I’m honored to again be one of the photographers exhibiting photos of the HONK! Festival at the Inside/Out Gallery, in the windows outside the Davis Square CVS in Somerville, MA. The photos are on display now through the first weekend in October when the 6th Annual HONK! Festival of activist street bands comes to Somerville [...]
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Gregory Isaacs when I was 13
Gregory Isaacs has died. I was first exposed to Gregory Isaacs in 1982 at age 13. The story begins with my cousin, Alan—a story I recounted here several years ago. When I was thirteen, my dad took me to the Film Forum, just outside the West Vilage in NYC. My cousin Alan’s first film was [...]
Photos and Video from Honk! 2010
10/17 UPDATE: I’ve started scanning my film from Honk. I’ll be adding all the film photos to this Flickr set over the next few weeks. 10/16 UPDATE: My third batch of Honk! 2010 photos is online. 10/15 UPDATE #2: There’s a nice article by Danielle Dreilinger in today’s Boston Globe, “A look back at Honk! [...]
HONK! Photo Exhibit Opens This Saturday, Sept. 4, in Davis Square
HONK! Festival Photography Exhibit I am pleased to announce that I am one of the photographers featured in this show. Press release with more information is below. —BG Featuring work by: Greg Cook Tiffany Knight Mark Dannenhauer Jesse Edsell-Vetter Benjamin Greenberg Chris Yeager & Akos Szilvasi Exhibit runs through September 30 with an opening on Saturday, September 4, 6-8 pm in Davis Square, [...]
Mix of the Week
I’m trying to do one of these each weekend. We’ll see how it goes… For more on Rodriguez, see my Tumblr.
The Ever Miraculous Pete Seeger
Via Rolling Stone (sorry about the commercial; this is worth it). Pete Seeger may be 91 years old, but the iconic folk singer still has plenty to protest. On Friday night at New York’s City Winery, Seeger debuted a new song he wrote about the disastrous BP oil spill as part of a fundraising concert [...]
Only an Expert
Picked up the new Laurie Anderson record yesterday. Most of the record is too beautiful for me to talk about in any way that would be interesting. This is work at a level where moods, emotions, ideas are conveyed with individual word choices and the sounds around them. So to share my enthusiasm a little [...]
Darling, It’s Alright
Hot new video from Francis and the Lights. It’s best if you watch it full screen.
Don't Talk Crazy (Again)
I first heard Mark Mulcahy's music three and a half years ago, at a live performance in Somerville, MA. I was blown away by the songs and by his performances of them and have been a huge fan ever since. A couple of months after the show I found an mp3 of one of the [...]
Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy
www.markmulcahy.com I’m a huge fan of Mark Mulcahy’s music, and I’d like to help make sure that he can keep producing it. Now you can get a great collection of Mark Mulcahy covers by an incredible range of artists and support the continuation of his musical projects while he also raises his twin toddlers solo, [...]
If I Had My Way
You can’t grow up in in the home of a political radical from the 1950s and 60s without hearing Peter, Paul and Mary. I’m very sad to hear of the death of Mary Travis. She raised the roof for freedom and justice her whole career. If there’s a heavenly place where great spirits celebrate together [...]
I Never Knew His Name
Though I did not know his name until today, Heinz Edelman has been one of my artistic heroes for decades. He was the illustrator and designer who made the visual landscape of the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine. Heinz Edelman has died at age 75. The movie’s mod-psychedelic look, which typifies the era’s spirited graphic [...]
Man in the Sand
Sometimes I think I´m gonna lose my mind But it don´t look like I ever do I loved so many people everywhere I went Some too much, others not enough I don´t know, I may go down or up or anywhere But I feel like this scribbling will stay Maybe if I hadn’t seen so [...]
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