Monthly Archives: December 2008

ChanununukahKahn

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I ran all the way home from frost and I hit the hassidem where they hit me hard and kept asking me on every street corner if I was Jewish.

“No,” I said and said again, but they wore me down and finally I said “Yes…Yes…. yes I am Jewish, but you know I don’t practice.”

The Earnest teen, dressed as if in earlier teens said, “You know it’s the last night of Hanukah?”
“Yes,” I said… “I know but “I’m running home. I can’t take whatever it is you have to give me.”
“So?” he said, handing me a foil menorah. “Put it in you pocket.”

I did. I lit it all up when I got home. I suppose anyone who believes in the single God (and I’m not saying I do as I love and loath all gods, but was certainly raised with the solo act) is Jewish. Anyways I lit and loved the light of the candles in my lonely winter night.

XmassXpress

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Playing with my new toy: a little Flip video camera on the train to Connecticut and back for the Holidays. In NYC I saw this apparition wearing punk elf gear and a gold boombox backpack played campy Christmas carols. He was strolling and posing through the subway and the station. It’s the kind of eccentricity that makes you miss New York when you are away from her.

Crowd Me

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A couple of big crowd time lapses I made this week. It’s been nice to stagger out all my brush sizes and work from largest to smallest. Music is a mash up of Beach and Beastie Boys.

AlexelA

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Alex showed up again to drum as I knocked out a crowd to listen to him… but really it was me dancing ink.

Frost Bite That Chicken

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Here is the updates from Friday’s Frost Space time lapses mixed with a Mingus song by way of Dylan’s old satellite radio show. Eat that chicken yes! Also some motion graphics made by a student of Golan Levin. The Eater is eating all sorts of heads I made over the years that they got off Flickr. I find this one thematically appropriate to the the first course of Frost Street… Food from the fridge… or whatever it is: Revenge Served Cold? Also a dead white pigeon I saw under the BQE on the way to the studio. Looked like an angel, or a Nationalist Seal….

Big Eater

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A grab from a time lapse video of a large ink eater from Friday. It’s slightly distorted by the angle I had the camera at, but it should give you the idea. I’m getting closer to what I want. Working at this scale with ink is something else…

Snoway

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Yesterday I ran down to Dumbo to grab a huge nine foot long roll of paper from Tom before he escaped town. We were trying to beat the snow, but naturally I got caught in the thick of it, trying to keep the paper dry and walking like an impossible silent film slapstick down streets and into subways. Still the snow made everything beautiful and new.