Month: September 2003

  • Gang-Off 2002

    The deadliest member of that child-gang The Imps.Last year, a number of people received a mysterious (perhaps even mystifying) email from Susan and I inviting them to take part in Gang-Off 2002. People had to choose from a list of gangs taken from the book version of the ’70s gangsploitation flick The Warriors, and then given instructions on how to survive this test of brutality and cunning.

    The Friday evening before Hallowe’en, around 20 people rendezvoused with their unknown gang members, and played out our sick little game on the streets of the city.
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  • My Vidz Attack New York

    The Canadian tourist skin I used for my trip.Pretty crazy. Earlier this summer My Trip to Liberty City was part of the New York Video Festival, and got blurbed in the New York Times.

    Then some lunatic tells me he wants to show >interactive on a rooftop in Brooklyn. We decide it’s a sign — this is the second screening I’ve had in NYC this season, for cryin’ out loud — and we go down. Rooftop Films turns out to be a supercool project: a technically tight and tweaked showcase of indie flix in a surreally beautiful locale.

    We’ve been inspired ever since. Here’s one of the vidz we made for the upcoming “Tears on the Pie” theme of Novel Amusements #4.