Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Storyboarding
We're rolling on our new winter video project. Currently making concept drawings to get the look of it. It takes place in a snowy landscape. Come on sky! Don't hold out on us!
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Botanical Memory
This weekend, we were part of the The Brooklyn Arts Council's "Rethinking Memorial" project; ten artists were asked to create interactive, ephemeral memorials for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. In our project, Botanical Memory, we invited participants to design their own combination of herb sachets. Each herb had a symbolic meaning that we felt reflected qualities brought out in people as a result of 9/11. The herbs were mint for strength, calendula for grief, rosemary for remembrance, lavender for love and peace, and thyme for courage. Participants could give their sachets away as gifts or keep them for personal remembrance.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Shooting, writing, choreographing, and more shooting
We're firing on all cylinders now for our "Oh, river" video project. After spending a bit of time shooting in Connecticut, we're nearly finished with filming and are excited to move onto editing. There have been a couple adventures of note:
1. Jeff fell into the river while filming at night. A wet boot is not fun to work in!
2. We had a National Geographic encounter with a group of buzzards that Tara spotted while driving through Bear Mountain on our second visit.
We're posting just a few pictures. We don't want to give away too much. The first is of our current setup for playing a live score to our video. We're in the middle of writing the choreography for the show. Be on the lookout for our newsletter which will include information on our project screening. The second is of Tara shooting cat tail footage.
1. Jeff fell into the river while filming at night. A wet boot is not fun to work in!
2. We had a National Geographic encounter with a group of buzzards that Tara spotted while driving through Bear Mountain on our second visit.
We're posting just a few pictures. We don't want to give away too much. The first is of our current setup for playing a live score to our video. We're in the middle of writing the choreography for the show. Be on the lookout for our newsletter which will include information on our project screening. The second is of Tara shooting cat tail footage.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Four 10-Trip Metro North Tickets to Riverdale Later...
Sheesh! Too much time has past since we last posted about our little outing to Bear Mountain. A lot has happened since then, and we're excited to share the news in this super update.
In mid-February, we began our Winter Workspace residency at Wave Hill in the Bronx. We've been loving the morning Metro North rides along the Hudson every time we go up there to our studio. The river, palisades and gardens at Wave Hill have proved to be inspirational for us. We love to watch nature happen, and it's not so easy to do that in Bushwick, Brooklyn. One rainy Monday, we watched a cardinal snacking on a few worms that came out of the ground. Tara also saved a worm that found its way onto the road and helped it to return to the soil.
The project that we are working on in our studio is called "Oh, River". It is a nomadic shelter that relies on a horizontal structure, i.e. a tree branch, an I-beam under a bridge, to be pitched. There is various imagery of symbiosis happening on the quilted portion, and we delved into the craft of instrument making. To date, we made a bird wood block and sleigh bells that resemble a branch. Currently, an avocado shaker is in the works. Our plan is to set the tent up at various sites and take video of a new performance that we'll compile with other footage to exist as more than pure documentation.
Below are some pictures of the "new" studio, casting concrete weights for the tent with railroad spikes found on the Metro North tracks, gluing up the bird wood block, visiting the cactus greenhouse at Wave Hill, collecting a bounty at Wave Hill, and a few images of the tent.
Open studios for the residency are this Saturday, March 26 from 12 - 4 pm. We hope to see you there!
In mid-February, we began our Winter Workspace residency at Wave Hill in the Bronx. We've been loving the morning Metro North rides along the Hudson every time we go up there to our studio. The river, palisades and gardens at Wave Hill have proved to be inspirational for us. We love to watch nature happen, and it's not so easy to do that in Bushwick, Brooklyn. One rainy Monday, we watched a cardinal snacking on a few worms that came out of the ground. Tara also saved a worm that found its way onto the road and helped it to return to the soil.
The project that we are working on in our studio is called "Oh, River". It is a nomadic shelter that relies on a horizontal structure, i.e. a tree branch, an I-beam under a bridge, to be pitched. There is various imagery of symbiosis happening on the quilted portion, and we delved into the craft of instrument making. To date, we made a bird wood block and sleigh bells that resemble a branch. Currently, an avocado shaker is in the works. Our plan is to set the tent up at various sites and take video of a new performance that we'll compile with other footage to exist as more than pure documentation.
Below are some pictures of the "new" studio, casting concrete weights for the tent with railroad spikes found on the Metro North tracks, gluing up the bird wood block, visiting the cactus greenhouse at Wave Hill, collecting a bounty at Wave Hill, and a few images of the tent.
Open studios for the residency are this Saturday, March 26 from 12 - 4 pm. We hope to see you there!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Playing icicles on Bear Mountain
Several weeks ago we headed up to Bear Mountain in New York for a hike and to rummage around the woods for some good sounds. Since there are no native cacti in New York, we thought we should probably discover the percussive potential native to this area, so we took the drumsticks and the keys on our hike. It was chilly but good research.
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