By pushing the envelope you can capture the light at the right moment...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Something new...
I see something new everytime I look into the woods...as the seasons by time becomes temporal...although it's winter now I can see the summer leaves as clear as if there were there..
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
My study of light...
In my study of light I emphasize the local and seeing with new eyes the old...as I walked yesterday after the blizzard there was a golden hue over the white blanket of snow with wonderful streaks over the naked floor...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Winter Solistice 2010;;;
today is the winter solistice...it officially happens at 11:38 pm...I wish I had something really deep and profound to say but I feel like I've said all those things and now I'm just practicing the craft of writing...I'm watching the latest Videopoem I have just made... Anne Waldman doing a wonderful piece right now...so it's just about Christmas but it's just another day for me....the time is moving really fast right n0w as I slip into the void...it's not that I don't have warm feelings for the season...I do but a callous cold lingers in my heart as well...America the land not of expression....still, though made yoga and will hand the new show in the words they still come...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
when the leaves are gone...
when the leaves are gone you can see the light streak through the woods...
Friday, December 17, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The view is gone...
The view is gone...they bulldozed it...they called it progress...the people here pay big taxes but they make no sacrifice....their children do not fight in the middle east....nor do their children go hungary...nor do they face foreclosure...they shoot up on the narcotic of fox news and mainline the opiate of the wall street journal...they say they are not for socialism...that obama is a communist...but they did not turn down his bailouts...they drive from their homes to the commuter parking lot...how much do they ever see of the landscape?...perhaps they walk their dog in whippoorwhill or gedney and they think that makes them one with nature...on the cable access station the tagline says community through media but when I asked to use the studio on the weekend I'm told it's not available and the dude running the community radio station only wanted to know how much money I could bring him..
but these words, these are my aquaducts to being and when they flow it's a good moment...
but these words, these are my aquaducts to being and when they flow it's a good moment...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
You never know....
You never know what you will see in the woods....walking off the beaten path....can you stand the isolation?...can you stand the heat?....they were playing down the hill...they didn't bother to call...I saw up on their facebook they fancy themselves beyond time...perhaps....and the holiday seasons go round and round....I was forgotten in the noise....I've been forgotten for a long time...but I am not forgotten to myself....and the deer came to acknowledge that...you never know what you will see in the wloods...perhaps your self...
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Capture...
I like to capture moments in time...I then like to come back and edit them...meaning in a meaningless world...peering behind the masks we wear and the walls we build...
The Hudson...
I like to take pictures of the Hudson along its path...down in Manhattan it's fun to ride along the bike path and pause and take a snapshot...
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
the contrast...
I like the contrast between city and country....juxtaposition provides insight into reality....I am watching the ossoning cable acccess station right now...a really good jazz band is on...also since I have a show on cable access I am trying to throw some love out....and the sun just feel behind the hill and the winter is upon us and it's dark out as I melt into my cocoon of being....an existential sailor....they have no idea of what the abyss means..
view
the indians used to send smoke signals from this view...then the hudson river painters came here to paint the light...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
View of the Hudson...
I love getting over to the Hudson by Rockwood to capture sunsets....in the winter there are amazing colorful ones...
Writing here in 2010;;;
Still writing here in 2010...the faces all gone by...still searching for the center within...listening to music from Northern Mexico....just got the rap from Noam on gaza...and at the bars down on the lower east side it's more important what kind of tattoo you have and the dickhead who runs the community radio station only cares about what money you can bring and the day is cold outside overcast with snow flurries and the words they still come...
Sunday, December 5, 2010
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Seeing the landscape is paying attention to it...I had never been to the back of the Fair Ridge Cemetary off of Quaker Road...earlier today on Book Tv I was listening to an interview by Salmon Rushdie...he said one of the biggest challenges today is to pay attention while your reading...he was saying it's not like there is not reading going on today...he pointed to People Magazine as evidence of this....but reading with attention....he was talking about the attention deficit disorder the culture suffers today....our seeing has been corrupted holllywood and Madison AVenue image makers...that sounds preachy though and I want to avoid that senitment...who am I to judge anyone?...Im just trying to survive with my senses intact obliterated as they are by the information overload...
One of my favorite spots...
This has always been one of my favorite spots to take pictures...the light reflects off the Hudson in a beautiful manner..
Saturday, December 4, 2010
What you mgiht see...
You never know what you might see in the woods...in the Senate they debate tax cuts for the rich as life is economic....we long ago forgot our roots in nature although you can easily go to Disneyland to reconnect...the act of seeing can be a revolutionary act....the act of stillness even more so in a time of information over load...I sat llstening in the woods, observing...
Friday, December 3, 2010
the naked fall...
my cousin told my mother last night that the bonuses will be obscene this season on Wall Street...meanwhile Congress has not extended unemployment benefits....the people chat on their cellphones...images flicker on the television set...powershots of smiling lost faces peaked out from the networked pages of facebook...it's al so nice...but I stroll down through the woods in the naked fall...
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Nature...
America likes to talk a big game about nature but most people are just caught up in suburban drag mall...I need to get out there...especially when I have been listening to progressive politics and getting the real deal...especially when all my friends have sunk into apathy and I haven't been laid in a while...
Thursday, November 25, 2010
A stream...
A stream in Wnippoorwhill Park in the thick of the summer...the idea of finding yourself in nature....just watched a county legislators show on cable access...it was a repeat from months ago...the thing reeked of staleness...it's why I hike out into thw woods....but this takes a price too as it can lead to isolation...
An image...
An image from three years ago...my act of revolution is to take a stance against the disposable nature of American culture...
Walking aloing side Central Park West...
Walking along side Central Park West I noticed the light was like a Rothko painting...
I search for light...
I search for light.....in my quest I got this shot at dusk in New York's Central Park...
Donny's bench...
Donny's bench in the winter...I like to stop by just to remind myself where I have gone to in time...the words are still going as are the images and video and web stuff....my myth has faded into the fabric of the noise...but that was inevitable....it still entertains me though....as we have all become legends in our mind...stars in our own movie...I lived to see it...it would have been fun if Don was here to share it with us well...this time I year we always would get fucked up...
Whippoorwill in late August...
Whippoorwill in late august...the secrets that lie admist the local...
Here on this Thanksgivng...
Here on this Thanksgiving being grateful for the things I have....the beautiful wetland pond I grew up from earliest days they bulldozed over in the name of progress...living first voices indigneous programming talking about how we are one...so many people I grew up having that rap with no longer in touch...our egos got in the way...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
contrast...
as I sit drinking listening to dylan here's a picture of a church on the lower east side nyc....I like contrasts between city and country...
Monday, November 22, 2010
Tattoo
A picture of Jeff's tattoo...he got it down in the East Village...we had been seriously drinking..
Sunday, November 21, 2010
close up of patti...
Here's a close up of Patti at Union Square at the Barnes and Noble in New York City...she was doing a tribute to JIm Carroll who passed last year....
Patti
We saw Patti the other night at Barnes and Noble...she was there with Lenny to do a tribute to Jim Caroll...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Another view...
Here's another view of the pond that is gone...listening to wendell potter former spokesman for humana...he's rapping about the lies the health insurance inudstry spin on us...it's all about the profit motive...and here's another view of the pond that is gone...as you listen to the noise in your head and my hair has turned white...
No longer...
the pond is no longer here...they tore up it for expansion....they are erecting a cold impersonal building and parking lot a top of it...and morning joe they argue about jobs...a lady just drove by in her mercedes...the train beleches down in the agora below...
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