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| Old Second Avenue Courthouse. Now it houses the Anthology Film Archives. “In 1979… under the guidance of the architects Raimund Abraham and Kevin Bone, and at a cost of $1,450,000, the building was adapted to house two motion picture theaters, a reference library, a film preservation department, offices, and a gallery.” Click to see a larger version of this photo. |
But in 1970 when I first moved to NYC, it was being used to warehouse movie equipment by a company I was working for. In lieu of giving me a living wage they let me squat in the room intended for the matron of the women prisoners. It overlooked the alley, between the buildings visible in the photo above, that was then full of rotting garbage and furiously breeding mosquitoes.
I had electricity for a small space heater and a hot plate and running cold water suitable for sponge-bathing etc. I broke through my bedroom wall to get into one of the locked jail cells, and thus had an additional room for storage of my meager possessions. I also had the rest of the building to play in, and I used the basement to film an 8mm stop motion film. The basement was filled with bizarre fibreglass life molds of naked men and women, left over from some sort of art commune that formerly occupied the space. I observed the partial solar eclipse of March 7, 1970 from that roof. The sky dimmed considerably, but from my vantage no one else seemed to notice.
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Radio David Byrne.com — "Like many people, I listen to a wide variety of music, and some of it is, ahem, more appropriate at certain times of day than others. We here are not responsible for adverse affects from playing the wrong music at the wrong time. Hope some of this is enjoyable." — DB "Most artists see nothing from record sales — it’s not an evil conspiracy, it’s just the way the accounting works. That’s the way major record labels are set up, from a purely pragmatic point of view. So as far as the artist goes — who cares? I don’t see much money from record sales anway, so I don’t really care how people are getting it." Boing Boing |
