Steven Daily’s mural at WWA gallery LA was fun this time around, surpassed only by the car ride, which included learning Slovenian and teaching Russian and singing Slavic folk songs in unison. The opening reception for Gag Me With a Toon 5 was filled with much-missed friends, some excellent surprise run-ins and model behavior from [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Photo Flurry'
Photo Flurry 118 – Seashore Glow
April 22nd, 2013 · 3 Comments · Photo Flurry
I’m busy with arts for upcoming group shows, one of which is Gag Me With a Toon 5 – opening in LA on May 4. You might remember my Cheburashka from last year’s GMWAT. Over on the east coast, Frei, our producer extraordinaire, has been hard at work on editing new featurettes for The Secret Guide to Alternative Beijing, [...]
Tags: Half Moon Bay·Ocean·oysters
Photo Flurry 117 – Stone and Steel in Toledo
April 9th, 2013 · 6 Comments · Photo Flurry
Europe was lots of fun and Toledo is a place I hope to return to and get lost in for a few days; I’ve never in my life seen such magical light. And speaking of never – I will never post my Eurozoom 2013 photos if I feel obligated to write long accompanying posts – [...]
Photo Flurry 116 – LA Spin for Conjoined 3
January 23rd, 2013 · 7 Comments · Photo Flurry
Took my first trip back to Angel City last weekend for the opening reception of Chet Zar’s Conjoined 3. This annual group show has been an awe-inspiring congregation of talent from the start, but this year’s participants may have made Conjoined 3 its most impressive installment yet – the entire exhibition catalog is here. I interviewed Chet [...]
Tags: COMRADES·Conjoined·Exhibit·Los Angeles
Photo Flurry 115 – Snow-dusted New Year’s Eve
January 2nd, 2013 · 10 Comments · Photo Flurry
My favorite memory of snow is from when I was about nine years old and staying at a mostly vacant resort a few hours outside of Moscow with my grandmother. It was the middle of winter. We’d spend our days red-cheeked, skiing through the surrounding forest, crunchy white powder bursting out of our way, snow-capped [...]
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Photo Flurry 114 – San Francisco Holiday
December 30th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Photo Flurry
Driving into the city. Deco building in Chinatown. The plaque on my old dorm; long ago, I took a comic book illustration class at the AA. Micron, staring down the ghost of the aged radiator. Cognac by the fire with my beautiful mother. French breakfast with Cameo at Boulette’s Larder. Pretty chairs at the De [...]
Photo Flurry 113 – Forest
December 3rd, 2012 · 10 Comments · Photo Flurry
Tags: 2012 Space Odyssey·forest·horses·nature
Photo Flurry 112 – Walk
November 27th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Photo Flurry
Photo Flurry 111 – Sun Dapple
November 21st, 2012 · 11 Comments · Photo Flurry
Tags: 2012 Space Odyssey·Autumn
Photo Flurry 109 – The Prodigal Cosmonomad Returns
September 24th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Biorequiem, Photo Flurry
I’ve been back from China for two weeks and the jet lag is finally lifting its sticky film from my brain. Back on LA time, too, though Beijing hours still occasionally wake me up around 3AM – wondering who and where I am. For a few days, all I could do was sloth and sleep, [...]
Photo Flurry 108 – Wild Children Signing at Meltdown
July 25th, 2012 · 9 Comments · Photo Flurry
On the 11th, after much anticipation, excitement and no small degree of shipping confusion, two fragrant boxes landed on a doorstep of a purple house in Echo Park. It was our very own shipment of Wild Children [click to order], Ales’ first graphic novel, just in time for his first signing at Meltdown Comics – [...]
Photo Flurry 107 – Accumulation Station
June 28th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Photo Flurry
It’s been a busy month at the Ebb-Kot HQ. Technically, I shouldn’t even be writing right now, but if I don’t dump some of these images and words now, they’ll fester. June began with me preparing a presentation about the ghosts of the Moscow Kremlin for an event hosted by Doctor Paul Koudounaris at the [...]
Tags: Art·Make up·Modeling·Photography
Photo Flurry 106 – Malibu Expedition
June 4th, 2012 · 10 Comments · Photo Flurry
Saturday began with me admiring freshly-packaged stacks of Spacefriends. Cunch and I spent an entire day hand-packing these bad babies, so a degree of gloating was befitting. After the sticker revelry, Ales, Daniel, Sonya the dog and I drove out to Malibu for a picnic-n-hike adventure. I’d just had another mortality crisis, so physical activity [...]
Photo Flurry 105 – Absinthe Bunnies
May 17th, 2012 · 18 Comments · Photo Flurry
I love Absinthe. In the past 12 months, I’ve recommended an Absinthe documentary to my readers, talked about my love of hidden Absinthe bars in an interview, offered Absinthe drinks with me as an incentive for my D4RT kickstarter project, topped sorbet with Absinthe – are four examples testament enough? As an artist and art history enthusiast, [...]
Photo Flurry 104 – Desert Hedonism
May 8th, 2012 · 15 Comments · Photo Flurry
Spent the weekend next to the California/Mexico border, bathed in the light of the largest, lowest moon of the year, at a desert hideaway. Around fifty people drove down from LA to celebrate comrade Alexandra’s birthday amidst mountains, great food and better friends. I’m bursting with impressions and gratitude for the generosity of the property management, [...]
Photo Flurry 103 – Picnics and Ponies
May 2nd, 2012 · 4 Comments · Photo Flurry
Not long ago, Stephanie celebrated a birthday in the park, and my family and I celebrated 20 years since we emigrated to the U.S. – all in one rather hedonistic day. Happy birthday girl, with Daniel and Alexandra hypnotizing each other in the background. Sack-o-juice. The spread was bountiful. We had authentic Jambalaya, cream puffs, brownies, breads [...]
Photo Flurry 102 – White Grass
April 25th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Photo Flurry
Photos of Ales Kot and I together are by Kacy Owens. Photos of Kacy and I together are by Ales Kot. The rest are by me.
Photo Flurry 101 – Coasting
April 10th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Photo Flurry
Pictured: Jess, Tess, Lionel, Yume, Alcuin, Ales, me.
Photo Flurry 100 – Pop-up Biergarten
March 27th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Mmmf, Photo Flurry
Spring, San Francisco, sausages. Or wurst, to be exact. These things need to come together in my life more often. Also: hot pink pickled, deviled eggs? Need you. Love you. Miss you.
Tags: COMRADES·food·San Francisco·Travel
Photo Flurry 099 – Sutro Bath Ruins at Sunset
March 5th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Photo Flurry
Why, look at that! Our 99th Photo Flurry. I can’t think of a better way to welcome the approaching triple digits than with a massive collection of photos from my most recent visit to one of the prettiest places in all of California – San Francisco’s Sutro Baths. Once a lavish private bath house and museum, it [...]
Photo Flurry 098 – Pushing Pencils In the Studio
February 16th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Photo Flurry
I’ve been working on my piece for Gag Me With a Toon these past couple of days and actually using the drafting table in mine and Ales’ shared studio as opposed to the kitchen table, as I had for the past two months. Incidentally, the studio is the least-insulated room in the entire house, so [...]
Tags: 36FAIL·making art·studio·Zoetica Ebb
Photo Flurry 097 – Weekend Warriors
February 13th, 2012 · 11 Comments · Photo Flurry
This weekend: a visit to Blacklickorish latex studio + Conjoined closing party + watching Tango and Cash + making Manhattans + watching terrible music videos in bed + a day at the museum + sushi feast + sexy coffee time It seems inconceivable to an 80s action movie enthusiast such as myself, but I’d never seen [...]

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