​Green Guerillas

 

“The Green Guerillas are a community group of horticulturalists, gardeners, botanists, and planners who work to turn abandoned or empty spaces in New York City into gardens. Formed in the 1970s, the group threw ‘seed grenades’ into derelict lots and developed community gardens, often without going through official channels. It became especially popular after the concerted redevelopment of a dangerous, trash-filled space at the corner of Houston Street and Bowery in Manhattan. The resulting press coverage and word of mouth led the group to broaden its activities from active gardening to education, training, and support for a number of community groups working on their own gardens. The Green Guerillas have been credited with beginning the community garden movement and popularizing the idea of guerilla gardening. ...”

W - Green Guerillas, W - Seed bombing

How to Make a Seed Bomb

Green Guerillas

YouTube: How radical gardeners took back New York City

​Revisiting Some Texture

 

“Listen through the shimmer. Listen through the held tones, and the bell tones, and the swelling notes. Listen past the asynchronous patterning and the resulting chance chordal play. Listen instead for the frictives, the less sinuous textural elements, the way vinyl surface noise (or its approximate) moves across the stereo field. Listen for the clatter, and how it lends a sense of scale to the sonic space. Then listen to the more tonal material, and how the presence of the less inherently sedative elements bring out textures in the seemingly texture-less. I don’t think I’ve re-upped a recording in a while, but I just love this piece, so having written about it back in April, I wanted to mention it again. This video is part of my ongoing YouTube playlist of fine live ambient performances. Video originally posted to YouTube by the talented Jae Ryan.“

disquiet (Video)

Toasting

 

U-Roy

“Toasting, chatting (rap in other parts of the Anglo Caribbean), or deejaying is the act of talking or chanting, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or beat by a reggae deejay. Traditionally, the method of toasting originated from the griots of Caribbean calypso and mento traditions. The lyrics can either be improvised or pre-written. Toasting has been used in various African traditions, such as griots chanting over a drum beat, as well as in the United States and Jamaican music forms, such as ska, reggae, dancehall, and dub; it also exists in grime and hip hop coming out of the United Kingdom, which typically has a lot of Caribbean influence. Toasting is also often used in soca and bouyon music. The African American oral tradition of toasting, a mix of talking and chanting, influenced the development of MCing in US hip hop music. The combination of singing and toasting is known as singjaying. ...”

Wikipedia

Toasting Artist

A Toast To Daddy U-Roy: 10 Facts For The Reggae And Dancehall Icon’s Final Farewell (Video)

U-Roy, Best Known as the Pioneer of Toasting the Forerunner to Rap

Interview: U-Roy

NYTimes: U-Roy, Whose ‘Toasting’ Transformed Jamaican Music, Dies at 78

YouTube: U Roy 1970 Version Galore Treasure Isle, U-Roy: Everybody Bawling,

 

Case Study: The South Bronx and the Birth of Hip-Hop

​Everything you need to know about the Greenwich Village of 1961 in one map

 

“’Geographically speaking, the Village is only a small part of New York City,’ so states the copy on the side of this remarkable map of the Greenwich Village of 1961 (click the map to enlarge it), which details the restaurants, bars, cafes, apartment buildings, and other notable spots from Washington Street all the way to Cooper Square. This extraordinary illustrated map, drawn and published by cartographer Lawrence Fahey, seems to be aimed at visitors. ...”

Ephemeral New York

​Wrapped Arc de Triomphe Is Christo’s Fleeting Gift to Paris

 

The rope workers and Carpenters of Paris deploying the fabric on the facade of the Arc de Triomphe on Sept. 12.

“PARIS — For almost 60 years, the artist known as Christo dreamed of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe. As a young man, having fled communist Bulgaria, he would gaze at the monument from his tiny garret apartment. A photomontage dated 1962 shows the 164-foot-high arch crudely bundled up. Freedom trumped the sacred. He always wanted people to look again at what perhaps they did not see. Now, a little over a year after Christo’s death at the age of 84, ‘L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped’ is a reality. ...”

NY Times

Smithsonian: The Arc de Triomphe Is Wrapped in Fabric, Just as the Late Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude Planned (Video)

2007 November: Christo & Jeanne-Claude, 2009 November: Jeanne-Claude, 2010 April: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence, 2010 September: Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Gates, 2010 November: Over The River - Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2012 January: 5 Films About Christo & Jeanne-Claude, 2012 June: The Pont Neuf Wrapped, 2013 January: Wrapped Floor and Stairway, 1969, 2015 April: New Christo Work to Temporarily Bridge Italy’s Lake Iseo, 2015 October: Next From Christo: Art That Lets You Walk on Water, 2020 June: Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84

​Eleni Karaindrou’s film scores to the movies of Theo Angelopoulos

 

“On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 Theo Angelopoulos was crossing the street in Piraeus, at the filming location for his next movie. It was to be titled The Other Sea, the closing segment in his trilogy about modern Greece. The film was intended to address the troubling issues facing Greece: strikes, illegal immigrants, climbing suicide rate, unemployment and violence, with a backdrop story of a theater company trying to stage Bertolt Brecht’s Three Penny Opera. ... It was a tragic ending for what would have been the ninth collaboration between Angelopoulos and composer Eleni Karaindrou, who since 1984 created one of the most impressive collections of film scores in modern film history. This is the story of that collaboration, eight films in all, and the music that graces the striking visuals captured in these films. ...”

The Music Aficionado (Video)

2020 December: The Weeping Meadow (2004)

Forza Pro - Video games, small-town Italian soccer by Brian Phillips

 

"I. My Magical Connection With the Tiny Italian Soccer Club Pro Vercelli. I have a magical connection with the tiny Italian soccer club Pro Vercelli because I once spent a year pretending to be them in a video game. Moreover, I spent a year blogging extensively about pretending to be them in a video game. Without going too deeply into my reasons for doing this — more or less the usual Internet cocktail of narcissism, a 'desire to interrogate constructions of fantasy and reality in sports,' and generally warm feelings about playing Football Manager at two in the afternoon for money — I can say that the project spiraled hopelessly out of control, sucked in hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of words, generated about a million inside jokes on my old soccer site, and left me with a permanent love for this obscure little club from a city of fewer than 50,000 people in the northern Italian province of Piedmont. ..."

Grantland (August 23, 2012)

Pro Vercelli: They were one of history’s greatest teams. (2012)

​How a Woman Becomes a Piece of Furniture

 

Gustave Caillebotte, Woman at a Dressing Table, 1873.

“My grandmother collected perfume bottles, a seeming whimsy for a woman of such plainness and ferocity. I have three of them, given to me when she was still alive. They lived in a drawer and then later, in a decorative moment, on the bookshelf, where I have since placed them higher and higher out of reach, as my daughter has attempted to climb up to play with them, a slow-moving game between us, until now they are so high up as to be out of view. I tend not to be sentimental about objects, but I at least don’t want them to break, this being all I possess from my grandmother, anything else guarded by her surviving daughter, who, having remained unmarried, still lives alone in the house in which she was born, that being the way in my family. ...”

The Paris Review

Empty Wardrobes - Maria Judite de Carvalho

Asteroid Pallas Makes a Point in Pisces

 

“Spice up your fall observing with a dash of Pallas and nibble of Neptune. Both planet and asteroid are easy to spot in a small telescope. I've never been able to wrap my mind around the fact that the total mass of the main asteroid belt equals just 4% the mass of the Moon. That seems hardly enough to matter, and yet our fate rests on those scraps and shards. A single smack from a 10-kilometer-wide stray and humanity — along with thousands of other species — could face the possibility of extinction. Their small bulk paired with their outsize destructive potential is just one reason to observe asteroids. Certainly, they appear innocent enough. Even at high magnification in amateur telescopes minor planets look like inconsequential pinpoints of light. ...”

Sky & Telescope

W - Pisces

W - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

 

16th century woodcut by Johannes Regiomontanus.

​Women Bathing in a Landscape, Cornelis van Poelenburgh, c 1630

 

“We all dream of a bit of sunshine. In early 17th-century Netherlands, as rain fell on the polders, many painters headed on what was then a dangerous trek to sunny Italy. Van Poelenburgh was from Utrecht, a city whose artists were particularly partial to a glass of chianti. Or more precisely, Utrecht was and is a Catholic city, which stuck with the old religion while other Dutch towns went Protestant. So Van Poelenburgh, Gerrit van Honthorst and other Utrecht artists felt comfortable in Papal Rome where they learned from Guido Reni and Caravaggio. In this painting, done after he got home to Utrecht, Van Poelenburgh distils the glamour of Italy. Women bathe naked among ancient Roman ruins under a gold-tinged sky. It’s the same idyll of a Mediterranean arcadia that would seduce later northern artists from Turner to Matisse. O for a cup of the warm south.”

National Gallery - Women Bathing in a Landscape

W - Cornelis van Poelenburgh

No Depression - Uncle Tupelo (1990)

 

“Over the last few decades, it’s becoming increasingly harder to talk about the life and legacy of Uncle Tupelo without the conversation falling down one of the many rabbit holes of the band’s ever-expanding mythos. By now, most everyone knows the more substantial high points of the band’s dynamic yet short-lived arc. Founding members Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn started playing together in high school in a mid-’80s Belleville, Illinois, band called The Primitives that eventually became Uncle Tupelo after their lead singer (Farrar’s brother, Wade) quit the band and headed to college. ...”

Toil and Trouble: Uncle Tupelo’s ‘No Depression’ Turns 30 (Video)

W - No Depression (album)

Discogs (Video)

amazon

2011 July: Uncle Tupelo, 2013 August: March 16–20, 1992, 2014 January: Still Feel Gone - Uncle Tupelo (1991), 2015 June: There Was a Time: The History of Uncle Tupelo, 2020 June: Can’t Look Away: Musicians, Writers, and More Reflect on 30 Years of Uncle Tupelo’s ‘No Depression’

"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" - Bruce Springsteen (1973)

 

“‘Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)‘ is a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen, from his The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle album, and is especially famed as a concert number for Springsteen and The E Street Band. The song, which clocks in at just over seven minutes, is a story of forbidden love between the singer and the titular Rosalita, whose parents disapprove of his life in a rock and roll band.  ... As Springsteen gained commercial success, ‘Rosalita’ became one of his most popular airplay tracks, and is still heard on classic rock radio. The song, despite never receiving an official US single release, has been lauded hugely by music critics in the years since its release in 1973. On its release Ken Emerson of Rolling Stone dubbed it ‘a raucous celebration of desire.’ ...”

Wikipedia

YouTube: Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) - Live

New York Shorts: Daybreak Express (1953), Skyscraper (1960), Clotheslines (1981), The Bowery (1994)

 

Daybreak Express

“Daybreak Express, Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1953. Shot in 1953, though not completed until 1957, Daybreak Express was the first film D. A. Pennebaker made, a mad rush of images of New York City captured from a train and edited to the rhythm of Duke Ellington's song of the same name. A jazz aficionado, Pennebaker thought his career would continue along this path, making short films cut to songs. Skyscraper, Directed by Shirley Clarke and Willard Van Dyke • 1960. Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film by director Shirley Clarke playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Clarke referred to this work as a musical comedy. Clotheslines, Directed by Roberta Cantow • 1981. Through oral histories and images of clothes crisscrossing backyards, Roberta Cantow looks at laundry as a form of folk art, a fraught social signifier, and a medium for women to reflect on the joys, pains, and ambivalences of household chores. The Bowery, Directed by Sara Driver • 1994. Produced for the French television series POSTCARDS FROM NEW YORK, this short documentary captures the poetry of the city’s storied skid row before its gentrification.”

Criterion: Daybreak Express, Skyscraper, Clotheslines, The Bowery (Video)

W - Skyscraper (1959), The Art of the Chore: Roberta Cantow’s Feminist Classic Clotheslines, The Bowery - Luc Sante

YouTube: Daybreak Express (1953), “SKYSCRAPER” CONSTRUCTION OF 666 5TH AVE. NEW YORK CITY DOCUMENTARY, Clotheslines Trailer

 

Clotheslines

​The Chilling Popularity of Anti-Vax Deathbed Videos

 

Artist Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) offers one example in the long tradition of deathbed scenes as morality theater.

“On July 18, Brytney Cobia, a physician in Birmingham, Alabama, took to Facebook to talk about caring for Covid-19 patients. ‘One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine,’ Cobia wrote. ‘I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.’ Cobia’s post, which has since been shared 16,000 times on the social platform and amplified in local and national news outlets, proved to be an early entry in a grisly new genre of pro-vax deathbed confessions from the unvaccinated, where the dying admit their mistakes and beg others not to repeat them. ...”

The New Republic

Art Zoyd - 44 1/2 : Live and Unreleased Works (2017)

 

“ ... Originally founded as a psychedelic / progressive rock band in France in 1969, with the arrival of soon-to-be co-leaders Gerard Hourbette and Thierry Zaboitzeff in 1971 and then with the departure of the band’s founder, the group radically changed direction. By 1975 they were no longer a ‘rock’ band with guitars and drums, the band were now a based around the unique sounds of violins, electric bass and cello and trumpet, with additional instrumentation. ... This 14-disc set is an outgrowth of the celebration of the decades of Art Zoyd’s far-sighted musical work. Every CD is filled to the bursting with nearly 80' of music. There are basically eight CDs of live recordings stretching from the years 1972-2004 and four CDs of studio recordings, sketches and outtakes from 1980-2005. ...”

Bandcamp (Audio)

allmusic (Audio)

W - Art Zoyd

Discogs

YouTube: 19  Sept 2015  - Rock in Opposition (Live), Présage (Live), Warrior (Live)

2015 September: Rock in Opposition Festival 2015

​“I Would Not Take Prisoners.” Tolstoy’s Case Against Making War Humane

 

 

Albrecht Adam - Napoleon watching the fire of Moscow in September 1812

“It would take Tolstoy some time to sound the alarm that humanitarianism could entrench war. On the way to doing so, he had one of his most famous characters embrace the inverse proposition: brutality can make it rare.“One thing I would do if I had the power,’ Prince Andrei, the debonair and reflective leading man of War and Peace, declares, ‘I would not take prisoners.’ It comes to the hero as an epiphany: if in battle an enemy soldier were captured, or if he laid down his arms and surrendered, it should not save him from death. No one today thinks it is permissible to kill enemies in war summarily when they are captured or surrender. In fact, to do so is today a gross war crime. ...”

LitHub

Tolstoy’s Case Against Humane War By Samuel Moyn

2019 July: War & Peace (TV 2016)

What Comes After - Takeyuki Hakozaki (2021)

 

“This work is an archival piece from my solo exhibition held at HAKO Gallery in Chiba, Japan on February 13 and 14, 2021. During these two days, I had three exhibitions. The first was a recording of an installation of seven guitars and seven circulators titled 'Air', in which the guitars and circulators were arranged in an equilateral heptagon and all the guitars were tuned to D and A. The wind pressure from the circulators caused the guitar strings to resonate, amplifying their faint vibrations and creating an intense drone. It was a means of achieving the flood of differentials, additions, and overtones that Glenn Branca had set out to achieve with greater purity. ...”

Bandcamp (Audio)

disquiet: Three Takeyuki Hakozaki Videos (Video)

​Norman Seeff: Photographing the Invisible

 

Jodi Foster, 1976

“’What is the nature of change and healing in the creative process? What is invisible in us?’ muses Norman Seeff. ‘Photograph that.’ Seeff has created some of the most recognizable images of iconic innovators in music and pop culture across the past five decades, and this week, a monumental selection of new prints of classic works goes on view in Los Angeles. But as his Sessions Project video series and nascent Power and Passion to Create foundation make clear, in some ways, his truer work exists on a higher plane that transcends portraiture to touch on the very essence of human creativity. ...”

Voice

W - Norman Seeff

 

Robert and Patti, 1969

The abolitionist history of a little house on Riverside Drive

 

Berenice Abbott's photo of 857 Riverside, from 1937

“When Berenice Abbott photographed 857 Riverside Drive near 160th Street in 1937, the small, wood-frame house in today’s Washington Heights was a charming relic from New York’s antebellum era. Built in 1851 in the Italianate style, it boasted clapboard siding, wood shutters, a wraparound porch with decorative trim, and a roof topped with an octagon-shaped cupola. The cupola must have allowed for gorgeous views of the Hudson River in the unspoiled countryside of uptown Manhattan. Today, number 857 retains little of its original beauty. ...”

Ephemeral New York

Stages on Life's Way - Søren Kierkegaard (1845)

 

“Stages on Life's Way is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard written in 1845.  The book was written as a continuation of Kierkegaard's masterpiece Either/Or. While Either/Or is about the aesthetic and ethical realms, Stages continues onward to the consideration of the religious realms. ... Here he wrote: ‘When my Philosophical Fragments had come out and I was considering a postscript to clothe the issue in its historical costume, yet another pseudonymous book appeared: Stages on Life’s Way, a book that has attracted the attention of only a few (as it itself predicts) perhaps also because it did not, like Either/Or, have The Seducer’s Diary, for quite certainly that was read most and of course contributed especially to the sensation. That Stages has a relation to Either/Or is clear enough and is definitely indicated by the use in the first two sections of familiar names.’ ...”

Wikipedia

Second Period: Indirect Communication (1843-46) - Stages On Life's Way

New Yorker: Søren K.’s Two-Hundredth Birthday (May 2013)

amazon

YouTube: PHILOSOPHY - Soren Kierkegaard

2011 July: Søren Kierkegaard, 2013 April: Repetition (1843), 2013 December: The Quotable Kierkegaard, 2014 October: Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard (1843), 2014 December: The Dark Knight of Faith - Existential Comics, 2015 July: I still love Kierkegaard, 2015 October: The Concept of Anxiety (1844), 2016 October: Cruel intentions, 2017 July: Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, 2018 January: Either/Or (1843), 2018 November: The Seducer’s Diary (1843), 2020 November: W. H. Auden - The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard (1952), 2021 June: Philosophers Drinking Coffee: The Excessive Habits of Kant, Voltaire & Kierkegaard

​A World Cup Every Two Years? Why?

 

FIFA’s Gianni Infantino, who has yet to hear a billion-dollar idea he wouldn’t at least entertain.

“This is soccer’s age of the Big Idea. There is an incessant, unrelenting flow of Big Ideas, ones of such scale and scope that they have to be capitalized, from all corners of the game: from individuals and groups, from clubs and from leagues, from the back of cigarette packets and from all manner of crumpled napkins. The Video Assistant Referee system was a Big Idea. Expanding the World Cup to 48 teams was a Big Idea. Project Big Picture, the plan to redraw how the Premier League worked, was a Big Idea. The Super League was the Biggest Idea of them all — perhaps, in hindsight, it was, in fact, too Big an Idea — an Idea so Big that it could generate, in the brief idealism of its backlash, more Big Ideas still, as the death of a star sends matter hurtling all across the galaxy. …”

NY Times

​Earth, Wind And Fire: An Interview With Annea Lockwood

 

Annea Lockwood and 'Piano Burning'

“This begins with a love story. New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood’s most recent composition ‘For Ruth’ is a reply to a love letter on tape her late partner Ruth Anderson made her in 1974, titled ‘Conversations ‘74’. In ‘For Ruth’, their affectionate conversational fragments, loving affirmations and the bubbling laughter of two people giddy for one another are embraced by field recordings of rich birdsong, grumbling frogs and passing cars, as well as resonant vocal intonations, which sound like the tintinnabulation of struck metal. The few complete sentences that surface contain an exchange that is a sort of found poetry on the feeling that the world has become whole through partnership with another person. ...”

The Quietus (Audio)

2017 March: Source: Music of the Avant Garde, 1966-1974, 2019 April: The Sensual Sound Studies of Annea Lockwood

 

Harvey Matusow, David Tudor & John Cage with Annea Lockwood

Harold Budd - Abandoned Cities (1982)

 

“... Abandoned Cities was originally released in 1984 on Budd’s own Cantil Records (which takes its name from the Californian settlement in the Mojave Desert). It marks a departure from his previous work, exploring synthesizers in a somber landscape of sound that will immediately remind listeners of David Bowie and Brian Eno’s dark Teutonic adventures (cf. ‘Warszawa’), albeit in a minimalist setting. The album contains two songs, although 'song' is clearly the wrong word. Rather, they are two obelisks of sound, immovable and casting a tall, dark shadow over the listener’s mind. ...”

Progrography

Bandcamp (Audio)

Discogs (Video)

YouTube: Abandoned Cities (Full Album)

2018 February: Ambient drifting in London

William Blake’s 102 Illustrations of The Divine Comedy Collected in a Beautiful Book from Taschen

 

“In his book on the Tarot, Alejandro Jodorowsky describes the Hermit card as representing mid-life, a ‘positive crisis,’ a middle point in time; ‘between life and death, in a continual crisis, I hold up my lit lamp — my consciousness,’ says the Hermit, while confronting the unknown. The figure recalls the image of Dante in the opening lines of the Divine Comedy. In Mandelbaum’s translation at Columbia’s Digital Dante, we see evident similarities. ... This is not to say the literary Dante and occult Hermeticism are historically related; only they emerged from the same matrix, a medieval Catholic Europe steeped in mysterious symbols. ...”

Open Culture

2009 April: William Blake, 2010 December: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 2011 June: The Ghost of a Flea, 2012 August: Isaac Newton (1795), 2015 November: America a Prophecy (1793), 2019 May: The Notebook of William Blake, 2019 October: ‘To Particularize Is the Alone Distinction of Merit’: Blake’s Visionary Imagination

​A Household of Minor Things: The Collections of Robert Duncan and Jess

 

“Jess and Robert Duncan pursued separate artistic paths—the former as a visual artist, the latter as a poet, though each experimented with the other’s chosen medium. Jess, who had a lifelong interest in the play inherent in language, wrote poetry and prose, and Duncan, who was drawn to the open form and movement he perceived in abstract expressionism, painted and drew. Yet neither approached the facility with which the other engaged his own field, and the benefits of these excursions into the other’s territory lay more in the insights brought back than in any contribution made on foreign ground. ...”

LitHub

Jess Collins

BOOKFORUM: Very Fine House

Brooklyn Rail: Tara McDowell’s The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess

The Householders | Oh what a fortress our art makes, and oh what an armoire our love

SF MoMA: Salvage and Recuperation

amazon

2008 March: Robert Duncan, 1919-1988, 2011 May: Robert Duncan: May 18, 1959, 2012 January: Ten Poems, 1940 to 1980, 2013 May: An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle, 2017 January: Robert Duncan's notes on Ron Silliman's 'Opening'

JESS’S STUDIO (DETAIL) WITH CARAVAGGIO ON THE WALL IN THE BACKGROUND

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement

 

Rudy Deceliere – Various Ends of the World

“In recent decades, field recording has come into sharp focus as a rapidly evolving creative practice within the canon of sound arts. Its proliferation heralds an opening up to notions of place, environment, non-anthropic listening, divergent cultural traditions, bio-acoustics, and a curiosity towards the act of being present to our audition in time and in space. ...”

Various Artists (Video/Audio)

​20 NYC subway stations with show-stopping tile art

South Ferry

“Subway stations don’t need colorful mosaics or installations by famous artists to have a distinctive style—but those things do give commuters something lovely to look at while waiting for a train to show up. And New York’s transit system doesn’t disappoint, particularly if you’re the sort of person who pays attention to the intricacies of tile station markers, or the individual pieces of a mosaic mural. In fact, the city’s subway stations are an excellent showcase for that sort of craftsmanship, whether it’s a 110-year-old bas-relief of a beaver, or a brand-new mosaic made up of ceramic tile. ...”

Curbed

W - New York City Subway tiles

[PDF] The Preservation of the Original Tiles in the New York City Subway System

​Jim Jarmusch’s Collages

 

“Jim Jarmusch’s small, eerie collages are all about faces. And about the bodies attached to those faces. And about what happens when faces get switched off onto other bodies. You could say that Jarmusch, ever the director, is engaging in exploratory casting. He wants to see Stanley Kubrick in the role of a golfer, and Nico as a Vegas crooner, and Jane Austen winding up on the mound, and Albert Einstein as a rock star, and Bernie Sanders as a dog. Andy Warhol, meanwhile, just goes ahead and casts himself in every role, turning all of them into ‘Andy Warhol.’ ...”

The Paris Review

Anthology

2014 October: Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side, 2015 December: Broken Flowers - Jim Jarmusch (2005).,2016 October: An Immersive Audio Tour of the East Village’s Famed Poetry Scene, Narrated by Jim Jarmusch, 2016 July: The Philosophy of Bill Murray: The Intellectual Foundations of His Comedic Persona, 2016 December: Jim Jarmusch Lists His Favorite Poets: Dante, William Carlos Williams, Arthur Rimbaud, John Ashbery & More, 2017 December: Paterson (2016)