Somehow, October is already here one third over, despite no one having consulted me. I’ve shared some pieces of what a difficult Summer I had on this platform; as I dust myself o...
2023-10-14 03:45:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Here now, finally on Wifi - a sample of Jeff Goodell's book. Some bleak to kick off your month!
2023-10-01 12:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This past summer I gave remarks at the wedding of some treasured friends. It was a beautiful ceremony, and came at a time when I'm thinking pretty deeply and heavily about the ways that "Love" ...
2023-09-29 23:09:10 +0000 UTC View PostIf you like me had the misfortune of spending the Summer in Washington DC, you likely sweated a lake and found no relief. Even if your location was more fortunate, chances are good...
2023-09-14 22:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Conversation is a commerce, and when we give speech we become a part of what we speak with.
- Chapter 4; The Bond.
Hey All,
As I close out a month in Washington DC working on Monument Lab's contribution to the Pulling Together exhibition, I'm replacing this month's Archive Highlight with a new test f...
Another difficult month in the books - I appreciate your patience and grace as I support loved ones in my personal life, and go 2023-08-18 12:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post
BEFORE YOU HIT PLAY - I've got an offer for you:
In 2020, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched the “Monuments Project,” a $250 million investment designed to “transform the way our...
Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio that cultivates and facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.
While my work...
First off, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who reached out with messages of support after my post last month. Starting in 2020, as we moved through many phases of pandemi...
2023-07-11 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
The more chronological amongst you may have noted that it is quite late in June for reading lists or any such updates.
Full transparency: it's been an unexpected and di...
This month, I featured Jenny Offill's phenomenal book "Weather." Take a listen for a sample !
2023-06-01 10:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostAll this talk in the news about AI and “datasets” has got me thinking about the way I relate to “Creative Data;” when I helped build a BFA at Tisch Open Arts, our conversations...
2023-05-28 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember a few months ago when I said things were so hectic that I was re-reading Mary Oliver's collection of Essays for some peace?
Anyway, here's Wonderwall.
If you’re asking generally on the East Coast this week, then I’d say “pretty good.” But if you’re asking about Jenny Offil’s novel “Weather”—then boy oh boy do I ...
2023-05-11 02:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Things are all-hands-on-deck on the high-seas, with Undersigned's appearance at 2023-04-13 22:33:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Just dashing off a quick note of thanks for your patience - reading excerpts for last month and updates for this month will be arriving in a few days as I wind down the run of ...
This is the fifth in a series of posts about my experiments in different payment Systems across my projects 2023-03-16 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’ve been with the Patreon forever, you may remember that I had wanted to read this book a year and a half ago, but lost it for a while. Now that I’ve hands on it again, and since I’...
2023-03-06 14:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
“Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” So begins the academic paper that inspired Annie Murphy Paul’s book (and will probably churn it’s way into being a piece of mine ...
2023-03-01 14:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis month I I had the lucky chance to catch my collaborator and friend Jacob Ford for a conversation, which he very kindly offered to record. As such, we’re gonna take a break from writing in th...
2023-02-26 15:50:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Get out of your head” is every acting teacher’s favorite shouted command (and a sure-fire way to trigger theater-school-trauma from any graduate). But Anna Murphy Paul has a...
2023-02-10 20:15:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Shopping for some good tools and tricks in your creative practice? Well, there are quicker books than Twyla Tharp's "The Creative Habit," and there are more enjoyable books too — but as a center ...
2023-02-01 03:40:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis is part 4 in an ongoing series on the different ways people pay for my experiences, and the second half of two highlights about the...
2023-02-01 02:39:22 +0000 UTC View Post
As I continue to look critically at my creative practice in the ongoing Archive Highlight Series, I’m riding the wave of introspection with some reading to inform my general prac...
2023-01-06 21:19:56 +0000 UTC View PostAs some of you may have seen in the most recent Archive Highlight, I'm halfway through a review of the data on the pay...
2023-01-04 22:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a quote I’ve always liked, which goes something like; “if I had more time, I’d have written you a shorter letter.” Very much that spirit, today I bring you perhaps the lo...
2023-01-02 04:21:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the third in a series of posts about my experimental Payment Systems across my projects:2022-12-31 21:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Timing Note: If you're on the West Coast, please kindly inform everyone else that it is still in fact November, and I'm definitely not LATE or anything. If you're on the East Coast (or even Eas...
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