Memorial Day Weekend, 2023 !

Thank you Grandpa, for your service.  R.I.P.

RIP Tina Turner (83 years young)

R.I.P. Kenneth Anger (96 yrs young)

Relic Find

Found this randomly falling from a cabinet this morning while brewing my black coffee. Film School surprise award from my professors... I love that it was hand written and placed into my college film school mailbox. It was chump change, but when shooting on 16mm film- every penny counted. bye. 

LIVE Cannes Film Festival 2023 stream link ....

 

Going to Cannes was an experience never forgotten and one of the best times of my life 

Director Jerry Schatzberg & The Panic In Needle Park

One of the film's that inspired me to go to film school was THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, directed by Jerry Schatzberg. And, not only is Jerry from the Bronx like me, but my editing professor at film school ended up being Evan Lottman (RIP)- the editor of PANIC! Insane. I love Jerry- he's 95 now, focused primarily on still photography and hilarious true artist.

 

Me and Jerry Schatzberg 2023

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2023 Interview and Q and A session...

Kim Iverson on the dangers of AI Tech (artificial intelligence)

Lil' Joey with a bowtie

Winter Gear 2023

Siouxie at age 65 returns ! Performs LIVE -2023

     Underground Icon. Punk Queen forever.  #theBromleyContingent 

Lena Baker and Expanded Cinema - 'On Griffin Alley'

ON GRIFFIN ALLEY, is an 'Expanded Cinema' live performance work and interdisciplinary experiment, fusing stage theatre and expanded cinema techniques. The goal is not to have a “clean, finished product,” but rather, it is an exploration of the process of the work, which subsequently becomes the work. Through the use of found objects, artifacts, archival film footage, and sound design we hope to create a new language of performance. 'ON GRIFFIN ALLEY' Directed by: Joey Huertas Starring: Connie Winston Written by THE WATCH (collaboration between the two artists Joey and Connie) Live soundscape music performance: Joey Huertas ALL 'LIVE SOUNDSCAPE MUSIC' PERFORMED DERIVES FROM SAMPLED SOUNDS CAPTURED FROM LIVE POWER GENERATORS AND LIVE ELECTRICITY SOURCES. On Griffin Alley is a an anti Capital Punishment work and a re-imagining of the trial of Lena Baker, a 44-year old Black American female who was convicted of killing Ernest B. Knight, her 56-year old white male employer with whom she also was engaged in an illicit love affair in Jim Crow Cuthbert, Georgia. *** Baker is the first and only woman to ever be electrocuted in the State of Georgia. The year was 1944. Baker’s trial lasted for less than one full day, and her jury was comprised of twelve white males. The trial transcript is approximately ten pages long. This live performance was created by interpreting the transcript during self-imposed DIY residency and using found artifacts to design the stage set and "Old Sparky" electric chair.

bye.

 

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LANDR

 https://www.landr.com/

LANDR is a cloud-based music creation platform developed by MixGenius, an artificial intelligence company based in Montreal, Quebec. Since launching with its flagship automated mastering service in 2014, LANDR has expanded its offerings to include distribution services, a music samples library, virtual studio technology (VSTs) and plug-ins, a service marketplace for musicians, and online video conferencing. bye.

'The Joe Perry Project' - epic show last night live at Webster Hall, NYC ! Pure raw blues rock!

JAMS AND iPHONE CLIPS here...

Press Kit - for Cannes Film Festival 2023 (link below)

             

     

https://cdn-medias.festival-cannes.com/uploads/2023/04/dp-en-13-04-2023-1.pdf

Went to visit my film family at their new micro-cinema theatre, art gallery and home space in Brooklyn. So happy to see so much life - and rebirth- come from an organization that inspired so many film artists since the 1960's. So happy and proud of you guys! MFW lives on and is thriving once again !  

bye.

Lake Champlain, Vermont & the hunt for a sea monster.

#CHAMP-SEAMONSTERHUNTEXPEDITION

The Indigenous people that have long lived and hunted near Lake Champlain, the Abenaki and the Iroquois, have their own legends about a large creature inhabiting the lake, which looked like a large, horned serpent or giant snake. The Abenaki term for this creature is Gitaskog. Early in the 18th century, Abenakis warned French explorers about disturbing the waters of the lake, so as not to disturb the serpent. Samuel de Champlain, whom the lake is named after, is often erroneously credited with being the first European to sight Champ, but readings of his accounts show that he saw something near the St. Lawrence River. Nevertheless, his account of his sighting is of interest to anyone with an interest in lake monsters!

Champlain described what he saw like this: ". . . [T]here is also a great abundance of many species of fish. Amongst others there is one called by the natives Chaousarou, which is of various lengths; but the largest of them, as these tribes have told me, are from eight to ten feet long. I have seen some five feet long, which were as big as my thigh, and had a head as large as my two fists, with a snout two feet and a half long, and a double row of very sharp, dangerous teeth. Its body has a good deal the shape of the pike; but it is protected by scales of a silvery gray colour and so strong that a dagger could not pierce them."

Historians think Champ is probably a garfish, a class that includes lake sturgeon, which still live in Lake Champlain today. Champlain's description of the creature sounds very much like a garfish, albeit much larger than usual.

Click on Link (below) to article on the history of sightings & the mythic sea creature:

https://www.lakechamplainregion.com/heritage/champ

#TEAMMICKMARS

My punk rock axe from my east coast club-scene performance days before film school. Once Punk, always Punk. bye.

 #pleaseflush

'Joey From The Bronx' calls Wolfgang Van Halen to talk drums, Alex and VH re-issues...

     

Meeting Kari Lake

  Producer KSAZ-TV  Kari Lake  2023  

"Single synth notes to ramp up tension 🎶 "

 

My creativity DIY War Room

 

https://contactinthedesert.com/schedule/lectures/

                                         

                                                                             Zeta Reticuli 

St. Patty's and Gallagher's Steakhouse NYC

Ribeye and French Onion- nuff said. bye.  #classicsteakhouse