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Shadow Swing

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Purple Rain Walk

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If you know what Im singing about up here
C'mon raise your hand

Night Life

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Somthing familiar and soothing about this view.

Snow, finally

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Prepared for Rain

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Was hoping for some snow.

Trainspotting

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It's colder than I expected it to be today and I feel a littel under-dressed. But, it's sunny.

Exiting the Building

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Leaving the abandoned sweater factory.

Green Cleaning

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Preping greens for dinner at Grand Sichuan.

First Cold Walk

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Notes to Self

A friend recently reminded me that he comes to my blog and that I no longer explain my work here.
There is a reason for that. The reason is that I got tired of explaining my work.

However, I put the work in the public forum that is the internet, for a reason. And, I do have people that come here to check out what I am doing and, like my friend, they may feel a little confused, so I'll make an effort to start talking about art here again.

Right now I am considering how to develop the walkabout project. Thus far, the project consists of a mostly private practice and passive sort of distribution. I wanted to have a documentary project grow organically out of a simple action which I perform everyday, an action which is not unique or special in any way.

This is what I have learned about it so far:

It is sub-conscious and meditative.
It has to do with timing both natural rhythms and imposed patterns.
It is time travel.
It is figure ground relationships.
This is not so surprising because all are themes I have explored in other projects.

The project includes 2 types of moving images:

1) Nodes, hubs, scenes, events - In which, objects and people move through the frame horizontally and on occasion vertically. I/camera stand still for a minimum of 60 seconds to allow passage of bodies through the frame. I am observing the scene as these bodies are making exits and entrances. I am in stasis, rest state.

2)Passages, paths, scene changes  - In which figure/camera moves over ground. I am in constant motion for 60 seconds or more to. My feet move the ground beneath me, physically pushing it behind me and  into the past  and simultaneously moving my own body into the future, into the next frame, node, scene.

Possible ideas for further development:

Incorporate video clips from other contributors or existing media sources, but not sure yet how.
It must maintain the level of fluidity and lack of overt messaging - or must it?
Consider what is catalyst for change from stasis (of a node video) to movement (of a pathway video).
What might connect the two?

What should pop up in my feeds this morning but an interview (link) with prolific writer Will Self , talking about his own walkabout experiences.

That's all I got for now.

Busy in Times Square

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Skull walks

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Western side ride

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First of several nice clips I made when I was taking a train from SF to Sacramento.

The Horror for Fear Revere 2007

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This is the video I made for the Fear Revere screening. I set out to make something very simple about the basic fun of scaring yourself. It became political due to the props I had at hand to made the video. This gave the piece a more layered and the same time more overt meaning than I had originally intended and I think it was ultimately good for the end result. What do you think?

Fear Revere Screening

I haven't had a chance to post video recently because I have been busy putting together a special Halloween screening event, here in NYC. If you are in the area please come if you are not.. don't worry there will be online tricks and treats for you, too!

FEAR REVERE, a screening of frightening creativity.

Tuesday October 30th, 7pm @ The Pioneer Theater in New York City

Artists and filmmakers present their reflections on the genre of horror and the general idea of making something for the purpose of frightening ones audience. Boo!
This event was organized by Mica Scalin for the Pioneer's Fourth Annual Month of Horror, Terror, and General Mayhem.

Videos by:

Michael Amter, Santiago Cohen, Bill Dyszel, Jenny Hyde, Bradley Hyppa, Raymond Kristiansen, Joe Nanashe, Rob Parrish, Memo Salazar, Mica Scalin, Noah Scalin , Melissa Schubeck and Wunderkrafthaus

Tickets available at the door or online:
http://www.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=109457

The Two Boots Pioneer Theater
155 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A and B) NYC
(212) 591-0434

West Walk Revisited

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Walking in Sacramento. Do you like my new shoes?

Night Intersection

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This city has so many moving parts, most of them people. Saturday night, found us in a random bar, drinking with the locals of a neighborhood 60 blocks north of ours.  I like the way the movement of all the people going in different directions creates a perpetual zig-zagging of movement across the frame. Very kinetic and fun - a visualization of why I love living here.

Figure ground experiment 1

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An interesting figure ground relationship is develops.

Grey on Grey

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Urban camouflage for a grey Monday

Pink Socks and other Sunday Diversions

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