NYC Trips

This week I've been travelling to New York City multiple times and now I'm really exhausted! It's hard to believe people commute to that city every day...

On Thursday night I had the opportunity to visit the Modern Love opening at the New York Times, which featured the illustrators Brian Rea and Christopher Silas Neal.

This is Murray Tinkelman right after his lecture on the history of illustration, which was fascinating and at times really funny. I got to ask him about his opinion on foreign styles like anime and manga being embraced here in the U.S. and, refreshingly, his response was quite thoughtful.

 I was ecstatic at bumping into the Madame Butterfly painting by Kinuko Y. Craft on the second floor of the Society of Illustrators. She is one of my favorite illustrators and her artwork for the children's book The Twelve Dancing Princesses was a huge inspiration to me when I was very little.

The "Ying and Yang" fondue chocolate dessert

Last night I had dinner with a friend at the Melting Pot in Hoboken, NJ. I swear they must put MSG or something addictive to their cheese fondue because it was so delicious.

Lastly, here are photos I at my parent's house in Northwest NJ during the freak storm right before Halloween: