The Royal Wylds live at Magnetic Fields sometime last winter. I Found this take while working ona a slightly more elaborate video for the band. I was struck by how nicely the single shot worked without needing to cut it at all.
Category Archives: music video
Apocalypse Now and Then
weekend fun. Including a thing on the block called the STUPENDOUS… where at sunset everyone made noise… very fluxus I thought.
Brown Ain't No Place For White Shoes
Been on some sort of reunion vibe these last few months… some sort of black sheep returneth trip or what have you. So in keeping with that mode, I went for a little dumpling picknick with one of my favorite Alums of old Camp Bruno and we blathered for a long time and drank beer from paper bags in the park while the chinese kids played handball and layed out a pang thud thud pang soundtrack in the summer night.
Earlier, I had a near religious experience (not only was someone sky writing x and y all over brooklyn, but…) when I crossed Manhattan bridge by foot, the light came behind the brooklyn in such a way that it cast a magnificent reverse gothic arch shadow across the flaming sunset water… the key hole arches both cut out in fire on the water. It was only there for about sixty seconds, but good shit it was glorious and luckily I was on a nikon safari. New York is just a magnificent place sometimes and its filled with people that you know and love, but didn’t know were living so close to you. One big urban reunion project.
Zarathustra's Secret Garden
A vlog fooling with painting and Lou Reed and Bowie and thoughts on upcoming Royal Wylds music Video for Kimbo and some documentationof my work next to Crista Grauer’s at Artflux last week and just, you know, loving spring in Beautiful Sugar Mountain Brooklyn.
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.
Butterflew
the Library project based vid Butterfly (A collab of A. Saunders, Raszka and Me) made the the daily reel top ten last week and since I’m below water working on Moby Dick, I thought I’d repost it along with a new Book Collab from Caroline VK of The Library project. The infinite butter.
Two Minutes Five
Here’s a song from the the Royal Wylds . I went to their gig at Mercury Loung in NYC to shoot a different song, but they wanted $250 to shoot video in the club (non negotiable), so I says, “What about stills?”
and they says, “Stills? no problem.”
So why not shoot the video with stills? I thought.
I had the time lapse from a Brooklyn gig sitting around anyways and it’s like two hour long sets boiled down to two minutes and five seconds… time lapse for a song about time.
I Made Pictures of Making a Picture of Everyone Who Might Be Looking At These Pictures of Everyone
This was interesting in a lot of different ways… the most obvious here is how do you describe a horizontal scroll on a vertical scroll. That’s one of the many conflicting impuses embodied in this crowd… all born out of monkeybook and being surrounded by a physical audience… who is my audience?… I think I’ll draw them and perform infront of the drawing. Today’s post also asks the guestion (more than most), which here is the real work of art? The drawing, or the film of the drawing, or the whole thing together on the blog, or what?
IT IN Park
Empire of Light
Sometimes there is nothing better than seeing New York on the horizon and coming closer through rain and fog. I got so giddy at the sight of the Empire State Building that I threw Dexter Gordon in the C.D. player and just kept shooting it and thinking about Andy Warhol, because, you know, we were leaving Pittsburgh (I hadn’t actually didn’t have time to see his museum, or anything but The Mattress Factory as far as art goes). I’m trying to cull all my holiday video and also using this piece as a way of perhaps making a very different Music Video for the Royal Wylds. The Dexter Gordon was the ambient music when I shot it, so I wanted to revisit it in the mood and pace it was shot in, with the snares playing time to the windshield wipers. I may try to turn it on it’s ear and make it a very frenetic fast rock and roll creature… unless the Wylds have come up with a ballad? This was a way of finding my favorite shots.
On a purely hype note, Two of my videos have been chosen by two editors at The Daily Reel for their top ten of the year lists: here’s Matthew Ross’s List and here’s Alexandra Delyle’s LIst. Yay for me!