In the news!

EbM is in the news!




The Mountain View Telegraph, specifically.
And the article was run in September, so more accurately, was in the news...

Nonetheless!
The Mountain View Telegraph is "a weekly newspaper serving communities in the East Mountain, Moriarty and the Estancia Valley." Lee Ross wrote this delightful article about our installation with Jessica Segall:

Call it an event, or an amateur film screening or performance art. Whatever it was, something decidedly strange happened in an empty field east of Moriarty on Sunday night.
A few years ago, a group of artists bought a piece of land north of Interstate 40. The land is just across the freeway from a topless bar for truckers and home to plenty of cattle, but there's not much else out there.
The artists collaborative, which is called Earthbound Moon, then set up a snack shop and a movie screen and showed a video of a woman wearing what appears to be a 17th century dress in the Arctic. The film was screened on a piece of frozen copper, according to Amy Sampson, one of Earthbound Moon's artists.
The film was made by artist and sculptor Jessica Segall.

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Earthbound Light

Levitated mass with moon

Urban Setting Light

Lacma

Urban Light by Chris Burden

My favorite public artwork. I truly believe that beauty builds bonds between people.

Go team Go!

The Economist | Lunacy and astronomy: In praise of moons http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21565958-theyre-number-two-they-try-harder-praise-moons?frsc=dg%7Cb via @theeconomist

A lecture

Cynthia Hooper is a video artist from Eureka, CA. I first encountered her work when I bought a DVD of her videos from The Center for Land Use Interpetation. CLUI is one of LA's gems. It is a fabulous art and information engagement. It is next door to another of LA's hidden gems, The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Next door physically and psychically.
Bobby Conn turned me onto the Museum of Jurassic Technology in 02002. I can not tell you how inspired and in love I am with these organizations (and Bobby Conn.) They are in the DNA of EbM. They are inspirations, in the way Survival Research Laboratories, Re/Search magazine, and The Center On Contemporary Art when it was run by Larry Reid are. They gave us breath. Writing about how much I love them makes me a little teary. You should go visit them. They make life feel better.

I bought a bunch of inspiring books, and one DVD from CLUI, a few years back. Cynthia's video art is a stellar contemplation of humanity's use of land. It is never preachy. It is always beautiful. She creates stunning visual poems. They draw you in, they are riveting. She is an activist, but her work is never abrasive. She works through subtlety and charm.
A year or so after I bought her video, another amazing artist, Phil Ross, mentioned her to me. He suggested EbM contact her. We did. A year of emails about aborted trips north ensued.
Saturday last, she was in Oakland, and, delightfully, so was I!

At Interface Gallery, Cynthia presented a video and lecture on the Westlands Water District.
The video is beautiful. The lecture was inspiring. Also, depressing.
Fortunately, Cynthia is the very picture of joie de vivre. It was impossible to be overwhelmed by the toxicity of the situation in California's Central Valley under her tutelage.

Somehow, someday, EbM will find a way to commission Cynthia, I hope!
In the meantime, I suggest you watch her videos.