My friend and I were birding in the park near my house last week and we came across this beaver waterproofing itself in the stream. It was quite mesmerizing to watch and ended up being the highlight of the day, despite a very good showing of birds, as well.
Videos
beaver sighting!
Posted by sean on October 28, 2021
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/beaver-sighting/
the black dog – neither/neither
Posted by sean on April 2, 2021
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/the-black-dog-neither-neither/
spying on the neighbors
Posted by sean on April 11, 2020
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/spying-on-the-neighbors/
‘yeah, that’s right, that’s the way it is’
Posted by sean on December 17, 2019
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2019/12/17/yeah-thats-right-thats-the-way-it-is/
bass terror – tetragrammaton
From the 1995 Bass Terror album by Bill Laswell and Nicholas Bullen.
Posted by sean on August 20, 2019
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/bass-terror-tetragrammaton/
iron triangle
Iron Triangle
dir. Nate Dorr & Maya Edelman
2018, 16min, digital video.
Iron Triangle from Nate Dorr on Vimeo.
A vibrant industrial neighborhood thriving despite city neglect. Immigrant workers, documented and undocumented. A city plan for massive redevelopment: malls, business centers, hotels, condos. Self-serving developers. Eminent domain. A destruction. A limbo. A renewal?
Willets Point is an industrial wedge of northeast Queens consisting for most of the last 70 years of almost entirely autobody shops and scrap yards. Despite city neglect, pitted streets, and a complete lack of storm drains that cause frequent flooding, as of 2006, the neighborhood provided the livelihoods for 1400 to 1800 people, mostly immigrants, many undocumented. In 2007, the City of New York set in motion a major redevelopment plan which would entail displacing nearly all existing businesses in favor of malls, conference centers, and hotels, and over the last decade much of the neighborhood has been bought out and razed. Blocked as an improper commercial use of public land by the New York court system, part of the area continues on, while much has been left as concrete desolation, its future uncertain.
This film, shot spanning the major “urban renewal” operations from 2014 to 2017, documents the conversion of a vibrant, singular small business district into a wasteland, and envisions a different kind of renewal unlikely to be allowed by developers and city officials.
Made possible in part by a residency with Chance Ecologies.
[best viewed at full screen with volume on]
Posted by sean on April 11, 2019
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/iron-triangle/
the nocturnes – aokigahara
Posted by sean on April 9, 2019
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2019/04/09/the-nocturnes-aokigahara/
solid space – a darkness in my soul
Posted by sean on January 3, 2019
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/solid-space-a-darkness-in-my-soul/
‘what kind of writer am i…’
Posted by sean on August 3, 2018
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2018/08/03/what-kind-of-writer-am-i/
oxbow – letter of note
Posted by sean on July 16, 2018
https://lostgander.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/oxbow-letter-of-note/