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Miniature Popcorn!
I planted popcorn this year in my garden plot. This was the result! Maybe I should use fertilizer next year. I don’t think they are supposed to be in miniature. But they sure are cute!
Governors Island Art Fair
Opening September 6th and running every weekend in September on Governors Island. My piece The Future Belongs to Us is part of the Submerged installation by Gowanus Swim Society. Governors Island Art Fair http://www.gowanusswimsociety.com/
The Silken Dragnet
The backyard here in Portland is threaded with spiders webs. They launch their traps from the side of the house to the recycling bins, they rappel from the windows to the deck, the hang in wait from the trellis and lawn chairs. They dangle from the grill and swing from shingles to drape their sticky traps. In order …
Collecting for The Future Belongs to Us
I am thinking of adding detritus of beloved beach life into the installation on Governors Island in September (the Future Belongs to Us (scenes from the jellyfish apocalypse). Just casting around the house for a minute or two it’s not hard to find beach stuff and/or stuff that is contributing to the massive swirl of garbage …
New Work: The Future Belongs To Us
Sneak Preview of my new piece which will be shown at the Governors Island Art Fair with the Gowanus Swim Society in September. The Future Belongs to Us Description: Looped video animation inside vintage camera parts. Looking through a reconstituted Agfa box camera viewers can take a perioscopic peek into the futures of our oceans. Pollution, …
Today’s Sketch: Rewilding
A movement in Europe to let abandoned farmland go wild.
Motherland
The Americans, Ida and Child’s Pose: All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. I like good TV programs. I’ve watched several series with a lot of enthusiasm. However, if quality serial television ceased to exist, I would be more than fine. This is why I was surprised to …
New York Bike Dance & City Stickers
This fun troupe — New York Bike Dance — did some trick riding on NYC’s beloved clunkers. And they used our stickers to cover that awful corporate logo! Happy Anniversary CITY Bike!
Today’s Sketch – Ugly Fruit
Read about FRUTA FEIA. The Ugly Fruit movement. It’s about not wasting perfectly good fruit and vegetables just because they “look bad”. This is something I can get behind!
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Locked In
Locke is the last name of the guy driving the car in the movie Locke. For the duration of the film he is driving down the highway, fielding calls from his job, his wife, sons, and the woman who is in the hospital having his baby. The action, which includes among other things a bitter …