Originally posted on Queer Urban Orchestra Jim is low brass section leader and a founding board member and past president of QUO. How did you come to join QUO? Prior to that famous meeting at Starbucks, I had been contacted by Brandyn Metzko, a Cleveland-based musician who was moving to New York and looking for…
In the old days, newspapers printed occasional recipes that might be cut out and saved, likely taped to an index card and filed away in a tiny box. Then the Internet came along, and recipes could be found online. Maybe you printed them out, or stored them in your Netscape bookmarks. And then came, del.icio.us,…
My friend Patti recommended this postcard-sharing website to me earlier this month. It’s a 21st century update on the pen-pal concept. You can send postcards to random strangers across the globe. When a postcard is received, the unique identifying code must be registered to let the sender know it has been received. Patti is already…
This postcard was created for a fundraising event for supporting art therapy for women with cancer. The organizer did not want to go down the obvious ‘pink-ribbons’ road, so I went with a brush-stroke shape that suggested a ribbon, and went on the purplier side of pink for the background. She was quite pleased the…
Read more Client Project : Life Has Been Your Art (Postcard)
This was a challenging project because the photograph was pre-cropped, and I refused to re-size it to fit the horizontal dimensions. The client requested to have the image un-obscured with any text, so I came up with the frame. I didn’t realize this at the time, but she is wearing a red dress on both…
