Can You Do This? Yet another riddle solved, a new super-power: As evinced in the un-doctored (no Photoshop!) photo, I can walk on water! This is a burden of mythical, if not biblical proportions, that i will use sparingly, and humbly, with the utmost of humility and circumspection ... just as i conduct
myself in all apsects of life. see: www.licboathouse.org for more info! :) ckk

Craig Kandell, an Illustrator and Writer, lives in New York. He grew up in Brooklyn, spent his high school years on Long Island and his college years in northern California. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley he moved back to NY to study classical figure drawing and composition at the Art Students' League of New York. He enjoys swimming, jogging, and rock climbing/scrambling and has completed the round Manhattan Island Marathon Swim four times. He is also a proud volunteer participant as a 'balloon handler' in Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade. 'Whim, Woe and Wonder (Tales for the Ever-Present Child)', illustrated and written by our hero, will be published shortly. Craig lives with his best friend, Radar, a Labrador Retriever in the noir canyons of the Upper West Side of New York in an illustration /writing/living studio strewn with and in a Retro-Metro motif.

Montage-Moi! With apologies to Gericault, Rembrandt, Ingres, Manet, Dad, and Napoleon!

Radar!

My Hometown!

Home, Again!

Can You Do This? Craig approaching the finish of the 2001 round Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (www.nycswim.org), an event he has completed four times! [After all, It's ONLY one lap], [A kayak-eye's view - look closely ... a wave washes over me!] (Photo by Kayaker, Erik Baard [www.baard.com]).

Y2K MIMS (round Manhattan Island Marathon Swim) Craig swimming northward in East River with safety shepherd/kayaker Erik Baard pointing the way Photo (c) Rich Barkin 2000 for the Manhattan Island Foundation [www.nycswim.org] Swimming Around Manhattan? Here's to doing things when people say 'it can't be done', to always raising the bar and to reaching for the stars and following your hopes and dreams (albeit somewhat pragmatically!)

ckk skirting the Empire State Building, Y2K-MIMS! Intrepid Safety Net and Kayaker, Erik Baard On Point photo by Super-Friend(s), Kris/or/Nancy Depew

Craig and 'fans', Before Macy*s Parade, Thanksgiving, 2003

Craig and his charge, Cheesasaurus Rex Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 2003

Craig and Super-Hero Colleagues Dave & Eydie (recently engaged!)

Hiking, Breakneck Ridge Hudson Highlands, North of ColdSpring, NY Fall, 2003 http://www.hudsonriver.com/images/breaknec.mov

Hiking with the proverbial 'Gang' on Mt. Taurus; Breakneck Ridge Is in the background

The Fog Lifts! Storm King, West across the Hudson

Our Hero's Portrait Could it be, in Dorian Gray? [Portrait / Study by Jacqueline Goldstein]

The Monsters Over My Bed........

THE Chair! (Where it all happens)

ckk and fans! Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 2005

I may be reached at: craigkandell@gmail.com