Well, we’re two weeks into the year, so this may be a record number of posts to this blog within one year. 

This week, I continued working on season 3 of Triple Play for Playboy TV, which as always is a great experience to work on and I hope we keep making this show for a long time.  I didn’t get to run as much this week because of a lot of rain in Los Angeles, and it looks like the back half of this coming week is going to have a lot of rain as well.  Great for our drought, bad for my running career J

On Tuesday I dropped off some F13 merch to Cinefamily for their screening of Friday the 13^th Part III, with Larry Zerner in person.  Larry plays the character Shelly in the film, who brings a hockey mask to Camp Crystal Lake and I think you know the rest of the story.  He helped me get a copyright registration on the image that’s on the merch!  Last time I worked with Cinefamily they did a great job and sold a lot of my shirts, so I’m excited.

On Wednesday, Chelsea and I celebrated 7 ½ years together, many of them great!

We looked at some more houses, still haven’t seen anything to get too excited about.  I’m kind of hoping the housing market dips after Inauguration Day and whatever comes next.  Anyway, if I can just keep working and saving then we will have a better shot at the house we really want.

I was invited to do another Twilight Zone themed art show, this time at Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum in Burbank.  I’ve started working on a pop art Rod Serling for the show and I’m very excited about it, very happy with my likeness.  I’ve never tried the pop art style in black and white before, so it’s fun.  And of course in my other spare time I’ve continued to work on my second feature documentary “Keep On Running” which has reached the notes phase of post, yay!

On Saturday, I had a table set up at the VHSwap Rewind It! event at Blast From the Past in Burbank.  It’s fun to get my art out there and meet people.  I had some good face time with a couple artists and a director that I would love to work for, but not a lot of sales.  Then I ran 5 miles along the LA River!

On Sunday, I had a big day hanging out with a great artist, Jeremy Cross, and a friend and gallery owner, Jeremy Schott.  We went to the LA Art Show at the convention center downtown and saw all the fancy art.  Wow, that place is crazy!  I’ve never seen a $5M price tag before in my life, but they had everything and all of it was for sale.  I saw some cool Lichtenstein prints and even some friend’s work at the show!  Very cool.  I met Gregario Escalante, I hope one day to show at his gallery.  Then I went to Silverlake Wine and picked up a silkscreen “Resist Hate!” sign by artist Eric Junker who has done some of my favorite murals around the city.

Continuing my trend of weird sleeping hours, I passed out at 9pm and slept until 5am, and now here I am!

First week of 2017

Hello!

Welcome to my annual attempt at staying current on this blog.  Surely I will give up in a few weeks, but until there here is what I was up to this week:

-Monday I worked and worked out, then went home and put in some time on my documentary's trailer.

-Tuesday I went to work and went running at night.  Then I put in more work on my documentary's trailer.

-Wednesday I went to work and the gym.  When I got home I had a bee in my bonnet to take the xmas decorations down, so we did.  Pine needles everywhere.  I also tried to fix my broken monitor but that didn't happen...but it did keep me up until 3am!

-Thursday I worked and was very tired.  I passed out cold at 9pm.

-Friday I woke up at 4am, went running, worked, and I attended three art gallery openings.  This year's first show of Gallery1988 was a pop-up pin shop.  Enamel pins are huge right now, probably already oversaturated.  Part of the reason I was there was to say thanks to them for the last show of 2016, the Coen Brothers tribute that I was part of.  The mail was delivered while I was there and they opened some small gifts from other artists that had exhibited with them during the year and I realized I should be doing this too.  I looked online and saw many galleries posting gifts they had received from artists saying thank you, so I think I should definitely get it together next year.  At the very least I would like to design my own holiday card or thank you card to send to galleries, if not art gifts.  Anyway, the next gallery show I went to was at La Luz De Jesus gallery in Wacko Soap Plant in Los Feliz.  I have been in this gallery many times but never attended an opening night, and it was great.  Finally met Matt Kennedy in person, and he introduced me to Steve Rude in person!  Steve was in town for the night just for the show, which was all about his work.  There was some amazing stuff there, very inspiring to see in person and he was so gracious and warm.  Lovely family as well.  Last gallery was Sugarmynt in Pasadena for a new solo exhibit by DefectiveBarbie.  It was watercolor portraits with a lot of surreal drip effect elements, very cool.  I talked to her a bit about her use of watercolors on canvas, which you don't usually see.  Some of my friends happened to show up at that gallery and we went out for drinks after and it was fun.

-Saturday we did some house hunting.  I went running and completed 21.5 miles for the week!  I worked on my running doc.  We had dinner with Jesse and Marika, Everett and Emma at Outback.  Emma was a little pill, but she is tiny and cute so it's ok.  Everybody is healthy, so much better than holiday break when they were all sick.  I couldn't sleep and I was up until 7am working on art for ClexaCon.

-Sunday we got up and went to see the same house from yesterday but this time with our agent.  it was ok.  I was destroyed all day by lack of sleep and mostly just laid around and watched the Golden Globes.