The Topography of Space

This is an oldie, but goodies. One could say this is one of the beginnings of Danila’s acting career.

Kick-ass, all know-how fashion designer/ my friend Amelia Rosenthal stars in two how-to videos on DIY accessory design. Using high-class salvaged vinyl, other recycled fabrics and many tools in her deep bag of tricks Amelia shows us how to make our own laptop and iPod cases. Thanks Amelia for making these with me!

My friend Ari Moore was totally sweet in agreeing to star in these two how-to videos I wanted to produce for about.com. Ari is a great artist and designer, you can check out her and her partner’s work at Shirari.com.

Check them out below!

The opening of Frac Attack: Dawn of the Watershed at Cineamapolis in Ithaca was a great success! Now you can watch the jawn streaming online anytime, by click clickity clacking on the image above! On that site you can also find ways to take action and get involved and help organize your community against exploitative drilling for natural gas in an under-regulated fashion.

Thanks to all who helped make this possible, to those who came out to see it, and to Shira Golding who made it her life for at least several months, and did such a nice job of editing.

Take that Halliburton, Betches!

I painted the Dacha Project’s mailbox. Now you can send mail. Email me for our address. It’s a big one so send large packages please. There is a summer side and a winter side to the mailbox, and the top is filled with beyond the sky things.

Please enjoy.

It would take me many days to write about all we’ve been up to since early Spring 2009. One day we’ll have more time, and soon there will be a video camera to call my own- so more videos of how we go will hit this blog and the Dacha’s blog. In the meanwhile enjoy these four photos, and go here for more.

Southern side of windows, double-paned, argon filled, no low E. And them thar hills, well they mark the line between a major watershed divide. To the north, which we are, the groundwater ends up in Lake Eerie. To the south, the Chesapeak Bay!

Locate your very own watershed here.

The big tree to the right is a giant black walnut tree. Today, Joe and Danila found a mouse in the house eating some shelled walnuts. Naughty mouse!

We hit water at 64 feet, coming in at about 13 lbs/minute. The drilling took 2 & 1/2 days. We found a guy that does it the good old way!

Lily makes a fantastic friend.  I highly recommend her to anyone, although I don’t know if she’s all booked up with the other things she likes to do like nanorimo (month of November only).

For my birthday last June, she made me a video montage of my funny little life.  Thanks Lily!

I am currently accepting videos for my 27th. Plz make good, cuz 27 means I’m old and sad.  Thanks again.

Enjoy this teaser to a short environmental thriller that will debut about a month from now hopefully somewhere great in town. I co-directed this piece with some other fine film giants. And Look for me towards the end, I play a bit role as a sheltered activist.The idea for this film formed during a DIY film class with the Ithaca Freeskool.

The whole process was and continues to be more fun than being delirious from exhaustion. I cried laughingly several times.

Thanks to all the fine folk who worked on this tirelessly and to Shira Golding for 100% commitment to fighting environmental degradation within an arena that I can throw my weekends into. The lions were hungry and the gladiators strong.

I just opened a shop on Etsy: http://tinyurl.com/LeaLSFshop.

I’ve already listed some fabric collage sweatshirts, and will be adding a lot more soon. Anyone want to model for me? I also made a how-to video on the craft of fabric collage for the website about.com. Watch it below!

clear vision, little lines, where the nomad comes from only the burning bush knows

the sacrificial goat pan killed for feast, allegro! the maidens found in psychedelic woods cry no!

refinements, the dark forest gave rise to lone wolf fiction, walked on hind legs upright and let out diseases

speed and morph into mystery and myth

myth mystical magic theory fact.

god! no god! god! no god at all! Sing in unison, you’re singing the same song.

man unravels his skirt into a map, sends Galileo across where there are no shadows.

measure and draw- the answers of science of god, of no god.

dance, adam farted on eve’s thigh and some talent does come from god challenged.

“That we may see and remark and say Whose?”

do you want me to? In the antechamber? Do you hear me? Speak the words

through blind eyes will you? taunt, I would mock thy words, if they were less sublime.

plant syllables enough to make sonnets bust at their seams and fill the ocean of epic form and similes that make the moon put on armor at first mention wage war. the line, like a circle, hovering in the air.