The fine folks at the Radar project dedicated a full episode of this season to myself and Red Light Properties, making a short film about how I create this new work at this particular turning point in my life/career.
And if you’re not already reading RLP, the first page is right here.
You can also check out the rest of Radar’s well-done arts series on Babelgum.
This past spring during my visit to Ohio University’s Aesthetic Technologies Lab, I was kidnapped for an hour by Betsey Merkel, one of the brains behind the I-Open Foundation, which connects “thinkers” into a network in the hopes for problem-solving for social change.
Betsey ushered into one of the school’s screen-printing studios and showed me a diagram of beliefs and intents, then conducted one of the most original interviews I’ve ever had. She asked me fundamental but deep-drilling abstract questions about my core beliefs, my work, my perceived relation to the world, etc. In my defense, I was stuffed to the gills with antibiotics at the time, so enjoy my answers with a dash of salt, yeah?
I also love the YouCube presentation they used, where my interview is just a single facet of a 3D cube, talking simultaenously with five other interviewees. You can touch and play with it too; a fun thing I’ve never seen before:
More information on Betsey and I-Open can be found here.
At the top of this year, a camera crew with the UK series Television Junction came by my studio to interview me for “Reading Aloud in New York”, the NY episode of their children’s-literacy program. Hosted by Jon Scieszka and featuring the New Yorker’s Françoise Mouly and others, it’s a quick look at the reading (and comic-reading) landscape for kids/young adults here in the Big Apple:
As promised, here is the video of our recent 08 book signing at Book Court; the event went wonderfully and BC’s Zack was thoughtful enough to record our presentation for the rest of you at home:
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