$700 billion for the arts… because we’re too big to fail!!

Posted: November 18th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
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Artist #1

I’m so tired of juggling day jobs, writing grant proposals which won’t even pay me… I decided to stop complaining & just ask for what I really want - $700 billion for the arts…. because we’re too big to fail!

Wouldn’t it be swell to say - bar bill?? its on me, I’ve got the bucks because - I’m an artist!
Or
need a visit to the Dr.?? No problem of course I have health insurance because - I’m an artist!

I’m starting a new movement (I hope!). Please join in!

PS
The photo up there is of sound artist Jax Deluca of the wonderful Squeaky Wheel where the whole dang project was launched!


Goodbye Buffalo

Posted: November 8th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

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Thank you Squeaky Wheel!


camera = truth

Posted: October 23rd, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

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Magic Box at the Shift Festival

Posted: October 14th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

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The newly revamped Magic Box will make its debut at the Shift Festival in Basel, Switzerland October 22 - 25. Thanks to a grant from the Experimental Television Center I was able to remount the project with the carpentry wizardry of Paul DiPietro.

The box uses the 19th century illusionist trick Pepper’s Ghost and current technologies, Arduino & Isadora. The films that appear inside the box include performances by Luigi Coppola, Johanna Levy & Clara Palavesin with music by Michael Montes & Erik Friedlander.


Beginning work at Squeaky Wheel

Posted: October 13th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

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Settling in at my residency at Squeaky Wheel. Playing with tracking for a new Fantastic Object - perhaps a chandelier?


Swing Space!

Posted: October 7th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Alchemy of Light | No Comments »

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Alchemy of Light has garnered the support of the LMCC’s Swing Space - we’ll be rehearsing again in the Spring!


Triangle Coalition at Cooper Union

Posted: October 2nd, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Triangle Coalition at Cooper Union

Triangle Coalition at Cooper Union

The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition was out in force for Cooper Union’s Great Nights in the Great Hall: Workers Rights on Sept. 17.


Labor Day Parade

Posted: October 2nd, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Community Projects | No Comments »

The Remember the Triangle Fire was a force at the Labor Day Parade. To see more check out our Facebook page.


Thanks NYSCA!

Posted: July 9th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Alchemy of Light, General SP News | No Comments »

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Just received an Individual Artist in Film & Media/New Tech Prod. grant from NYSCA for Alchemy of Light.


Squeaky Wheel Residency

Posted: July 1st, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

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Just got word that I have been accepted for a NEA International Media Artist/Filmmaker Residency at Squeaky Wheel for this Fall.  I’ll be creating more toys for Alchemy of Light.