I got to collaborate with my good pal Melanie Valera (aka Tender Forever) on a music/video performance project for the 2009 Crossing the Line Festival in NYC. The Festival is organized by the French Institute Alliances Frances, and the exhibit we were apart of was curated by The Whitney Museum. The exhibit was centered around the work of, French film pioneer, Alice Guy Blanche. Melanie was given a short silent film of Blanche’s to score and the performance used the film as a jumping off point. The show consisted of live green screening, multi-screen projections, animations by Duncan Frazier and Bonnie Brenda Scott, and an audience-participation-cell-phone-motion-tracking segment programmed by Nick Lally.

I have some videos in a show that just opened at the FUSE Gallery in NYC with a whole bunch of Philly friends. You can visit it for the rest of the month and click HERE for images if you prefer to look at art on your computer. The show was curated by Damian Weinkrantz and acts as an installation of a Philadelphia apartment in NYC. The art was made by all the money we save by not paying NY rents.

If you’re around the Philadelphia Film Festival on Saturday April 4th, I will be on a panel discussion with several other Philadelphia filmmakers at DIVE in the Curtis Building at 601 Walnut St. at 4:00pm.

More info: HERE

I have a brand new video, which I shot years ago, it’s called “This One Time in Paris”and a rough cut will be screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival on Saturday March 28th at the International House at 9:30pm. Unfortunately I will be out of town but if you’re in L.A. we can hang out at the New Image Gallery for “American Realities” a new art show by Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Clare E. Rojas, and Lydia Fong.

We did a second tour of “ACTION NEWS”, a program of Philadelphia-based experimental films and music videos, which Dave Dunn and I curated as a project of the Small Change Screening Series. This time out we went through the South US. Our friends Paolo Giampietro and Chris Ward (who has two videos in the program) came with us. We drove through rain, shine, the first snow storm in Alabama in like 500 years, and found a puppy aka “Tour Dog” somewhere near Roanoke Virginia. Special thanks to everyone who gave us shows especially: Jerstin Crosby, Roger Beebe and everyone at FLEX (The Florida Experimental Film Festival), and Scott “Hot Scott” Ross and everyone at New College in Sarasota. We had a BLAST! Thanks so much to everyone who came to our shows!

I just did a promo spot for the Greater Philadelphia Department of Tourism and Marketing Corporation for their Philly LOVE campaign. We put out a public call assemble a huge group make-out session in LOVE Park. We were lucky enough to get an amazing group of people! Thanks so much to everyone who came and stood around for four hours making-out, especially Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross! Special thanks to all my friends who helped out especially: Mike Withers, Chris Cottone, Kendra Gaeta and Lime Projects, Rose Luardo, Karl Beyer, Dave Dunn, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Mary Chen, Tip Flannery, Paolo Giampietro, and Q.

Special thanks also goes out to the amazing Anna Biller who composed the song, which was originally written for her feature film, VIVA!

To watch the commercial click: HERE

The shoot got a bunch of hype which you can check out: CBS, KYW-1060 Radio, The Daily News, Philebrity, and the Philadelphia City Paper.

The Padlock Gallery celebrated it’s five year anniversary on Saturday February 7, 2009. The opening featured artwork from over 30 artists who have shown at the gallery over the years, and featured special performances by Johnny “Corndawg” Fritz and ATMJ. Co-founder Molly McIntyre even flew in from Oakland for the festivities! Special thanks to Molly McIntyre, Mark Price, Alina Josan, Mike Fleming, and Aryon Hoselton (he made the cakes).

Check out pictures by Mike Fleming: HERE

The International House will screening the Philly premiere of “Beautiful Losers”, a new documentary by Aaron Rose (of ANP Quarterly and Alleged Gallery). The film features artists such as: Margaret Kilgallen, ESPO, Ed Templeton, Harmony Korine, Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, and a bunch more.

The film’s cinematographer Tobin Yelland will be in attendance to answer questions and introduce the film.

The film will be screening with the short documentary about Space 1026 by me.

Space 1026 members will also be there selling tons of MERCH!Don’t be a sucker this will rule!!

Special thanks to Jesse Pires for making this happen!
Wednesday JANUARY 21st
8:00pm
$5.00 students&seniors/ $7.00 general admission
@ The International House
3701 Chestnut Street

More info: HERE!

StorySlams at the Philadelphia First Person Arts Festival.

So this happened… check out the HYPE

I’m in a group photo show with the other members of Space 1026 at Hamburger Eyes in San Francisco. The show is called “One Thousand Twenty-Six Eyes” and runs until November 5th. Big thanks to all my SF friends who helped hang the show: Molly McIntyre, Wendi Wing, and Dylan Mira. San Francisco ruled! For more pics go: HERE