Eternal thanks to my parents, their endless, loving nurturing is inmeasureable, my tough, sweet sisters who always kept me in line, my beautiful Anna from which perpetual inspiration emanates as her eyes ever shimmer, my dearest friends who have always been there and have shown me so much of this wild and crazy world, to all the artists that have passed on, but still hang around, and finally our creator and his ever-guiding angels, He knows how much work it is keeping me alive. Thank you for the inspiration.

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 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!

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.

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