A little late, but pictures from our trip to Seattle and Portland:
http://www.davidhart.org/images/seattleportland/seattleportland.html

Another one for work — edited footage from the Warm Up series into something almost watchable; however, the New York Times launched a video two days before that was much cooler:

Our friend Steve came across a posting about tours in an old underground trolley tunnel in Brooklyn (http://www.brooklynrail.net/bhra_events.html)

Unfortunately, I fell victim to a bad case of Tunnel Madness during the tour, and bludgeoned Steve. Click on the photo for more images.

We all know that the Japanese are cooler than we are, but they even have cooler art supplies. When we went to Seattle I found a Japanese bookstore and a cool little Pentel Aquash set that comes in a little case; I’ve had the single color brushpens before, but the set is so much cooler. Even a lazy sketcher like me can have fun with these beasties (click on the images for bigger versions:

Directions while in Seattle:

Sketches on a bus out to Long Island:

Our friend Nina was over and needed to scan some stuff, so I had to show her how it worked — here’s the result:

My friend Dave had seen these amazing little videos while he was in Japan (see his neat little movie about hitchhiking in Japan: http://professorbright.com/tohoku/index.html) and found them recently. Now, someone has put them on YouTube. It’s impossible not to blown away by it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pAmVipomcA&NR=1

On my flight home from Seattle I sat next to a man and a woman. The guy starts chatting up the lady, but she quickly points out that she’s married. He’s undettered in his chattiness, and I worry at the thought of 5 hours of this. After a while he turns to me and asks me if I want a piece of a bet — he says he’s the mayor of Newark (which he calls an “urban mecca” and which I quickly scoff at) and that there was an Oscar-nominated movie (partially) made about him. If I lose, we have to go out to dinner in Newark at a restaurant of his choice, and attend a show at NJPAC, the performing arts center in Newark.

After having a copy of Newsweek produced with an article featuring him (including a photo) and a security detail meeting him at the airport, I put both feet squarely in my mouth and said “Mmmph Grmp Frppp”. So off to Newark I go, I guess.

The dirt: he’s a really nice guy, a good chatter, a vegetarian, and is currently filling his Netflix queue with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And this is his personal e-mail address.

WPS1, the online radio station of PS1 Contemporary Art Center, broadcasts live from the Venice Biennale every year. This year someone shot some footage and I edited together a little movie for it:

Cort (CK Studios Inc) shot these to match up to the Acoustiguide audio for Serra. I just uploaded them to YouTube — it’s impossible to do justice to the big things on the small screen, but pretty good (if you can’t see it, the link is: http://www.youtube.com/p/8A7DDAAA1735F085

Marité has been busy editing for work, but also writing and getting published.

Here’s an article on burgers in L.A. she co-wrote, even though she’s a vegetarian:
http://www.fodors.com/wire/archives/002521.cfm

And articles for a new website, Divine Caroline -
One about shopping for wedding presents:
http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22270/30452
And one on bridal sample sales:
http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22254/30646

I’ve been playing around with time lapse photo for a while now (http://davidhart.org/blech/archives/173) and got to do a really cool one at work for the Richard Serra installation. It’s on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/v/l1sBpsyRNfM) now, which makes it look really small and unimpressive, but a bigger version will be on the Serra exhibition site when it goes up in a bit. The music is from a guy who records as “I am Robot and Proud” (http://www.robotandproud.com) out of Toronto.

So there’s a new show up at work (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=3956) where an artist is drawing directly on the walls in the atrium. Pretty awesome. Someone in our marketing group shot some footage of it, and I edited together this short video of it for YouTube: (in the link below doesn’t work, go here: http://www.youtube.com/v/CkXXNGfx_3k)

The Guerrilla Girls presented at a recent symposium at MoMA. I cut the audio down and synched the images to create this shortened version of it for YouTube.

There are times that you think maybe the editors of newspapers let the guys from The Onion take over for the day. Two recent examples — one from Yahoo and another from the Times (good to see Kenneth Starr staying focused on important things, and good to see the Supreme Court tackling the hard issues).

As part of work I got to edit a video of Polly Apfelbaum installing Blossom for the upcoming exhibition Comic Abstraction. I didn’t shoot the video and the audio was from Acoustiguide, but slapped it all into place.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lz8wfW_j6YM

When you have two cats, you can count on SCARY dustbunnies. Here’s a doodle based on them: