• Hyperpolyglots. (review)
• London A - Z , by printmaker Tobias Till.
• Le Connaisseur.

Best Man
pastel on paper 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12" x 18")

• Being a biographer. (The Wilson Quarterly)
• The world's tallest building will soon be in.....Azerbaijan. (arabian business)
• Soviet bus stops. (Crap=Good)

Couch
pastel on paper 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12" x 18")

• Six million in prison. (The New Yorker)
• The other Vitruvian man. (Smithsonian)

Odd Man
ink and charcoal 35.6 x 33.0 cm (14" x 13")

Hard to tell what's going on in this drawing.

• Modelling for Lucian Freud. (Vanity Fair)
• How helicopters explain Los Angeles's bland architecture. (kcet) (via C-Monster)
• Ugly Renaissance Babies. (via C-Monster)

Girl on Fire No. 2
digital image

This is a toned down digital version of Girl on Fire No. 1.

Girl on Fire No. 1
pastel and charcoal on paper 31.8 x 38.1 cm (12.5" x 15")

This model had two parabolic heaters directed at her while she was posing. She was turning from orange to red as the drawing was being done.

• Revisiting William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. (Smithsonian.com)

Grey Stocking
digital image

• Blighted lives. (First Things)
• The privilege of being exploited. (London Review of Books)

Musicians on the Water
graphite on paper 11.4 x 8.9 cm (4.5" x 3.5")

This drawing is a couple of years old. It was done in Tokyo, while being entertained by some floating musicians (albeit, faceless musicians).

• Parking woes in L.A. (Los Angeles Magazine)
• The retro heaven of Ray Bradbury. (The American Conservative)

Standing Male Figure
digital image (Original size: 40.6 x 20.3 cm, 16" x 8")

• If you're in the New york City area check out Art/Trek NYC, premiering in January, which branches out to NYC's five boroughs in a quest to showcase new and emerging artists. It premieres on NYC life (Channel 25). (NYC Media)
• Churchill's tastes in food and liquor. (HistoryToday)
• Photographing philosophers. (Talking Philosophy)

Odd Fence
gouache on paper 11.4 x 8.9 cm (4.5" x 3.5")

• Complaints from George Steiner. (presseurop)

Lulu's Cat
oil on board 53.3 x 86.4 cm (21" x 34")

This painting is based on a digital image posted on Dec. 30, 2011, which, in turn, was based on an ink drawing originally posted on Dec. 5, 2011.

• Problems with causality. (Wired)

Green House No. 2
oil on canvas 38.1 x 50.1 cm (15" x 20")

Happy New Year??? It's 2012, isn't it???

Dr. Katz: Dom Irrera

• An appreciation of Helen Frankenthaler, who died this week at age 83. (The Wall Street Journal)
• Obituaries for Helen Frankenthaler. (The Guardian) (The Telegraph) (Los Angeles Times)
• The mess that was Ernest Hemingway. (The Times Literary Supplement)

Pink Hat No.2 or Lulu's Cat
digital image

I'm still playing around with this one. The cat and script were just added. The cat will stay; the script may not.

• Outsider physics. (NewScientist)
• Urban economic development fads. (City Journal)

Heater No. 2
ink and pastel on paper 30.5 x 22.9 cm (12" x 9")

Têtes à Claques: Le Père Noël. Merry Christmas everyone!!!