This spirit is holding us down, Push our shoulders in deep. Pulling us to the light, Toasted our backs in the sun. (...) But now our days are set straight, We're seeing it all eye to eye. The balance is still chasing after, Just hanging on as you walk by. (...) This world is only getting smaller, The choices aren't ours to be made. I'm into wasting my days, I feel like wasting my days.
And I see what's coming on, And I can't say it will all be fine. And I can't help thinking we grew up too fast, No I can't help thinking we grew up too fast And I know, I know, I know this won't last, a second longer than it has.
The Brooklyn Pigeon Project is an experiment in developing a satellite that records the city as seen by a flock of birds. Working with seasoned bird flyers, trained pigeons that fly in regular spiral patterns over Brooklyn are equipped with wireless video and microphones. Their flight paths capture unconventional portraits both of the city below and of flock motions. This unique way to see Brooklyn contrasts directly with the way the city is increasingly recorded and represented today. The advent of GIS and the rise of network protocols have placed virtually all urban imaging and remote sensing systems “on the grid.” Using a flock of birds as one component of an imaging apparatus, this project confronts the limits of this grid by creating an equally rich disclosure of the city: seeing the city as a flock does.
"the build up..... lasted for days, lasted for weeks"
Uma ideia de memória ou de algo perpetuado no tempo, que, em permanente processo de (des)construção, encontra na incerteza de resposta acabada a sua principal motivação...