Truth about Truth

I was driving around town yesterday when I passed a church with one of those signs where you can change the letters and create little messages for everyone driving by– you know the type. Anyway, the sign read something like “Truth has the merit (benefit?) of being simple.” You’d think I could remember the exact [...]

Samuel Gets a Lick from Sunny

Samuel Gets a Lick from Sunny
Originally uploaded by Mo Coffee

…from a recent visit to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Note that Samuel is sporting a stylish tool belt (complete with suspenders), provided by the MAM- it was full of objects to help you learn about color. Here’s a few more pictures from our day.

Tennis theology

Even before I begin this post, I want to give a shout out for the Nadal-Federer Wimbledon final, which was EPIC!
But to focus on a considerably less epic match, my buddy PS and I were playing earlier this week. After a particularly difficult service game, which he eventually won, PS declaired, “I went through every [...]

“What was the one thing you learned in Indonesia that has changed your life forever?”

This was a question I received from Megan at Fried Okra from my last post. Actually Lainey received the question for me during a recent visit, but it’s not really important. The point is I should know better than to invite such questions when there are such sharp-minded people out there willing to ask them. [...]

May 16th: Curious Mutt (and things in progress)

Curious Mutt
Originally uploaded by Mo Coffee
ohmygosh! Look at the time! I totally forgot to post today (well, yesterday, by 24 minutes).
More fun with ink today, with lots of other things going on in the studio. Here’s a peak at my day…here’s all the ink drawings I did today of dogs. They’re kinda like [...]

Artwork-a-day in May

Inspired by David Wright’s Poem-a-Day in April, I’ve decided to attempt to make an artwork-a-day for May. I’m writing this down so y’all can hold me accountable.
Here’s the rules I’m trying to work within.
1. Anykind of artwork is ok. (Not much of a rule, is it?)
2. The work isn’t “done” until it is photographed and [...]

I put the words right in his mouth (or so he claims)

Hey Gang-
Just wanted to direct you over to David Wright’s blog again. He wrote a poem based on a visit to my studio. He brought his class over for some “inspiration” (read as “listening to me blather on and on about myself”). DW is skilled enough to even take my ramblings and turn them into [...]

…And the winner is…oh, wait, is that RNG TRUELY random??

Congratulations to Jessica, who won the cup in my bloggy giveaway! (That’s a little confusing, since there are two Jessicas in the contest; it’s the Jessica who commented she wanted to display the cup on the mantle.)
In the process of randomly picking a winner I learned more than I cared to know about Random Number [...]

Some bloggy love.

I’m in a big work cycle lately, so I haven’t had much time to write. But I have had time to read. Here’s some of my favorite spots to visit.
My friend David Wright has challenged himself to write 30 ekphrastic poems in 30 days- a terrifyingly daunting task!  So far, he’s off to a rockin’ [...]

Who hears a Horton?

To appropriate from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure…
…”Something is afoot at the Cineplex.”

Two movies out this year ask the viewer to consider (and affirm) the existence of God (well, at least two). The Aesthetic Elevator alerted me to a new Ben Stein documentary called Expelled: No intelligence allowed, which is about the rejection of [...]