Linocut Variations

Here are some linocut prints I did this winter. Also, I'll be moving to New York City in the fall.

Envelope Drawing

Drawing on an envelope from last week. (It says ཡག་པོ་འདུག / It's good)

Envelope Hammer & Nail

Another seminar drawing. Not sure why I was thinking of hammers and nails ...

Francis Wayland

I'm mostly busy applying for jobs these days, but I did a little drawing of Francis Wayland, who has a huge portrait in the philosophy department. I learned that he was the president of Brown University in 1827 ... 

Presentation Drawings

Two small drawings I did during a philosophy talk about Ancient Greek philosophy and virtue. The second one says "the art of living" (I think!).

Boudha Stupa

Here's a drawing I did of a stupa. It's based on the one I lived near in Nepal called Boudha.

It's for sale here, and as a black and white drawing here. All the profits will go to benefit the Nepal Youth Foundation, which provides education and healthcare to Nepali children.

Slow Turtle is Happy!

Here's a turtle. The verse says:

If your mind is unhappy,
Go slowly.

སེམས་སྐྱིད་པོ་མེད་ན།།
ག་ལེ་ག་ལེ་འགྲོ།

(It is for sale to benefit Tibetan charity here.)

Math & Science Mix

Here's a mix I made of songs about math and science for all my math-y and science-y friends. I may not  always understand you, but I do appreciate you.

Get it while it's hot: here

Hurricane Sandy

ཆར་གྱིས་མཁར་ལ་གནོད་ན་ཡང་།།

འཇིག་རྟེན་པ་རྣམས་དགའ་བ་སྐྱེ།།

     - ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ

Even if rain damages a mansion,

It brings joy to worldly beings.

- Sakya Pandita

Here comes hurricane Sandy.

Ideas

བསམ་བློ་ཡག་པོ་གཏོང་།།

བསམ་བློ་མ་བརྗེད་དང་།།

Think a good thought

Don't forget the thought

A drawing / verse I did recently. It's on paper I brought back from Nepal. 

Remix

Here is a remix I did of the American Green x-mas track We Floated Through The Town Freely In A Weightless Condition.

Tumbl for ya

Well it looks like Tumblr is not working out so I guess I'll just go back to posting here ... 

Tumblr

The dissertation is currently eating all of my available words. So, I'm trying out a tumblr to see if it is easier for posting my drawings, photos, and sounds. Here it is: 

http://philosophnic.tumblr.com/

10/26 : Nevermind. Tumblr sucks.

Sometimes they happen

Had a headache today and did this drawing. Other than the headache, everything is good. Working on the dissertation blah blah blah.

Quite a title page

Say what you will about Chandra Das' 1902 dictionary, it has a beautiful title page ...

Eight Scenes of Worry

I've put up a new comic that I drew this past year in Kathmandu, Nepal. It's called Eight Scenes of Worry. I've been trying to kick the habit of worrying too much and it was cathartic to draw what it feels like to be worried. I think I'm starting to improve ...

It's drawn on handmade paper and was drawn mostly by candlelight.

Aaron

I haven't been blogging much but I recently went to Michigan to attend the memorial service for my friend Aaron Anderson so I thought I'd write something about him. Aaron and I went to college together and went on a study abroad to Tibet in 2003. I didn't hang out with him very frequently outside of Tibet, but every few months he'd show up at my place with some beers and a stack of records. It was really great just hanging out and playing snippets of songs we liked.

Even when things were rough in Tibet, Aaron was never one to complain and it was nice to hear from his family and close friends that this never changed even at the end. Aaron was one of the first people I met who didn't just know a lot about music (he did know a hell of a lot) but always managed to express how much he loved it. Though he owned records worth more than my car, he found this cassette tape in the street in Lhasa and was so excited that we went to buy a cheap player that night to hear it. As a Buddhist he was neither preachy nor new age, something that at the time I thought was impossible for a Western Buddhist. I wish I had been better friends with him, but I'm glad to have known him and he's someone I'll never forget.  

(You can make a donation to Neurofibromatosis research here)

Back In America

Here's a photo I took of some graffiti in Bangkok. These days I'm back in America. I've been getting settled and started working on dissertation things again. I gave the Tibetan dictionary a little facelift, but it still had a lot of content problems to fix. 

Got lucky and hurricane Irene missed us. Other than that not much is new. New photos and drawings to come. 

Goodbye KTM

I leave Kathmandu tomorrow (for Bangkok, then Providence). When I got here I hated it but now I think I will miss it. That's always how it goes, right? 

My Tibetan

Anybody who has heard me speak Tibetan knows that I have a habit of saying 're wa' (རེད་བ་) a lot; it means something like "right?" or "isn't it?" (or maybe like desune in Japanese).

I'm saying "Lhasa is a nice place, right? Tibet has a lot of yaks, right? It's good, right? Right? Right? Right?" and the bottom text says "My way of speaking, right?"