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A reposting of the Bruce and Dom trailer as we get closer to completion.  The past month, I’ve been working on scoring the film and I’ve enjoyed it a lot.

A video recount of both the work I displayed at BOS 2010 and the story of the most my most interesting visitor of the weekend, Prince Sharuk:

The recent work of artist Mike Varley will be on display for Bushwick Open Studios 2010. Selections include pieces from his clothing to canvas series, a listening station for his spoken word album “The Events of Election ‘08″ and the public debut of his recently completed Twin Canvas Project. His works are mostly mixed media, using everything from 1960’s road maps and sweat stained tee-shirts to stolen track work signs and gallons of craft glue.

Where: 14 Bushwick Avenue

When: June 5th-6th, 12-7 PM

For more information, visit the following:

http://www.mikevarley.com/varley/art/art.html

www.theeventsofelection08.com

“On Joe the Plumber”
http://www.vimeo.com/3124126

An article dealing with the allure of the facebook phenomenon.  From the article:

One wonders if this is a good thing. It is difficult to imagine Aristotle or Caillois celebrating Farmville as essential to citizenship. Indeed, when one measures Farmville against Roger Caillois’ six criteria for defining games, Farmville fails to satisfy each and every one. Caillois stated that games must be free from obligation, separate from ‘real life,’ uncertain in outcome, an unproductive activity, governed by rules, and make-believe.[12] In comparison:

(1) Farmville is defined by obligation, routine, and responsibility;
(2) Farmville encroaches and depends upon real life, and is never entirely separate from it;
(3) Farmville is always certain in outcome, and involves neither chance nor skill;
(4) Farmville is a productive activity, in that it adds to the social capital upon which Facebook and Zynga depend for their wealth;
(5) Farmville is governed not by rules, but by habits, and simple cause-and-effect;
(6) Farmville is not make-believe, in that it requires neither immersion nor suspension of disbelief.

The first of ten videos.

The idea of Heaven is more fluid than you might imagine.

The best guess origins of the word ‘okay.’

Elton John Improvises a song out of oven instructions.  Quite impressive, actually.

Never let despair tremble your stride.

Easter Road Trip 2010

Who: Erin Welch and Mike Varley

When: March, 31 - April 7, 2010

Where: Washington, DC, Maryland, West Virginia, Shenandoah Valley, Richmond and Gettysburg.

Why: To see the road and visit friends.

Day 1

March 31st was a work and travel day.  I left Long Island at 8pm after working 11 hours at Carillon, picked up Erin at my apartment and drove straight through to Washington, DC.  Those first late night Cherry Blossoms driving through a quiet capital were a sign of things to come the following day.  We made it to Kristine’s house in Cleveland Park at 1:30 AM and went almost immediately to sleep on her pullout couch.

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