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From Behind the Chair – new book coming in March 2024
I am pleased to announce that the creative non-fiction book, From Behind the Chair, will be out on Auguries and Alchemy in 2024. Co-authored by me and Tom Sharpe, From Behind the Chair is a buddy story that stretches beyond the grave and all over the garden state of New Jersey. We could not be…
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Living Liminal – Coming in 2025
Update: in light of the recent passing of one of our very first resident DJs, Steven Le Tigre, this book project is changing. With a couple of agreements already in the works, this will become part memoir and part oral history from our time post 9/11 in the NYC techno underground. Stay tuned. Original post…
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Archives of Aki Onda Recording in Bushwick Brooklyn
I have new work, new things to show! But going through my archives is making me nostalgic. Enjoy going through the binders with me, if you don’t mind. Inside the Schoolhouse on Ellery Street, Aki Onda, the phenomenal sound and Toshio Kajiwara (as he was known), set up and made the most amazing soundscape. I…
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I am writing for you. Join The Knead
I have been writing a newsletter on Substack since March 2021. It started with a focus on bread, then it turned into something more about the role of food in daily life and across generations. The role of food is equally simple and somehow always evolving. I only set my goal of writing it for…
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Fireside Chat on the New Mycelia
Originally broadcast only for our cohort this fireside chat was rebroadcast with a Live Q&A to the larger DSS community. This updated presentation draws some important historical reminders around Burning Man and festival culture all the way back to simpler, more humble parties. It also includes newer science that makes a stronger case for the…
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Conversation with Liz Taggart
In this conversation taped for the Design Science Studio program we talk about her memories of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and the mutual appreciation he shared with visionary mathematician and architect, R. Buckminster Fuller.
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Diving Bonaire
More Sweet than Bitter a taste of Adventurous Aging in the Caribbean (Netherlands) I met Richard late one morning as the divers gathered in their rental trucks along the southern coast of the island of Bonaire. This tiny island well known to the global scuba and snorkeling community for its reef system and shore dives…