The Looney Bean

Personal Fun Stuff

Did you ever have a certain spot you visited on vacation where your mind seems to drift from time to time when you return home…. ?  For us that would be a small cafe in Mazatlan, Mexico….The Looney Bean….Nothing special–just a neighborhood...

January Jokes

Personal Fun Stuff

Heard the old joke….”Have you ever seen Stevie Wonder’s wife?….(Well, neither has he)”….Not really that funny, but it makes me laugh….Funny thing, Humor….If Stevie’s in the room and laughs, it’s all...

Thank You

Architectural Illustration

Funny how sometimes a mere “Thank You” is one of the best things to happen to you all year…..I’m serious….You work on something for a client you just met this year….You work hard on it, and things go well, and you’re just...

Colonoscopy and Basketball

Personal Fun Stuff

I’ll take “Events that Happen When You Turn 50” Alex, for $1,000….That’s right–the answer is “Colonoscopy and Senior Basketball”….Fun, fun, fun!  At least the basketball part, anyway….Actually, there is...

A Neighborhood Reborn

Architectural Illustration

One of the best parts of my job is that I get an opportunity now and then to see an entire neighborhood transform itself from overly-mature and obsolete, to brand new and vital once again….This transformation does not happen quickly or easily–it’s...

Perspective Drawing in 2010

Perspective Drawing

  This simple diagram shows the basics of perspective drawing as we know it.  Lines that are parallel converge toward a common “vanishing point”, either to the left or the right….One can measure heights by scaling them at a particular point (at the...