David Licata | December 2, 2011
November was a good month for the A Life’s Work blog; it had substantially more views than in any previous month, and November has 30 days! Why? Because of you! Yeah, you. You read it. And some of you shared it. (I’m looking at you, Los Straitjackets!) This brightens my day because you’ve brought someone [...]
David Licata | June 10, 2011
Recently, a person who wishes to remain anonymous made a generous contribution to A Life’s Work, and to show my gratitude I sent Anonymous a DVD of my short films and some other things. The cycle of thanks continued when Anonymous, who obviously knows I have a fondness for bicycles, sent this card to me. [...]
David Licata | March 9, 2011
I have not solicited money from friends and family for this film. (Yet!) But what makes me happy is when someone contributes to the film unsolicited. So it was yesterday when I became aware that a digital friend of mine (i.e., someone I never met in person) donated some of her hard earned dollars to [...]
David Licata | February 27, 2011
This post, originally titled Street Theatre: Subway Hope: The Other Side of the Tracks was first published on Extra Criticum, December 28, 2008. The other afternoon I left Tekserve, the Apple specialist, with two 1TB hard drives and a rack to contain all these metal boxes full of zeros and ones piling up around my [...]
David Licata | February 1, 2011
I recently went to my doctor and we got to talking about A Life’s Work. He asked me if I knew Cicero’s treatise, On Old Age. I didn’t. He paraphrased a passage about trees. “Oh, that’s good,” I said. “I’m going to use that in my blog.” When I came home, waiting in my inbox [...]
David Licata | July 9, 2010
Here are two photos. I’m holding the same Cine-Kodak Magazine 8 Camera in both. Here are some images this camera captured. That makes me happy. What makes you happy? Top photo: George Licata, Prince, David Licata, photographer unknown. Bottom photo: David Licata with camera, photographer David Licata.
David Licata | May 14, 2010
Yesterday I took a break from transcribing the latest interview with Robert Darden of the the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project and went to MoMA with my friend Danica N., a graphic novelist. I was eager to see the William Kentridge show before it left. (The show is amazing.) I remembered someone had told me [...]
