See, it’s summer time now. Well, perhaps not officially summer in terms of the solstices and equinoxes and that kind of stuff, but all you need to do is look outside and chances are it’s summer enough. Here in Ohio, summer never lasts as long as I want it to. You can count on 4 or maybe 5 months of good sunny warm weather and the other 7 or 8 months will be grey, chilly, damp, or snowy. It is really awful, especially for me. Since it is summer, you will be seeing less updates than normal because I will be spending much more time outside doing things or traveling whenever I can. I really never feel like going much of anywhere in crappy old November or bitingly frigid January, but in August I always feel like I could walk to Texas. Maybe one of these days I’ll try. Digressions aside, because of the wonderful warm summer months and all the fun I could be having away from a computer, you will see less updates and probably less drawing too. I won’t be doing nothing, and now that I have a real paycheck I am definitely looking into buying a new photo enlarger and some other darkroom equipment. Maybe I’ll let a box of black and white film fill up over the summer and spend most of the fall and winter developing and printing a little history of the warm months. I’m not sure yet, I’m just gonna let my inner compass guide me for the time being. But at least now you’re prepared and maybe you won’t miss me quite as much as you thought you were going to. Don’t worry, I’ll be back.
In other travel news, this weekend Rudy and I will be headed to Brooklyn to hang out with Stephanie and Kevin and to make our first visit to Ben Jones, Anders Nilsen, the legendary Gary Panter, Frank Santoro, Bwana Spoons and Dan Nadel and checking out the booths of Buenaventura Press, Gingko Press, and PictureBox. I’ll take some pictures at the show and share some of the loot that I bring home.
Alright, time to finish packing and putting all the ducks in a row before we head out tomorrow morning. I’ll post some news sometime early next week.
Matt K.
Tomorrow is my birthday. I will be an amazing 37 years old. How many of you knew that? It is strange, having this web site. Some of you that visit and look at my drawings and read my posts know me quite well, and maybe you have even met me or hung out with me. Others, however, have never met me in person so I am really just a web site and some drawings and maybe an idealized kind of human being in your head. All you have to go on are a few snapshots from this news section and photographs are the worst and best kind of fiction. I always have this feeling that those of you who don't know me but visit this site have me pegged at being in my 20s, or maybe early 30s. For most, if you tell them that some guy is 37 years old, they'll imagine some slightly paunchy balding dad wearing a polo shirt and flip-flops and taking his kids to the neighborhood pool while he works on insurance amortization pivot tables on his laptop and tries not to look to lecherously at the younger women in smaller bathing suits. I haven't gone anywhere near becoming that, and I know I never ever will, so where does that leave you all when I tell you I am 37? I wonder.
So since I have two days off with my always amazing wife and best friend Rudy, we are just going to hang out and relax today. The weather is a bit cooler than I would have liked for early June, but at least it is sunny and nearing the mid-70s, so that's alright with me. Oh, and in case you were wondering what you can do for my birthday, I want this set of etchings. So if you are feeling generous, buy away!
(I'm pretty sure you know that was a joke. I mean, I am interested in the etchings, but I will take care of that myself. If you REALLY want to do something nice for me for my birthday, just send me an email. Letters and emails and hellos from friends near and far are always and truly the best things to have and I treasure them muchly.)
And below is my birthday present to myself.
Matt K.