The Digital Human - Ideas, images and stories

Rejuvenation

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:54:00 +0000

Hello All, Man, it's been a long time for this blog. I kept it going for over a year but then started focusing on my other blog, The Napkin Dad Daily, and let this one slide. I am rejuvenating it...

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Corporate photo

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:10:00 +0000

This is a story of connections. We went to this financial planner about 6 months ago for some advice. In the process I talked about starting my own business and the principal planner (the guy in...

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Good Day Tulsa

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:04:00 +0000

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Tulsa World, 01-04-09

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:29:00 +0000

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Local TV Interview with Yours Truly

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:26:00 +0000

Artist in Time Magazine Want to see what your favorite napkin artist looks and sounds like? Check it out! I was interviewed by a local TV station about the Obama napkin and the napkin story in...

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Evidence of a Home Invasion

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:41:00 +0000

Here is the evidence we found early Christmas morning that Santa came to our house. The cookies were eaten, the milk dranken and one puzzle piece was tooken. Can you find the piece that is missing?

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Christmas Construction

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0000

Christmas has to be constructed don't forget. It doesn't happen by itself. New York, 1983.

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Self Portrait with Christmas Helpers

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:51:00 +0000

I had three photos of this, only this one had the bicyclist going through. But I liked that we all seemed to be looking at him, even the mannequins and the little santa. I met the cyclist later in...

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Self-Portrait with Louis Armstrong Trumpeting in My Ear and Frida Behind Me

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:54:00 +0000

Taken in the bathroom of the Epic Cafe, where my daughter hangs out in Tucson. We waited there for two days for her to visit us and while we did we met a lot of her friends and made a number of new...

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Time Magazine issue

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:03:00 +0000

Here is the Time Magazine issue with my napkin drawing in it. Woo hoo!

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Special Edition, Time Magazine!

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:39:00 +0000

Hello All, Just wanted to let you know that this drawing is in the latest Time Magazine! It is the ‘Person of the Year’ issue and it comes out today (12/19). So, go to your local...

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Door with Woman Coming Through It

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:47:00 +0000

She was standing in the back of the vintage store, trying to step out of her closet into the real world. She had found her style, her look but she was still tentative about stepping into the...

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Portrait with Smile and Eyebrows in a Store

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:18:00 +0000

She sold me the paper coasters in Tucson and had a trucker hat on and I asked if I could take her photo but without it on and she said she was vain but she would let me and I am glad she took the hat...

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Portrait of RM with Heat

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:53:00 +0000

The brilliance of the sun on her and the chair and the piercing nature of her look were so intense that not only was it hard for her to open her eyes, it was hard for me to not be blinded while...

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Portrait of CS With a Window Behind Me

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:16:00 +0000

The Model CS. I scouted out this area before she was done working so I knew I wanted to capture someone's face with the beautiful light in the tall windows behind me. She obliged.

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Homesick

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:51:00 +0000

She was sitting across from me as I was holding down the fort waiting for our daughter while my unwife went browsing the little stores on 4th Avenue in Tucson. Turns out she was acquaintances with...

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Portrait in Reflected Light

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:11:00 +0000

She was at the front desk, then in the gallery as I looked at the exhibition. We got into a long discussion about the images in the show and that led to a discussion about my work which led to me...

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noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:54:00 +0000

She was the saleswoman at the Vintage Clothing Store who was also a photographer and an artist and knew about the cool show at the Center for Creative Photography and she was right, it was...

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At the Gate

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:34:00 +0000

Our daughter was housesitting at this gated ranch in Tucson and we waited outside after our initial conversation. She ended up locking herself in the house and asking us to call her landlord, who...

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The Unexpected Journey

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:52:00 +0000

My middle daughter went missing earlier this year. We believed she was in Tucson but had no communication for about 6 months. Her younger sister went to Tucson and found her. Her mother and I (we...

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Thankful

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:54:00 +0000

This is a drawing of my daughter, Connie. I am thankful today that her sister, Chelsea, traveled to Tucson to find her after she had disappeared from our lives for a quite a while. She found her and...

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The Application

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:37:00 +0000

I love taking photos of models getting ready for a shoot, it is almost more interesting and fun than the shoot itself sometimes. She had been running around off-set wondering where her lip gloss...

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Long

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:14:00 +0000

Another image from my recent auto repair garage shoot. I found the scaffold to be much more fun than the set up studio situation they had put together so I had a model climb up on it and took some...

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Portrait with Wedding Ring

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:34:00 +0000

From a commissioned couples photo shoot. I jokingly suggested we go outside and do some shots among the leaves and bare trees, thinking she would say no due to the cold. But she was more than game...

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The Girls in the Garage

noreply@blogger.com (The Napkin Dad) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:51:00 +0000

Our photo club was having a photo shoot in the auto repair garage that is attached to the photography studio where we meet. They had brought out all the lights and back drops into the garage to do a...

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