Here’s a quaint taste of King William gentility at play. Every 4th of July they splash their watercraft into the river and their mimosas into their best crystal carafes. It looks something like this.
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King Wiliam Parade on E. Guenther St.
The best thing about living on my street is that the King William Parade passes right by my front door. Here are some scenes in slow motion. Many of the people in the parade are my friends, neighbors, or colleagues in the arts. The thumbnail image above is Paloma, a belly dancer. The other dancer, Martha (they both are members of Zombie Bazaar), points to me, and Paloma grins and comes and dances around me and my camera. How sweet.
La Bruja
Trompillo
Celebrating the Solstice
Ordinary Windows
Ordinary Windows was a collaboration between Ordinary Spaces and Jump-Start Performance Co. The free event happened on Friday, December 7, 2012, with two performances at 8 p.m., and 8:30 p.m. This unique site-specific work was a fashioned by performance artists Andrew Coronado, Sandra Dunn, Dino Foxx and Fabiola Torralba. My video is a little promotional teaser I shot during the Thursday night rehearsal. It gives something of a sense of what the piece was like. I particularly like how the camera takes on such a voyeuristic aspect. And though I have gotten soooo lax about using music I don’t have the rights to for these little ephemeral offerings, I just love how this odd track from Trans Am melds so well a sense of agitation with resigned languor.
The Man You’ve Become
This is another video I provided for Aaron Richmond-Havel’s peripatetic performance art birthday event at Hampshire College back in 2012. He asked if I could get our friend Pamela Dean-Kenny to lip-sync this somewhat saccharine song as though Pam was a drunken mother at her son’s wedding. Here is a lengthy (and partial) video documentation of Aaron’s grand event, “Penny’s Big 21: Rites of Passage and Pleasure.”
A Life Ephemeral (and) Ascent
Instagram: The Movie
Instagram quickly became my favorite toy when I loaded it onto my iPhone a few years back. It took me a while to jump aboard the trend. I had spent so many years lusting after higher and higher resolution for digital images, that the thought of working smaller seemed so retrograde. But when some of my photographer friends showed me what they were doing on this platform–creating breathtaking images in miniature, with a cellphone, no less–I had to get in as well. This video is the first of several fast-moving slideshows I’ve made of some of my Instagram images.
Padre Island With Shimi
This little clip is just some playing around during a trip out to Padre Island with some members of the Carpa production. The play had a fair amount of video projection, and we really wanted to shoot a scene with the ocean. So, before the light was just right to shoot our mermaid being returned to the ocean, I followed Shimi into the surf with my Canon 7D. This was basically my first visit to the beach as an adult. I never before understood why people thought it was so fun. But it is! Fun enough to risk my camera.