TSUKIJI

Tsukiji has got to be one of the most intense markets I have ever seen. I am not even sure how large it is, but there is fish as far as the eye can see. To experience the freshest sushi around, one must arrive at 5am and proceed to get into a line for one of the small sushi bars lining the perimeter of the market. Recommended to be the best, we arrived at Daiwa, a small 10 seater sushi bar that will serve you a fixed price breakfast for $35/person, sampling a tasty selection of their best fish. Somehow eating a full sushi meal at 6am and washing it down with a Sapporo didn't seem all that strange.

TOKYO

Friday we arrived in Tokyo. After a 9 hour flight, we find ourselves 16 hours ahead of San Francisco. Staying in Shibuya, we are located in the center of the action. Two blocks away from the hotel is Hachiko, world's largest pedestrian crossing, and Center Gai, a pedestrian street lined with everything imaginable, and more people than I've ever seen all in one place at the same time.

In progress...

Getting close to finishing the new series of ginkgo's....

Be An Artist

ICHTHYO

When I was in college studying Scientific Illustration, we visited and had the "basement tour" of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, and I remember being completely fascinated with the rows upon rows of specimens. Jars of large reptiles in liquids, skeletons of every animal imaginable... I could spend hours in those rooms. These are the moments that inspired me to become an artist, and to make sure that I never left the art of science behind.

Chronicle books has put out the book Ichtyho, a collection of black and white X-rays of fish from the Smithsonian, which holds the world's largest collection of ichthyological specimens. The imagery is absolutely beautiful.