Samuel Rousseau at Parker's Box

One last post for the day. After work yesterday, I was able to get over to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to attend the Parker's Box opening of Samuel Rousseau's "video-installation" exhibition. Well, there were only 3 of his works there, but wow! Rousseau is able to inject a new liveliness into his videos by projecting them onto very unusual surfaces. For instance, one piece consisted of a building constructed of plastice containers, standing about 3' high, into which was projected the facade of a building with these tiny silhouettes of people moving around in the windows. The best thing was that you could watch these little people move around and they actually DID stuff, and didn't just repeat the same monotonous action- there were stories. Apparently Mr. Rousseau actually scripted parts for actors to be filmed! Cool. Other highlights involved meeting, in one fell swoop, many of the Brooklyn-art-scene-pioneers John Bjerklie's always mentioning: Allun Williams (a founder of Triangle and head of Parker's Box), Mike Ballou (finally met this guy after some great phone conversations- I can describe hime as the sort of guy who actually seems bigger than he really is, hopefully I will get a chance to work with him soon), and Joyce Pensato, as well as a few others. Bjerklie, of course was in attendance and may have mentioned the new "Today Show" (which he's been workin on) as an unlikely inspiration for upcoming work!