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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

Quiet Bowery Walk

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On this particular stretch of the Bowery there still remain some of the trademark bums. They now share sidewalk space with European tourists who have seated themselves at an outdoor cafe for brunch.

They do not pay me any notice as I walk past. It Sunday morning and rather quiet.

No Pants

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Process + perception - pants = conceptual art

Broadway at Times Square

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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

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.

Albert Cadabra vs. Rubik

Two BIG things I've been up to in one tiny video!
This one minute video is made with footage filmed for a podcast series on local burlesque performers. Featured here, the magical hands of Albert Cadabra.
 

I was recently invited to help curate 1800 Frames, an exhibition of 1 minute videos for a great gallery called CWOW in NJ. It was so inspiring to see all these artists' work that I decided to make my own 1800 frames video in honor of them.

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i.dent.it (y)

I am so thrilled that one of my videos will be included in a show in Dumbo, this Saturday, during the DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival. Check out this beautiful card...
Hope you can make it to the show!

PANtasia Screening!

Two weeks from today, The PAN makes it's big screen debut!
Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 7:00 PM Pioneer Theater
located at 155 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
www.twoboots.com/pioneer

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Word Play

Re-edited the Tag video to fit more with a song by Kathy.
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Video Tag

Earlier this year, I was lucky enought to be asked to participate in a game of video TAG!
Scott (of the tremendous Sketch-it blog), sent me a tiny 'disposable'  digital video camera,
I was given simple instructions:
Record 5 minutes
Send the camera to someone else
This is the video Jenai and I made with the camera, it's an urban haiku.

The camera went to 5 different people, and travelled around the world.
All of the clips can be seen here.

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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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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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Big Ass Tree

Santa's elves were so busy this week! They installed this 75 foot tall tree infront of the building where I work.
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Click here for the live video from the Tree Cam.

Something to watch

Much inspired by video I have seen in galleries this fall.

Omer Fast at Postmasters.

Daniel Pflumm at Green Naftali

Krzystof Wodiczko at Lelong

Candice Breitz at Sonnabend, not to be missed.

Laurie Anderson is always showing new work, and even my friend Champ, has video in a show.

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Afro at dusk

In which, big hair makes a big statement and a nice silhouette.
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Grass

Nice day. Fake grass. Music by The Go! Team from Noah.

Wonder Twin Power

Christine and Fabio know how to use gravity but I think there's some wonder twin powers involved, too. First I saw them fly through the air and dodge cinderblocks as part of the  STREB dance company then I followed them to a club where they did this. 

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Solitude

Listen. Music. Information. Everywhere. I want to say something about idea of Alone and Solitude but I am not sure how yet. Listen to excerpts from Glen Gould's Solitude Trilogy, I think that explains it better than I ever could. Listen.

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?

Afloat

            
Rain is transformative.  But in a subtle even soothing way, so you almost don't even notice it as it happens.  It feels like a sigh when you realize the change has occured, and you wonder why you were ever afraid in the first place.      

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Shadow Walking

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Again, night walk. Brooklyn.

Now This

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I realize that I have been talking about weather alot, lately.  I don't know why, I don't feel like I have been in it. I see it from the window and notice it's effects on my walk home.

All that glitters is gilded

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

All that glitters

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

The Gates pt.4

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Last clip from The Gates. Most seemed to agree that the major affect of the peice was the effect on general mood of people who visited it. One noted it as, the first major thing people have been drawn, en mass, to look at in NYC in years, that wasn't a pit of death. Noah likened it to the Dogs-in-Bonnets-Effect of our hometown easter parade. Henry nailed it, I think, when he said that it's a great place to take a picture of yourself.

If you want more gates videos we've been collecting them HERE.

The Gates pt.3

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Tonight I walk past a few kids on the street and hear one saying 'you know this artist christo? he makes gigantic awesome art?', to which the other replies 'you mean the orange stuff?'.  Got to hand it to Christo and JC, like the work or not but they are obscure, fringe thinkers and they got people talking about their art. It is proof that the avant guard (sorry to use the trite terminology but i have no other language for it) has something tangible to contribute directly to the mainstream. I am building a portal to make that happen more often.

The Gates pt.2

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Eventually, we find our way out of the forest and come upon The Gates. It's japanese tori gates. They have turned Central Park into a shrine. 

The Gates pt.1

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We seem to have lost the enormous public art project we have come to see. We are reminded just how big Central Park is.

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.

Rhythm Train

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GET ON IT FOOL!

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.

Winter Sun, Devil Moon

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First sunny day in a while here. There may have been some others but not on a weekend, so I don't recall. Still, it's pretty cold. We stand outside and wait a long time for all the friends to arrive and even longer for a table. But we don't mind. All the friends we don't know are doing the same thing and no one is complaining.

Fishy

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Another diorama. This whole set up is very strange yet pretty. I have a lot of questions about it. Why put dead fish in an aquarium-like setting? Why are the fish facing towards the window, as if they are looking out at you? They're like puppies in a pet shop window..cute or repulsive?

Run, run, run!

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Who are all these people and where are they going?

Skulls

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St. Marks Church is an important part of my neighborhood. It is located on the only street in Manhattan that remains from the original (and geographically accurate) grid. And It feels like it, it feels solid- anchored. Its not a very large space but very lively. Sometimes a klezmer band plays in the plaza but more often it's a guy with a keyboard or boombox.  I've seen flea markets and free markets, meetings and meditation. On this day, I meet Paul, an artist, who invites me (and anyone else passing by) to participate in The Skull Project.

Blind

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It is 7 am and I am just waking up. The sun is lower that usual in the sky. I've never noticed a coffee cart on that corner before. A lot more people than usual hanging around. Okay, act casual if you are an extra on a movie set, paid to look like a person waking down 2nd Avenue. If you are someone actually walking down 2nd Ave., act suspicious. Hey, a robbery? Guess he wanted to get caught and he appears to be dog friendly. Good, they've made up and he gets his money back. It was only a buck anyway. Back to the coffee cart. Wonder if those glazed are stale?

Crowd Scene

CLick here to see The CrowdI do not feel comfortable in a crowd. I don't like having someone immediately in front of me. I have a feeling it has to do with my height. When people are so close to me I can't get a proper perspective, next stop: panic. I would normally go out of my way to avoid a street fair, but this one engulfs a 10 block radius around my office. No avoiding it. I take to walking behind the stalls of games and fried food. After a week, I get brave and move into out the street. I manage to see some of the people that make up the crowd.

I was asked by Jay

I was asked by Jay to make a video in comment to another video, which will be used to test out a system for making video comments. I have no comment at this moment. I will let Jay do the commenting, though I reserve rights to edit (and add music) to anything anyone has said when my video camera is on them.

Public Forum

Walking through chinatown to meet some friends at an art opening, I come upon this outdoor movie showing. It is so simple and yet really fun and exciting and lively. I take my time and absorb the scene. I am right in thinking it will probably prove more engaging than the art I am going to see. Not that the art will be 'bad' but rather it is isolated in a room with these people that show up to see it. It is so unfortunately separated from the world. Clever or interesting as an artwork may be to me, it is ultimately disengaged if it remains in its special showroom-isolated, alone, sad, dead. It makes me think about this video on the web and its potential to be a public forum.

16 Cannoli

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I am at work. There is some noise outside from the street below. Seems to be some kind of competitive eating thing.

As if ...

As if the September 11 experience wasn't sureal enough, the revisiting of the 'towers of light' memorial last week, was the most sci-fi thing I have ever seen. Almost didn't post this but I wanted to reflect in some wayCharlene's post from sept 11. Just to acknowledge how strange it all is, still.

Night Walk NYC Pt.8

I am walking away from all of this. I turn to look back and between some tall buildings I can see a flickering laser light show, meant just for the people who are coming and going through the main entrance of Madison Square Garden. It is dazzling.

Night Walk NYC Pt.7

I hear a lot of yelling but I can't get close enough to see the mob that it is coming from. This couple walks by escorted by a police offficer. Some people shout at them. I wanted to say something, too. But I don't.

Night Walk NYC Pt.6

Somehow, I end up here, at the delegates entrance to the republican convention. I watch some of the performances from inside on a jumbotron TV screen outside. I am confused at first, because I think I see the Olson Twins giving a speech. When I realized I am looking at the Bush Twins, I am still confused. Then I am in the middle of this crowd of chatty republican delegates, bored press and cops, confused tourists, but still it is calm. I think, I am invisible here. Empty city busses drive past on their way to pick up invisible protesters.

Night Walk NYC Pt.5

The city is busy as is known to be, but again, I am aware of this quietness that is different than usual. At Herald Square a motorcade passes by Macy's like the Thanksgiving Day parade. I stood in this same spot 10 years ago(more?) and waved at my brother as he led a giant inflated Bart Simpson through the city. That sounds crazy but it's true.

Night Walk NYC Pt.4

I called out for Sara because I wanted her to know that I was there, if indeed she was caught in that circle of police. I knew that she had no plans for being arrested when she went out tonight. I knew that she just wanted to be with other people to feel even a tiny bit empowered. I didn't know what else to do so I just kept walking.

Night walk NYC Pt.2

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On the other side of the park I came upon this curious scene.

Night walk in NYC Pt.1

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I began to walk through Union Square - a pretty typical night, lively but somehow quiet. I noticed this gathering of police officers.

Big Brother Blimp

All week I have been watching this blimp hover over the Manhattan skyline.
ARRRRG!!!!! This has been a week full of random technical problems. For example, lately my html is all wonky(dont know why cuz all i ever do is cut and paste it!), so i cant link the images to the movies for now. It's okay for now because this a cool picture and you should click on it anyways and see it larger. So now you have toClick Here to See the Blimp Movie

after glen gould

The randomness of any evening can gain clarity with a little Bach.
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(no thumbnail for now, typepad is not recognizing the files at thia time and the library is about to close on me!)

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Yesterday, on my walk home from work, I get a lesson in communication technology. I had read about the project but stumbled upon this unintentionaly.  I am very happy with this video, makes up for the disconnectedness I felt in yesterday's post (though watching it again with sara last night, I think there is something valid there.)

click this to watch I don't know, I guess some days are just like this. Eliza, Liza and Sara helped me out with the video today, I needed it. I'm going to start making something more corherent soon.

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Today, I turned the camera on each time I saw some Independence Day decoration. Chopped it up real sloppy in imovie. Moved a little of the audio around and exported to Quicktime. Very fast. Talking to a friend in LA made me even more inspired to use this space. We always discuss art but it'll be even better when we can use this space to look at images and works in process. It is recreating an experience that is rare beyond school, where you can get regular input throughout the process of making work. I told her that where my web page is like the portfolio or presentation book or gallery - polished, complete ideas- this place is messy and unfinished. I am so excited to have her try this out at the same time.
Seeking out free wifi connections is bringing me to some great neighborhood spots (DTUT, Ace Bar,Drink Me). The mood here is like a Sunday night in the college library but with hip-hip playing loudly on stereo and a full bar/coffee shoppe and also with couches and romantic lighting. Okay, nothing like college library. I'm just happy to spend a Saturday night with myself working but not to have to be isolated in my room. I always focus better when there's distractions.

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A New York minute.