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August 18, 2004

Finding Things To Blog About

David Combs


Gothamist did an interview with the Associated Press about local blogs (which has turned up in a couple newspapers and websites). Since the AP decided to run a photograph with the story, we met up with AP photojournalist Bebeto Matthews in Midtown, near Rockefeller Center. After learning that Gothamist likes to blog about most anything we find interesting (and in order to avoid looking too posed), Matthews suggested taking a picture with David Combs, an artist who paints different city landmarks every day. His paintings show the buildings or areas in a warped/fisheye perspective, in order to get the entire structure in the painting, noting Salvador Dali and M.C. Escher as influences as well. And when we asked where he was from, Combs said he was visiting from San Antonio a few years ago but never left the city, which is a not uncommon "how I wound up in NYC story," we think. So, thanks to Bebeto Matthews suggesting we chat with David Combs.

Bebeto Matthews and David Combs

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Comments (4)

Why does this page take like 8 years to load now? Too many ads or something...

 

don't take offense to this, but jen is definately a lot hotter in person than in the photos that ran

 

Congrats on the writeup!

I've been reading Gothamist for quite some time now, and haven't received my free beer yet!!! I guess I'll have to go to one of the Happy Hours.

 

Wish to add my congratulations on the recognition in the 'mainstream' press. Well-deserved and long overdue. Hope it increases your traffic exponentially. Vaya con huevos!

 
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