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Dreamtime

Zeev and I open a box of Dreamy American Life
which Noah picked up for me on his recent visit to Japan.

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All that glitters is gilded

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New York City provides an endless cyclorama of backdrops for the performance of our lives.

Rain on my parade

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My ears ringing, head buzzing, learning all kinds of new things to take this farther. This project, which I told myself would take ten years to get a hold on, is comming to fruition in half the time, the rest will be a distillation period, maybe. More on that later.  Been carrying around Society of Spectacle recently for subway reading. I didn't film anything myself this weekend, my camera went on vacation. This video is made from two different vacation videos sent to me by friends recently.

 

All that glitters

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"What disconcerts me is that those movie sets that I'd never believed in are suddenly real."

Public Art, Private Art

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I have not yet seen The Gates in Central Park. I think, at 9 am this morning, I promised my father that I would go film it and post it durring the week, so it'll show up here eventually. I did see this, A MAN IN A GLASS ROOM BUILDS A HOUSE OF CARDS, right in the middle of Times Square. I am delighted by it. I am not in the habit of going to to this part of town. It is too tourist-y. When I go there it is usually to babysit for a family who lives right in the middle of it all. I like my experience of Times Square being tempered by their moderate to downright beatnik life style. They both are working profesionals with good jobs but you don't get much here even with that.Still, they don't seem lacking, and the place itself is so real, full of books and the kind of toys that have been popular with kids for decades, puzzles, cards, tinker toys and legos, plastic farm animals, and a feeling of stability. Outside their bedroom window the light from the giant Toys'R Us begs them to come in and buy something with batteries and a memory chip.

Amercan Idols

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All that emotion. The pathos and performance, it is positively classical, greek even? To paraphrase Richard Wright, and the words of their souls were the lyrics of popular songs.