Weirdwolf

This webisode of There’s No Place Like Here was shot with my old pal and former Sundance Channel colleague Tina Spangler, a.k.a LuxtonLake. She moved upstate about five years ago to a little forgotten community of Narrowsburg, NY, called Luxton Lake. Once a thriving vacation destination for African-American New Yorkers, the area was mostly abandoned in the 1970s when the dam was removed and the lake was drained. Tina found a dilapidated 1950s cabin in foreclosure and with very little funds, decided to take the leap and fix it up. Spending time at Tina’s sweet little cabin upstate makes my long for a get away in the woods of my own! I’m working on it…

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“PAPER RAD is a Pittsburgh, PA/Northampton, MA collective that has bubbled under the elastic waistline of the world’s slacks for over a decade, tickling its privates and filling its diapers.” — Load Records

The collective behind the music video 13 Monsters, Paper Rad, utilizes a low-fi style that crosses many genres and art movements. Their frenetic collage-like animations match the pace and explosive vibe of the noise band Lightning Bolt. For me it’s a perfect match of intensity in sound and vision. Paper Rad’s DIY aesthetic uses pure RGB colors, no scanning of images and no use of a wacom tablet for digital imaging. This work takes pop art a step further by collaging images from culture’s near past and reclaiming them into a mash-up of pop nostalgia and cartoon chaos.
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The wonderful, nutty, poetic pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, Agnes Varda has made an elegiac memoir with The Beaches of Anges. Any fan of Varda’s later, more autobiographical work will not be disappionted.

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(music by Luc, animation by JuliaPott)

What a treat to shoot the home of Alice Saunders, a.k.a. Forestbound, and Francesca Zmetra, a.k.a. The Snail and The Cyclops. These two gals live right around the corner from where I used to live in Jamaica Plain, MA after I finished school at Mass Art. Their aesthetics are very simpatico with mine. A love of vintage postcards of mountain scenes, raw birchbark, 1940′s suitcases and feedsack dresses… I felt right at home in their lovely abode.

Read the full article on Etsy’s blog. And watch the rest of the There’s No Place Like Here series.

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