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Meet Richard. He has an incredible story to tell a Meet Richard. He has an incredible story to tell about the time he, while working at JPL in the summer of 1964, produced the first up-close image of another planet the world had ever seen. For a limited time I'm offering an exclusive peek at my new short (a fun collab with my pals @alex_kozobolis & Jim Gohrick) "The Picture Taking Experiment" for my Patreon family ($5+ level). Beyond that, I'm not sure when/where it'll be screened as we're still trying to figure all that out. Link in bio for those interested. 🙏🏼 . . "Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another" -Plato
Life at the speed of wood. Life at the speed of wood.
First flight in covid times and it was swell. Wand First flight in covid times and it was swell. Wandered stormy SF with @brandonvedder before meeting some exceptional humans at The Long Now Foundation. Grabbed a slice from @sfholeinthewallpizza & jetted back to pretty SFO.
Hey y'all. Check out this convo from a few years b Hey y'all. Check out this convo from a few years back (link in bio) with the great @alexlu.lu discussing his award-winning score for "In Pursuit of Silence", how he treated silence like dialogue, and created new textures by wedging objects like toothbrushes and screws into his piano a la #JohnCage #preparedpiano.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’ The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. #rumi
"An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of t "An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second." —Virginia Woolf . . A glimpse from my Patreon "sketchbook". See the full thing & other monthly sketches at Patreon.com/patrickshen
Now available on @mubi! Now available on @mubi!
"Even if the object of my attention does not move, "Even if the object of my attention does not move, my subjective apprehension of the object is constantly evolving. This is a necessary consequence of the duration of experience. The spectator... witnesses movement... the movement of time itself." -Justin Remes
Washington DC // April 2018 Washington DC // April 2018
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