I got an email from art director Larry Williams that read, “When I say ‘Wireless Home,’ What comes to mind and can you do it by next friday?” I drew some sketches and the amazing Robin Finlay went to junk shops buying up old electronics. Robin built these two ‘Star Command - Home’ remote controls based on my sketches and we shot the hell out of them over a bottle of wine.

Now if only they worked!

We were approached to create a cover for a seed manufacturer’s (no not Monsanto) quarterly publication.  At some point, someone mentioned a type cover, and we love type!  So my brilliant stylist Robin made some options and we ended up with these two final images.  We like type.

Megan Re, a photo editor at Gourmet sent me to photograph ‘The Pastry Queen’ Rebecca Rather’s food.  I love Gourmet.  I read Gourmet.  I’m excited to get it in the mail each mont.  Or I was, anyway.  I’m lucky to have worked with them before Conde Nast took them away.  These are a couple of shots I did with the help of Robin Finlay’s styling for their final October issue.

My house needs a lot of work.  I don’t mind; it’s fun a hobby.  I’m now an amateur plumber, electrician, and carpenter.  For the most part these objects are the product of putting in new floors.  But the hammer has helped take out an old chimney & fireplace, move a wall, and demolish two bathrooms.  I’m amazed at how a brand new two-dollar trowel looks after just one Saturday and Sunday of heavy use.  A pair of rubber kitchen gloves is banished to the garage.  And I’m going through work gloves like a frat house plows through Natty Ice. 

A tip for anyone planning to polyurethane their floors; the directions lie.  If it says it dries in six to eight hours, it really means six to eight days.