Author Archive for taxiplasm

Fanfarlo: Under the Reservoir

Fanfarlo: Under the Reservoir

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This past March I followed UK band Fanfarlo to Austin for SXSW to create more than a documentary, but a conceptual exploration of the themes of their album, Reservoir (à la Tarkovsky/Wim Winders with a bit of Frederick Wiseman). This four-part series is what resulted:

Episode I + introduction - “A dizzying, endless round of plugging and unplugging gear, noodling around on stage and explaining to someone why, even though you don’t know yourself.”
Episode II - “The Sexy Episode” they call it - “There’s something infantalising about being in a band in general, and being on tour specifically.”
Episode III - In the Studio - A behind-the-scenes look at their studio re-working of ‘Atlas’ for ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ soundtrack.
Episode IV - “The Honesty Episode” as they allude to it. “…marvel at Brian Gonzalez’s masterly camerawork and editing, once again doing a sterling job at making us look cooler by far than we actually are. Watching his films makes us want to be in Fanfarlo … which is lucky, I guess.”

À La Disposition - Fall 2010

À La Disposition - Fall 2010

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An expressionistic, conceptual glimpse into the world of New York designers À La Disposition and their fall 2010 collection.

Gadfly

Gadfly

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“When a man dies, he is hard and insensitive -hardness and strength are death’s companions; weakness is an expression of the freshness of beings.” -Wim Wenders

Hunger

Hunger

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stains from raindrops and tears; which is which I do not know.

Harbor Trailer Teaser

Harbor Trailer Teaser

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Teaser for new video art piece created at the Robert Wilson Watermill Center for performance art in collaboration with Steven Vega and Eseohe Arhebamen.

the showing will be SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST - 6:30PM at The Watermill Center.

Black

Black

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“Love is the blackest of plagues” -The Seventh Seal, dir. Ingmar Bergman

…oh how I wish I could make a feature that takes place in this kind of world.

Mask

“…keep looking for things in places where there is nothing.” -Jonas Mekas

Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho

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at the beginning of the month I saw Margaret Cho at Radio City Music Hall and my face hurt from laughing so hard. she closed with this beloved hymn entitled “Eat Me Out”

Project Runway -season 5

All six collections, including the final 3, are on the sidebar.
Camera operators include yours truly and the amazing Adam Donald.
*special thanks to Rupert.

Whole

Whole

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a more meditative extension of my previous post with an assimilation of where insecurity meets intimacy.