Random musings from TangentView.com
I stumbled on the Coney Island Mermaid Parade by accident. I was doing some family genealogy work at the Brooklyn Historical Society – trying to find some information about my grandfather who grew up in Coney Island. I found that my grandfather and […] »more
We have never seen a bluebird in the yard before. But this winter, we saw a number of them congregating around an old Carolina wren house at the very beginning and end of the winter season. Apparently, when they are not actively nesting, […] »more
I sometimes think of AIDS as the forgotten pandemic – but it has been very real for many people. I spend nearly 30 years working for a HIV/AIDS service program. In that time, HIV went from a fatal event to a mostly manageable […] »more
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that people experience the world based on the structure of their language, and that linguistic categories shape and limit cognitive processes. It proposes that differences in language affect thought, perception, and behavior, so speakers of different languages […] »more
A number of years ago, I stumbled on ASMR quite by accident. It wasn’t until recently that I even knew it had a name. I was recording ambient conversational sounds for use in my Sound Post installation. When I was editing the recordings, […] »more
The photos above were taken on April 24, 2020 as the COVID lockdown was under way. The world had started to resemble the back rooms. Ever since then, I feel as if I have been living in liminal space. Looking back now, it […] »more
I discovered this found object installation on a recent hike. It was set into a stone retaining wall where the trail crossed a road. I imagine these were found while cleaning up trash along the side of the road. Placing them in this […] »more
I have been thinking about rebooting this old blog for some time. A week with a total solar eclipse seems as good a time as any. I was free the whole day of the eclipse. I could drive only about two hours north-west […] »more