Untapped Cities Recap: New Yorker Hotel Drawing

Built in the roaring twenties by Sugerman & Berger, but opened during the great depression, the New Yorker Hotel has lived in the heart of Manhattan on 8th avenue between 34th and 35th streets.

Click the image below to jump to the Untapped Cities website to see the full doodle and more about the history.

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Untapped Cities Recap - American International Building

Dominating the downtown skyline, the American International Building (AIG) at 70 Pine Street, rose up during the heart of the Great Depression, 1930-1932.

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Central Synagogue Archi Doodle

This past week on Untapped Cities I did an archidoodle based on the Central Synagogue in Midtown, NYC. If you pop over to the Untapped Cities website you can see the doodle and read a short paragraph on the history of the building and a few interesting facts.

Do you find inspiration from your surroundings?

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Untapped Cities: ArchiDoodle

After a a brief-ish hiatus I'm back! And contributing to Untapped Cities again. This week I created a doodle inspired by the art/sculptures at Rockefeller Center

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Travel Tuesday SPECIAL EDITION!

There is no photo for travel Tuesday today, sorry. But I have something better! A chance to see me draw live at the French Embassy in NYC:
 
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In "Parisians vs. New Yorkers" at the French Embassy on Thursday, May 2nd, Untapped Cities invites audience members, Twitter followers and Google Hangout attendees to imagine scenes in NYC and Paris, which will then be live drawn by illustrators David Cessac (Paris), Kit Mills (NYC) and The Downtown Doodler (NYC). Here's how you can get involved:

• Submit ideas via Twitter using the hashtag #ParisNY
• Submit street scenes from NYC or Paris on Instagram with the hashtags #ParisNY and #UntappedCities (check out live submissions here)
• Coming Soon: Submit geo-located stories via our map, powered by OpenPlans.
• For our non-NYC readers, you can join in on the fun on Google Hangout Thursday, May 2nd (URL of Google Hangout to be updated day of event).

Refreshments provided by Le Palais des Thes.

Untapped Cities artists will be on hand at the "Parisians v. New Yorkers" event on April 20th, selling autographed art and books like, Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers, NYC and Paris MacStix stickers for your Macbook, and art from our Society6 shop.
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I am so excited to draw alongside David and Kit. They are truly talented artists. Watching David draw gives me a preview of France and Paris... a place I hope to visit before the year is out.

If you can't join us in NYC, you can join the Google hangout, please keep an eye out for the link!


If you won a trip to anywhere in the world, where would you go? 


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Untapped Cities: Don't Forget to Look Up!

Check out my weekly column for Untapped Cities, make sure you click on the link at the bottom to see the full drawing!

Not far from the Brooklyn Bridge, watching over City Hall, stands the red terra cotta Potter Building, designed by N.G. Starkweather and commissioned by Orlando B. Potter. Constructed from 1883-86 using terra cotta manufactured by the Boston Terra Cotta Company, the Potter building replaced Potter’s World Building that was destroyed by a fire in early 1882. In 1883, The New York Timesannounced that the 11 story office building with the street level commercial space would cost $700,000. To avoid history repeating itself, the Potter Building had the most advanced fireproofing available in the 1880s.

Buildings in the 1880s usually topped out at four stories. But with technological advances, tall buildings between nine and ten stories transformed the streets of lower (Click to read more and see the art)

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Untapped Cities: History of Washington Square Park

I know most of you have seen this drawing more than once over the years of this blog. But the Untapped Cities reader-ship saw it for the first time recently.

I also wrote a little bit about the history of Washington Square Park. I bet you have no idea what lies below...

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Untapped Cities: NYC Cab

I’m not a bag lady, but sometimes I carry some pretty unique and helpful things in my purse. See what I had this night over at Untapped Cities.


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Untapped Cities: A Love Letter to NYC

Check out my Valentines Love Letter to NYC on the Untapped Cities site

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Yesterday's News

1.24.11
Yesterday's News
Corner of Murray & Church St., NYC

So I've been a little MIA lately. I don't' know what has gotten into me but I have been feeling very uncreative, noncreative, blah lately, and drawing or doing any kind of creative thing hasn't something I have wanted to do.

Well, guess what... I'M BACK! Almost... I have a quite a few things coming up in the pipeline, and I will share them with you as soon as I can.

In the meantime, take a gander at this shot from my NYC trip on Tuesday night. I figured I should shoot SOMETHING and get back into a groove. I'm very happy I did!

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I love NJ But...

Click here for my full untapped article about my adventures getting from NJ to NYC!


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Starbucks man

I drew this little man for an untapped article coming out later this week.  I didn't write it, but it was fun to contribute some art :)

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Untapped Column: Hudson River Fun

Check out my latest column for Untapped New York!

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Subway People

Click here to read my untapped column this week!

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Progress Photo

This is a photo while I was working on my latest untapped cities column.

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Vintage Billboard

Read my Untapped Cities Column #6 here


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Untapped Column #5

My fifth Untapped Cities column remembers the victims of 9-11.  Please check it out here.

This column is dedicated to Alayne Gentul and all the other victims of the horrific events of September 11th as well as their families who continue to miss them.

It is also dedicated to Gary Lajiness and the other brave members of the FDNY and NYPD who put their lives on the line on September 11th and days and weeks after to help rescue and rebuild the city of New York and the nation.

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Hip Shooting #1

I recently read an article about shooting candid photos on the street and decided that I wanted to try shooting "from the hip". I had a lot of bad and random photos my first time trying, it's going to take some time to learn where my lens is pointing exactly without being able to look in the view finder. I was surprised I got a few good shots, in particular I was really happy with how this one turned out!

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UntappedNY: My Manhattan

It's official!  I'm a weekly columnist/artist for Untapped Cities (NYC edition)!!!  My posts will be going up on Wednesdays or Thursdays every week.  Check out my post from this week


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Announcement

Go here: http://untappedcities.com/aboutus/

Then scroll allll the way to the bottom.  Now I wonder what that's about :) Stay tuned!


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