The 3-Year Long Exposures Of Michael Wesely
This is a photograph taken by artist Michael Wesley. It is a single piece of film exposed over the course of 34 months — the entirety of the construction of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
What it captures is the hidden flow of energy — people, machines, materials, in constant motion but leaving no mark of it’s path — until all of that energy eventually accumulates itself in the form of a building.
I sometimes sit in these concrete and marble plazas in midtown, watching the foot and car traffic go by in front of me and imagining that each person creates a thread of where they came from and where they’re heading. Then I try to stack these threads on top of one another as more people or cars follow the same path. Where does the stack get thick (everyone follows the same line)? Where does it fray (people diverge)?
Talk to Me: A Symposium
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. The Museum of Modern Art
I’m part of a panel on “Design and Scriptwriting” at MoMA tomorrow with professional BAMFs Ayse Birsel and Kevin Slavin, moderated by Parsons’ Jamer Hunt.
We’re each doing a short presentation before starting the conversation — mine will be titled “Emotion By Proxy” about the culture of fandom in Tumblr.
Should be fun.
Miniature Urban Sculpture of Canal Street from the late 1970’s
“The street scene is not an exact representation of Canal Street, but rather a combination of existing and fabricated environments. The Canal Rubber store is modeled after the real thing — a landmark on Canal Street since 1954. The pizza place on the corner was inspired by one that existed on Eighth Ave. — I liked the signage. I decided to throw in the Chinese massage parlor both to give it a touch of Chinatown and also to spice it up a little. The other business establishments on the street were modeled to give the feeling of how Canal Street looked in the late 1970s.”
