I saw 1,000 toriis in Kyoto. Did you hear me, ONE THOUSAND TORIIS!! Going up the side of a mountain. Creating a tunnel of red, orange, pink and mauve through a forest of green and moss. UNREAL. This is DEFINITELY where Christo and Jean-Claude developed their idea for the Gates in Central Park. C’mon Christo, […]

Coming back to Tokyo felt like coming home to New York. By the time my sister and I got to the airport in Beijing to head back, we were pros at the aggressive, non-waiting-in-lines way of life in China. Going to the money exchange to turn our yuan back to yen required a football style […]

Guilin, in the Guanxi province of China, is in the southern part of the country, unlike Beijing. As such, it is somewhat tropical. It rains heavily every day at 4 pm. The feeling is lush and the landscape is gorgeous. It is really more the China I imagined than Beijing. There are majestic mountains, pagodas, […]

Our last morning in Beijing we hightailed it over to the Temple of Heaven, you know, the one featured in the Chinese pavilion at EPCOT? WEll of course Disney has done it again and reproduced it exactly, with the exception that the Orlando version has iced tea on demand and Western style toilets nearby. (Enough […]

The Hutong are a very distinctive part of Beijing. It’s said that a quarter of the city’s residents live in the hutongs, narrow alleyways made up of somewhat crumbly one-story stone buildings and courtyard homes. A lot of them are being demolished to make way for the new large buildings popping up all over Beijing, […]

The great, greater, greatest, fantastico Great Wall! It really does deserve its name. There is a saying attributed to Mao that you are not a man until you have climbed the Great Wall -　のOK, so now we are men! That phrase `climbing the wall` really applies, you really do CLIMB it. It seemed like we […]

Beijing. I can’t say that I love it or that I hate it. I will say it is different from any city I have ever been in, and that China is like no place I have ever been. This drawing is the Gate of Heavenly Peace – the famous one with the Mao portrait, huge, […]

Tokyo is a very interesting city. Evidence of a long cultural history exists side-by-side with a craze for fads and new things. The drawing above shows a Tokyo McDonald’s next to what looks like an old Japanese tea house. I love that mixture, it’s so positive. You can get by with very few words of […]

Sometimes reportage can be just a way to describe and remember a beautiful moment. Central Park on a nice day is like a little slice of peace in the middle of Manhattan. I did this picture while sitting on a rock, and was art directed by an eight year old girl who watched me paint […]

So, Floyd Landis is having his trial to decide if he will keep his title as the winner of the 2006 Tour de France. He is defending himself against allegations that he took testoterone during the Tour, allegations he repeatedly denies. This is the first time that an athlete has requested a public hearing. You […]