Happy Lunar New Year everyone!

A few shots from the Classpass new year’s campaign I shot in December.

New York City, December 2015

Wise words

It happens at least four times a week, I am about to swipe my card at the subway turnstile and I hear the train coming. Now, I have a choice, run, or potentially wait for a long time. I always wait.

When I first moved to New York, Yoko told me, never run for the train, because you don’t want to almost make it and then have the door close in your face. So true, Yoko, it feels a lot worse to have the door close right in front of your nose than miss the train by 100 feet.

// photo from my iphone library, feels like waiting a little bit

Make this marbled paper!

This is the easiest paper marbling technique you will find on the internet!

Click the link below to read more! 

All you need is a large tray (like a glass dish or baking dish from your kitchen), the cheapest shaving cream, ink, paper (card stock, tracing paper, watercolor paper all work) and a spatula (and some old rags help too).

Make sure your paper fits in your tray, if it’s too big, cut it down.

Make a layer of shaving cream along the bottom, it should rise to be one to two inches high.

Drop ink into the shaving cream and then drag it around, you can use your finger or a toothpick.

Put your paper into the tray and push it down so every square inch touches the shaving cream & ink mix.

Carefully pick up one corner and pull the paper out of the tray.

Now, use your spatula or any scraper to scrape the shaving cream off of the paper. I used a second tray to put the used shaving cream.

You’ll probably need to wipe off the edge of your spatula after each scrape, otherwise the ink will spread.

Let the paper sit for a minute then use an old rag to dab the last bits of shaving cream off the paper. Let it dry out.

I tried both water color paper and tracing paper. I love how the tracing paper turned out!

Continue as long as there is shaving cream in your tray. You can reuse it for several pieces and add ink as you go.

It’s so fast and easy, right?

Total time: 30 minutes
Cost: $5 - $10 depending on your paper choice

A few new photos.

Classic Book Club

In an effort to save a little money, I’ve started downloading classic books on my Kindle. The classics are in the public domain and therefore free to download from Amazon! My first pick is Moby Dick, any other favorite classics I should read?