Scenes From an Apartment

More clips from the apartment. My little Nikon is having trouble so I am using the big Canon which has much better quality, but is so less convenient.

Most Likely to Succeed

I wanted to put something together with video clips from archive.org. Originally I wanted to set it to music and write my own copy, but I ended up liking the flow with the original sound, so I left it all in place, even enhanced some of it.

The Porn Stars

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This clip is intended to illustrate a story I wrote a couple of years ago. I think of it as a sketch for a more formal, better organized and better shot project. These clips were shot entirely with my Nikon L6. The next one will be shot with a far better camera.

Music in this clip is 'Phil and Jerry' by Mylab.

A Chicken Story

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Can I tell a story of a chicken who couldn't cross the road without any pictures of said chicken? I don't know. Maybe somebody can tell me if this works. It's some quick writing to go with a montage of self-portrait shots. The music here is "Zurle" by Balkan Tribes.

Moments of Hesitation

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I cut together a few moments from the last few months, set it to John Coltrane's genius take on "My Favorite Things."

Et Tu?

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Subtitle for this one: "City Symphony in Three Movements."

Scored for 7 Train, Subway Conductor, Bells, 32,000 Cyclists, Wind, Jeff, Elaine, NPR Newsreader, Creaky Floorboards, & Silk Tie.

Underground

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This video is composed of a few clips I shot while walking around the city, paired with music by The Grassy Knoll and a bit of writing that represents some of my thoughts while going to work.

Killer of Sheep

This weekend we saw the fantastic Charles Burnett movie Killer of Sheep, the long-neglected masterpiece about the life of a poverty-stricken family in 1970s Watts, told through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive man deadened by the hard work and psychic impact of working at a slaughterhouse. It's a hard movie to pin down, so honest and real I left the theater drained, unable to talk about the story on the subway ride home.

Nonetheless, the film's scenes and characters worked on me for over the weekend, and will probably remain, playing over and over in my head for a long time. Made in 1977, the film was Burnett's answer to the blacksploitation movies of the time, a filmic statement that made no false assertions about its characters. At turns bleak, joyous and ennobling, the movie is a true work of art, and deserves to be seen by a larger audience.

See it when it comes to your town.

Duplicity Comics #2

So I've got a bug? Here's the second episode of Duplicity Comics, and without a copyright yet? Click the image for a full sized view!

Duplicity Comics #1

Here's the first episode of Duplicity Comics, a new series from Brooklyn Kitchen. Click the image to enlarge.

Portrait

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In this clip, I get all arty on you. It's a handful of clips I've distorted, cropped and juxtaposed. Is there any underlying meaning? Profound insight? Beauty? Truth? Is it a deliberate attempt to be vague? I don't know the answers to these questions myself, which is why I'm calling it art. Enjoy.

The soundtrack for this clip is a collage of sounds that I similarly distorted, slowed down, reversed and slapped together.

tHINK

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Here's an experimental video piece using about 30 pictures that I've taken of the course of the past few months. This is just the first piece of a longer projecy. The soundtrack here is a piece of "Rondo Allegro Rondo" from Ensemble Ordinature, downloaded from ubu.com.

The Item that Adds to Your Personal Comfort

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This is a quick mix of two advertisements I found on the Internet Archive. It is the begining of a larger project, but I just wanted to play around with archive footage and its corresponding sound to see what would result.

30 Seconds of Hopper

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This is exactly what it says it is, a 30 second shot of an Edward Hopper painting.

Hopper is one of my favorite artists. We saw this painting at Sotheby's auction house. This painting is likely now in the hands of a private collector, so I may never get to see it in person again. That's something of a shame.

No music for this clip, only the music of chance.

Please forgive the indulgence.