Coachella
ADAM FREELAND
@ COACHELLA
HERE
are some GREAT photos of Freeland's show- it was
fantastic fun!
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desert appreciation
Greetings from an Oasis in the High Desert.
I have a deep attraction to this rough and rocky
desert region which I cannot explain. It cannot be
nostalgia because I grew up on the East Coast
surrounded by water, swimming, sailing and learning
to tie knots. But something about this Western
desertscape just makes me feel GOOD. I came here for
the first time in the year 2000 and stayed at
the
Twenty Nine Palms
Inn
&
I am back here today. The small adobe bungalows
without telephones or wifi are perfect for a quiet
getaway (even though Johnny has set up a rehersal
video studio in our bungalow.)
I have been back to the high desert several times
since 2000 and I always fantasize about what it would
be like to live in this remote region of bright sun
and strong wind. A month ago I found my high desert
dreamhouse for sale and got close to actually taking
that leap into the desert. But for now I am happy to
come here on mini-vacations, cause I still have too
accomplish in the city.
Speaking of vacations, last night we sat in a hot
tub, gazing up at the star filled sky and listening
to the birds. Today Johnny turned a year older and I
am reminded of how much the both of us have grown. I
could not ask for a more amazing partner or
interesting life- Happy Birthday Baby! Tomorrow we
head to Coachella and then off for a month+ tour of
the US.
They painted a movie screen on the bungalow for lawn
screenings
Hot tub shack on the edge of the Oasis
On the road with projectors
NODE VIDEO
(that is us!) is getting ready to hit the road with
our live video shows. We are excited to cross-cross
America and would love to see you along the way.
Friday, April 25 at
COACHELLA
in
Indio, CA
with Adam Freeland
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Tuesday, April 29
Mexico City, Mexico
Friday, May 2
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, May 3
Oakland, CA
Monday, May 5
Seattle, WA
Tuesday, May 6
Vancouver, BC
Friday & Saturday, May 9 & 10
Calgary, ALB
Monday, May 12
Minneapolis, MN
Tuesday, May 13
Chicago, IL
Wednesday, May 14
Detroit, MI
Friday, May 16
Columbus, OH
Saturday, May 17
Cleveland, OH
Sunday, May 18
Albany, NY
Tuesday, May 20
Boston, MA
Wednesday & Thursday, May 21 & 22
New York, NY
Monday, May 26
Washington, DC
Tuesday, May 27
Richmond, VA
Wednesday, May 28
Atlanta, GA
Friday, May 30
Miami, FL
Saturday, May 31
Orlando, FL
Sunday, June 1
Tampa, FL
Wednesday, June 4
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Globe Trekker
Today Luc and I went to The Getty to check out
the
California Video
exhibition and decided that we would need to go back
when we had more time. AH...the curse of time-based
exhibitions. Here is one of our photos from today's
trip up Mt.Getty.
Tonight I turned on TV to watch one of those travel
shows that I adore and was surprised that Megan, the
host from
Globe Trekker
was not in Istanbul or Hong Kong because she was
right here with me in Los Angeles. She even went up
to
Signal Hill,
for a little So.Cal oil history. Nice job!
As I type this post, a film crew is shooting a cop
chase scene outside of my house and there is a
spotlight erected in my neighbors' yard. Los Angeles
folds in upon itself in amazing ways and it is always
beautifully lit.
This Friday
This Friday at noon in Los Angeles, Lex Bhagat will
be at
FarmLab
to discuss
"An
Atlas of Radical Cartography"
Here is a recent review from the blog
We Make Money Not Art.
Beginning Friday and running all weekend in Houston
is the annual
Media Archeology Festival
put on by the
Aurora Picture Show.
This year's theme is Live & Televised and
features multimedia artists who incorporate
audio/visual technology with live performance. I have
said it before & will say it again, Media
Archeology is the coolest thing that happens in
Houston!
Musical Tour
Seems I have been a little focused on buildings
lately and have neglected to tell you about all the
amazing music we have been seeing around Los Angeles.
A few weeks ago our friend Steve escorted us
to
NOSAJ THING
at The Eco or maybe it was The Echoplex? His
Electronica/ Hip Hop has been described as "laser
bass" because it sounds alot like those laser sounds
from Sci Fi or Star Wars. This kid is gonna blow up-
check him out! Another great show was the US premier
of Sweden's
LITTLE DRAGON
presented by KCRW at The Roxy in Hollywood. Beautiful
and talented singer Yukimi Nagano was great and it
was amazing to see with such clarity the
impact
KCRW
has on the music scene of Los Angeles. Machine
Project wrapped up its
TablaCentric
residency with Robin Sukhadia & I am glad that I
caught the free Monday concert with
Srinivas Reedy
on Sitar and
Sameer Gupta
on Tabla. Fast forward into the future. We will be
doing video for the rockin DJ from UK and now fellow
Angelino,
ADAM FREELAND
& we are really excited to work with him. Come
check out the show Friday at
Coachella.
At the end of April we are heading back out with
the
BAND
for the final month of this year-long world tour. I
cannot believe it has already been a year. We have
been so many places, clocking thousands of miles and
frequent flier points. I will miss it when the tour
is done, but it will be great to concentrate on the
LA studio. If we are coming through your city, drop
me a note. We would love to see you.
Building and their documentation
It was an architecturally infused weekend.
Friday night was the
Storefront for Art & Architecture
Pop-Up
gallery opening. The temporary gallery is located in
one of the busiest sections of Hollywood and
illuminated by the flashing red lights of a Go-Go
Girl club next door. The design of this show is
fantastic and Frederic Chaubin's Cosmic Communist
Constructions photographs are totally curious and
beautiful. I cannot wait to go back to the show when
it is not so packed & wish there was a book based
on this exhibition.
Saturday night we headed to the other side of Los
Angeles to attend the screening of Schindler's
Houses, by German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz hosted by
the UCLA Film and Television Archives. Rudolph M.
Schindler was a Viennese architect, who worked in Los
Angeles from the 1920- 1950s and had a significant
impact on this city, primarily with his single-family
home designs. While he is not my favorite architect,
I love the way his houses feel natural and
light-filled. His designs fuse the outside with the
interior space, resulting in houses that feel like
they are floating or built into the trees and
hillsides.
The impact R.M. Schindler made on southern California
modernism is significant and deep. Schindler came to
the United States in 1914 and began working with
Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in 1918. In 1922 he
& his wife began the construction of their Kings
Road home (now the
MAK Center).
The construction of his Kings Road home used his
"Slab-Tilt" system of prefabricated slabs of natural
colored concrete. The architect Richard Neutra and
his family were among the Los Angeles vanguard who
lived in the guest quarters on this property during
the 1920s
The Saturday night screening was part of the
city-wide retrospective of Emigholz's films. I
enjoyed the opportunity it provided us to peek inside
Schindler's houses and we were engaged by some of the
sound editing techniques Emigholz employed, but
generally speaking it was a slow moving 90-minute
film that perhaps had too rigid a structure, for my
taste. A few moments of comic relief were provided by
three cats unexpectedly caught perching or posing, or
when the bright yellow SUV came roaring past, loudly
slicing open the neutral calm of Emigholz's still
shots.
The Billy WIlder Theater at the Hammer Museum is
quite nice, but I was annoyed by the attitude of the
organizers and that the screening was disorganized,
starting almost 45 minutes late. Being an organizer
myself, I am empathetic to the potential difficulties
that can arise with public programs: no one comes,
too many people come, it rains, it is too hot, the
machine breaks, the artist freaks... But in this
case, ticket sales were in advance & they knew it
would be sold out.
