Here are some site's that have inspired me and hopefully they do the same for you:

My mom's beautiful artwork.

And my dad's wonderful photography.

Here is an talented artist I met in nyc,Drew Ernst. His vivid portraits are monoliths of intensity.

Here is a great art deco artist that I love,Jean Dunand.

Here is my dear friend Ira Mowen's site. He is an incredibly talented artist, fellow illustrator, and a very creative video artist He is currently creating from Berlin.

My dear friend Adam Etinson has constructed a clock from paper, yet another use for that magical product called paper.

Here's is my friend Scott Hsu-Storaker's site lowpolycoop.com. He is an amazing 3-D artist. There is some really great stuff on there. Look around.

Have you seen this inspirational video spanning the great portraits of our time. Makes you appreciate the infinite interpretations of the human face.

This is my friends in Spains' site: Milguoky Crazy kats!

A neat artist whom I follow isJessica Joslin. She creates these lively creatures out of baroque trinkets, animal bones, marbles, and other found objects. They always look ready to bound off in playfulness

I met this Sevillano professor of art on my trip: Ensena-Arte He has his own blog about art. Some really good thoughts.

Here are my friendsPost_Ventura They are an amazing San Francisco band that truly and essentially rock.

Here is a great interview with the only surviving Surrealist artist, Dorothea Tanning She is truly an amazing creator and shook the art world along with her husband, Max Ernst. Also she plays chess! And anyone that plays chess is ok with me.

Check out Voyage of the Odyssey It is a five-year program designed to gather the first ever baseline data on levels of synthetic contaminants throughout the world's oceans. It will use whales and pelagic fish as indicator species for measuring the health of the seas. With my Aquatic Angst show, I feel the ocean needs as much attention as we can give it. In so many ways the ocean is our allegory. There is so much to learn from it's vastness and we should do everything we can to cherish and treasure it.

Check out my cousin Luke Janela. He is a cellist, guitarist and songwriter who plays distinctive, emotive pop music. He hails from the woods of Northern California where he grew up.

I would like to share the art of a very talented artist that has a studio down the street from mine. Ramon Carlos Urenia paints some vibrant and intense abstract urban metaphysical compositions. They are quite moving. This painting is titled "sigo buscando" which means "I continue to search."

A nice artist that I have stumbled upon is Paul Pitsker. His paintings teem with delicate life and often a sense of disquietness.

Here's an artist I am often inspired by: Joshua Keyes. His paintings display a sense of encroachment and desecration of our planet in an expressive style.

Insect Lab Insect Lab is an artist studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and mechanical components. Offering specimens that come in many shapes, sizes and colors; each insect is individually adorned, each is one of a kind and unique.

Another incredible artist that I have recently been led to is Tiffany Bozic. She paints meticulous compositions of life that envelope and mystify.

Michel Gagne is an incredible illustrator and animator that I have always been inspired by and in awe of. He creates the most bizarre, surreal creatures you could imagine and has done animations for many amazing movies.

Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz are two incredible artists that work together to create some fascinatingly delicate yet proufoundly humanistic artwork. Here you can see some of their snowglobe series. I don't know about you but I know sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a big snowglobe.

Nemo Gould Is a wild sculptor/machinist. He builds like-size robotic giant squids with tentacles that move and monstrous robot deer heads with teeth that clash and eyes that glow. How could you not love that?!

Andrew Morrow is an incredible painter. I stumbled upon his lifesize paintings here in SF at a Hotel. His epic pieces look something like a romantic Gericault painting from afar and then when you get close you notice all the figures are disassociated.

Allison Sommers is a fantasic painter I found. Her surreal, tangled compositions teem with life and vision

Yves Tanguy is my favorite surrealist painter. His marine-like landscapes populated by amorphous objects defies interpretation and instills wonder.

Henri Rousseau is another favorite of mine. His work is often playful and wonderous. He sets beautiful scenery.

Mr. Toll is a curious artist I have encountered. His contemplative public art brings poetry to the dirty streets.

Kris Kuksi is an amazing assemblage artist I found one day. His work spans between Alex Grey and H. R. Giger.

Paul Delvaux is an amazing enigmatic surrealist belgian painter that I love.

Charles Sheelerx is a great painter that I have recently begun to admire. He is a 'Precicionist' and his style is aligned to art deco.

I just went and saw an amzing show at the NYMoma ofMarlene Dumasx. Her work is very stirring and has intense humanity. I love her shifting palette and liberating paint strokes

My dear anna is going through the rigorous MBA program at Cornell University. Here is her blog. She makes all sorts of insightful observations on corporate ethics, market theory, business dynamics. Her perceptive entries are a refreshing outlook on the world of business.

Giorgio de Chirico is one of my favorite surrealists. My interpretation of his work is there is a great sense of alienanation and solitude amongst humanity. I love his disjointed perspectives and ominous landscapres

Tamara de Lempicka painted those beautiful art deco works. Her art is very seductive and engaging. She had a wild life traveling the world and meeting many of the famous modern artisits.

Jacek Yerkais one of my favorite artists. He is a polish painter that creates vivid surreal landscapes that transport you to a realm that is only possible in art.