Working on something:

“… he sees himself as a Jewish comedian working firmly in the tradition of Jewish comedy greats like Mel Brooks and Andy Kaufman, whom he considers to be great conceptual artists.”

Can’t wait to check out Dan Graham’s retrospective which opened last Thursday at the Whitney. There’s a great conversation between him, RoseLee Goldberg, and Ian and Matt of Japanther in a book we’re working on that documents their Performa ‘07 show at PS 122.

Flatbush Rainbow

Come visit us this weekend at the NYC Zine Fest. We’ll be there with a laptop, printer, stapler and paper cutter, offering a new collection of zines from some of our favorite artist friends as part of a print-on-demand project we initiated with our studio mate Soner Ön.

USA 2-0 Spain

More sad news for the neighborhood: One of our local subway stops is getting a new name. We’re currently looking into renaming the Bergen 2/3 stop ‘Fogelson-Lubliner’, which would compete with another local stop and frequent movie set, Hoyt-Schermerhorn, for the weirdest station name in the entire subway system.

We’re currently working with DER, a documentary film distributor in Cambridge, MA. Among the hundreds of films they distribute is Robert Gardner’s Screening Room Series. A television show that aired in Boston during the 70s, that showcased experimental animators and filmmakers like John Whitney Sr., a pioneer in computer animation. This is from 1961 and was made entirely on a computer built from a converted WWII Anti Aircraft mechanisms.