Jun 14, 2022Berryman, by W. S. Merwin, a YouTube Supercut (annotated)What follows is an annotated version of “Berryman” by W. S. Merwin, including links to 78 source videos that appear in the fair-use supercut, below. Berryman BY W. S. MERWIN I will tell you what he told me in the years just after the war as we then called the…Supercut2 min readSupercut2 min read
Dec 18, 2020The Best Long Songs of 2020(In a year that never ends, here’s a quick look at the greatest long-playing musical efforts released during The Year of Our Dreadfulness.) In our era of decreasing focus & attention, where the prominence of playlists, singles and algorithmic shuffling have defeated the sustained artistic arc of The Album, long…Music5 min readMusic5 min read
Sep 29, 2020Text-Only Version of Humans of New York’s Tanqueray / Stephanie Fundraiser(Each of the 32 captions from the Tanqueray/Stephanie fundraiser on Humans of New York (Sept. 20/28, 2020) followed with a permalink to the original post. I posted this here in order to make a more readable format than Instagram allows, and especially to enable read-later services. All content below is…Read48 min readRead48 min read
Feb 17, 2020Member-onlyEvery Shot from Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” trailerOne still per set-up from the trailer for the forthcoming Wes Anderson film, “The French Dispatch.”Film6 min readFilm6 min read
Dec 7, 2019Member-only“Baldwin’s Nigger” — transcription of James Baldwin in London, 1968(19 minutes of James Baldwin speaking at the West Indian Student Centre, London, UK, in a film by Horace Ové)Racism10 min readRacism10 min read
Dec 14, 2018Automagically Creating a Nightly “News” Show from Videos I Can’t Watch During the Day(How I built a quick-and-dirty, personalized version of YouTube’s Watch Later, but for the entire web.) — Today’s news is full-bore. Following its twists and turns feels like being on the other end of this firehose. I wondered if there might be a way to cobble together the day’s links, tweets and short video clips into a “news broadcast” of sorts. Back in the day, there…Workflow5 min readWorkflow5 min read
Apr 25, 2018SAME DAY — the annotated transcript(the third version of SAME DAY, as performed Nov. 2, 2017) (On November 2nd, 2017, I presented the third version of “Same Day” in an artist’s lecture at Atlanta Legal Aid. The video above contains audio recorded that afternoon, sync’d with…Politics14 min readPolitics14 min read
Apr 16, 2018Member-onlyMichael Cohen’s Cigar Party —an Escapade in Photographic Forensics(…or how to waste a weekend looking too deeply at pictures of how Trump’s personal lawyer spent his Friday afternoon) — By now, you’ve surely seen photographs of Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen and his friends hanging out and smoking cigars last Friday afternoon.Photography8 min readPhotography8 min read
Apr 15, 2018Member-onlyVisualizing the Special Counsel’s Silence13 representations of “Peter Carr declined to comment.” — Since the appointment last May of Robert Mueller as Special Counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference, I’ve been fascinated by how many times the investigation’s spokesperson, Peter Carr, has refused to comment on a breaking story. Following Peter Stone and Greg Gordon’s story for McClatchey from Friday, April 13th…Trump3 min readTrump3 min read
Apr 12, 2018Member-onlyWhich Brands Are Targeting You on Facebook?If you want to see which companies/brands have uploaded *your* info to Facebook (to directly target you with sponsored content) instructions are here. These are mine. Some of these businesses and brands I’m aware of, many of them I’ve never seen nor heard of before. This is a record of…Advertising1 min readAdvertising1 min read
