Road Gear: Rand McNally Road Atlas

Atlas deployed on the northwestern side of Mt Shasta during my most recent road trip to Vancouver, BC

The Sketchbook Project 2015 is back on the road.
See mine and more in Chicago this weekend.

Chicago, IL

• Chicago Loop Alliance
• 310 S State St - Chicago, IL 60604
• August 22-23: 12:00 — 4:00pm

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Road Gear Sketch: Power Strip

I pack a power strip on almost every trip I take.

On the Edge trip as captured in Van Horn, TX: 

In the car en route to Vancouver helping charge the extra camera battery:

Right now in NYC!

The Sketchbook Project 2015 is back on the road.
See mine and more in Seattle this weekend.

Seattle, WA
Olympic Sculpture Park
2901 Western Ave - Seattle, WA 98121

Thursday 8/13: 5 - 8pm
Friday 8/14: 11am - 3pm
Saturday 8/15: 11am - 3pm
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Road Gear Sketch: DC/AC Converter

Put back into service on my latest road trip up to Vancouver, BC:

The Sketchbook Project 2015 is back on the road.
See mine and more in the SF Bay area this weekend.

Oakland, CA

• First Friday Art Murmur
• Oakland, CA 94606
• RSVP

San Francisco, CA

• The Yard at Mission Rock
• 3rd St andTerry A Francois Blvd - San Francisco, CA 94158
• RSVP

Road Gear Sketch: Laptop

My laptop was the hub of my media downloading during the 2014 trip. All my photos from the iPhone and the point and shoot, the lame Narrative captures, and the Brinno time-lapse videos went onto the laptop (and then got archived onto an external hard drive).

Here is my "office" on Block Island:

Some view, right?

The Road Gear sketchbook is back in Brooklyn for the month of July.
Check it out at:

Brooklyn Art Library
103A North 3rd St.
Brooklyn, NY 11249
Open 11am-7pm every day

Road Gear Sketch: Narrative Clip

Such high hopes for this device. Such utter failure.

I knew, days after getting it, that it wouldn't work for the road trip.
[I thought I wrote about it here, but apparently not. Maybe on Facebook? Nope.]
It arrived on March 5th. I was leaving March 27.

Here is a section of captures from my first road test on March 6th, during my morning commute:

not good

On March 14, I went to Plan B and ordered a Brinno Time Lapse Camera (more on that next week later).

During my trip, I made further attempts at utilizing the Narrative.
Here I am wearing it in New Orleans:

Here are the sorts of captures it took:

I wore it on the left temple of my sunglasses while driving:

In North Carolina, 4/13/14. The last day I bothered to use it.

The Road Gear sketchbook is back in Brooklyn for the month of July.

Check it out at:

Brooklyn Art Library
103A North 3rd St.
Brooklyn, NY 11249

Open 11am-7pm every day

Road Gear Sketch: Camera

Meet the device that didn't fail:

Here it is in situ, in an easy place for grabbing and snapping. 

You can also see my mobile lunch (guacamole and carrots) and the iPod. 

I "may" have been driving when I shot this photo. 

The Sketchbook Project Tour has landed in my hometown, at LACMA, no less.

Los Angeles, CA 
Friday 6/26: 4:30pm - 8:30pm 
Saturday 6/27: 3:30pm - 7:30pm 
Sunday 6/28: 12pm - 4pm 
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 
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Road Gear Sketch: iPhone

Page 2 of my Road Gear Sketchbook (edited copy of post from my Sketch blog):

I wonder why I didn't put this first in the sketchbook. I relied heavily on my iPhone. 

For navigating especially:

Ha! "327 miles" 

This was my first long trip using the Maps App. The directions cracked me up when I saw them. 

Not so funny was my ETA that night. 

The phone did have moments of nav fail. After a particularly frustrating episode in Eagle Pass, Texas (lack of bandwidth while looking for motel), I started writing out any route directions:

Then there was the sad moment of breakage, in Cut Bank, MT:

Next rest stop for the Sketchbook Road Tour, lifted from The Sketchbook Project's Facebook page:

Our Mobile Library will be popping up at South Austin Social on June 19th -21st.
Events are always free and open to the public! We hope to see you there!

Friday, June 19th 4:00-8:00pm (Opening party hosted by Citygram Mag!)
Saturday, June 20th 12:00pm-4:00pm
Sunday, June 21st 12:00pm - 4:00pm

South Austin Social
409 Jessie St
Austin, TX 78704

FRIDAY NIGHT PARTY:

COME ENJOY SOME FREE BEER FROM ST. ARNOLD'S BREWERY, LIVE MUSIC, AND DELICIOUS EATS AS YOU PERUSE THE SKETCHBOOK PROJECT’S MOBILE LIBRARY.

WHILE YOU’RE THERE, CREATE A PAGE IN CITYGRAM’S COMMUNITY SKETCHBOOK, WHICH WILL HIT THE ROAD WITH THE TOUR THIS YEAR.

See all tour dates here on Facebook

Road Gear Sketch: iPod

The Sketchbook Project is a crowd-sourced collection of artists' sketchbooks that is housed in Brooklyn. I've submitted a variety of sketchbooks to their collection and my Road Gear sketchbook is the most recent addition.

I sketched all the electronic gear (plus some other must-haves) that I used on my On the Edge US road trip last spring. I'd been posting these on my Sketch blog but realized that there's more to the story and the story belongs here.

This first sketch I think I did last May at my mom's house.

I have more than 6400 songs on this old iPod, it has traveled many, many miles with me.
For the Edge trip, I set it on "Album Shuffle".
Here is the first song that played:

One of the most amazing moments of aural synchronicity was in St Augustine, Florida:

The sketchbook is currently out on a road trip of its own, riding in the Sketchbook Project Mobile Library with about 4500 other sketchbooks.
It's in Miami this Saturday and Sunday!

Saturday 6/13: 12:30 - 4:30

• Perez Art Museum
• 1103 Biscayne Blvd - Miami, FL 33130

Sunday, 6/14: 12:00 - 4:00pm
• MDC Museum of Art + Design
• 600 Biscayne Blvd. - Miami, FL 33132
See the full schedule here.