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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
cafe royal
greenpoint, the fifth most livable neighborhood in new york (uh, what?) gets a new coffeeshop, cafe royal. it's a neat old space with tile floors, student style combo-desks, and a backyard. return visits will be had.





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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
roebling tea room
some unimpressive doodles from the roebling tea room, they do however, have nice lights.





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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
bookstores
coffeeshops be damned, these are bookstore drawings! ...while drinking coffee in their respective cafes.

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Friday, March 05, 2010
oslo
we're taking it back to two thousand and nine! (i still haven't quite caught up with last year's sketchbook scannings)

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
second stop cafe
some more coffee shop drawin'.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
marlow and sons
marlow used to have my favorite breakfast, a spectacular biscuit served up with butter and jam...big, flaky, crumbly, moist, delicious. however, the pastry chef who made those biscuits left, and this biscuit was not THAT biscuit.

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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
peter pan bakery
greenpoint's own peter pan bakery where i have just been introduced to their red velvet donut, their red velvet donut WITH COCONUT!? and their whole wheat donut which sounds like some kind of delusional health-nut abomination, but in fact is possibly their most delicious invention of all (and not healthy at all)!

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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
technical difficulties
sitting at a coffee shop sketching ideas for an assignment, we here at EBEN WORLDWIDE INCORPORATED were experiencing...technical difficulties. we apologize for any inconvenience to those in the immediate vicinity. fortunately, the situation has been rectified, and all systems are returning to normal. we thank you for your understanding during this time of difficulty.

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alex eben meyer | 11:07 AM | 4 comments

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
marlow and sons

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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
bakari
this coffee shop has a great little backyard with a koi pond. i didn't draw the koi.

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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
eat records
a lovely day, delicious food, and what started out as a nice drawing of eat's backyard. needless to say, it turned into a bit of a mess, but it's always nice to have these pop up occasionally in the sketchbook.

yelp: eat records

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alex eben meyer | 5:21 PM | 2 comments

Thursday, August 27, 2009
second stop cafe
antlers, a cool old bottle rack and cake. but wait, second stop has fitz's root beer from st louis! i didn't ask why, but a nice surprise to see fitz's.

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alex eben meyer | 10:00 AM | 2 comments

Monday, August 24, 2009
greenpoint coffee house
it's been a while, but illustrator breakfast again met up at the greenpoint coffee shop. i managed to get a little bit of drawing in before the gang arrived. still figuring out that pattern stamp.

yelp: greenpoint coffee house

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Friday, August 21, 2009
cup o' joe's
more coffee shop drawing, including my new pattern stamp (still figuring out how to use it effectively).

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alex eben meyer | 10:00 AM | 2 comments

Thursday, August 20, 2009
variety cafe
it's been a few weeks, but time for some fresh coffee shop sketching. midway through this drawing a guy on the street had a seizure. fortunately, the paramedics arrived, took care of him, and apart from looking a bit dazed he seemed okay. this little story in no way has anything to do with this drawing.

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Friday, July 17, 2009
design*sponge: sketch mornings
my week of guest sketchblogging over at design*sponge finishes off today, here's the final post. coffeeshop drawing will of course continue here, and iff'n you're interested, i've uploaded the entire set to flickr:

flickr: d*s coffeeshops

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Monday, July 13, 2009
design*sponge: sketch mornings
i am excited to once again be blog-hanging out with my friend grace over at design*sponge (previously ao's and my apartment had the honor of appearing as a d*s sneak peek). this week however, i am guest sketchblogging. the pieces are a collection of coffeeshop drawings from around the neighborhood, so lots of muffins and coffee from some of my favorite hangouts. eat and drink up.

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(subsequent posts will be appearing in the artwork section of d*s)

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
second stop cafe

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
oslo
4:47pm at oslo on a saturday, i needed ground coffee.

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Friday, January 09, 2009
brooklyn label
drawing session at the blabel.

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Thursday, December 18, 2008
eat records
another breakfast morning at eat.

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Friday, December 12, 2008
eat records
met up with the bearded scowl for some eating and drawing at eat records where my friend megan cooks up delicious foodstuffs. if you haven't been, get yee over there.

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Thursday, August 07, 2008
urban rustic
a condiment still life strikes me as some pretty lazy observational drawing. did you know that there are 57 varieties of heinz ketchup!?

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Thursday, July 24, 2008
brooklyn label
breakfast drawing session with studiomate josh. this drawing is a little bit better in person, but the scan looks kind of garbage. that's okay though, i've been busy and not observation drawing nearly enough, so i'll post what i can get.

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Friday, June 20, 2008
pencil factory
not exactly coffee shop drawing, more like beer shop drawing. all the same, sitting outside on a lovely day alongside some buildings.





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