David Licata | March 9, 2012
I leave Playa today. It has been a remarkable experience. The environment has opened up a creative vein, the people have stimulated, inspired, and nourished. As a writer, I have been more productive here these last two months than I have been in the last three years combined. Spending two months in a place like [...]
David Licata | March 5, 2012
Here are some photos I took of a piece by fellow Playa resident, sculptor Rob Licht. It’s called True North, and he was out on the Playa many nights, using his stride to measure distances and using a laser point to line up the stones. It’s impossible to get the scale of this in these [...]
David Licata | February 15, 2012
The Filmmaker looked at the lake through the kitchen window and said, “Jesus, how many photographs can I take of this lake?” The Poet stopped making his lunch and gazed out the window. “Look at it though,” he said, “it hasn’t done that before.” The Filmmaker went outside and took more photographs. Here then, 18 [...]
David Licata | February 10, 2012
Every one leaves Playa today. Everyone but me. I’m here for another month. They are heading to their homes. To their wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, parents, friends, to their real worlds. I will miss them all, but I will savor the moments we shared. Sitting around the table at snack time, listening to everyone answer [...]
David Licata | January 31, 2012
Here are some photos of my surroundings these days. Hope you enjoy them.
David Licata | January 24, 2012
I’m one of eight artists here—four poets, a playwright-poet, a composer, a visual artist, and me. They are all fine, smart, talented and kind people. I like them all. We each have our own cabin with a studio, kitchen (you can cook in your cabin or in the main building), and living room. The cabins [...]
David Licata | September 20, 2011
Oh, the joys of D.I.Y. filmmaking. I’m putting together a new press kit. In addition to stills of each subject pulled from the interviews, I’m going to include four or five of these at the bottom of each page. Which are your favorites?
David Licata | August 23, 2011
Last year around this time I was in the White Mountains of California shooting Bristlecone Pine trees. Along with my video gear, I lugged my Polaroid SX-70 and took these. As you may be aware, Polaroid went bankrupt and so they stopped producing film, but an organization called the Impossible Project has taken up the [...]
David Licata | May 17, 2011
In previous posts, I wrote about other people and projects I considered for A Life’s Work and why I chose four subjects instead of three or five or twenty-seven. But neither of those posts address why I chose these four people. A Life’s Work is very simple, really. It’s me searching for an answer to [...]
David Licata | March 22, 2011
What is it that makes us look up? We look up at trees, at buildings, to the sky to see clouds, stars, planets. If we are inside and we’ve been asked a question, many of us look to where the wall meets the ceiling, as if there’s a clue there, before we articulate our answer. [...]
