It flies! It's been a long time coming, but it does finally fly. A big day for aviation, yesterday.

Sorry for the lack of updates. Once you let them snowball... it's bad.

In honor of tonight's one game playoff in Minnesota, I present to you the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (click for larger view):

As you may or may not know, this is the last year for baseball at the Metrodome, as next year the Twins move into a new ballpark, Target Field (no, I'm not joking). Anyway, loving architecture, baseball, and stadiums, I had to go check it out, if only because I wasn't going to have another chance. Yes, I admit I'm crazy, thank you. As an aside, when I returned from that trip, which included a stop at New Comiskey (aka US Cellular Field, in Chicago), I found my hard drive had died. Grrr. Which explains the lack of updates. At least, more than usual. I'll post more photos and maybe some details in the future. But I digress.

Who would've thought the last regular season game wouldn't be the last regular season game; rather, they needed a 163rd game. Win or lose, it's a hell of a way to close down the place (and if they win, well, it isn't done yet...)

Sorry for not updating in so long. I've decided to work more backwards; hence I'm starting here with recent stuff (ie - very recent).

I've also finally decided to put some stuff under "Drawings" and not "Sketchbook". I'm instituting a new taxonomy system to make browsing easier, but it isn't finished yet.

Anyway, here we go:

Sitting on a Train: Start with my favorite. Not finished, but click for a better description.

Rox Teh Finger: Rox. "Teh". A finger. Not that finger.

Colleen Standing: If you make fun of the name, she will kick your ass. I'm not kidding, you've been warned.

Ink Rox (Portrait): A quick ink of Roxanne. More for practice.

Page o' Foxes: Random page from sketchbook, so I figure it belongs under "sketchbook". I quite like it, for some reason.

Central Park Bridge: Bridge and Landscape. In Central Park. Almost impressionistic (well, as much as you can be with pencil).

Bushes: Bushes. Was warming up. Not my favorite.

Another day, another chance to upload sketches. I'll start with my favorites from this batch and work down.

Howling Wolf: A howling wolf. One of my favorite drawings.

Sitting Fox: Unfinished sketch of a sitting fox

Dog: A dog... unfinished. I think this might have been one of my first attempts with different pencil weights.

Dancing Vixen: Random dancing vixen.

And also, two small random drawings:

Quick face: Quick sketch of a face.

Portland Beavers Logo: Random drawing I did of a logo idea for the Portland Beavers. Obviously very raw. God knows what goes through my head sometimes.

Finally, real content! Poor me, it's so hard to operate the scanner! Yes, I know, you weep for me. But anyway, some older drawings as I try to catch up to real time.

Can You See The Resemblance 1: A sketch I did from a head shot from an actress. But... can you see the resemblance?

Can You See The Resemblance 2: A sketch of an actress (from a headshot), but as a fox. Can you see the resemblance?

Basketball Player as Fox: From a photo and my head. Quick sketch

Woman Reclining: Woman reclining, from an artistic photo on the web (yes, yes, Google Images means I have a very large supply of "willing" models).

Ink Nude: From an old (relative to posting date) meeting of the CPSG, where for the first time we had a real, live, nude model. Of course, I wasn't so well prepared and all that. This was one of the better ones, made quickly with a brush pen running out of ink. Almost art deco.

Couch Nude: From an old (relative to posting date) meeting of the CPSG, where for the first time we had a real, live, nude model. Of course, I wasn't so well prepared and all that. My last one there; not my favorite drawing by far; but it's something. This was before I really migrated to varying pencil hardnesses, which really can make a big difference.

Still Life at Starbucks: I wanted to draw something, and well... now you know where I spend my time. If you didn't, already.

Foggy Night at the New Yankee Stadium, 4/21.

I love panoramas, and hate the quality of my cameraphone. Click the image or here for full view.

I know, I've been bad about updating. I will work harder to try.

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Yes, I've finally gotten around to it: more sketches! Indeed, this finishes off one book, so I only have an entire other one to go! Hoo...ray?

Anyway:

Lauren Willis: Lauren Willis, basketball player, from NY Times photo.

Gretchen Langer: Gretchen Langer, from a newspaper article.

Steve: Steve, from the Central Park Sketch Group. Was warming up; not my favorite.

Girl (I forget, please forgive me!): Central Park Sketch Group

I forget, please forgive me! (2): Central Park Sketch Group

Pitching Fox: I was having fun, that's for sure. BTW, if you were wondering how a fox could wear a baseball cap...

Fox Baseball Hat: Now you know...

Well, not actually an update on the Stadium, but an update here... aw, hell, you know what I mean. Hello, by the way.

Anyway, sorry for the delay, but I finally have my photos of the new Yankee Stadium up and ready for you to view. To see 'em, simply click here or the entrance you see below:

Images marked "HDR" are, unsurprisingly, processed as HDR to portray the building as similarly as possible as it looks to the human eye. Also, I've uploaded (very!) high resolution versions of the two panoramas at the end of the shots:

Delta Pano

Suite Level HDR Pano

Finally, if this isn't enough for you, I've also made a Youtube compilation of some of the videos I took. They are mainly 10-30 second clips in order to give a better sense of the places pictured. Here you are:

Anyway, that's it with the Yankee Stadium stuff for now. I have a huge backload of scanning to do, so look for more updates very, very soon! (I'm actually now a full sketchbook behind where being current. Yikes. So, it's probably best I stop updating my website so I can have time to update my website. Wait... what? Well, you get what I mean.

Today I was lucky enough to recieve a tour of the new Yankee Stadium. I've been meaning to write a full critique of it for the site, but I both wanted to experience it first hand and also haven't had the time. That said, here are my first impressions. I will post many of the photos and videos I took very soon, as well.

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For me personally, coming to any conclusions from my new visit to the new Yankee Stadium is quite difficult. First and foremost, I know so much about it. For months, I've rabidly eaten up pictures as they've arisen, and followed as well as I can every decision made in construction. Thus, very little of what I saw was actually new to me, although it was the first time I saw it in person. Almost ipso facto, the big shiny parts of the new structure (for instance, the frieze or the main video screen) were kind of lost to me- it's not that I didn't notice them or wasn't impressed by them, but I barely paid them any mind as, having seen so many pictures, I had already internalized them to such a large degree.

The situation certainly wasn't aided by the combined facts of our tour moving so very quickly, thus giving me little chance to experience the building at my own pace or direction, but also the pressing need to take as many photos as I could in that time. Indeed, I wonder if I had the same amount of time in the same spaces but had free roam to experience, my views might be more substantial. As is, I am simply overwhelmed; not specifically impressed or not impressed but rather find it hard to come to any firm conclusions, even emotionally. I'm sure having roam of the place during an actual game, at my own pace, will give me a much better feel.