David Licata | April 19, 2012
In case you didn’t know it, Saturday, April 21, 2012, is Record Store Day. Five years and still hanging around. I thought I’d recycle the post from last year (with some slight alterations), because it’s still appropriate. Many many years ago I worked in a record store in Hackensack, NJ with a whole mess of [...]
David Licata | September 2, 2011
The “vacation” continues, so here are some … what did Saturday Night Live call reruns, Encore Presentation? Well, here are some Encore Presentations of some earlier posts. Hope you enjoy them. From Concept to First Day of Shooting Why Do I Love These Shots? A Clip “How Do You Find These People?” The Cinematographers (I’m [...]
David Licata | April 29, 2011
Here’s a clip I put together just for Arbor Day. The bulk of this clip was shot on our first visit with the Milarchs in 2007. (Please pardon my little artsy interlude which was shot elsewhere.) This is one of my favorite bits of footage and I’m so glad cinematographer Wolfgang Held kept rolling, even [...]
David Licata | April 14, 2011
In case you didn’t know it, Saturday, April 16, 2011, is Record Store Day. Many many years ago I worked in a record store in Hackensack, NJ with a whole mess of great people, many of whom I’m still in touch with. (Hi Rita, Sam, Bill, Bob, Jack, Helen, and Wayne.) Though it was a [...]
David Licata | February 15, 2011
I’d like to apologize in advance, because if you’re like me, you don’t really enjoy hearing about other people’s dreams. But I thought this was relevant to A Life’s Work. I’m at Arcosanti and Paolo Soleri asks me if I would like to walk with him. I do gladly. Suddenly we approach the New School [...]
David Licata | November 4, 2010
Here are the first few images shot for A Life’s Work (fall 2006). It’s a distillation of the first twenty minutes of footage. It’s only after twenty minutes of tape that the fifth shot, the one of Arcosanti, appears, which is to say cinematographer Wolfgang Held shot the landscape around Arcosanti before we attempted to [...]
David Licata | November 1, 2010
October 30, 2006, cinematographer Wolfgang Held and I landed in Phoenix and drove north to Cordes Junction, where we’d spend the next three days shooting Arcosanti, Cosanti, Dome House, and interview Paolo Soleri. November 3, 2006 we left Cordes Junction and drove to Santa Fe to shoot the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater. November 5th, 2006 we [...]
David Licata | June 10, 2010
I was saddened by the news that the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe, NM, is scheduled to be razed. Soleri received the commission in 1966 and it was built by him, his apprentices, and students from the Institute of American Indian Arts. New Mexicans considered it to be their state’s premiere venue to hear [...]
David Licata | February 9, 2010
Ta-da! A clip of the fourth subject, the Black Gospel Restoration Project’s Robert Darden. Wolfgang Held and I followed Robert around the South Side of Chicago in August 09. Here he is looking for some rare gospel vinyl at Hyde Park Records. I loved this place. Being there transported me back to the days when [...]
David Licata | November 17, 2009
Recently I had a lovely sushi dinner with my friend Meryl, a photography-based artist and teacher. She had just watched the clips of A Life’s Work and was taken by the quality of the images. “How did you find such great cinematographers?” she asked. “A friend of a friend. That’s usually how it … actually, [...]
