2020 we need war but we don't need violence (prototype)
A teaser for my shelter in place war spectacle to end all war spectacles.
2020 César Chávez Park Berkeley CA April 14 2020
Usually it's tax day.
2019 Transit Fever, December 26, 2019
Fighting a winter catarrh with the ecstasy of trains and buses.
2016 CONTINUUM
Twenty-minute precis of a 15-hour performance featuring inkBoat, The Long Tone Choir, thingamajigs, and the poet Stephen Ratcliffe, on Mare Island, California, October 1 2016. More information here.
2016 Subterranean Choo-Choo
Inventory and shipping of the Subterranean Arthouse, made as we were moving out.
2015 Aeoilan Day 2015
This is a promotion / document for Aeolian Day 2015, a festival of wind-powered musical instruments curated by thingamajigs.
2013 Art in Nature Festival 2012
This photo links to an album of videos I made for the 2012 Art in Nature Festival, an event held annually in Oakland's Redwood Park. I made montages from a variety of footage and a variety of cameras . . ."Soundgarden" and "Brass Menazeri" are two of my favorites.
2012 Kinetic Arts 2011
Another album of video montages, this time to document a 2011 April Fools' Day show at Kinetic Arts. The "juggling and contortion" video gets the most plays, probably because of the strong performances.
2011 Vanishing Point
This is a full-length document of the final performance of Vanishing Point by The Carpetbag Brigade. I'm proud of the editing in this video.
2010 Almond Harvest 2009, Ripon, California
A video of the penultimate almond harvest on my father's farm. Made in a blind, voracious way to make a pattern out of what was happening.
2009 DEAD POETS WALK
A performance on the streets of South Berkeley, in collaboration with Naomi West . . . and the people we encountered, who become large figures in a world of fantasy.
2009 DEAD POETS LIVE
Music and readings at a launch party for Dead Poets Walk, featuring The Cliff Notes.
2008 Standing for Tibet
Afraid of being shot, the messenger hides, and nostalgia for empires that might have been takes over the plaza. The Red Star curls up with the Stars and Stripes while the Black Bloc watches from the trees. A Marin County monk has no argument for a Beijing business major.
2008 Walking for Burma
My love of Eisenstein influences my view of this action on a bridge. The result has been enviously called "meaningless" by one of the Zen devotees who appear in it.