Sketchtastic Week in Review

Hey Art Monkeys,

It's only been a week since the 1st Annual Dr. Sketchy's Exhibition Party and it feels like a lifetime ago.
The lights.
The glitz.
The glam.
It's a story told best with pictures.
Enjoy.








Photos by: Gianfranco Chicco
www.drsketchytokyo.com

Dr. Sketchy's Tokyo on the Metpod

The Tokyo Metpod is the podcast version of The Metropolis Magazine, Tokyo’s #1 weekly English Language Magazine. This week Dr. Sketchy’s is mentioned as one of the hottest art events going down! Check it out here!

Mika Mondays

My good friend Mishal edited my first performance with Hooplovers thus giving me my first edit free pass on the Mika Mondays ride!

Thanks Mish!

*I'm the one with the white furry leg warmers.

Here's what I did with my Sunday night instead of prepping Mika Mondays. I made my flat go from fratboy clubhouse,

to functioning oasis


Cause after an action packed week of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, Tokyo,


Tyler Foundation Fundraising,


and high octane trampoline fueled children's entertainment


Life could use a little cool down.

Special thanks to IQ Jane for her backstage photo. Jane has done a wonderful job documenting life on the road with the English Carnival! If you wanna see more check out her flickr here.

Broke and Fulfilled

Yes that's right. I'm broke. Not in the destitute, nearly homeless and starving kind of way but rather in the no parties and extracurricular activities sort of way. Outside of the bare necessities, food, bills, taxes (yuck) I'm grounded by my own undoing until OCTOBER. YIKES! And this is not a complaint or a plea for charity but just an observation about the life of a freelancer and my own state of being because while I have absolutely no disposable income to speak of, I can honestly say that I can't remember a time when I was more happy. What's that about? In July when my accounts were knee deep in the black I was utterly miserable and now I'm experiencing an absolute creative boon as they creep closer into the red!


Dr. Sketchy's is gaining unprecedented momentum. I have managed to gather a team of vibrant, colorful and remarkably creative people who are dedicated to all things artistic and I couldn't be more ecstatic to dive into the latest session.
Mika Mondays has gotten such wonderful responses that I am filled with renewed energy everyday when I go to the park to practice and now wish everyday was MONDAY! (How many people with straight jobs can say that!)
Then there is the charity work. Ever since Inspiration Jason introduced me to my cookie factory friends I can't stop the machine and now I'm involved in a Murder Mystery Play for a charity benefit for The Tyler Foundation which is dedicated to children's cancer research.


So while I'm not displeased with my current situation, this is just another ebb within the flow of a freelancing lifestyle, I'm left feeling a little apprehensive about my earning potential. I wonder if I am able to sustain such creative energy when the money train finally does pull in. Struggle seems to be the secret ingredient to creative success. I have found there is grace in struggling the mind really does open up when challenges abound and the experience so far it has been exhilarating. Money seems to be the antithesis of struggle. Isn't the old adage "The rich have it easy." And don't we all secretly want to know the feeling? My social life can weather this financial storm but I imagine it will get old eventually and then what?!

Only time will tell I suppose. I'll let you know how creative I feel in October!

Sketchy Male Models

Men always ask me if they can be models for Dr. Sketchy's and I usually turn them down but now I have decided to change my tune. After watching Dmitry Bulkin do this amazing Pole Dance I've decided that hey guys, if you've got the skills to move like this and a body sculpted by Russian gods, then yeah, you can be on my stage.

Watch closely, though the bar is verticle, it has most certainly been raised!

Sizzling Hot Summer Job

This summer I've decided to stay in Tokyo and slave away building the Dr. Sketchy's Tokyo Empire and becoming a world class Super Hooper. It's been such hard, strenuous, stressful, tedious work and scheduling meetings, printing promotional materials and talking to the press can really take it's toll on a person. Why just yesterday I had to drag myself to Beautified Taboo, an art exhibition which featured former Dr. Sketchy's Tokyo Model,Justin Berti and other modern and performance artists dedicated to challenging today's cultural taboos. Forcing myself to schmooze with potential clients and models sometimes feels like I'm stepping so far out of my comfort zone, really I don't know how much longer I can dedicate myself to the pursuit of spreading art to the masses.

This model in particular was so persistent about being the next Dr. Sketchy's Model that he insisted I give him my card even though he had no where to put it!

Talking to models can be soo tedious sometimes but it's part of the job you know, so I just deal with it as best I can.

In other news Tokyo's Hooping sensation Deanne Tonking and I will be hooping with Poi Ball enthusiast Lindsey Scott at Warehouse702 in Azabu Juban Tonight at DJ Cat's Pussy Party for more information go here or here.


Really it's a tough life but somehow I'll get through the summer!

Sketchy Office Party Memo

For this month's Dr. Sketchy's Burlesque Anti-Art School Sketch Drawing Event we contemplated a Sketchy interpretation of the classic June wedding but decided that in honor of the stench of the subway bound salary man we would throw a Sketchy Office Party in keeping with Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's tradition of cool biz!

Wednesday June 25 @ 7p
Office Party in the basement of The Pink Cow LTD.
TPS Reports required.
The punch WILL be spiked!

Living the Dream

If you build it...

...they will come.

Hooplovers hoop classes are now a dazzlingly reality at Claska in Meguro.
Sign up TODAY!

Dreams are truly just unborn realities I've come to realize. My day usually begins somewhere in the 7:00am hour and ends somewhere in the 1:00am hour and on any given day between those hours I can be found dancing with my sparkly hula hoops, memorizing scripts, rehearsing for the Tokyo Comedy Store, entertaining small children, traveling all over this great nation, returning scores of emails, brainstorming Dr. Sketchy ideas, recruiting Dr. Sketchy's staff and volunteers and generally having the time of my life pursuing EVERY single dream that captures my heart at any given moment.
This high octane, concentrated focus is inspired by a determination to live a life of true Kerouacian proportions. But I've come to understand that living the dream doesn't always promise a life filled with smooth hoopnotic rhythms and wicked costume changes, there have been times along this bumpy ride when the beat has been severely syncopated where nights crash haltingly into the dawn. Days when love feels elusive and the line between personal and professional life have been blurred to the point of being unrecognizable. Even now as I look at my daily planner I see that my last true day off was May 2. And I wouldn't trade one of those red eyed, genki drink fueled, stamina tested nights for all the colored wigs at Tokyu Hands
because this is what it means to follow your aspirations down the rabbit hole.

This is what it means to dance like no one is watching.

This is what it means to sing like no one is listening.

This is what it means to simply BE who you were meant to BE.

Fifteen minutes from this moment the sun will rise again to signal a new day's adventure.
I can't wait!