD at MIT

Bagel

2009-11-28T14:42:00.001-05:00

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Hi B1!

2009-11-26T16:25:00.001-05:00

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Sculpting zippers in T-day preperation

2009-11-25T15:04:00.000-05:00

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electricish occurance

2009-11-23T12:17:00.002-05:00

Three layers of drawing lightning from Kai Vierstra on Vimeo.

next time- no movement 'tween shots. You'll be spellbound! next time

Check Out Ben in Park City

2009-11-19T23:11:00.000-05:00

Viva Martinez!

2009-11-17T20:45:00.002-05:00

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Bridge Ripple

2009-11-15T03:35:00.005-05:00

I spent 5 hours watching this ripple, this 1.5 minutes was the best part.

Bridge Ripple from Kai Vierstra on Vimeo.

This spent a night at the Kayo Gallery of Salt Lake City in the video show "They're From Here and There" curated by fine artist and even better pal- Jared Steffensen