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Lake Como, Italy: my 2006 photo of a 1960s postcard. As a rule...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:15:57 -0400

Lake Como, Italy: my 2006 photo of a 1960s postcard.

As a rule of thumb, the past was glorious.

Movietone - In Mexico this was supposedly recorded on a beach...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:12:06 -0400

Movietone - In Mexico

this was supposedly recorded on a beach (via machinetext)

3/26/09: georgia by Brock Davis

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:25:00 -0400

3/26/09: georgia by Brock Davis

julianna barwick - bode this is from her new album florine,...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:24:26 -0400

julianna barwick - bode

this is from her new album florine, which i just purchased

The History of Dread: a Guide for the Perplexed (via) By...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:27:11 -0400

The History of Dread: a Guide for the Perplexed (via)
By Stephen Berkman
Photogravure

he’s like a dot matrix printer upon a field of barley in...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:47:10 -0400

he’s like a dot matrix printer upon a field of barley in the middle of Arizona

Rotations: Single Family Residence (11/2003 - 7/2004)
20 acre field (8.1 hectares)
floorplan image 950’x 450’x10’(290m x 137m x 3m)
Barley

By Matthew Moore

A pyramid, Jesus with baby lamb, Mary with baby Jesus, and a...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:39:49 -0400

A pyramid, Jesus with baby lamb, Mary with baby Jesus, and a Sphinx.

Van Ness - Parsons masoleum in Green-wood cemetery. Holga (flickr)

“the egyptian revival style became a very popular type of cemetery architecture. it was widely criticized for not being Christian, however.” - museumplanet

this is horrible. severe damage to the iconic theater, including...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:18:30 -0400

this is horrible. severe damage to the iconic theater, including roof collapse.

from randallopry:

Sad day for Athens. Georgia Theatre on Friday, June 19th

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:50:39 -0400

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.” - Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions (1973)

For one of the points above I feel a certain kinship with Nabokov - no, not for his celebrated writing or unrestrained ego, but for his well-known inability to speak in public. I am the last person to volunteer for public speaking of any kind. It’s one of my biggest fears, a very universal fear at that. Not that it justifies an inability to improve, but the US is full of mediocre public speakers. We just aren’t schooled in the arts of oratory and rarely have public figures who can speak eloquently in public. But that’s a rant for someone else to give, be sure to cite the Lincoln-Douglas debates, why not, the British House of Commons and more. This is a post about myself and my own challenge. Surely I could do something to confront this fear. Nabokov wrote down every word he would speak for his lectures and on-camera interviews.

So, recently I saw an opportunity and submitted a talk idea for the latest Ignite NYC event. Here is the format of Ignite: you have five minutes to present a geek talk using 20 slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds. My talk was accepted, oh crap, I prepared and it went great. Done. If you missed it live on June 1, then here it is on youtube. The crowd, which you can’t see, was said to be over 500 people at New World Stages.

two fedex shipments to process 4 cartridges of Super8mm film,...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:22:35 -0400

two fedex shipments to process 4 cartridges of Super8mm film, one film stock to Burbank and another to Mass. at 3 minutes per cartridge that gives me 12 minutes i could’ve had instantly with any digital device, even my google phone. super8 may take longer and cost more to use, foot by foot, but there’s nothing quite like the feeling of sending out your film and wondering what you’ll get back. (yes, there are places that process super8 here in NY, but the other places are “better.”)

Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn (flickr)

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:27:04 -0400

Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn (flickr)

Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn (flickr)

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:47:57 -0400

Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn (flickr)

we are brothers with holgas by randallopry: Boulevard in the...

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:42:54 -0400

we are brothers with holgas

by randallopry:

Boulevard in the Fall. Athens GA 2008

Tomorrow I'm speaking at Ignite NYC IV. and by tomorrow I mean Monday

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:27:00 -0400

Tomorrow I'm speaking at Ignite NYC IV. and by tomorrow I mean Monday: i will present, from personal experience, how best use these so-called new media tools to document getting mugged and assaulted. oh, and instead of being heavy or serious, this will be a rather light-hearted, even comic, account of the incident as it played out across the diffracted digital landscape. public speaking!

So Percussion performing Steve Reich’s “Drumming,...

Fri, 29 May 2009 16:47:09 -0400

So Percussion performing Steve Reich’s “Drumming, Part III”

PHOBIA dir: Sarah Lipstate music: Noveller...

Fri, 29 May 2009 16:19:15 -0400

PHOBIA
dir: Sarah Lipstate
music: Noveller “Stacks-Asp”

16mm hand-painted found-footage piece about the fear of pursuit and desire
screenings: SXSW 2006, Cinematexas 2006, Uncinema 2006

she is fantastic (oh, and also the guitarist for Parts & Labor)

Man looking at a former pier, Hudson River (flickr) Today I...

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:56:48 -0400

Man looking at a former pier, Hudson River (flickr)

Today I received in the mail 8 rolls of processed Holga film from the last few months. There’s something rather poignant about the constraints, the mystery and delayed gratification of analog (and “toy analog” especially). With each roll my backlash to digital photography matures, which is to say it doesn’t increase so much as it matures.

I’ve been keeping an occassional journal of recorded...

Thu, 28 May 2009 12:53:00 -0400

I’ve been keeping an occassional journal of recorded sounds. These sounds are not so much ambient noises passively received, but rather sounds of more personal agency and experience, where I’m sometimes also a participant. I have a lot of these recordings, many more than I can process and post, but the free soundcloud.com account I’m using limits 4 uploads per month and I think that frequency is a rather useful constraint.

sound.hudsn:

A walk down Mulberry Street during a street fair

Normal Hardware in Normaltown. via flickr this is athens, ga in...

Fri, 22 May 2009 12:42:04 -0400

Normal Hardware in Normaltown. via flickr

this is athens, ga in HDR by randallopry. here’s my analog take

Saturday late-night, Chase ATM in Clinton Hill edition

Wed, 20 May 2009 23:41:05 -0400

Saturday late-night, Chase ATM in Clinton Hill edition