Art

23 Apr

Posted at 18:36h in All the Rage, Art, Artists, Battle for Brooklyn, Behind the Scenes, docs, Documentary, Feature Films, Horns and Halos, Music, Music Art, Narrative, News, Photography, Politics, sarno, Screenings, Story of Pain, who took johnny, Working In Protest by

We've been doing this work for over 25 years and have made all kinds of films from rock and roll narratives to crime films to political and personal documentaries. On the surface, most of the films don't seem connected, but certain themes run through them all, and they build on one another. These can be thought of as themes and...

28 Sep

Posted at 04:37h in Art, Behind the Scenes, Documentary, Feature Films, Music Art, News, Photography by

[caption id="attachment_18948" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Yo La Tengo at CBGB 1990[/caption] It's hard for me to fathom that it's been almost 30 years since my friend Gene took me to Hoboken to see Yo La Tengo at Maxwells. Last night my wife Suki and I went to the Carolina Theater in Durham to see them on their current acoustic tour. As we...

28 Aug

Posted at 04:42h in Art, Documentary, New York Public Library, News, Photography, Press by

Last night my family and I heard an NPR marketplace piece about “The Fat Jewish”, a “comedian” who has become famous on instagram by stealing other people’s work and presenting it, without attribution or context, as if it were his own. I have been hearing about him and his re-posts of other comedians' work in the last few days...

17 Mar

Posted at 04:20h in Art, News by

Sometimes endless travel can start to feel like a fever dream. I left my home in North Carolina amid frantic preparations for my daughter's 13th birthday part and two days later I finally arrived at my destination. By the time I got to sleep I had lost track of how exhausted I was. A friend took me...

09 Mar

Posted at 20:06h in All the Rage, Art, Battle for Brooklyn, occupy, Photography, Shorts, Story of Pain by

A couple of weeks ago I got an email asking if I would be willing to include a photo from my mall series in a show at a Williamsburg-based gallery. I was given a description which read in part, “The artists included in this exhibition have been chosen for how their work delves the socialization of space—not as something perceived...

05 Mar

Posted at 18:02h in All the Rage, Art, Artists, Behind the Scenes, News by

I think it has to do with my general tendency to chafe against expectations, but I'm not so good at giving birthday gifts. It's not that I don't like to give things to people but instead, on some level, I find it uncomfortable to give gifts just because I'm expected to. Like my daughter Fiona (and my mother and my...