On my last day as a substitute teacher, a student, Mike, asked me if I could draw. I took a break from writing a dispatch for Ephemerratic.com to show him that I could. Click here to read the whole story here and to see future drawings.

This is the drawing of the week for June 30 - July 5, 2008.

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Ramon Martinez talks to Mr. Elizarde's College and Career Education Class about being a security guard for the school and a graphic designer. I was waiting for my turn to talk about being an artist while also being a substitute teacher for the school.

This is the drawing of the week for May 25-31, 2008.

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Students in the Galileo Academy of Information Technology held a screening of the short documentaries they made as part of the Adobe Youth Voices program. The films, which dealt with such topics as a high school wrestler coming out of the closet, growing up in 'pill hill' in the Tenderloin, betrayals of friendship, immigrating to the United States, and others were all interesting, honest, and well-crafted.

This is the drawing of the week for May 18-24, 2008.

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Lauren and I are preparing to travel around the world!

We leave on July 10 and go east until we're back again. Being on the road for a full year requires all sorts of special knowledge and skills. Visas, airlines, backpacks, hi-tech travel underwear?! Where do you start?

My savior has been The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World by Edward Hasbrouck.

I've spent hours with The Practical Nomad in front of me while I looked at websites like BootsnAll Travel and The Tranquillo Traveler (where I first learned about The Practical Nomad). The view has become very familiar, so I drew a picture of it (that's what I do). In the background is a calender which looms larger and larger with each passing day.

This is the drawing of the week for May 4-11, 2008.

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A tree near the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART station that I drew while waiting for the train on the way back from the Airport.

This is the drawing of the week for April 20-26, 2008.

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After visiting the her namesake, the Pacific Ocean, for the first time Shanti fell asleep in the car. Sutay wasn't about to wake her up when we stopped back at Aunt Kitty's house.

This is the drawing of the week for April 13-19, 2008.

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Kristy Morrison holds a meeting with other teachers at Galileo Academy to discuss how to support student plans for a day of action against school budget cuts in California.

This is the drawing of the week for April 6-12, 2008.

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Otis, a swanky bar near San Francisco's Union Square, was packed for Sri Lankan artist Kumara Rathnayaka's paintings in a show organized by Maria Larsson of Patrea Lifestyle Products. Black continues to be fashionable.

This is the drawing of the week for March 30 - April 5, 2008.

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Neighbors in Pierre Valley made sure to feature their dogs and Charlotte made sure to draw a picture of Chuck from the Sun Valley Dairy.

This is a detail, see the whole painting here.


This is the "drawing" of the week for March 23-29, 2008.

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Jonathan reminisces about the early days of CELLspace at a brunch celebrating the art collective's 12th birthday. He quoted co-founder Paradox's words, "Dally on abstract spells no longer," while telling a story about how a group of puppeteers first got the lease for the warehouse while Tyson, of a much younger artist collective down the road, Million Fishes, listens in.

This is the drawing of the week for March 17-23, 2008.

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