PORTRAITS OF A TIRED CITY:
Document/catalogue of spontaneous and informal manifestations against unsustainable labor conditions.
MUSICAL TAYLORISM:
Mapping work-schedule punch-cards onto the musical scale. Hearing the music of labor.
INTERVEILLANCE:
Observing from the inside, the choreography of animated spaces, as inscribed upon by performative bodies.
INTERSTICE:
Physical parameters to abstract individual and group behavior. The poesis of social moments.
ReMAP:
Quilt of territories, networked by British colonial expansion. Mapping flexible accumulation of wealth, into a working map of London.
TEMPO huMANU:
Time-lapse document of bodily spatial practice, in terms of hands, towers, orbiting galactic bodies, light and dark.
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Have a look at this video. Unfortunately it has no sound, but it is one of the most beautiful examples of Capoeira. This video is from the 1950's.
This martial arts was developed by slaves in the Portuguese colonies of Brasil. It was disguised as a dance, so that they would not seem as if they were learning to defend themselves. They could be killed for that. And because hands were believed to be sacred, they could only hit with their legs, hips, trunk, and head.
Check out minute 1:47 of the video. When you see two of the greatest Capoeira Mestres playing/dancing in the circle, you realize that it is not about conclusions or finishing a strike, per se. In as much as Capoeira is a martial art, it is about being able to manage a constant flux of expressions. After all, Capoeira is a language, or system, characterized by a range of expressions/possibilities. The highest level of Capoeira does not produce a win or loose situation, but instead it creates a form of feed-back loop that collapses both participants into a complex simbiotic dialogue; at once beautiful, powerful, and infinitely complex.
September 7th, 2009
Time Square, as seen from the observation deck at the Empire State building.
Disney has really stepped their real-estate game in the last 25 years.
Time Square is now like Disney Land, but for "real life". Like the reality-show version. If Disney Land is the physical extention for consuming the narratives produced under the Disney brand, then it is fair to say that Time Square is the physical extention for the consumption of the narratives produced under their subsidiaries.
If I asked you to imagine it as a big mosquito zapper with streets leading to it, would you laugh?
September 5th, 2009
Pictures of, and from, my new studio in Brooklyn.
This is going to be perfect for my new body of work!
Over 400sqft. of floor space, with 13ft ceilings.
Let the good times roll...son!
September 1st, 2009
WOW! That's what I call O.G.
Can you imagine riding around in that? Think about it...
Biker reunion equals to: lot's of bikes, wild vests, food, music, dancing, and budweiser. Yes...budweiser. Now picture me, walking up to the bar and asking for a stella. ...hmmm
August 20th, 2009
New Os Gemeos mural on the corner of Houston and Bowery, NYC.
It's on top of an older Keith Hearing tribute mural.
I've hung out there on several occasions and have noticed that not a single person is able to walk by it without stopping to have a closer look.
This has got to be the best running mural in NYC!
August 10th, 2009