Herb has been living in New York and having fun with art for over 15 years (including pewter saltine crackers). From kinetic sculptures for the Blue Man Group to industrial lamps for Runaway Bride – if he can amuse others with metal, he will. He has shot photo-ops of dignitaries at the New York Stock Exchange and photographed seeds using a nuclear reactor. Herb’s work is in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and in galleries and shops around the country. He has helped advertising, publishing and video clients make pills, watches and fashion models look appealing. He has even starting teaching people how to cast pewter, take pinhole pictures and print cyanotype and gum bichromate prints.

Now Herb is bringing you pewter snack food. The phenomenon started with a simple cracker (You can see the enthusiasm for this product at the cracker tracker). The snack food line has expanded to cheese crackers and ice cream sandwiches. The 31st President may have fed millions of people and invented the CARE package, but this POTUS has fed the imagination of thousands of people who should never take a bite of his food.

Herb is also touring the show does time stand still? The phenomenon started with a simple x-ray image and grew to using a nuclear reactor as a camera, pinhole cameras, century-old printing techniques, and a love of discovery. The processes that photographers used over a century ago were not considered art. So, the photographers worked hard to find techniques that were expressive, rather than simply reproductive. Herb’s gum prints use watercolors such as Winsor Newton, MaimeriBlu, and Grumbacher to render their hues. The cyanotypes use a Prussian blue derived from iron salts. The works are anachronisms combining historical processes and modern technology to explore the wonderment of our world.