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From the work desk of jh:

Narrative Literary Magazine has a really cool arts section. Free to sign up online, you read poems, stories and see incredible digital and non digital graphic arts.

http://narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2009/horse-rider-part-one

Right now, I want to share for three reasons:
1. a amazing digitally crafted graphic comic that is set in the desert. while the story is wierd thus far, i love to mango-sugar dust colors and watercolor pen horses-trans-humans. ropey borders and incredible textures. called: "Horse and Rider"
2. a journey in paris in a limited color palette. makes me wanna draw my life in a notebook. "Paris Sketches"
3. "the West Oakland Project: a photo essay" i found it here by chance. it moved me with the simple black and whites of buildings, community celebrations and tragedies and that haunting east bay sky that drafts above many of us each day now. it reminded me of insider/outsiderness. how big and deep this city is.

LOVE.
ps. if you are in the Bay Area, come hike in Sausalito this weekend. i am dogsitting and the marin headlands are out my front door. then we will drink fizzy drinks and look at the city from the back deck**