Color Symbolism for my students:

"It was only with the rise of paid leave that a white pallor, that sign of class and wealthy idleness, was progressively replaced in the West by a suntanned glow of possibly exotic origin."

--Anne Varichon



(Portrait of a Young Woman by Antonio del Pollaiuolo, 1465)

A Classic for my students: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art

San Diego's Most Wanted:


Tijuana's Most Wanted:

America's Most Unwanted:

Denmark's Most Unwanted:

"You know, many followers of our work have expressed disappointments in the paintings we based on results of poll. Same thing happened to the Russian President: for the first time ever, head of Russian government was elected democratically--and everyone is disappointed."

@ the CLUI now (click here)

Some stills from my just completed video CESPT:








(It's about water and wastewaster infrastructure in Tijuana--a completely compelling topic I can assure you!)

Another out-take from the video I am currently editing:

...but someday his egg will crack, and I'll be there to feast on the goo of his shattered psyche!

--my favorite "Sponge Bob" character Plankton

The First Shrink (click here)

As Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Harvard law professor who mentored the young Obama, put it, “He can enter your space and organize your thoughts without necessarily revealing his own concerns and conflicts.” He can leave you thinking he agrees, when often he’s only agreeing to leave you thinking he agrees.

He privately rolls his eyes at the way many in politics and government spend so much time preening and maneuvering for credit rather than simply doing their jobs. Yet with that detached and novelistic eye that allows him to be a great writer, he is also able to do a kind of political jujitsu, where he assesses the bluster and insecurities of other politicians, defuses them, and then uses them to his advantage.

An interactive cell phone sculpture at Sister in Chinatown:


(Call the number yourself to activate the work.)

The sludge rollers at the International Wastewater Treatment Plant in San Ysidro, CA: