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March 9, 2012
Ser Estrangeiro
"Ser Estrangeiro", the newest chapter of my gringo-in-Brazil memoir TOUCANNUÍ, is a simpler affair, a reflection about what it means to make a Big Move to another country and what it does to your idea of yourself. It lives here on Trip City now; you can also scroll down for links to the rest of the series, wink wink:
March 3, 2012
The Fruits of Feirinha
So: a new chapter of TOUCANNUÍ is up at Trip City, this time an early Saturday morning odyssey into the world of São Paulo's neighborhood farmer's markets, the feirinha:
February 24, 2012
The View from São Joaquim
Over at TRIP CITY, I've just posted "The View from São Joaquim", the new chapter of my gringo-in-Brazil memoir TOUCANNUí, in which I have my first poke around my new neighborhood of Liberdade:
February 17, 2012
Tanto Chuva
In a few hours I'm going off-grid for a week for Carnavál, but my silky radio-friendly voice will remain here, hovering bodiless in your mind like some sentient amethyst crystal in the form of "Tanto Chuva [Lots of Rain]", the new chapter of my gringo-in-Brazil memoir TOUCANNUÍ for TRIP CITY.
In today's installment, a very wet first 24hrs in central São Paulo.
February 10, 2012
Bem-Vindo
My memoir of my own gringissimo continues today with "Bem-Vindo", wherein adventures in airport customs provide a first glimpse of Brazil's underground economy. Only at TRIP CITY:
February 2, 2012
A Month by the Sea
My gringo-in-Brazil series TOUCANNUÍ returns today at Trip City with its first real chapter "A Month By the Sea" in which the story gets going… in a red minivan.
January 19, 2012
TOUCANNUÍ at TRIP CITY
Starting today, I'm writing a series of nonfiction "gringo-in-Brazil stories" for the Brooklyn-filtered literary salon TRIP CITY called TOUCANNUÍ, based on my adventures chasing the "global digital creative dream" way down south in Brazil. The first chapter "Dead Yorkie" is live right now for your reading pleasure:
January 16, 2012
Art Directors & Editors
To ring in 2012, I've just revamped my site, added new work to the
and a second portfolio page full of even
…
I've also totally redone my
page to show off all the pretty covers in my bibliography even better.
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Feel free to reach me directly at i [at] dangoldman [dot] net
—–best—–> d!
January 14, 2012
Featured in Taschen Books' ILLUSTRATION NOW! 4
A quick bloggity-doodle here to let you know I've been featured by Taschen Books as one of 150 illustrators in the new ILLUSTRATION NOW! 4. The level of work inside is seriously staggering and inspiring, and somewhere in this fat delicious tome is work by lil' ol' me:
November 1, 2011
Talking with Michael Moore for Inaugural TRIP CITY Podcast
A few weeks back I was in NYC and I some truly golden hours of hang-time at Hang Dai Studio, a not-just-comics shared studio started by Dean Haspiel that just happens to be above Brooklyn Book Court. While there, I bumped into their events honcho Zack Zook, who I know from my "08″ reading I did a few years ago there; Zack was talking passionately about what was happening in Zuccotti Park for just a few weeks, the thing that became #OccupyWallStreet and continues to spread. I was the only person interested and we bounced to the site with Zack that afternoon to catch Naomi Klein speaking to the occupiers. It was electric, from the buzzing negative-energy barrier of the NYPD at the entrance to the amplification-by-refrain of the meetings. Something was finally happening… and it was starting in New York. As my grandfather used to say, it's like they rubbed by heart with butter.
I went down to the park a few more times before the Comic-Con hit (the justification for my trip to NYC from Brazil), but after that first visit, I was telling the Hang Dai studiomates how they had to go down there and feel the energy of #OWS themselves. Dean immediately changed the subject to whatever-he's-working-on and asked if I was interested in interviewing Michael Moore on Friday, as he would be downstairs for a book event. I took a sip of coffee and said of course. A bink and a bonk and it's Friday; I walk into BookCourt with Dean and Seth Kushner and Seth Kushner's Cameras and Seth Kushner's Lights and we meet Moore's security guards, who are very intense but somehow also very cool and all shared some kind of link via telepathic earpieces. I focused my chi and radiated as much Harmless Bearded Leftist as I could muster. And lo, I got the thumbs-up.
Moore talked to a packed-house about his new book memoir-of-anecdotes, signing books, and found himself staring at us. We sat for about twenty minutes together, talking about the media's piloting of "the narrative", #OccupyWallStreet, the death of apathy and my chest hair… the results of which are up at TRIP CITY, a new Brooklynese "cultural salon" with contributors coming from the whole creative spectrum. You can listen here:
