I won the logo design contest for the National Arts & Disability Center.

….and yes, still sick, but very much recovered.

If case you were not aware, Dan has his own Facebook page. If you haven’t been there, you should go there and “Like” him. he really needs to be liked. He’s insecure like that.

Also, there is a discussion section about whether or not Dan is an existentialist. I guess it’s not all that interesting, but it’s there if you’d like to partake in the discussion. That is, if you feel so inclined.

I have been having thought of, get this, making a small comic book about Dan. Of course, it will come after this other ambitious project of my artist book, Houses, but I’d like to do a cheap comic book about Dan and all the places he likes to go and the things he likes to do because he is quite interesting. The more I spend time with him and the more I get to know him, I find him fascinating. I think other people will find him interesting too.

I was talking about my 5-year plan before and I thought about how top secret they were. Then I thought again about how stupid that was. Why do artists keep their shit so secret? Are my ideas so great that people are going to steal them? Yeah right. Fuck that. If people want to take my ideas, great. Let them. They’re not going to. They’re really not all that great to begin with. Secondly, if they were to take them, they wouldn’t be executed the same way anyway.

So here’s how my 2011-2016 plan is scribbled in my moleskin notebook. I’ll go over some of the items to explain. Some are brought over from 2010.

Land a NYC gallery

Build a paper drum set
This will be actual size and made out of manila pattern paper. Then I think I will pour paint on top of it. Haven’t decided yet.

The Brief Case Project
This is a metal briefcase that contains original, miniature paintings of large scale paintings that travel with me like a salesman.

Ethereal Research Labs
An Editions project of soft sculptures in Erlenmeyer flasks that are tagged as scientific specimens.

Win another big grant

Mount 2 solos shows and 1 solo museum show

Get a painting in a museum collection

Land a Berlin gallery

Sell a painting for at least $10k

Do an artist’s residency for at least a month at Yaddo, MacDowell, or Millay

Create 2 new bodies or work
The first one consisting of mainly coffee stains on raw canvas, colored underpaint, black and brown thick covered oil paint with scraffito design scratchings revealing the color underneath and embroidered outlines. The edges will be penciled notations.

Make 3 new artists’ book editions

Have the 1st draft of the novel completed
I have been working on a novel for a while now. Very slow going, but I guess you’d call it creative non-fiction. It’s the full story of my life and all the people in it and it’s unapologetic.

Do a large embroidery on a hospital gown

Finish the Picklebird database
Picklebird is my database of all the art and books I have collected in my entire lifetime (the good stuff anyway). I intend to make it an online public collection.

Create a short animated film about my family

Build an interactive character blog
This is something that will be released with my novel, but I will be working on it beforehand. It is basically a site with a multi blog section and interactive functions that the user can have with my illustrated and animated family members.

So There you have it. That’s the plan. Fingers and toes crossed.