Jack Boy Big Get Present

Open publication - Free publishing - More birthday

These Things Are Hip: 2011, a book of drawings I made for Jack Ramunni's 22nd birthday, is above.

Other News:

* Columbus Street Style's Tatyana Kagamas frees a season's greetings viral video from the confines of Secular Village.
* Black Cloud posted soon-to-be iconic Slave Labia photos from their recent 15th House show.
* Alex Ross has an artist's site now; it includes photo documentation of Max Caldwell's recent Blitz Minded/Blitzed Mind show at CCAD.
* Aaron Lake Smith published an essay in the Utne Reader; it's illustrated with an Edward Gorey envelope.
* Some site, "The Hot 17," wrote about Carabar, the black hole at the center of my social universe. 

Button Interview

Alex Ross interviewed me about making one-inch buttons for a project at CCAD.

Other News:

* Columbus Street Style featured a small selection of my winter 2012 looks.
* There is a fashion label named "James Payne."
* Un Uccellino Mi Ha Detto posted a collage of mine.
* Wes Flexner wrote an article about William Berry's record label Amethyst Sunset.
* A video has surfaced of Hannah Stephenson reading poetry at Skylab on 11/27/11.
* Skylab Gallery just received a Franklin County Neighborhood Arts grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council to help support an artist-in-residency program - very exciting.

New Work

Other News:

* Jack Ramunni and Alex Ross on the streets of post-apocalyptic Columbus, Ohio. 

* My piece in the Heat Space Art Collection.

* I'm on a panel December 1st discussing the art of the book at the OSU Urban Arts Space.