I was walking by the lake near my house and Alex Davis, (violin, songwriting and guitar) called me for some reason. On a whim, I asked him how he would feel about writing a rock opera, and of course, he was down. I recruited some other great minds and musicians to kind of pool together and write an epic. This was December 29th, 2009. On New Years Eve I was hosting a very special event for Morristown's First Night, the Teen Coffeehouse, an expressive event for high schoolers looking to rock out. SO the night before New Years, Myself, Alex, David Pitt (rap and spoken word), Jacob Benton (percussion and elec/acou guitar), Gloria Bangiola (songwriting and guitar), and Ian McCleary (harmonica and songwriting) sat down, and began to brainstorm. The first hour or so was rough, we didn't really know what we were doing, but then we really began to focus and write and sing and revise and sing some more and use different sounds and actions, turning it into a musical performance by 3 in the morning. So in 10 hours 'me and my friends wrote a rock opera!' and we performed it the very next night, celebrated afterwards with music, drinking, song and dance, a wonderful way to start the 2010.
There is only one video of it, in three parts, filmed by and elusive man with an HD camera and a strange laugh, so here's the links in order.
1. Intro
2. Spider's Song
3. Bear's Song
4. The Deal
5. Sunrise
6. The Destruction of the Forest
7. Spider and Bear (Leaving Together)
8. The Deal II
9. Wolf's Song
10. Sunset
11. The Wolf's Attack
A collection of paintings done with colored lights on a long exposure photograph. Photos by Oren and Emilia on a Canon Rebel EOS, without assistance or editing from PhotoShop.
Last summer, my father was giving us a hasty tour of Chelsea and the Manhattan's Meatpacking District, and we stopped by a wonderful place called Eyebeam Studios, one of the most diverse and innovative art and technology centers in the United States. As we browsed over the awesome projects they had, beginning or ending, one caught my eye. It was Eyebeams Hydroponic Windowfarm, towering ten bottles high. It was wonderful, and got me thinking a alot about food and where it comes from and how its grown, and how much we can reduce our impact on the enviornment if we take a little time out of our days to put love and care into the food we eat and prepare for others. I moved out to Colorado and decided to build a Windowfarm. Emilia Cabeza De Baca helped the most, and she still is. We had a wonderful season, our Basil plant did grew and grew, Emilia rescued it from a neglected garden. Our Thai Basil plant did exceptionally. Our Sage plant did well, until we realized we were giving it too much water and that it is a desert plant, we reduced water flow to its column and began to thrive. Our Mojito Mint plant did great from the beginning, exept for its ultimate demise when aphids got to it. Here's some photographs from our fall season, beginning in early October and ending late in December.
I was walking by the lake near my house and Alex Davis, (violin, songwriting and guitar) called me for some reason. On a whim, I asked him how he would feel about writing a rock opera, and of course, he was down. I recruited some other great minds and musicians to kind of pool together and write an epic. This was December 29th, 2009. On New Years Eve I was hosting a very special event for Morristown's First Night, the Teen Coffeehouse, an expressive event for high schoolers looking to rock out. SO the night before New Years, Myself, Alex, David Pitt (rap and spoken word), Jacob Benton (percussion and elec/acou guitar), Gloria Bangiola (songwriting and guitar), and Ian McCleary (harmonica and songwriting) sat down, and began to brainstorm. The first hour or so was rough, we didn't really know what we were doing, but then we really began to focus and write and sing and revise and sing some more and use different sounds and actions, turning it into a musical performance by 3 in the morning. So in 10 hours 'me and my friends wrote a rock opera!' and we performed it the very next night, celebrated afterwards with music, drinking, song and dance, a wonderful way to start the 2010.
