Sometime last week, I came across this video created by TAXI NY for the MoMA. It is the first of the museum’s new series in which they will play short films directed by rising film-making geniuses as an intro to main screenings shown at the MoMA’s theater.
So this month it’s one year I am living in Philadelphia, the city of pretzels, brotherly love, huge city parks and that “old” – spelled with an “e” at the end – neighborhood filled with historic landmarks and people wearing white scruffy wigs. As you know, I come from the Old World and this is [...]
If you are out and about Philly this weekend check out this installation in Logan Square. Authored by Dread Scott, the installation places giant photographs of Philadelphia youth in coffin like formation in front of Family Court. As viewers pass by they can hear the dreams of the photographed creating an interesting juxtapostion between sound [...]
Visitors and residents of Wilkes-Barre, PA may have noticed a new blue face around town lately. Last year the agency concepted, designed and facilitated the production of the Wilkes University Colonel mascot, the first official life-size mascot in the history of the school. Since the Colonel’s introduction to the Wilkes community in fall 2008 the [...]
There has been much written about the Jazz pioneer, bandleader, mystic, philosopher, and consummate Afro-Futurist known as Sun Ra. Instead of reiterating what has already been written and citing bigillion different sources in order to ensure proper ELA standards, I thought I would tell you about a retrospective happening at the ICA, called: Pathways to [...]
35mm film, Fall 2008, Some shots I took during the Trevor Dixon shoot, last fall, at Chestnut Hill College. Goodness gracious that place is beautiful…(via shepelavy.com)
