Secret Asian Man: The Daily Days

The self-published collection (which means you really ought to buy it since all the money goes to the artist,) collects all the strips Tak did when he was syndicated by United Features.

Have you pre-ordered it yet?

I did the WordPress installation and configuration and the am responsible for the theme. Based on Tom's My Card. My Work blog design, the new theme is em based, scalable and uses only one style sheet with no browser specific hacks. I'll be releasing it for general consumption soon, now that I've beta tested it with this installation.

The site gets an 89 from YSlow, by the way. Sweet.

*For those of you that are wondering, she's a phenomenal User Experience Designer with more than a decade of experience.

And then there is Dan Vinkovetsky in his 100-by-30-foot Eden behind a Civil War-era brownstone on Prospect Place in Brooklyn, steps from Flatbush Avenue.

Senior cultivation editor of the cannabis advocacy magazine High Times, Mr. Vinkovetsky moved into the ground-floor one-bedroom apartment three years ago for $1,800 a month (now $2,400) with his wife, Sarah Miss, a sales and development director for a jewelry company. They quickly began their backyard plantings — but not the obvious.

“I have long since retired from any illegal cultivation activity,” said Mr. Vinkovetsky, 36, who writes under the name Danny Danko. He is rather high-profile to risk a pot bust at home, so, he says, “I have put my passion for plants into growing legitimate legal ones.”

A few weeks ago he and Ms. Miss invited friends to a barbecue to celebrate her 35th birthday. It rained. So what. They got wet. But the party went on.

Read the rest (and check out the great photos in the slide show):

The Backyard in New York City – An Urban Oasis – NYTimes.com

Comic book artist extraordinaire Rob Stull has organized a great show featuring the art of some of today's top comic book artists as well as the art of some absolute graffiti legends.

The show drops July 26th at Technical Skate Shop on Newbury st. here in Boston.

The short list of artists included goes like this:

Graffiti: Med, Ces, Snow, Stem, TKid, Wane, Yes2
Comics: Steve McNiven, Ed McGuiness, Larry Stroman, Jim Cheung and Keron Grant

Say it with me "hell yes"

Check out the flyer:

I wrote some checks for this film way back in the summer of 2001. I finally was able to get a copy onto the Net

Some Credits:

Bike Boy: Troy Metcalf
Charley Marley: Tak Toyoshima
Directed by Richie Gibbs
Written and Produced by Lorie Steele
Executive Producer: Rob Larsen

(for the full credits, watch through to the end )