pietrestan

Hello, friends. I and my lovely & talented fiancé and are now husband and wife, as of last Monday morning, 10:10am! After 'mooning in Montreal, we are leaving Boston behind for the Elevated trains & Magnificent Mile(s) of Chicago. Many thanks for the support over the years. Hope to talk to you all again once there!

The 24-hour availability of mass-transit, the diversity of the "ethnic food," the architecture, the grime and the graffiti. Everything. I recently returned from visiting my immediate family in NYC this past weekend and must say, I'd really missed New York. Growing up in Queens, I used to see the tag "Trake" spray-painted everywhere and, as per proper bragging rights, sometimes in difficult-to-reach places, like the beams and girders of elevated subway platforms. With the way street-art and graffiti has blown up in popularity -- to the point of over-saturation and backlash -- as well as recognition of its cultural significance / potential f...

I make appropriate sound-effects to accompany whatever it is that I'm drawing. Swooshes, Klangs, Crashes. The whole thing....