LOCKDOWN DIARIES PART 3. DICK CARROLL
Our friend in New York Dick Carroll is one of our favorite artists and his illustrations/comic strips among the most iconic ones, documenting things from ivy style to everyday tales of life in the Big Apple. We asked him to document his days under lockdown in his NY flat and office.
My daily routine is pretty simple, lately I've been a bit of a night owl and so I get up around 10 or 11 (my wife works from home and starts at 9, so she is already up and going by the time I rise).
I then either make some oats or some soft boiled eggs. Really depends if we have bread or not, my missus has been making sourdough and bakes on Friday or Saturday so its eggs till we run out on Tuesday or something.
Then I make a aeropress coffee, been drinking local partners beans which we get delivered, and spend the rest of the day in my studio drawing and working on comics.
At 5pm my wife finishes work and we usually do a 10 minuute workout together, (I don’t move much at all otherwise) then I go back to drawing or we watch TV and cook and hang out. She goes to bed at 10ish and then I play videogames and watch criterion collection movies till early morning, I’ve been going till 3 or 4am this past week which is why I get up so late.
Listening to-
Rolling Blackouts CF new single “She’s There” really great melbourne band with that jangly Australian sound, it’s been on high rotation.
Tyler the Creators “Igor” has found its way back into my life, I listen to it while I am cooking and doing the dishes for inspiration.
I’ve also been regressing and listening to old 2000s dance and hip hop stuff from my DJ days like Diplos “AEIOU” and the Avalanches “Since I left You”
Watching-
Otto Peringer on Criterion, I saw Bonjour Tristesse for the first time and it is amazing, such beautiful costumes and colours.
I really like the films of Alex Garland and enjoyed his new FX show “Devs” I like the current trend in sci-fi that uses alternate worlds created by accumulated user data as a type of time travel.
“Vernon, Florida” - such a great documentary by Errol Morris, more a portrait than a story, it has a really nice reportage vibe. I really enjoyed the lack of narration, it is just these vignettes of characters talking.
Reading
I actually find it kind of hard to read at home, I now realise I do most of my reading on the subway or at cafes but I have been making my way through the amazing “Why Comics” by Hillary Chute. I also have been revisiting lots of the old comics I have around the place.
I’ve been wearing the same pair of jeans everyday, I got them a bit over a year ago. LVC 1955s, the last of the old Californian Cone Mills denim before they closed forever. I am trying really had to break them in, I want a clean light wash so I am soaking them every few weeks, done 2 so far.
Most of the Laundromats nearby have closed and so I do the laundry by hand every week or two.
Here are two quarantine comics Dick did for PTO.COM and an unpublished one.
