Work Onlyshort series

is a web series I created in 2008. The economy had crashed, I was broke, and I thought I could make money becoming a content creator. Hahahahahaha. This did not work, but I'm proud of this series which looked at artists and where/how they make their work, and stands as a record of a particular time. Each episode I shot and edited in one day, an exercise in constraints.

Murray Bowles
episode 1
2008, 3:40
The first episode, an outlier which I built from existing materials. It documents the work of Murray Bowles with a rare interview he did with KALX.

The Crash of Condo-Burg: A Walk in Brooklyn with N.A.G.

episode 2
2009, 7:00
"Williamsburg, Brooklyn is a hub of New York's cultural life, and also one of the most egregious examples of a boom gone bust. Greed and speculation is emptying the neighborhood of artists, dancers, and musicians and filling it with glass and steel condos that nobody wants. Work Only takes a walk with Ryan Tuonen from N.A.G (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) and looks at how w- burg arrived at this sorry state, and how N.A.G. is trying to build a community in the wreckage."

The Propagation of the Symbiont: In the studio with Barney Haynes

episode 3
2009, 7:39
"Barney Haynes has been working in the fields of video art, performance and reactive installation for 20 years. In his art he has adopted an iterative approach to media making, recombining themes and industrial surplus into media machines that evolve and mutate. For seven years he was working on The Symbiont, an installation that has a symbiotic relationship with a lone participant. Recently he has been involved in dissecting the Symbiont and utilizing its various component parts in new projects."

Forgotten Histories: Coffee with James Kalm

episode 4
2009, 5:26

"New York does not have a very good memory unless there is a lot of money and press involved, and the real history of the city is sometimes only preserved in the minds of people who are paying attention. Writer James Kalm has been paying attention to the art history of Williamsburg for over 15 years, and wrote a piece for the Brooklyn Rail titled "The Brooklyn Canon", tracing the lineage of the Williamsburg art community. Work Only sat down for coffee with him to discuss Williamsburg's past, as its future is being defined by overdevelopment and luxury condos."

Gazzer Dirt is not a Paper Cup

episode 6
2008, 5:10

(where I try and fail to do a "brand collaboration")
"The anarcho-punk legend Gazzer Dirt was the co-founder of the early 1980’s UK band Dirt, and the Stratford Mercenaries (with Steve Ignorant from Crass) in the 1990's. After 20 years on the road he has settled in London to raise the next generation of revolutionaries. Work Only catches him on a recent visit to New York, and brings him into the testing lab to offer some insight on a new reusable, very hip looking porcelain coffee cup from Decor Craft. The first of our green gadget reviews!"

Ash Clouds Over Bushwick

episode 7
2010, 6:30

“Mari Ahokoivu and Anna Sailamaa are in the forefront of the burgeoning art comics movement coming out of Finland. Stranded in New York after the MoCCA Festival due to the volcanic ash cloud over Europe, they find themselves in Bushwick for an extended stay. Work Only takes them to the park for a conversation about their work, how to hang laundry, and how to describe those moments in which nothing happens“

Rearranging the Landscape with Carrie Walker

episode 8
2010, 6:19

"This past fall Vancouver artist Carrie Walker traveled to rural Pennsylvania to sketch the locations of a strange and brutal 1700's ritual called a "circle hunt", an event in which early colonists formed a 30-mile circle and slaughtered every animal within its borders. She aims to draw the animals back into their environment, thus creating a ritualistic reversal, a futile restoration, an archive and an epitaph, while at the same time illustrating the complexities and absurdities inherent in the relationship between civilization and wildlife. Work Only talked with her about bloodthirsty americans and how to draw a proper landscape, on a picturesque day at the Central Park duck pond."

Breakfast with Laura Braslow: Street Aesthetics and Neighborhood Change

episode 9
2012, 6:52

"If the Bushwick art scene has blown up in the past few years, it's thanks in part to the horizontally-structured Arts in Bushwick and the events it has created, Bushwick Open Studios being one. Laura Braslow is a founding member of Arts In Bushwick and the Bushwick Department of Public Works, and is a member of Brooklyn Community Board 4. As a public policy researcher and a doctoral student in Sociology at CUNY, Laura is deeply invested in questions of community and what creates and sustains it. Luckily for us, they are also an accomplished chef, as anyone who has attended the BDPW neighborhood dinners can attest. Work Only stopped by for a gourmet breakfast at BDPW headquarters to talk about one of their recent interests, street aesthetics and how they play out in changing neighborhoods."