Monthly Archives: August 2008

8888 Drum

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A Foot of Heads

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Up to about 350 pages of heads for the talking head animation. Stack is about a foot tall. Having myriad conversations with myself ina search to see what the head will be saying (and even talking to a few others to possible do some alternate voicings.

Fetal Position

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We are all hanging out by the evening blue pool under the flower blooming trees when the planes appear over head. At first I can’t tell the explosions from the blooming trees. It’s all so colorful and the slow silver shine of the planes caught in the search lights.

Colossusteps

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Sonny Rollins played Central Park last night. He’s walking a little stooped over, but he still can blow that horn. If New York were Jericho, the walls would all be down. I’d been scanning and drawing all day and my head wasn’t really open to the sounds. I slowly warmed up and the old foot starts tapping and then the band drove the sound on one number (Sonny Please, from his recent album of the same name) so hard that the whole audience began to go slightly insane. It ended in a spontaneous standing ovation. I can’t remember the last time I heard a group of players really get into the cracks of my body and soul and those of my neighbors’ and sort of lift the entire audience to some new dimension that is not quite earth and not quite space… better than any drug, or drink… and certainly more plural than sex. Makes me believe in Jazz again. Viva Colossus!

Coming Storm

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Another time lapse while grilling on the roof. Interesting to see how the shower at the end moves from the harbor into Brooklyn.

Plum

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Tasted a plum at the farmer’s market. This is one of cigar box paintings I’ve been reworking since last summer. It is shown about real size here.

Heat Street

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dscn9862.JPG Drawing some crowds between faces. I’m in a strange state of production where I’m digging into all sorts of BBC documentaries on Youtube about great filmmakers and when I play back my taking head animation it has this strange ability to sych up with say Polanski, or Woody Allen… meanwhile running errands, I nearly melted on the sidewalk.