My new favorite quote by Paul Rand “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

Summer showers

It started with a trickle which turned into a drizzle which turned into a rain which started to pour. The street started out dry, drinking the trickle, but couldn’t keep up. It got slick and  then spotted with puddles and before long, the cars were racing down a gushing river

A Group Effort

How to turn a dinosaur into a talking dragon:

Step one- Stop with the lame brontosaurus crap, he needs fucking teeth.

Step two- He needs tiny arms.

Step three- Cool dragons don’t carry their own suitcases.

Step four- Give that sucker giant fairy wings.

Step five- Make him breath fire.

Middle School

Seventh grade sucked. Hormones started flying and kids like me got kicked around. The metal braces and glasses made my face a magnet for ridicule. Suddenly my luck started to change. One day after lunch the most popular girls in class personally invited me, to join the exclusive PEN15 club.

Kids these days

“Have you ever used photoshop?” I asked the 10 year old.

“Nope, but I have a DS,” he says.

“Ok, here you go, have fun. I’ll be back soon.”

An hour later he had finished my ad… well.

I guess when he grows up I’ll be out of a job. 

Photograph

Her mom thought it would be cute. Some lipstick, gold chains across the oversized black dress and mom’s too-high heels. The five year old smiled sweetly at the camera, then provocatively. She grew up fast. Why did they wonder when they found her on the street corners in those boots?

Island in the city

When you walked through the door you were in another country. For a few minutes you could escape into another world. Your American Express? It is no good here. There are toothless grins following your every move. Papaya, mangos, pineapple and sugarcane. No one will yell at you for touching.