Atlantic Yards – IT IN Place

Fall Portraits

alex — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:42:12 +0000

More Thoughts On Tall Buildings

admin — Tue, 30 May 2006 21:13:15 +0000

I’ve been working on this painting since the Rat Town Promenade. This is the map I used.

The Changing Face Of Brooklyn.

admin — Wed, 24 May 2006 01:21:14 +0000

I heard someone at the fifth avenue street fair yell, “Oh look a head of Ganesh!” refering to a tschoschke from India . “I’ve been wanting a head of Ganesh,” the man said….
I thought to myself, “Careful what you wish for big boy…”

And then this morning I had strange in and out of fabulous sleep dream, where in I was Goddard in the sixties directing an avante garde film in the Paris Metro… only I was also myself, self conciously doing a parody of Goddard in a Metro and also being the English director who did that film “7UP” where they say, “Give me a child at the age of seven and I’ll show you the man” and then in some great sixties, stoner moment of resolve, he acutally spends the next “every seven years” talking to these British kids …. It’s just a work of genius to me… especially as I play with time lapse and realize this guy gave his life to this project and has kept it up…. oh yeah, his name is Apted…. Michael Apted…. he makes fiction films too…. but that’s not the issue.

There I am, Goddard/Apted, in the metro making a secret documentary… in other words, no one knows I’m making a film… I’m using my actress girlfriend, myself, and the metro crowd as actors and simply surveilling the scene with a digi camera.

Anway, I think we’re all talking about Terrorism and Don DeLillo and trying to engage civillians in the dialogue and I go up to this Asian (Indian/Pakistani) man who seems to be a hair lip, but on closer examination you see that his nose is distorted like an antisemetic Gollum clichÃ©…. but as I speak with him I realize it’s not a hook nose, but an Elephant nose that he has curled up into his mouth to look more human. He is Ganesh, or at least the Elephant Man. And then I was David Lynch making a documentary about Goddard one day in the sixties making a film…. I think it was Bande Ã¥ Parte and Michael Jackson is trying to buy the production and turn it into one of his seminal music videos… or something, but Ganesh wouldn’t let down his trunk for the production, no matter how much we asked and then Goebbels walked by, speaking of propaganda…

Rat Town Promenade

admin — Mon, 22 May 2006 23:51:55 +0000

In the interest of seeing the scale of the proposed Frank Gehry designed Atlantic Yard project in Downtown Brooklyn, I took a time lapse walk around the telephone shaped foot print. In the interest, of cardio, I may have walked too fast…an earlier still version ishere.

Williamswindsong

admin — Mon, 22 May 2006 01:09:47 +0000

In a more perfect world, this vimeo would loop… It’s very hypnotic when looping, but anyways it was an insane day of weather with the Fifth Avenue Street Fair (last year’s) getting rained on and then sun and then rain and then sun and I spent fortyfive minutes or an hour sitting on a hunk of granite making this time lapse with all the clowds going by.

Thinking About Frank Gehry In Brooklyn

admin — Sat, 13 May 2006 01:10:04 +0000

Yesterday’s walk around the Atlantic Yards had me thinking about cubism and post cubism (which I suppose is Gorky and deKooning, etc…. and maybe a few people like Elizabeth Murray) and I was wondering if Gehry is giving cubism new life as a way of seeing, or merely pushing it over the edge into a sort of Baroque, kitsch? I was wodering if painting and architecure really have all that much to do with eachother… the thing about a building is that it’s useful and so I was wondering how well they keep out the rain? Can you wash the windows, heat them, etc? In short, all those form follow function sorts of questions. Are Frank Gehry buildings more or less sculptural gestures? Is it like trying to make the Statue of Libirty into an office park?… or the old lady who lived in a shoe ? or maybe those L.A. hot dog stands in the shape of hot dog? … or the Brown Derby restaurant? Maybe that’s why they’re particular to California? Maybe they ARE just show biz?

Somehow these musing got me pissed off at some old drawings that I felt were over worked: so today I worked over them while thinking about the complex simplicity of cubism. This was Cyclops the scat cat (a little play on the shape of the OTHER genius’ OTHER Guggenheim and critics there of and the fairly recent addition there to) was Ulyseess as an old man. Whatever the discussion is, I know sometimes you have to destroy the old to make something new… Course you might destroy something someone liked… but I thought those drawings were decadent.

The Arc Of Texture

admin — Thu, 11 May 2006 22:43:20 +0000

Ever wonder why the McDonald’a logo is so effective? It’s the same reason that cathedrals and the Twin Towers worked…. not to mention the Brooklyn Bridge. It has something to do with the duality of man. Anways, I went walking around Rat Town in search of possiblity and the future and the past. I was thinking about architecture and that last little stariway at “Ground Zero” and and the urge to preserve and the urge to destroy and urge to create something new. I didn’t reach any conclusions, but I did discover Satan and his color scheme… which seems to be some sort of beige/brown.