Erik Weems Blog - Graphic Design and Artwork

New update to the Michelangelo website. Some recent news about the discovery that Michelangleo painted a 'hidden' human brain stem into his depiction of God in the Separation of Light from Darkness

Ford Super Camper

New issue of American Art Review has an article on landscape painter William Trost Richards. Below is one of the images therein, a beautiful seascape titled "Rolling Surf, Pink Clouds" painted 1890s on cardboard. The web site for the magazine.

Off Hull road at the Walmart shopping complex.

Fascinating piece at H'aretz about "oldest letter ever found' in Jerusalem which recounts about some political business taking place in the city around 3300 years ago.

"WHEN WOMEN ARE JURORS" - pen drawing by Charles Dana Gibson

Quite pretty brownstone

Read my interview with DANIEL BORIS about his strip Hoxwinder Hall, which is one of the five finalist strips at the Washington Post "AMERICA'S NEXT GREAT CARTOONIST" Content now going on at the Washington Post ( 1 color sunday strip here ) and 6 black and whites here .

A section of the CSX railroad bridge crossing over Riverside Drive in Richmond Virginia

Note the Mercedes billboard

See my pix of the Richmond Virginia fireworks from JULY 4TH at Richmond City Book

A part of DC is underground, from the huge executive branch installation under the area of the White House, to the stuff they've been busily building underneath around the Capitol building. It used to be outer space was the last frontier, now humans are burrowing underneath at a much faster rate.