James A. Reeves
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Acid Camp

Ohio. Sunset: 8:54pm. The moon is brand new, my computer gave me an eye exam, and Johnny Cash is growling “I See a Darkness” across 140 beats per minute.

Film Notes

The Running Man

My ur-text for a sleazy future of trashcan fires, black markets, station hijacking, and vicious game show hosts.

Ohio

More Americans are unraveling behind the wheel.

I wonder if the health of a society can be pegged to the nerves of its motorists.

Ohio

Like trying to retrofit an 8-track player.

Can anyone recommend a solid alternative to Apple Music that will sync my mp3s with my desktop and telephone?

Ohio

I put a lot of faith in office products to solve my existential problems.

My map is upside down, inscrutable, and probably for a different planet.

Tracks

A Soundtrack for Before I Die

A soundtrack to accompany the installation of Candy Chang’s Before I Die project at Wonderspaces.

Film Notes

The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter opens with the disembodied heads of five children floating in the cosmos and gets weirder from there. 

Ohio

May 4, 2022

There’s a waxing crescent moon, and I’m reading about God.

Ohio

April 27, 2022

I think I’ve managed to switch on the comments in case anyone wants to say hello or recommend a movie or a song.

Flight

April 20, 2022

I’m somewhere over Greenland, and the sun will never go down because we’re flying west.

Installations

The Nightly News

The American School in London
Innovator-in-Residence
2022

Journal

London

Mostly cloudy skies with a high near seventy degrees while C. and I sat in the National Gallery, awaiting the results of our mandatory Covid tests so we could fly home.

Brighton

April 14, 2022

Why is elegant decay more appealing than the gleaming new thing? Perhaps because it inspires sympathy, even a sense of recognition.

Journal

York

The British definition of “pudding” is broad and roomy, accommodating all kinds of beliefs.

Journal

Bath

As we pulled out of Paddington Station, I closed my eyes and enjoyed the announcements on the Great Western Railway.

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