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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.

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

Broadway at Times Square

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Ways to Leave (with live soundtrack)

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This video was created while I was an artist in residence at Makor. Much of our discourse was on the subject of wandering which was certainly relevant to my work at the time as a wandering videoblogger. This film is made up of video clips originally  posted here and edited in collaboration with a very talented composer, Oren Neiman, who created and performed the original soundtrack live at it's one and only theatrical screening in May 2005 in NYC. I am finally getting around to putting this online with the music!

Inspire and be inspired

"In the times of bigness, spectaculars, one hundred million movie productions, I want to speak for the small, invisible acts of human spirit, so subtle, so small, that they die when brought out under the clean lights. I want to celebrate the small forms of cinema, the lyrical form, the poem, the watercolor, etude, sketch, portrait, arabesque, and bagatelle, and little 8mm songs. In the times when everybody wants to succeed and sell, I want to celebrate those who embrace social and daily tailor to pursue the invisible, the personal things that bring no money and no bread and make no contemporary history, art history or any other history. I am for art which we do for each other, as friends."

click to read entire Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto by Jonas Mekas

1800 Frames on the Big Screen

t As promised the 1800 Frames Take 3 exhibition continues!
Next weekend we will be screening the entire hour long exhibition of one(ish) minute films in a real sit down movie theatre in NYC!
That's cool!
Tickets can be purchased online HERE.

Lee Wells (my co-curator), Ben and Will from CWow and many of the awesome artists, included in the show will be there. Hope you can make it!

1800 Frames now at Scope!

1800 Frames Take 3, an exhibition of one minute films which was curated by myself and Lee Wells for Cwow, will be hitting the road. First stop, the contemporary art fair Scope NYC, as part of Cinema Scope at Lincoln center.

55 videos by 30 artists
Michael Amter, Hackworth Ashley, Betsey Biggs,
Brian Caiazza, G. H. Hovagimyan, Beth Chucker,
Santiago Cohen, Maria Dumlao, Carla Edwards,
Merav Ezer & Adi Shniderman, Celeste Fichter,
Jesse Houlding, Jenny Hyde, Bradley Hyppa,
Jose Insua, Kensuke Koike, Beth Krebs,
Stephanie Lempert, Joe Nanashe, Matthew Nicholas,
Robert O'Connor, Arzu Ozkal Telhan, Jennifer Proctor,
Charlene Rule, Memo Salazar, Melissa Schubeck,
Claudia Sohrens, Dana Sperry, and Michael Szpakowski