oh, my... Tina Turner Sculpture Joins List of Scorned Statues Not everyone loves the new work in Brownsville, Tenn www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/a...

Hundreds of celebrities, artists, musicians relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech Via @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

Amazing! I did an immersive installation, along with artists Kelly Rioux & Chris Byron & @gitgofilms.bsky.social in the Augusta Colonial Theater called Home/Resilience. I fell in love with the theater, it’s past, present and future. Neat to see this news: www.pressherald.com/2025/09/30/a...

Are you in Australia? Are you gonna be? Wana be? Perhaps you wanna catch a new short documentary I made with Christoph Gelfand + producer Sachi Cunningham, about surfer Aaron Paulk. It's screening alongside films at the Byron Bay International Film Festival Oct 26th. www.bbff.com.au/surf-and-act...

My cat friend.

Have a cat living in my house & took a dip in the ocean just now 🌊😻 things are temporarily well. Small joys - am I right?

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Maine summer not gone yet

Simba’s cool paws

I love hearing East African singing coming out of the church near my house!!

Finally saw the Jeff Buckley documentary, It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) last night. WOW, I knew it'd be great, but the emotional arc of the whole film. WOWOWO. The layers of feeling, pain, output + his relationships. And stunning archival + of course, music. By the ever brilliant Amy Berg.

* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESTRICTING COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSES FOR NON-U.S. CITIZENS, USDOT SAYS @reuters.com

Periodic reminder that I love my friends. And feel lucky to have them. A big web of love and support and shenanigans.

Maine Calling today on @mainepublic.org about homelessness in Maine is really informative. Worth a listen: www.mainepublic.org/show/maine-c...

Looks colder outside than it really is, right Maine?

As China continues to not buy from U.S. soybean producers, American farmers are running out of options. They can either sit on their crop and pray for a trade deal, or take the lower prices at market.

Moody Boston.

This looks amazing

Produced in collaboration with filmmaker, big wave surf photographer, and journalist rockstar Sachi Cunningham with music by the amazing Ryan Rumery (who won a Tony for sound design on STEREOPHONIC!) Filmmaking is a true team effort, all the way around.

Happy to share that The Incredible Paulk, my new short documentary film I co-directed with Christoph Gelfand, will premier at Byron Bay International Film Festival (Australia)! It's alongside lots of other powerful + meaningful films. Lots of ocean, surf, and culture films. www.bbff.com.au

"If they deport me, I’ll leave with my head held high, because I’m convinced it will be for carrying out my journalistic work and not for committing crimes.” www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/22/i...

In 2023, had this lovely boy visit me for a week. Until I found his real mom haha. 🥰 Then he came back later; he crossed the city to visit again - he went back home. But now he may come hang out again?! Cat life is fun!

ICE Detainees in Louisiana on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions at Angola Prison

See you next time, NY.

Head in hand

Really loved visiting show Superfine: Tailoring Black Style at the MET in NYC today! Really rich. www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

My phone storage is full. Should I toss it into the Hudson River and just live life?

NYC love you

John Craighead George was a prominent whale expert who lived in the Alaska Arctic for decades. At the end of a whale census conducted on the sea ice, he had a tradition of releasing bottles with messages. (via @alaskapublic.org)

"... a coordinated response to upheaval at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration where Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is carrying out his decades-long campaign to limit vaccines." www.mainepublic.org/health/2025-...

Real interesting cover sorry this month- in the Bollard, reported by Chris Busby.

Portland Maine. Why?

It's a rule that if I'm voice tracking something in a weird non studio setting, an exotic bird decides to come visit nearby (!) and sing AND/OR someone feels the need to start leaf blowing something.

Penobscot Nation to reclaim 1,700 acres in rural Maine www.pressherald.com?p=7496983&uu...

This weekend, I had a big revelation about my personal relationship to experiencing live music but I don’t want to add to the news cycle which I can’t keep up with!

Free link: sf.gazetteer.co/face-time-ri...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

HA! --> and RIP Robert Redford

Wet Leg!

Whoa! Way into "Cut Piece" performance by Yoko Ono (1965) 16mm film (shot by Maysles brothers). Ono invited audiences to cut away parts of her clothing, and keep it. Called "provocative" + "passive" both. Many layers of meaning here! Amazing @yokoono.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_Pie...

My hipster parents way back in the day. Their hair…

Love this essay about clouds. I love clouds. We Take Clouds for Granted www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

"The superintendent described the incident as “troubling” and the impact on the school community as “chilling... Scallon emphasized the school’s policy entering this school year, which is to “cultivate safe and inclusive school communities,” gift link

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Powerful show at 52 Walker Street. Artist EJ Hill. A contemporary American artist from LA who works in durational performance, installation, painting, and collage. Oh, this stands out: “Regard the suffering of others as highly, as secretly, as your own.” Ej Hill , written on the gallery wall

You could not pay me to drink an espresso martini.

Because NY is NY, I just ran into Louis Mendes on the street. We walked and talked; what a treat. He’s 85! Plans to keep doing it till he can’t. He’s been taking photos since 1959. Legend. ❤️❤️ He’ll take your photo/street portrait for $50! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_M...

I found it, rising over Brooklyn