An Experiential Geography
For the second iteration of The Long Walk I embedded filmmaker Gabriel Miller and asked him capture the participants, places and projects found in The Walk, 2011. Over the course of the four day journey Gabriel followed our movements and interviewed the participants. Once we returned I tasked myself with distilling those days of...
I couldn’t have done it without you!
A BIG THANK YOU! To all the donors who supported my US ARIST PROJECT CAMPAIGN Amber Angell; Jenny Asarnow; Howard Barlow; Eden Batki; Tamar Benzikry-Stern; John Behnke; Jenn Beyers; Taylor Binda; Brian Borrello; Tara Breitenbucher; Devra M Breslow; Jana Brevick; Paul Brown; Cath Brunner; Phil Campbell; Michelle Chihara; Kay Cuthbertson; Katie Davis; Anne Dimock; Jim...
Portable Long Walk
Eroyn Franklin, artist and co-founder of the Short Run Small Press Festival, has created yet another beautiful book. Vantage documents The Long Walk, 2012, “with each scene, the texture of the ground unfurls into a tiny landscape.” Vantage (and her other exquisite ‘zines) are available from her Esty store at a price that begs you to...
A Dash And A Splash
Celery, rose, and lemon were the flavors you could choose from. Those, when added to ice-cold, hand-made seltzer alive with tiny bubbles, caused a near magical rift to form, giving us all a break from the heat and dust of the day. Film maker Web Crowell recently began a side project delivering fizzy water...
Walkers Remembered
This year The Long Walkers honored the memory of two Long Walkers who passed away: Jenny Voncks, mountain climber, bicyclist, and Seal Sitter, who, after a battle with brain caner, died on December 24, 2010 and Christopher Hoff, Seattle’s renown plein aire painter, who died unexpectedly this past spring. On the last morning of The Walk...
Sammamish River Story Line
For The Long Walk 2012, Jenny Asarnow (audio artist, radio show producer for KUOW, and Long Walker from 2011) created Sammamish River Story Line, a series of audio stories/confessionals of people living and working near the Sammamish River Trail. Through the project, Jenny has de-centralized the...
The amazing VALIE EXPORT …
„That is because I look at life as an endlessly moving sculpture, an extension of the body’s cavity into the galactic labyrinth. It is a genetic sculpture, billions of years old, and is unfinished. The trope of this sculpture is caught in the realm between reality and potentiality.“ Interview with Roswitha Mueller, Milwaukee, April 1992...
Harvest Writing
This year The Long Walkers will have an encounter with Ox Bow Farm, fortuitously located directly in line with our path on Saturday morning, July 28th. At Ox Bow we will be harvesting produce and writing haiku from the vegetables’ point of view. Both poems and produce will make it to a farmers market in...
Make Some Noise
On July 13th artist Rumi Koshino lead a ceramic wind chime making workshop at the Northwest Art Center in Duvall. Twenty-five folks from the community crafted chimes that will become part of a sonorous installation at The Long Walk’s Mid-Point Mash-Up held at McCormick Park on July 27th from 6-9pm.
Tasting the Trails
This year, Colorado Springs based artist Eric Steen will have the participants of The Long Walk literally ingesting the landscape. Eric is producing a short run beer - with help from Courtney Ford, a brewer at Snoqualmie Brewery, and Jim Demetre, The Long Walk’s intrepid plant expert – crafted with plants that grow along the Snoqualmie Valley Trail....
Are You Doin’ Some Stuff with the Bicycle Choir
Work on “Are You Doin’ Some Stuff? A Journey into the Slow Movement Movement” the upcoming film documenting The Long Walk, 2011 is progressing. It’s been difficult only in that there is so much great footage. Below is an outtake of The Bicycle Choir performing on a “stage” that is a repurposing of Sarah Kavage’s Grass Braid...