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Process + perception - pants = conceptual art

Broadway at Times Square

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NYC night lights

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Night lights NYC.  A Japanese motorcycle gang. 30 seconds of engines revving. I could watch this backwards and forwards for hours. I love the lights the movement and the noise of this city at night.

Liquid Perception

I've been travelling a lot this month. I am not allowed to film anything new untill I deal with the 10 tapes piled up on my table. So, this is the story, picking it up in the early-middle part, like any good story there are many perfectly fine starting places and relevant vantage points throughout. Be sure to look here, here, here, here for more.

Special thanks to my dear freind Sara Heifetz who performed as 'the voice of Gilles Deleuze' in this video. The text is taken completely out of context, from his book Cinema 1 - the movement image.  

    a subjective perception is one in which the images vary in relation to a central and prevlidged image; an objective perception is 
    one where, as in things, all images vary in relation to one another, on all their faets and in all their parts. These definitions       
    affirm not only the difference between two poles of perception, but also the possibility of passing from the subjective to the    
    objective pole. For the more the privledged center is itself put into movement, the more it will tend toward an acentered system
    where the images vary in relation to one another and tend to become like the reciprocal actions and vibrations of a pure
    matter. What can be more subjective than a delerium, a dream a hallucination? But what can be closer to a materiality made up
    of luminous wave and molecular interaction? (on google )

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Changes

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Child's Play

Made this for my friend Raould who loves the carousel at Prospect park.
Reminded me of these 16 mm films we would watch in elementary school.
I want to make more like it.
Gearing up for a kids feed for The PAN.
That's rightt, a daily 15 min video made by the PAN Group, that is all Gee - rated!
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Do you dodgeball?

The PAN plays in the first ever Next NY dodgeball tournament! We lose, I think, to Union Square Ventures? but it was all good fun. Afterwards, I was inspired to write a hot dance track about it. I predict it will be all rage in the clubs this summer.
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Broken

This is a video for a song by House of Freaks.

I will be focusing on making videos for The PAN
Music Moments, using songs by bands I like, which don't have videos.

Filmed on the train down to Virginia and edited it on the ride back to NY. I have loved this train ride, in the past. It provided a much needed transition time from NYC to Richmond.

But this time is difficult. I have not visited since the murder of the Harvey family and I am still broken from it. I don't know if I will ever fully repair. I find myself crying most of the ride down and back. Making the video is difficult because of this, but cathartic, I am hoping...

Notice how the shift in the camera's perspective alters the way the land passes outside the train window. With the camera's lense parallel to the window, the trees pass by so quicky that they become an abstraction on a flat flickering screen. When the camera's lense is at a 45 degree angle from the window the world outside gains enough depth to become a doirama of streets lined with toy houses.

It is amazing how a small alteration in physical perspective can change so much.

Move it

I am now blogging regularly for one of my favorite sites DVblog.org. What this means is, I get share the cool videos that I find online and add to Doron's excellent collection of internet video art.

Here is a video of the busy lobby in the building where I am working. Tourists walk a certain way. People on their way to work walk another way. I am standing still as long as I can. I want to see if I can see their various rythms, stalls and stops, as music.

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More to see

Always more to see. Just have to keep your eyes open.

Empty Ride

It's not so much the lack of people on the subway car that makes this ride unique. Can you guess what else is missing?

To be simply entertained

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We have made it through half of the Armory Show. Beth and I sit down and rest. It's awful windy inside here. The show is immense, it fills two piers on the west side highway.  We come to see but it is nothing like a museum. It is most certainly a trade show. I wonder how much money exchanges hands here as compared to trade shows for say, computers or boats? It is very exciting. All this energy surrounding the commerce of art. Rather than being sickened by this, as I may have felt as a younger person, I am excited and amazed that so many people give a shit. Enough to make up an entire international economic structure. It's the stock exchange but the exchange of money is based on ideas alone, artist's ideas, pure ideas.  In the midst of it all take a moment to be simply entertained.

 

Elevation

Going down, temperature drop, prices cut.

Coming and Going

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A lot can happen in 5 seconds. Leaving home for work and leaving work for home. The days have felt like this, lately.

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.

 

Rhythm Train

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rhythm  n.
1. Movement or variation characterized by the regular recurrence or alternation of different quantities or conditions: the rhythm of the tides.
2. The patterned, recurring alternations of contrasting elements of sound or speech.
3. Music.
a. The pattern of musical movement through time.
b. A specific kind of such a pattern, formed by a series of notes differing in duration and stress: a waltz rhythm.
c. A group of instruments supplying the rhythm in a band.
4. a. The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in accentual verse or of long and short syllables in quantitative verse.
b. The similar but less formal sequence of sounds in prose.
c. A specific kind of metrical pattern or flow: iambic rhythm.
5. a. The sense of temporal development created in a work of literature or a film by the arrangement of formal elements such as the length of scenes, the nature and amount of dialogue, or the repetition of motifs.
b. A regular or harmonious pattern created by lines, forms, and colors in painting, sculpture, and other visual arts.
6. The pattern of development produced in a literary or dramatic work by repetition of elements such as words, phrases, incidents, themes, images, and symbols.
7. Procedure or routine characterized by regularly recurring elements, activities, or factors: the rhythm of civilization; the rhythm of the lengthy negotiations.