This Website is a Crash Course In Fracking
A curated collection of bibliographic resources, government documents, letters, and video investigations serves as a crash course in fracking.
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Stand with Ukraine 📺
March 2025 unfolds in blue and yellow: Ukrainian flags, thawing water, a spinning pinwheel, and bread marked “STAND WITH UKRAINE.” My walking film absorbs Trump’s televised address and the unease of the moment, while the accompanying Smackdown contrasts official promises of peace and energy dominance with journalism on Ukraine and environmental consequences.
Networked ambient video
Earthstage Loop Room
A free ambient video experience for desktops, phones, tablets, classrooms, galleries, and live gatherings.
A networked video field
Open two or three looping videos on different devices. This arrangement allows you not just to watch, but to inhabit the videos. Earthstage becomes a temporary installation wherever you are.
The landscape arrangement is preferred, widescreen. Turn up the volume, let the videos drift in and out of the conversation at the table.
Try it with a friend: open a different loop on each device and let the screens play together.
Click for fullscreen. Rotate your phone for a wider Loop Room view.
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Blessing of the Animals 📺
September’s walks through Ithaca reveal earthworms on asphalt, butterflies, changing light, and unexpected echoes between living creatures and machinery. In *Blessing of the Animals*, AOC’s testimony enters the film as I confront the loss of Chloe. The accompanying Smackdown contrasts official promises of protection and energy abundance with journalism about Ukraine, wildlife, and climate.
Spill Response 📺
April 2025 does not resolve. It thickens. Protest, spring rain, flowers, insects, public records, climate policy and a truck marked SPILL RESPONSE occupy the same days. Looking back, I ask what it means to pay attention while the machinery of government is being rapidly remade.
Magic for Water 📺
I walk alone, looking at water, light and whatever enters the frame, while the larger world arrives through war, politics, climate and memory. The work begins in solitude but is meant for others: an offering, perhaps knowingly inadequate, made in the hope that looking closely can still help us live together.
Frack Mix 🎲
Pittsburgh’s drinking water is radioactive, thanks to fracking. Only question is, how much?
Residents of Pittsburgh -- as well as potentially tens of millions of other everyday…
Catskill Citizens | More Damning Evidence About Fracking
Anyone not living under a rock must be aware of the mountain of bad…
A Colossal Fracking Mess
To regard its unspoiled beauty on a spring morning, you might be led to…
