Sometimes nice things happen to nice guys. Such is what happened yesterday for a 20-year veteran volunteer and friend of WFMU, painter James Siena. Roberta Smith of The New York Times basically reserved a place in art history for James with this insanely glowing review [ Download siena_nyt.pdf] of his paintings at the blue-chip Pace Wildenstein Gallery in Chelsea.
Siena is very much a part of our FMU family. Every year, James comes down to WFMU to cook a sumptuous marathon feast for volunteers and staffers; he also designed a coupla etched glass windows for our Jersey City house, which happily reside in WFMU's studio C. Click to enlarge:
And genius, it seems, runs in the family: when he was just 5 years old, James' son Joe (now 17) designed this classic Radio Space Dummy WFMU t-shirt. Congratulations, James!
he better watch it on that first work... disk inventory x's inventors might get him for graphical interface swiping :)
Posted by: craig | January 08, 2006 at 01:23 PM
His stuff looks a lot like computer diagrams. This is an visualization of the hierarchical relationships of Newsgroups in the Usenet:
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/Static/treemap/images/all200308.jpg
Source of page:
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/Static/treemap/default.asp?Plots=all200308
Posted by: Kenny G. | January 08, 2006 at 02:12 PM