Just got back from a great trip to the east coast....saw a bunch of fantastic art, ate some awesome food, and walked ALOT. Oh yeah.......I also did a bit of drawing.
Random airplane and subway riders
A great bar in the East Village called Niagara. Loved that sticker on the cash register, even if I didn't really know what it meant. (also, on the outside of the building is a giant mural of Joe Strummer........which is awesome.)
More random bits.....church facades, people waiting for trains, Saska.
Saska in the Mars Bar, and some random buildings.
As a side note, I've never been to a bar more full of completely wasted old men than the "Mars Bar"....it was both hilarious and terrifying. You seriously expected a fight to break out at any moment.
Even though it seems like I only went to bars in NewYork, it's just a really convienient place to get some drawing done.........
With that in mind, this was the coolest bar we went to......it's called Bedlam, and has a Victorian/natural history decor theme. PLEASE can we fly to NYC and have my birthday party here? Sooo awesome. Plus, I heard The Jam's "in the city" both nights we came here.......seriously, GOOGLE that shit (both "Bedlam" and The Jam, HA!)
Off to philly! Saska does crosswords while waiting for me to finish my snooty coffee.
Mutter Museum. A place tailor made for Saska and Matt? Could be.
I could have spent days drawing all the weird stuff here......as it was, I only had time for some quick conjoined fetus, scoliosis spine, gout hands, and syphilis riddled face drawings.
Sigh.......
Philly bar....random drunkard, who really wanted me to give him this drawing.
One thing that surprised me was how emotionally moving the historic things in Philly were, particularly the Liberty Bell and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
We made it a point to visit The Wagner Free institute of Science in Philly. I highly recommend checking this place out......a natural history museum set up in Victorian style. The Taxidermy, skeletons, and fossils are grouped in this amazing half-hazard manner that invites you to make connections based on your emotional response to the artifacts versus a more modern pairing of phylum and genus. It may be my favorite non art museum in the U.S........really great, and free. I wish it was in Portland.
This tour guide asked us how much we thought a copy of the Declaration of Independence was worth. Saska elbowed me in the ribs when I blurted out "twenty bucks".........then the guide said "about four dollars",
HA!! Score one for Matt!
Also.......food carts are delicious.
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