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The New York Times ran a piece on me today:

Reimagining What Washes Up

By FRANCIS X. CLINES
Published: March 25, 2010
The Hudson River was as mean as usual this winter, roughing up the Manhattan shore and playing into the hands of Tom Loback, a sculptor...

www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/opinion/26fri4.html?scp=1&... loback&st=cse

Some prints of my pieces will be shown at Irondale Gallery in September:



ABC NEWS.com has their interview with me done by producer Jon Fenaroli June 12, 2008. You can see it on their website:

Part 1:

abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5056338

Part 2:

abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5056399

abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=loback&type=

I am an artist living in NYC. June and July of 2007 have been very gratifying as my work along the Hudson River has brought me a lot of recognition. Initially on June 7, 2007, Monica Morales of NBC TV News in New York ran a story with some film of some of my pieces wondering who did them because they wanted to do a story on the artist.

I contacted them but before we could film the followup story the a New York Times photographer, Joyce Dopkeen, spotted me doing a piece, she took pictures and a reporter, James Barron, did an interview which ran in the NY Times on June 21, 2007.


'Joggers Know His Sculptures; Meet the Artist Behind Them'
By JAMES BARRON
Published: June 21, 2007

"The artist who has been intriguing bikers and joggers with driftwood sculptures along the Hudson River in Manhattan has been identified as Tom Loback."

select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F00D16FF...

And Joyce's photo:

www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/06/21/nyregion/21artist_C...

Monica Morales then did the NBC TV followup interview which ran on July 6, 2007 11pm news.

A couple years back in July 2005 a NY Times reporter, Anemona Hartocollis, did a whodunnit story on the Driftwood sculpture. She and I eventually met but no followup was done.


The NY Times:

'Driftwood as Art, by an Unseen Hand'
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: July 28, 2005

"AMONG the many mysteries of the universe -- Stonehenge, black holes, alien corn mazes -- the driftwood sculptures along the Hudson River in Manhattan have to qualify among the most intriguing"

select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50917FD...


The Hallmark Channel cable show New Morning ran an interview with me on Wed., Nov. 14, 2007 7AM. It also appeared that day on their website at:

www.newmorningtv.tv/todaysshow_111407.jsp

and thereafter archived under that date, however this link appears to be dead now.
These are some links to other things I have done:

Illustration:

www.elvish.org/gwaith/tom_loback.htm

www.tolkienbooks.net/html/1981-present_51.htm

vampirefreaks.com/u/Rembrandt

a couple pics below Jim Morrison.
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Sculpture, Miniatures:

www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/dragontooth/index.html

www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/dragontooth/images/mb5.jpg

www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/dragontooth/images/p20.jpg

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Sculpture, miniatures -Toy Soldiers:

Thomas' Tin Soldiers - American Civil War Flagbearers

wmhocker.com/resource.htm

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Theatre (Adaptation):

www.oobr.com/top/volThree/one/OOBR-Margaret.html


"Loback's Margaret of Anjou is a surprisingly successful adaptation of Shakespeare's text." (actually titled 'Wm Shakespeare's The Red Rose)

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Game Design:

'Jack the Ripper'

www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3241

Fantasy Role Playing

'Halls of the Elven King'

www.icewebring.com/ICE_Products/M1/M1_8204_HallsElvenKing...

www.amazon.com/Halls-Elven-King-Legolas-Thranduil-Fortres...

Advertising and Promotional Games:

homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.merritt/OldCatMar04.htm

"The Trading Floor, published by Dow Jones & Company Inc. 1985. Box. Box shows wear. £8
Designed by Tom Loback, Richard Bowes. No. players: 2-4. Country: American, Desc. by Andy.
Promotional game advertising Dow Jones' financial news services"