David Licata | August 3, 2010
One quarter of A Life’s Work is about trees, and lately I’ve been thinking about why we use trees to memorialize. I was going to write a post about it, but frankly, I’d rather read your thoughts on the matter. To encourage this, I’m offering more free art. The rules: Tell me why humans use [...]
David Licata | June 20, 2010
On June 20, 2009, I uploaded the first post on this blog. Highlights since then? Interviewed the fourth subject twice. Incorporated him into the sample at VCCA, laid out the framework for the rest of the film at the MacDowell Colony. Highlights on the blog? Great comments from you, readers! Especially nice to read comments [...]
David Licata | January 26, 2010
Timing has never been my strong suit. But I must admit these last few months the timing gods have been very kind to me. November-December Edited like a lunatic. Worked intensely on the sample at VCCA, incorporating the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project into the existing sample. January Wrote grant proposals like a lunatic, edited [...]
David Licata | January 6, 2010
What’s the point of having a blog if you don’t post lists? And what’s the point of early January if you don’t compile a “best” or “most popular” list? So, in keeping with the insular nature of this blog, here are this blog’s ten most visited posts of 2009. Are they the best posts? Who [...]
David Licata | December 18, 2009
I leave VCCA Sunday morning (weather permitting), hitching a ride back to NYC with my friend, the insanely talented writer, Jen V. Here’s what I had hoped to get done: “I plan on cutting the Robert Darden footage Wolfgang shot in Chicago into the existing 27-minute sample Cabot edited … If I come back to [...]
David Licata | December 11, 2009
If you read the “It’s Artist Residency Time” post, you’ll know what I hoped to get done during my stint here at VCCA. “So,” I can hear you ask, “how’s it going?” Slowly. My residency was scheduled for November 15 – December 9. I’ve managed to edit together a finer-than-rough but not-quite-fine cut of the [...]
David Licata | December 7, 2009
Last week I had the honor of being asked by Sheila Gulley Pleasants, Director of Artists’ Services at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, to screen my film Tango Octogenario to the VCCA Board of Directors and say a few words about the value and importance of artist residencies. I don’t remember exactly what [...]
David Licata | November 20, 2009
“Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.” Henry David Thoreau
David Licata | November 12, 2009
Soon I will be taking advantage of a most generous gift of time and space. On November 15 I’ll be driving down to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts where I will be among 25 or so other writers and visual artists. I’ll have a nice little room to sleep in, a nice studio [...]
