The 3rd annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival will be held this year Oct 1-11 at various sites around Chicago.During the 3rd Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival, Chicago-based artists will showcase performances and projects that involve coll... full post »
More or less just thinking aloud, here, but I'm starting to experiment with using videos as a form of literature. Storytelling, really, but not movie making for sure. At least not in the way we think of movie making. This Too Will Pass -- treating light m... full post »
Derek Lake's Last Painting: This tells what Derek Lake did after Elijah Lucas had destroyed him.This Too Will Pass full post »
Elijah Lucas Gets Revenge: After seeing a graffiti mural that exposes his wife's deceit, he gets revenge on Lake without confrontation. He uses his philanthropy to destroy the man who made him a cuckold. This Too Will Pass full post »
Lauren Benedetti and Derek Lake debate the merits of a mural covering one of Lake's most symbolic paintings, depicting the social life that Benedetti has excelled in.This Too Will Pass full post »
Lake's Method: In this, Derek Lake's innovative and tricky stencil style for creating large scale graffiti works gets explained. So does one of his more revealing paintings, a view from inside Elijah Lucas's house with incriminating implications. This Too... full post »
Part one of a five part series, explaining how Elijah Lucas founded the Mural Arts Project in order to destroy the public art career of Derek Lake, the man who made him a cuckold before his young wife, Lauren Benedetti. ThisTooWillPass full post »
I continue to experiment with story, voice, and background sound.This little piece looks closely at a rug from Afghanistan -- a strange relic from an earlier war. Things that make you go "hmmm."For more information on these rugs, I posted some l... full post »
Vocaloer Salt Herring takes me to the Snow City Arts Foundation's Gallery Night in River North, where Artist-In-Residence Dan Godston introduces us to Janina, a teenager growing through sharing her story in song. Then we talk to artist-in-residence J... full post »
