archiving the city

music makes us free

February 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

the modulations of voice, tone and color, make me believe that I truly am free. this is what it sounds like.

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soundtrack of the future city

January 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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Election Night, part 2

January 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)

January 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A thought that is good to think on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and every other day in fact.

I hear you John. This country is still run by insane people. And I mean criminally insane.

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our cities are battlegrounds NOW

January 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This is “NOW” (1965) a short film by Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez. The song in the film is called NOW, and is sung by civil rights activist, Lena Horne, (who also performs in the video clip below, with another civil rights activist, Kermit the Frog). A classic archive of the civil rights struggle in the cities of the United States of America.

Now, Now, Now, Now, Now, Now, Now, Now, Now, NOW IS THE TIME. THE TIME IS…NOW!

Martin Luther King Day, New York City, 2010

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eastern europe, brooklyn

December 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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the writing on the luxury construction’s walls

December 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

these flyers began appearing this fall, on the makeshift walls of construction sites around my neighborhood. Get a close-up look:
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dreams are archives of our cities

December 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In dreams, affects take shape and form and color. affects are drawn into resonance, the seemingly disparate in waking life are crashed or woven together into intricate, shocking, garish, intimate realness.

A key character in dreams, or narratives of dreams, is the setting itself. In my dreams, interior and exteriors blend, neighborhoods in different cities open up to each other, like the impossible geographies of Kafka’s stories.

(film credit: “N.Y., N.Y.” Francis Thompson, dir. 1959)

Yesterday the New York Times published an Iraq war veteran’s dreams and reflections. Here are some important excerpts:

What if it’s not a dream at all? What if I really have the city of Mosul inside of me? Or at least that neighborhood on a sunny morning. Maybe when I go to sleep I’m actually entering a world in which Iraqi mothers search through the landscape of my memory in the vain hope of finding their dead sons. My body a sort of graveyard, a repository of the lost and the dead.

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demoNcracy

December 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

DEMONCRACY: Government of the vast majority, by a tiny minority, through war, usurpation and propaganda

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africans to the future

December 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

do you remember?

and herbie hancock

sun ra

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