The Menace of Gowanus
The neighborhood is full of cranes. Some look mysterious and menacing at night. The neighborhood construction boom brings to mind the crane’s in Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know about Her and the evils of capitalism!
New Project Idea
Welcome to Gowanus cement shoes welcome mat
Leonardo on the Gowanus
Yet another Gowanus project, suggested by Huck. Leonardo the Pig finds a perfectly clean donut in Gowanus, but he’s not the only one with designs on it….
In All That Brown the Sun Went Down
Here’s an animation from the comic In All That Brown the Sun Went Down . In this scene Gertrude Stein receives fan mail from Margaret Wise Brown.
German Baggage
Yesterday Girl (1966) by Alexander Kluge showing at MoMA. The film experiments of the 1960s — though very obviously of their time — still feel so fresh, innovative and playful. It must have been a thrilling time to be a cineaste.
“Research Therapists”
I found a discarded list on 4th place this morning. Here’s a bit of the front and the back of the scrap of paper. High stakes Brooklyn parenting in a nutshell.
Bad Hair Day: Notes on Carol and Mustang
I recently saw the films Carol by Todd Haynes and the Turkish film Mustang by Deniz Gamse Erguven and both of the films got me thinking about hair. I went into Mustang already prepped to think about hair. I heard the director being interviewed on the radio and she spent some time talking about the wild hair of the …
Gorgon on the Gowanus
I’m continuing to chip away at getting this project realized — a replica of a colossal Roman medusa head positioned directly over a combined sewage output (CSO) on the Gowanus Canal. This is a sketch of the idea by the artist and my collaborator Hermann Mejia. Ultimately we’d like to fabricate this medusa head in a durable …
Sandrelli Haha
I Knew Her Well is an Italian film from 1965 staring Stefania Sandrelli. I saw it recently at Film Forum but its also available on DVD from Criterion Collection. Here is a bit of the Criterion Collection’s description of the film on its website: Over a series of intimate episodes, just about every one featuring a …
This year’s corn
I dropped by the Battery Park Conservancy to pick up this beautiful batch of Sehsapsing Lenape blue corn. In the summer of 2014 the Queens County Farmhouse grew the the corn and seeds from that garden were then given to the Battery Urban Farm last year. They grew some last summer and shared some of the seeds …
Sold some comics!
Come Out and Play: Thoughts on Out 1
Just imagine you’ve got nothing time. You have no clear goal and around you events are unfolding. You feel actively, and curiously engaged in them yet also carried along by serendipity. From this description you could be either an actor in or a viewer of the film Out 1. What distinguishes you from being an …