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Hey Wingers. Just back from Santa Barbara visiting my girlfriend Lisa. It is so gorgeous out there. Perhaps the most wonderful weekend I have ever had. Lisa shows me lots of beautiful things and is always ready for adventure. I will be glad when she comes back to home to New York. Though California is seductive I am happy to be back home in the Bronx. There are beautiful things here too if you know how to look for them.

This is a timelapse video of Van Cortlandt Park and the 1 line train yard, taken from the window of my apartment. I recorded it over a year ago when I first started building time-machines to harvest media. This day was simply amazing and I feel lucky to have captured it. This video was the first I ever posted on the internet. It was featured in a video collection curated by Jonny Goldstein at Anthology Film Archives back in December of 2005. The music is by my good friend and Bronx native Damien Quinones.


I am happy to share this video with all of you because it represents the spaces and places that are dear to me. It should remind us of all the wonderful worlds hiding around us, ready to open up when we take the time to see them. Its important we look out for these things and share them with others when we find them. I hope Lisa likes it and that you do too.

Evan N said,

March 14, 2007 @ 5:15 am

Your video is beautiful! Wow, the clouds look incredible in timelapse. It definitely looked like an amazing day. Nice work!

-Evan N

sloan said,

March 14, 2007 @ 11:32 am

yay timelapse!
the sky is beautiful and the trains going in and out are funny.
very cool.

jonny goldstein said,

March 14, 2007 @ 2:23 pm

This video still sticks in my memory. Beautiful.

tonya said,

March 15, 2007 @ 2:51 am

Very cool video, Tony! A day in the life of a Bronx train yard… Very urban, but folksy too and the music helps set that tone. And how awesome that it was shown at Film Anthology Archives!

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