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...
Getting To Know Your Home
In 2012, Matt Green walked across the US, from Rockaway Beach in New York to Rockaway Beach in Oregon, in 152 days pushing his belongings in a converted Runabout stroller. Walking simply makes him happy. He knew where he was headed but had no idea who he’d meet or what he’d see. Depending on where he was each...
Walking Home
N55 is a Copenhagen-based Scandinavian art collective who work around issues of art and everyday life. They created Walking House in 2008. The Walking House, a kind of bio RV, is a “modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It...
Chef Matt Dillon, best chef in the NW, discusses the dinner he prepared for The Long Walk, 2011
Matt Dillon, chef for The Long Walk’s “formal dinner” in 2011, was just named Best Chef in the Northwest by the James Beard Foundation! Congratulations Matt! Below is a video of Matt discussing a trip to Lebanon, Arab Spring, and it’s connection to the meal he prepared for the participants of The Long Walk.
Start breaking in your walking shoes …
Stock up on moleskin and start breaking in your walking shoes, The Long Walk is ON – July 26th-29th! Once again, Susan Robb will lead 50 trail trampers on a 4-day, 45-mile pedestrian adventure through the cities, suburbs, farmlands, and forests of King County using the Regional Trails System. In this work of land art that combines elements...
4Culture’s EXTRAORDINARY SPACES…EVERYDAY PLACES
The Long Walk’s BFF 4Culture just posted this project profile about The Walk featuring part of an interview I gave last year.
Christopher Hoff
A woman I met on the The Long Walk who has now become a dear friend texted me, “Have you heard about Christopher Hoff?” “No, what?” I texted back. Then the phone rang and my friend told me the terrible news that Christopher Hoff, painter, gentleman, and sweet soul, had died of natural causes. I...
Call for work
THE LONG WALK, 2012: OPEN CALL FOR SITE SPECIFIC, PERFORMANCE, AND SOCIALLY ENGAGED PROJECTS The Long Walk seeks proposals for projects involving social-engagement, site specificity, lectures, performance, psychogeography, workshops, video, natural architecture, audio, ritual, and installation. Proposals due: Monday, April 30, 2012 5:00 PM PST Event dates: Thursday, July 26th – 29th, 2012 Available...
The Long Walk 2012
Gather your mole skin and break out your trail mix The Long Walk 2012 is on! Once again I will lead a group of 50 participants 45+ miles over 4 days from the shore of Seattle to the falls of Snoqualmie. I wish I could take all of you, but unfortunately spaces are limited. Stay tuned for information...
Thanks!
Thanks to so much wonderful support, my US Artist Project campaign to fund “Are You Doin’ Some Stuff? A Journey into the Slow Movement Movement” was a success! I will begin editing it this spring and hope to be finished by early summer.
Catalog of commissioned art, 2011
Todd Shalom Chef David Sanford Sarah Kavage Seattle Phonographer’s Union DK Pan and NKO Bicycle Choir Andrew Shmuely Emilia Kennedy Seattle Experimental Animators Team (SEAT) Britta Johnson Salise Hughes Jim Demetre Chef Matt Dillon