Can you smell the Coppertone?

Building sand castles on America's
North Coast after riding the Blue Streak.

What's new… This place might see some changes. The gallery's a big 404. That space might be reconfigured in the future. Aaaaaand it might not!

What pays the bills—one reason I wake up each morning… Creative Direction, (Marketing/Advertising), specifically communication arts (where creativity meets technology—where my brain's been throughout my entire adult life). That'd be identity, design and copywriting, off/online, for clients around the globe. I brand, draw and photograph all sorts of things you might see or hear, while somehow managing to stay current (I've a love/hate relationship with pop culture, and a mostly hate relationship with social media). Did my agency time for cred and went out on my own in the '90s (yikes). I've a six-billed hat on but it fits. Art, photography and writing are deep loves, and I'm thankful they've also paid my bills all these years. It's indeed true what they say: if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life. ♥ But what they don't say: on some level you're always working!

The more important reason I wake up… Music—almost everything about it. As you'll learn elsewhere on this site, I'm partial to rock and funk, and ambient/electronic/loungey stuff, but I am all over the place—as every true music lover should be. So much great music, so little time! The brighter stars in my own personal music universe include The Beatles, BRMC, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (<1990), Cake, The Carpenters, Chris Cornell, Commodores, dada, Doves, Earth Wind & Fire, Fleetwood Mac, The Hives, Jerry Riopelle, John Faye Power Trip, The Old Ceremony, Parliament, Radiohead, Refreshments/RCPM, Rickie Lee Jones, Soul Coughing, The Stone Roses, Stone Temple Pilots / Scott Weiland, The Struts, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Van Halen. See the Top 100 if you want more. I also sing, play keyboards and was a club DJ… my #1 love. Rules my life, keeps me young!