A Day in the Life of an Artist in 288 five minute videos
What is this all about?
I started as a video/conceptual artist back in the early 90s [Planet 3.9] , but since ’97 I haven’t done much video art at all. For the past few years I have wanted to get back in the video art game, especially with the advent of the internet and youtube and digital cameras. After a year or two of thinking about what to do, this idea popped into my head after a dream:
I am making five minute videos (each one-take) of various parts of my day. Eventually I will have made 288 videos that will comprise 24 hours – a 1-day ‘William Burroughs/Brion Gysin-like cut-up‘–albeit with video not words–of my life. It might take me two or three years to do this.
When completed, I’d like to screen them all in a 24+ hour showing.
I will make a lot of videos of people I meet on the street and at shows and openings and on-line, so that it will be a documentation of the Northampton scene.
So far the most interesting thing about this project is how hyper-aware I’ve become of how long five minutes is, and how much wasted time there is in our lives spent sleeping. It makes learning to lucid dream seem like a worthy vocation.
link to YOUTUBE Channel
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12:00 AM 12:05 AM
12:05 AM 12:10 AM
12:10 AM 12:15 AM
12:15 AM 12:20 AM
12:20 AM 12:25 AM looking at booklets by douglas weathersby
12:25 AM 12:30 AM
12:30 AM 12:35 AM
12:35 AM 12:40 AM
12:40 AM 12:45 AM
12:45 AM 12:50 AM
12:50 AM 12:55 AM watching maybellene give herself a bath
12:55 AM 1:00 AM
1:00 AM 1:05 AM
1:05 AM 1:10 AM
1:10 AM 1:15 AM
1:15 AM 1:20 AM
1:20 AM 1:25 AM
1:25 AM 1:30 AM
1:30 AM 1:35 AM
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1:50 AM 1:55 AM
1:55 AM 2:00 AM
2:00 AM 2:05 AM
2:05 AM 2:10 AM
2:10 AM 2:15 AM
2:15 AM 2:20 AM
2:20 AM 2:25 AM
2:25 AM 2:30 AM
2:30 AM 2:35 AM
2:35 AM 2:40 AM
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2:55 AM 3:00 AM
3:00 AM 3:05 AM
3:05 AM 3:10 AM
3:10 AM 3:15 AM
3:15 AM 3:20 AM
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3:25 AM 3:30 AM
3:30 AM 3:35 AM
3:35 AM 3:40 AM
3:40 AM 3:45 AM
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3:50 AM 3:55 AM
3:55 AM 4:00 AM
4:00 AM 4:05 AM
4:05 AM 4:10 AM
4:10 AM 4:15 AM
4:15 AM 4:20 AM
4:20 AM 4:25 AM
4:25 AM 4:30 AM
4:30 AM 4:35 AM
4:35 AM 4:40 AM
4:40 AM 4:45 AM
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4:50 AM 4:55 AM
4:55 AM 5:00 AM
5:00 AM 5:05 AM
5:05 AM 5:10 AM
5:10 AM 5:15 AM
5:15 AM 5:20 AM
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5:30 AM 5:35 AM
5:35 AM 5:40 AM
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5:55 AM 6:00 AM
6:00 AM 6:05 AM
6:05 AM 6:10 AM
6:10 AM 6:15 AM
6:15 AM 6:20 AM getting up early to paint
6:20 AM 6:25 AM
6:25 AM 6:30 AM
6:30 AM 6:35 AM
6:35 AM 6:40 AM
6:40 AM 6:45 AM
6:45 AM 6:50 AM
6:50 AM 6:55 AM
6:55 AM 7:00 AM
7:00 AM 7:05 AM
7:05 AM 7:10 AM
7:10 AM 7:15 AM
7:15 AM 7:20 AM
7:20 AM 7:25 AM
7:25 AM 7:30 AM
7:30 AM 7:35 AM
7:35 AM 7:40 AM
7:40 AM 7:45 AM
7:45 AM 7:50 AM
7:50 AM 7:55 AM
7:55 AM 8:00 AM
8:00 AM 8:05 AM
8:05 AM 8:10 AM looking at foliage from the hotel bridge
8:10 AM 8:15 AM
8:15 AM 8:20 AM
8:20 AM 8:25 AM
8:25 AM 8:30 AM
8:30 AM 8:35 AM
8:35 AM 8:40 AM
8:40 AM 8:45 AM
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8:50 AM 8:55 AM
8:55 AM 9:00 AM
9:00 AM 9:05 AM
9:05 AM 9:10 AM driving through springfield
9:10 AM 9:15 AM
9:15 AM 9:20 AM
9:20 AM 9:25 AM
9:25 AM 9:30 AM
9:30 AM 9:35 AM
9:35 AM 9:40 AM
9:40 AM 9:45 AM
9:45 AM 9:50 AM looking at little dot paintings
9:50 AM 9:55 AM
9:55 AM 10:00 AM
10:00 AM 10:05 AM browsing at the jones library
10:05 AM 10:10 AM
10:10 AM 10:15 AM
10:15 AM 10:20 AM
10:20 AM 10:25 AM
10:25 AM 10:30 AM
10:30 AM 10:35 AM
10:35 AM 10:40 AM arranging books on a shelf
10:40 AM 10:45 AM riding into town on my bike
10:45 AM 10:50 AM making juice
10:50 AM 10:55 AM
10:55 AM 11:00 AM
11:00 AM 11:05 AM documenting a happy cat in a sunbeam
11:05 AM 11:10 AM watching a tree fall
11:10 AM 11:15 AM looking at barred owls
11:15 AM 11:20 AM
11:20 AM 11:25 AM
11:25 AM 11:30 AM testing equipment with heather for on-line interviews
11:30 AM 11:35 AM
11:35 AM 11:40 AM
11:40 AM 11:45 AM
11:45 AM 11:50 AM
11:50 AM 11:55 AM contemplating water flowing over a dam
11:55 AM 12:00 PM
12:00 PM 12:05 PM driving home from the laundrymat
12:05 PM 12:10 PM walking on the bike path
12:10 PM 12:15 PM
12:15 PM 12:20 PM
12:20 PM 12:25 PM watching don chapelle carve some ice
12:25 PM 12:30 PM looking for a particular pen
12:30 PM 12:35 PM drinking a latte at the foundry
12:35 PM 12:40 PM sitting in front of city hall
12:40 PM 12:45 PM outside at northampton coffee
12:45 PM 12:50 PM
12:50 PM 12:55 PM watching the disposal of the cool tree near the skate park that was unfortunately killed by the october blizzard
12:55 PM 1:00 PM
1:00 PM 1:05 PM
1:05 PM 1:10 PM
1:10 PM 1:15 PM
1:15 PM 1:20 PM
1:20 PM 1:25 PM
1:25 PM 1:30 PM
1:30 PM 1:35 PM
1:35 PM 1:40 PM drinking a soy latte at northampton coffee
1:40 PM 1:45 PM checking out the graffiti wall at hampshire college
1:45 PM 1:50 PM before the whoo reception
1:50 PM 1:55 PM
1:55 PM 2:00 PM
2:00 PM 2:05 PM
2:05 PM 2:10 PM making a prismacolor chart
2:10 PM 2:15 PM
2:15 PM 2:20 PM
2:20 PM 2:25 PM
2:25 PM 2:30 PM
2:30 PM 2:35 PM relaxing at look park
2:35 PM 2:40 PM
2:40 PM 2:45 PM
2:45 PM 2:50 PM
2:50 PM 2:55 PM
2:55 PM 3:00 PM
3:00 PM 3:05 PM
3:05 PM 3:10 PM enjoying a latte by the fire
3:10 PM 3:15 PM
3:15 PM 3:20 PM
3:20 PM 3:25 PM
3:25 PM 3:30 PM making some pochoirs
3:30 PM 3:35 PM
3:35 PM 3:40 PM
3:40 PM 3:45 PM
3:45 PM 3:50 PM
3:50 PM 3:55 PM
3:55 PM 4:00 PM
4:00 PM 4:05 PM
4:05 PM 4:10 PM
4:10 PM 4:15 PM
4:15 PM 4:20 PM setting up an acrylic palette
4:20 PM 4:25 PM
4:25 PM 4:30 PM
4:30 PM 4:35 PM
4:35 PM 4:40 PM
4:40 PM 4:45 PM
4:45 PM 4:50 PM
4:50 PM 4:55 PM waiting for heather near thornes
4:55 PM 5:00 PM
5:00 PM 5:05 PM waiting for dinner at paul and elizabeth’s
5:05 PM 5:10 PM
5:10 PM 5:15 PM
5:15 PM 5:20 PM sitting near the donation frog
5:20 PM 5:25 PM
5:25 PM 5:30 PM
5:30 PM 5:35 PM
5:35 PM 5:40 PM looking through a box of art show postcards
5:40 PM 5:45 PM
5:45 PM 5:50 PM
5:50 PM 5:55 PM
5:55 PM 6:00 PM
6:00 PM 6:05 PM electronic music improvisation with heather
6:05 PM 6:10 PM
6:10 PM 6:15 PM looking at an article about andy warhol in playboy
6:15 PM 6:20 PM
6:20 PM 6:25 PM
6:25 PM 6:30 PM
6:30 PM 6:35 PM
6:35 PM 6:40 PM looking at paintings at luke cavagnac’s studio
6:40 PM 6:45 PM
6:45 PM 6:50 PM
6:50 PM 6:55 PM
6:55 PM 7:00 PM
7:00 PM 7:05 PM
7:05 PM 7:10 PM watching performance art at the dynamite space
7:10 PM 7:15 PM
7:15 PM 7:20 PM
7:20 PM 7:25 PM watching dorian at foe
7:25 PM 7:30 PM
7:30 PM 7:35 PM
7:35 PM 7:40 PM
7:40 PM 7:45 PM at the print show opening at ape
7:45 PM 7:50 PM working on joe’s pizza painting
7:50 PM 7:55 PM documenting the garamaniacal show at foe
7:55 PM 8:00 PM watching sam gas can perform
8:00 PM 8:05 PM looking at the moister show opening at foe
8:05 PM 8:10 PM after the whoo reception
8:10 PM 8:15 PM
8:15 PM 8:20 PM getting ready to frame a giclee of the woodstar cafe
8:20 PM 8:25 PM
8:25 PM 8:30 PM walking around the mall
8:30 PM 8:35 PM
8:35 PM 8:40 PM
8:40 PM 8:45 PM
8:45 PM 8:50 PM
8:50 PM 8:55 PM painting a zebra
8:55 PM 9:00 PM
9:00 PM 9:05 PM
9:05 PM 9:10 PM
9:10 PM 9:15 PM
9:15 PM 9:20 PM
9:20 PM 9:25 PM
9:25 PM 9:30 PM sam gas can at flying object
9:30 PM 9:35 PM
9:35 PM 9:40 PM making electronic music
9:40 PM 9:45 PM
9:45 PM 9:50 PM
9:50 PM 9:55 PM
9:55 PM 10:00 PM
10:00 PM 10:05 PM
10:05 PM 10:10 PM
10:10 PM 10:15 PM
10:15 PM 10:20 PM hanging out with maybellene
10:20 PM 10:25 PM
10:25 PM 10:30 PM
10:30 PM 10:35 PM
10:35 PM 10:40 PM
10:40 PM 10:45 PM sticking a sticker
10:45 PM 10:50 PM
10:50 PM 10:55 PM
10:55 PM 11:00 PM
11:00 PM 11:05 PM
11:05 PM 11:10 PM
11:10 PM 11:15 PM painting bricks
11:15 PM 11:20 PM
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11:25 PM 11:30 PM
11:30 PM 11:35 PM
11:35 PM 11:40 PM
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