Gas Water Nothing

February 6, 2010

Shirley Scott

Day 4: Jerry Dammers

February 5, 2010

I'm quite excited to have tickets to the Specials show in New York City in April. It's too bad Jerry won't be there.

Looks like he keeps keeping busy with cool new projects, though--an 18-piece orchestra doing Sun Ra and Cedric Im Brooks, complete with props and costumes? Super!

Day 3: Eddie Harris, Chicago, 1981

February 4, 2010

Eddie Harris

Views Through Window Panes

February 3, 2010

A window pane makes a wonderful framing device for sketching. Here's two sketches using the window pane as the border, one done at Pizza Plus last weekend and the other done at Bergen Bagel in 2006.

Day 2: The guy my girlfriend lost her virginity to and friends, Totowa, NJ, 1990

February 3, 2010

(true story)

Day 1: Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, October 24, 1947

February 2, 2010

Read a transcript of Disney's testimony or learn more about the Hollywood Blacklist.

(Uncle Walt was not one of the good guys here.)

Everglades National Park

January 24, 2010

Last weekend I went to Everglades National Park, at the southern tip of Florida's peninsula. It is a fascinating and wonderful place!

Update: In defense of considering these "urban"--these all represent engineered, built, situations designed to get (relatively) large numbers of people and private automobiles into a wilderness that would otherwise be only accessible via canoe. I know that's not evident from the Anhinga sketch, but know that I did that on a walkway by a parking lot with dozens of other humans around.

Grandparents Avenue

January 4, 2010

A stretch of Kingsland Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn bears the alternative name (of the sort that usually invokes dead community leaders) of Grandparents Avenue. There is a really excellent café called Boneshakers there. Here is a view from their window.

Bringing the Outside In

from The Glass Bees

December 29, 2009

mp3 (5:57)

With special guest Ranjit Bhatnagar.

Japanese wind chimes, cymbals, chairs, cello, bowed Olson Reverberation Unit X-75, delay, amplifiers, etc.

Personnel: Chris Williams, Jason Das, Ranjit Bhatnagar

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View from the Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers, December 21, 2009