Hello, dear reader.
Well, having just hit the halfway mark of this project, 180 days in, I now have a thousand pages of writing that’s been generated in collaboration with a group of incredibly talented and extremely generous visual artists. Originally, the way I conceived Saccades Project was to collaborate with young artists, many of whom are in [...]
Category Archives: Project Notes
Intermission
May 2, 2010 – 6:00 am
Old Friends
April 15, 2010 – 11:00 pm
Full disclosure: Bentley Wood is one of my oldest friends. We grew up together. We go way back, all right. High school, even. Today, Bentley’s a musician, a filmmaker, a designer, an actor—so many things. Not to mention one of the funniest people I have ever known. Truly. And in all this time, this is [...]
Street Cred
April 7, 2010 – 8:00 pm
Since beginning, I’ve been thinking about their lives, their relationships, this creative bond that Thea and Melody Knox share. I mean, the whole idea of these girls being twins in some way really interests me. And I’ve always imagined their world, the images they create together, whether in their notebook, their photo shoots, as being [...]
Songs to Film to Write By
March 30, 2010 – 8:00 pm
A couple days ago, I wrote Jamie Paul and asked if he had a title in mind for his playlist, and he sent three: “Songs to Film By,” “Nevermind the Pixies, It’s the Mixtape,” and “Jamiepaul Presents Jamiepaul.” He said I could take my pick, so I chose the third option, simply because it made [...]
Homecomings
March 22, 2010 – 8:00 pm
I was about to start by talking about how unique Ashlee Chavez’s work is—this combination of sweet and sexy and dreamy and sometimes scary and always unique—and it is, her work is all those things, absolutely. But there’s also the fact that Ashlee is a twin, and her twin sister, Amber Marie Chavez, is a [...]
Exposed
March 14, 2010 – 10:00 pm
The idea for this week was to use a new artist, a new song and new image, that is, to help me edit an older post. Double exposure, right? And I definitely had that sort of visual image, visual template, if you will, in mind, treating text the same. I mean, this project was designed [...]
Hiding Places
March 6, 2010 – 7:30 pm
You know, it’s actually very difficult for me to describe the work of fifteen-year-old photographer Alex Simms. I’ve been watching his work for months, and I’ve been thinking about this all week, of course, but still. Even now, the best I can do is to say that every time I look at one of his [...]
And What of Shadows?
February 26, 2010 – 9:00 pm
Ghostly, yes, that’s one word that came to mind the first time I saw Lauren Smart’s photography. But there was something familiar, warm, almost, about her figures, these specters. She plays with role reversals quite a bit in that in her pictures, ghosts are very human, really, in how fragile they are, while her human [...]
(14), And In Love
February 18, 2010 – 7:30 pm
“(15), And In Love,” the title of this past week’s writing sketches, came from my correspondence with collaborator Audrey Gatewood. Early on, maybe even in our first exchange, we got to talking about the story line of Saccades, and this character Thea Denny and her relationship with her boyfriend, Cam, and more so, what it [...]
AKA Binkypictures
February 10, 2010 – 8:00 pm
It keeps happening: I wrote Bianca Gutman, also known as Binkypictures, yes, the night before our collaboration got started, because I had to double check for the Facebook announcement. I couldn’t remember if she was sixteen or seventeen, and I was thinking maybe seventeen, actually? Could she be a senior? Really couldn’t remember if she [...]