And has been brewing an assignment nuclear melt down. The work has taken me far and wide.
LA last weekend
Here is the one non-work related picture I took the whole weekend (with a blackberry). I love these letters and the sense of doom on the streets. This is Sunday AM in North Hollywood. Apparently its not too slick at this hour, more my style.
BTW - that's not a homeless person. I don't take pictures of homeless people.
NBA this weekend
Fear The Deer! Basketball season has ended and today marks the beginning of The Playoffs. I got to check out a Knicks Celtics game with my brother at MSG -thanks again John! Knicks won that one (surprise). The Celtics' Bad is Knicks' Good.
NY TX HW
In April I drove a car to a friend and co-worker based in Austin, TX. The whole trip itself from Brooklyn NY takes 28 hours if you drive non stop in traffic zero conditions. I did it in two 15 hour days with a stop over in Nashville - solo...with a mounted HD video camera hovering over the passenger seat. The scene: the US highways from NY to TX in a Mini Cooper (green with white stripes and fog lamps). I had to get there in 2 days so I drove and shot continuously.
This project is architectural because highways and roadway landscapes are designed spaces with a 3rd dimension factored in - MOTION.
I can't tell if the final version of the video piece will be 2 hrs or 20 hrs....thinking 20. The footage was shot with live sound. Largely the various radio stations along the way (super hits, creepy AM, jazz, gun show radio), engine and road noise, and occasional outbursts from me. Screenings are forming in New York & Boston.
NICK&TIM Photographers photostream
FAREWELL MALCOLM MCLAREN
With the sudden passing of Malcolm McLaren I was honored to drop an impromptu set at TROPHY in his name. He was a real music and culture lightning rod having touched and redefined punk, hip-hop, club, and international throughout his life . He worked in film and video too producing work and criticism - once appearing on screen to call The Bronx a sub-burb. His last work being the "sound painting", Shallow as seen in his return to Times Square.
I feel a kinship. R.I.P.
Listen to this WNYC interview interview - I heard it when it originally aired in 2008 and could not believe what I heard. You must listen.
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