Blue Mountain Center… & The Great Escape?
Cross posted on http://www.extracriticum.com I’m here at Blue Mountain Center in the jaw-droppingly beautiful Adirondacks doing a residency on a pristine lake surrounded by trees verging on their fall foliage glory. You’d think I would write about how inspiring it … Continued
William Carlos Williams, My Poet-Doctor Idol
I have been asked more than a few times, and recently what with the story published in The Literary Review, how, and why, do I make films and write fiction. How is it that I’m serving two different and demanding … Continued
Why Would a 21 Year Old Be Interested in A Life’s Work?
Haroon Butt is a frequent commenter on the A Life’s Work blog, so I asked him to write something about why he keeps coming back to this blog. Here was his response. Why do I keep coming back here? David … Continued
Simplicity: A Chopin Quote
I seem to recall reading a quote from Frederic Chopin that addressed why the vast majority of his compositions were for piano. The quote, which I can’t seem to locate and may have dreamed, went something like, “It is a … Continued
“Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.”
Today’s guest blogger is Robert Darden, journalism professor at Baylor University, author of Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement and People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel … Continued
Artist Residency Time Again
Friday I leave for another residency, Blue Mountain Center. I’m very much looking forward to this one, and I’m a little bummed out that I will have to interrupt this month-long stint to return to NYC for A Life’s Work’s … Continued
In Case You’re Keeping Count…
That’d be 105. Click here and here and here. Other numbers: 8/16-18/2010. Hours spent in a car and plane: 32. Hours spent looking at, thinking about, filming trees at 10,000 feet or more altitude: 20. Number of cameras lugged on … Continued
Prometheus, Older Than Methuselah: A Clip
I became interested in including the Milarchs and Champion Tree Project in A Life’s Work after I read that they had cloned the Methuselah tree, a Bristle Cone Pine that is the oldest known living thing on the planet. In … Continued
Shoot Journal 08.18.2010
August 18, 2010 – Inyo National Forest: Patriarch Grove I had an idea that I’d capture the sunrise, which meant getting out of bed around 3am. But insomnia, exhaustion from the day before, and mostly not having spotted a good … Continued
Shoot Journal 08.17.2010
August 17, 2010 – Schulman Grove, Inyo National Forest, CA I did not die on the mountain. Too busy working to be wowed by the trees. Or maybe I was in a constant state of wow? Don’t think I worked … Continued