"An oblong city, between two rivers, with streets like deep...

"A spy camera video exploration of Brooklyn's designated bike lanes, a conceptual video which addresses the inefficiency of a car-centric city structure, while presenting a whimsical view of a life in constant transit."

This piece was created by my friend Meghan Ciupka-Whiteford; a Brookln-based public artist dealing with environmental and transportation issues. The video's pedal-fixed perspective results in minimalist view of cycling in the city. While initially disorienting, the video's "oblong" and repetitious structure soon acclimates the viewer to the textural and aural subtleties of bicycling through the Redhook neighborhood of Brooklyn. A rythym of pulsing traffic sounds filtered through an ungulating pattern of view is broken only by variations in artist's speed and tactful coasting techniques. The near micro-level examination of travel demonstrates the artist's travails as she dodges traffic, jumps curbs, and takes refuge along sidewalks. The video provides a stylistically fresh and conceptual relevant take on the sensoral and at time dangerous qualities of cyling in a city.

News Telescope

NEWS TELESCOPE

"A fixed public device which allows people to view news from around the world in the form of RSS feed content displayedon screen. The news is chosen and acquired by physically interacting with this device; moving the telescope part of it, so as to train sights - set direction and distance - in order to focus on and pick up news from a particular geographical location."

My friend Edd is working on this public space infoscope at the Goldsmith Media Research Programme. He tells me that they have 5 years of funding lined up to continue developing public use technology in urban space.

See the prototype on his Flickr page...

WWW.GRAHAMPROJECTS.COM

I finally finished my art website, Graham Projects! I am so fucking amped.

I am also unrolling a new art blog: Graham Projects Blog....

Lastly, I live in Baltimore now. Shits awesome.

Graham Projects is born!

I finally finished my internet home-base: grahamprojects.com. This has been a long time in the works. I basically just worked full time on the project for the last week and a half straight. Meanwhile, I have owned this domain for well over a year. Its about damn time I got a web presence for my art projects.

I am feeling really good about this whole experience. I have built a four or five websites over the years. However, each time I sit down to build one, its been so long that I have to completely re-learn whatever program I am using to build the site. This time I made major progress, as I began to learn how to write in straight HTML code. I am now feeling confident this foundation will serve me well in the future as I continue to do work on the web.