Welcome to my site, Jesse Richards.com. Here you'll find lots of art, book reviews ranging from Stories of Rwanda to Tolstoy all the way to comic books, artists such as Sargent and Whistler, great music like Wilco and They Might Be Giants, my favorite movies, and TV like The Office, The Daily Show, Veronica Mars, and Lost. You can see my design portfolio, caricatures I've done, and way too many photos of my friends. There's also some more serious fare: my writing about critical thinking, nonviolence, religion, the environment and humanity's future. There are tons of links, photos, mp3s, and wallpapers to download. I've been building this solipsistic site oh-so-slowly for over a decade, so I hope you enjoy it. See what happens when web designers have free time? That's right, we make lists and take photos of absolutely every aspect of our lives. Roll over the images above to discover my site ...

I'm new here, Jesse! What should I do?
There are lots of choices! To get you started, here are my favorites:

• Learn a little bit About Me and my life.
• New York City - click on the map to see photos around downtown
• Book Reviews - Frequently updated
• Teach this Generation to be Prejudice-Free
  A poster I designed that traveled around the world!
• My Sketchbook, with a fliptacular interface and new nudes
• Celebrities we've spotted around NYC!
• My Caricaturing portfolio:
  Get cool caricaturing at your next event! ...
  It's fun! it's free!* it's easy!
  *Note: not free. But not too expensive either.
• View my presentation on the Age of Critical Thinking
• Read about Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other world heroes
• Photos - hundreds of photos of people you don't know

News! I'm engaged! So is Rachel!

This web site's 13-Year Anniversary! 1995-2008
That's right, this site has been up for over a decade now! In web years, that's like a million years ago. Or six thousand years ago, whichever you believe. The site gets about 2500 visitors a day. Thanks for visiting - come by often!

Recent Updates

• East Side Restaurants - I made this so I could decide where to eat every day. It's a really cool interactive Google Map.
• Homestar Runner page! My favorite toons.
• Caricaturing photos! See what it's like to make fun of people through art!
• All-New Wallpapers page. Now download Batman Begins, Lost, Veronica Mars, and lots more for your desktop! New James Bond Casino Royale wallpapers.
• Built an entirely new Sketchbook.
  Lots of naked people to see.
• New Prejudice-Free calendar for 2007.
• A long examination of the Revelation to Saint John.
• Expanded my entire portfolio. Lots more web designs. Lots! And new illustrations and caricatures! Caricatures are fun.
• Celebrities spotted in NYC!! Two exclamation points!!
• Book Reviews - Added many more short reviews
• Quote from Arun Gandhi, who liked the site!
• A page about Bookstores! Indulge your inner bibliophile! Also, some of my favorite book-collecting Specialties.

I was mentioned in a Media Bistro article recently. I"m the "young artist." Click here to read the article.

Help me: Throughout the site you'll find links to Amazon to purchase the products I recommend and review. I get a (very) small percentage of money from anything you order after following a link on my site. That money will go directly to hosting this site. Help me out!

Random image of the day:

Links of the Month:

• Darfur: A Genocide We Can Stop
• Simon Levenson Studios
• Roots of Peace.org
• So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
• Sarasota News & Books

Coming Soon:

• Always adding more Book Reviews
• More details about Heroes in Music
• Extending my NYC photo map to uptown
• Trying to implement Google Maps API somehow

Sound of the day: (also known as:the only sound ever here)

• Biscuit Dough Hands Man strikes again!
  (Click to listen)

Quotes:

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." - Albert Einstein

"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization." - Gandhi

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer

"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Picasso

"Just a message from Europe ... Hi! My name is Ed, I fall on your personnal website and I saw your sketches... I like your style ! and your website make me discover New York, it's my favourite city ! I'm a young drawer ( in fine art school ), that's sure New York is a great city for inspiration ... "

"The tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Their true purpose is sinister."
- The Question