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Deeper Listening | Apr 2026
In recent months, I’ve been spending more time walking through Ithaca. Most days, I leave from North Plain Street, cross Buffalo Street, pass the Children’s Garden, and follow the inlet trail toward Treman Marina and Cayuga Lake before circling back home.
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Boundary
First shown as a two-channel, three monitor video piece on three large boxed blonde Oak black-and-white Setchell-Carlson monitors set on the stage floor. I was inspired by The Vasulkas Machine Vision series (1975-1977) to work in video that way.
Deeper Listening | Jun 2022
This video requires deeper listening. Soothing, melodic, projecting fairness to the generally unseen.
Neil’s Mellow Pad
Neil's Mellow Pad aligns with the intention of Earthstage: to attend to the living world as active presence—complex, fragile, and ongoing. These fragments are not arguments. They are acts of attention.
Frack Mix 🎲
Bill McKibben: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm U.S. “Bullying and Buying” of Countries during COP15 Was Worse than Realized
Some of the new data coming out today makes it clear that everyone’s suspicion…
Gasland vs Big Oil and Gas
This works because people that see this movie are touched.
Despite overhaul, gas wastewater still a problem
Pennsylvania's natural gas drillers are still flushing vast quantities of contaminated wastewater into rivers…
Two of the Seven Strangest Man-Made Disasters
An Insurance industry blog by Jared Wade.
Owning the Center of the Earth
How far below the earth’s surface do property rights extend?






















































































