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OUT OF CONTEXT- this quote provides a very exciting point of entry for contemporary performance, literary and visual art:

"To understand what it has to offer, one must learn how to read it. [It] is not a textbook, but is like an ocean with waves and currents and eddies and whirlpools and quiet caves. It calls for suspending one's normal mode of conceptual progress until one has discovered where the tides and techniques of this new medium will carry him. Water is, to man, a distorting element, and probably whatever he sees in it will not be seen as it really is. The ecstatic surges in his body as he rides the swells will not be forgotten after he has found his feet once again on the sand. Like riding the waves, or listening to great music, this [it] wafts one to where he can perceive reality in new configurations that unite the subjective and the objective. It does not so much convey specific fact as arrange science, myth, philosophy and poetic narrative in peculiar combinations which can generate remarkable experiences..."

-Robert S. Ellwood

F.T.L.

Don't worry. Hold my hand, and we'll get in.

F.T.L.

Is your leader, leading you where you want to be heading?

-Dadra+

F.T.L.

F.T.L. Abbreviation of: Follow The Leader

Function: blog posts pertaining to my upcoming conceptual walk for Elastic City

Etymology: Middle English folwen [the] Old English lǣdan

"The fortified aspect of the place is emblematic, its high civic ideals lost in the menacing character of high fences, metal detectors and concrete bollards."

-Streetscapes| The United Nations

425D's First Short Film

Help! Watch 425D's short film and win us Free Space!
Simply click here, watch our submission to the end and you bring us one step closer to winning free rehearsal space at Space on White. Be entertained and inspired, all for a good cause.

What is 425D? Watch our film to find out!

425D: Space on White
a commission by Jordan Seavey
directed by Stephen Brackett, Lauren Keating, Niegel Smith and Awoye Timpo
featuring: Jocelyn Bio as Niegel, Stephanie Dimaggio as Lauren, Lucas Kavner as Stephen and Bonna Tek & Margo Hammond as Awoye

Poetry is for Muses

walking around town taking photos or sitting
by the lake freeballing doing nothing maybe grunting
an expletive or two
when the spirit moves us...
I love you dude - I fucking love you

Remembrances of Things Past

Very excited about heading into rehearsals tomorrow morning for NEIGHBORS - a brilliant new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. But before I do, I'm going to take small pause for reflection and remembering...


Hanging With My Sweet Niece

Tasty Holiday Cookies

Bundled Up in the Subway
and Meeting New Folks.

QUOTEd

NY TIMES Opinionator Blog: Into the Closet

"Like it or not we will be well into the 22nd century before lesbian and gay Americans finally have their equal rights unless they get busy burning cities this century. That is what I'm afraid it will finally take. Ask a Black friend or relative about it."

Wyman Elrod
Dallas Texas, January 15, 2010

Paris Fin!

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Paris: Bonne Anne´e!

Paris Cinq