Slow Work
Now, a Slow Work Movement is something I could get behind. “One cannot overstate how slow work in the archives is, and how this slowness of hands and thought can be the source of creativity.” – The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
Moby Dick
I recently finished Moby Dick. I’m not sure how I was able to receive a BA in English without having read this book. DH Lawrence called it “one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world”. Annie Dillard called it one of the greatest books written about nature. Below is my fantasy adaptation …
Life and Death at TedxGowanus
“Broadsheet” as part of the installation, Sunday.
Fog in New York Harbor
Yesterday morning’s fog in NY Harbor from Brooklyn Bridge Park. In August 1776 General George Washington successfully evacuated all of his troops from the hills of Brooklyn Heights across the water to the island of Manhattan. This was done under the noses of of the British ships in the harbor. The fog was so …
Who’s your Daddy? Bastards by Claire Denis
Bastards by Claire Denis got me thinking about children and fate.
Shark Research, Gowanus
I’m working on a piece that collects together newspaper articles about things that happened to people and animals in the Gowanus Canal. This incident with the shark is pretty well known but I couldn’t locate the actual article on the internet (there are lots of sites that have the picture and the story as …
Road Trip
Peutinger Map. ( 13th century copy of a ancient Roman map).Ancient Roman Itineria were narrative maps. They were essentially travel stories. And this one is literally a “road map”, illustrating the extensive network of ancient Roman roads — that, or course, all led to Rome. In the ancient world both evidence and imagination were used …
Built to Last
I took an ice cold bike ride out to 25th and 5th Ave in BK to photograph the Weir Greenhouse. It’s a landmarked but very dilapidated victorian era commercial greenhouse. The photos are for my The Field Guide to Office Plants. Though it is now in the possession of Greenwood Cemetery it retains the atmosphere of …
Three things about this film
I thought the much discussed, controversial sex scenes would have been better if there had been some dirty talking involved as well as some ouis and some nons and some je t’aimes Do french lesbians really refrain from making love when they have their period? Too many extended, gratuitous pre-K classroom scenes.
Ride Don’t Advertise
The stickers are here!
Made in the U.S.A
A man is riding a motorcycle through a cold, bleak landscape. He is stopped by three guys who approach him carrying axes. They demand money. The guy on the motorcycle reaches into his jacket. He pulls out a gun. He shoots two of the men point blank without warning. The third man runs for his …
Ride! Don’t Advertise!
They are almost ready. 100% removable. Take them with you and use every time you ride. Ride, don’t Advertise!