The Epic Quest (Or My Life As A Bee In The Steel and Glass Garden)

city scape by Brian Raszka, Xfactor stencil was sent by CMIII
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spent the weeks and days mixing potions and notions in Venetian glass bottles where Jean Jeanie crickets once lived and the the small icecream cone of lead and lusterous jewels were stored. I waved my jazz hands and tapped three times with the torah reading stick of Elder and Larch and Low and behold the scream rainbow burst forth and landed on my members only and I became very large and then later very small where in I went into the earch beyond the shadow cave to a great rank garden and in the dirt there I found shiny rocks and precious metals. I believe these were treasures that Dennis Wilson had thrown off his yacht in drunken fits of paranoia. His ghost told me once: “No man is poor, if he has a half a million dollars in gold and silver sitting in the sand and choral beneath his yacht… you just dive down and retrieve you treasure… he never cam back, but who can blame him… on the other side, he was whole and the band was still together and brian and him wrote a whole album together called Silver Surfer, or something, but I digress. With the above mentioned treasures, I made a fetsh in the rank garden. I am casting my spell. A Wizard at work.
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Meanwhile, back in the real real world I am going to Tribecca food and wine walk and then back up the mountain to break bread in the Temple and dance the Horah and drink the wine and form a quarum around Noah who will build an arc some day.
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Orson Whales

This is more or less a birthday gift to myself. I’ve been drawing it on every page of Moby Dick (using two books to get both sides of each page) for months. The soundtrack is built from searching “moby dick” on You Tube (I was looking for Orson’s Preacher from the the John Huston film), I couldn’t find the preacer, but you find tons of Led Zep and drummers doing Bonzo and a little Orson reading from the Novel for a failed Italian T.V. film…… makes for a nice Melville in the end.

Cinqo de Mayo I turn Forty. Ahhhhhhh the French Champagne.

Future Time Before

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We met the other night at the Institute to discuss the upcoming relaunch of the blog. Some of the discussion turned technical (which is to say over, or under, or around my head) so I started shooting things. Later, the evening devolved into food and drinks and jazz at Zebulon where we got onto a wide ranging discussion of politics, digital media, dj culture, and life during wartime. The animation is from the note book we used to illustrate our points, or lack there of. There was also a lo of prat falls and slap stick which only further convinced me that digi cinema needs its Buster Keaton.
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Que Serra Serra


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This photo collage is from a portrait series I did of Richard Serra, when he was Installing Torqued Elipses at Go Go‘s in 1997? I think…. I photographed him with an old bakelite Argus camera that I bought for five dollars and a draing in some junk shop in the East Village, drinking while drawing and drinking beer with Richard Heinson and Greg Heines kid (The sculptor not the tap dancer, though they lived in the same building at that West SIde modernnist arits residency that no one ever moves out of, so it has become full of sixties and seventies heavies). They were two guys who Allan Stone had bought and showed in the New Talent shows. Long story short, you could snap the shutter on the arcus without advancing the roll of film. This made for a pleasant insect sound as I shot three to fifity exposures. I t made for beautiful multiple exposures. The video is from a later show in 2001, or 2 from Ali Vs. Frazer elipse. I was meeting with Dave Conrad to discuss doing Arc Aong the Watchtower and get a litttle rough footage. It must have been a couple of weeks after 911, if I’m not nuts.

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Right On Target, So Direct…

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WELL, WELl, WEll, Well, welll,….. I don’t believe a minute of it, but in the interest of internet film:
go to – www.video.google.com
then to – top100
and click on 911 loose change, 2nd eddition
I will say, I spent yesterday looking at the new skyline and old photos of 911. Still freaks me out.

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