Robot of the Week / January 19

Portland, OR / January 12-17

This week was weird. We worked hard. We lost one. We partied.
And then there are the photos that you finally develop almost a month after taking. Thank you December for being so sucky and so wonderful.

I Need To Stop Thinking So Much!!

Robot of the Week / January 12

Last three sketches from Robot Book II.

Creating In A Sea of Post-It Notes / Portland, OR / January 5-11

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.
-William S. Burroughs

Robot of the Week / January 5

Portland, OR to Eugene, OR to Portland, OR / December 29-January 4

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top.

At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles --a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other-- that kept me going."
-Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary