 Is it cheating
posted: August 9, 2010
when a favorite art director calls with an idea that's very likely just what you would have done if unprompted? And all you have to do is draw it? 'Doesn't happen very often.
Thanks Mary Parsons, for a quick enjoyable assignment. For the article "Forget Populism" in The American Prospect 
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Media Leaks
posted: July 27, 2010
For Washingtonian Magazine, Mike Leister AD
I've used Photoshop for years, mostly for cleaning up traditional mediums. I've found it to be liberating especially with pen and ink--no stopping or slowing down to assess possible f-ups--just fix 'em later. After scanning this painting, I saw that it would be better with a darker sky, so I started tweaking it digitally, and it looked okay. Even though I felt kinda dirty, (and the piece wasn't due for a few hours), I moved on to alter the face, and then the water. Then it occured to me. I had put my watercolors away and started using pixels to render....water. God help me, it didn't feel that bad. A little icky, but not that bad. 
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Filing...
posted: July 21, 2010
...away some recent work, I'm prompted to acknowledge my art director and editor friends who call with an ever-wide array of assignments. From topics dark to lite, serious to silly, they grant the autonomy to decipher and apply the right tone, and welcome (tolerate?) my erratic methods.
It's appreciated. 
"Analyst Strategies" The Wall Street Journal, Orlie Kraus AD 
"How To Remember Nixon?" Los Angeles Magazine, Debbie Kim AD 
"Local Politicians In Like Company" Cleveland Magazine, Jen Kessen AD 
"Do Employers Prefer Video Resumes?" The Wall Street Journal, John Taylor AD 
"Sin Tax Trap" NYT OpEd Aviva Michaelov, AD 
"Meet The Real Death Panels" Mother Jones, Carolyn Perot AD 
"The Food Bubble" Harper's, Stacey Clarkson AD 
"Arctic Drilling" Rolling Stone,
Steven Charny AD
"BP CEO Tony Hayword" The Boston Globe, Greg Klee AD 
"Dealing With Increasing Healthcare Premiums" Plansponsor, SooJin Buzelli AD 
"Gene Weingarten" The Christian Science Monitor, John Kehe AD Yesterday's Boston Globe OpEd
posted: July 12, 2010
The first N.H. Primary?
New research shows how a little-noticed series of speeches by Lincoln in the Granite State changed the course of history.
Heather Hopp-Bruce, AD 
Another recent American history-relevant Globe OpEd that speculated on which personal documents Jefferson saved in an incident where he hastily fled a band of fast approaching Redcoats.
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