FROM THE ARCHIVES - 2005:

ART or Something Like it!

A Video Portrait of: Benton C Bainbridge (Media Artist)

Benton C Bainbridge is an artist based in The Bronx working with video as a painterly and performable medium. His media art is made with custom systems of his own design. Bainbridge has presented video as immersive environments and live compositions across 5 continents, collaborating with scores of artists around the world.

Career highlights include the best-attended ever Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris performance with live media ensemble The Poool, video design for 2 Beastie Boys world tours and numerous special appearances and analog video synth FX for TV On The Radio.

Bainbridge has shown and performed video on five continents in venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, American Museum of the Moving Image, The Kitchen (NYC), EMPAC (Troy, NY), the American Museum of Natural History, SFMoMA (San Francisco), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Dallas Video Festival, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Mercat des les Flors (Barcelona), LUX2006 (Sevilla), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Roma), Test-Portal (Amsterdam), Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), Teatro Colón CETC (Buenos Aires), CELCIT (Managua), Korean Festival (Seoul), Good Vibrations (Australia), MTV Networks and Hotwired (global).

This year, Benton C Bainbridge has shown projections with Jin Hi Kim' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Kaki King at BRIC in Brooklyn. He premiered "Picturing You", an interactive video portraiture installation commissioned by Deutsche Bank for Frieze Art Fair, NY. Picturing You can be experienced at the "Performing Media" exhibition at Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY.

Bainbridge was a founding partner in Glowing Pictures from 2004 through mid 2014.

(Bio. from Benton C Bainbridge's Facebook page)

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From the Archives: ART or Something Like it!

A Video Portrait of: Michael Krasowitz

"Art represents for me an opportunity to express the best of myself, an opportunity to transcend the borders of my existence. I approach my work as if the artwork exists in a space beyond my conscious worldview, and brings me to a higher state of consciousness by the manifestation of the work."

"I am looking for a #transcendental state, by the creation of #art…so that I’m more of a vessel for the art…as opposed to me imposing my will upon the art” – @krasowitz ( #Painter / #Printmaker )

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From the Blight Productions Archives: A Video Portrait of: Heru (Spoke Word Poet)

Heru (Black Talawah) is an award winning internationally renown African-born Spoken Word Poet, presently based in the Virgin Islands. He is the founder of

"Spoken Dub," a new art form that brings together the continental African spoken word oral trance tradition with the African American Blues tradition along with the Caribbean Roots Reggae tradition.

Heru holds a Bachelor’s of Science in the field of Biopsychology from Tufts

University in Boston, MA. He also holds a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law. He passed the Florida Bar in 1998 and practiced law until 2001, when he decided to retire and chose a career as a professional Spoken Word Performance Poet.

Heru has released 5 critically acclaimed spoken word poetry albums. Volume 1: Mystery School, Volume 2: The Nephew of Nebthet and Volume 3: African

Mathematics. Volume 4: Goddess of the Perfect Black and Volume 5: The Epic African Drama.

In the field of performance poetry, Heru was named Spoken Word Poet of the Year by The Harambee Radio Network. He has performed, spoken and lectured at countless colleges, universities and festivals in the United States. He has performed his own show at The National Black Theater in Harlem, New York and has performed on the TV cable network called the Black Family Channel. In 2010, Heru was awarded the Washington DC Individual Artist Grant for exceptional artists in the field of performance and poetry.

Internationally, Heru has performed extensively in Africa and the Caribbean. Some Caribbean examples include, the Barbados Crop Over Read In Celebration, St. Kitts

Emancipation Day Celebration and Jamaica's A Fi Wi Sinting Celebration. In Africa, Heru was invited to perform in Nigeria at the World Music Festival and Ghana at the world renowned Panafest where he was one of few invited international artists.

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Thanks,

Brian A. Bernhard

Blight Productions

Hey my beautiful patrons! Because of your generous support of our project on Patreon, we were able to make another amazing charitable donation. This time in honor of our friends at the Four Clowns for allowing us to share their full performance with you, we contributed to Clowns Without Boarders! Learn more about this amazing origination here: http://www.clownswithoutborders.org/about-us/

Have an brilliant holiday! I hope all of you amazing patrons of the arts are about to partake in something that brings you much joy. If not, you should be. Come join me for a walk or something! I always have time for you folks!

I just wanted to share with you my gratitude and thanks for all your support over the last year. You guys totally inspire me.

I do apologize for not being able to produce as many documentaries for you on a consistent basis as I had originally wanted to, but until the patreon budget increases to a sustainable level, I must continue to divide my time between producing you guys these amazing documentaries and taking on other jobs that enable me to pay some bills.

All in all we had a pretty great year and we were able to donate money to some great charities, including: The Michael J. Fox Foundation, The Fund For Global Human Rights, The Naraya Cultural Preservation Council & the Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute. Hopefully next year, with your help to get the word out amongst your friends about this arts and culture adventure we are on, we will be able to support more artists and more charities in our mission to make the world a better place!

Additionally, we got some of our arts and movies into some amazing festivals and won a bunch of amazing awards...all of which could not have happened without your help!

I am forever grateful for all that you do and I am hoping to complete at least one more documentary for you before the end of the year. So stay tuned and share this project with your friends!

Much Love,

Brian A. Bernhard

http://www.blightproductions.com/

Hey folks, so I know this event has passed, but I wanted to give you a teaser for the next documentary profile I will be posting. It's a bit different from all the comedy / physical performer docs I have been doing for A FOOL'S IDEA, but this is the beginning of a new fine artist series. I think you will love these new stories and you will love Jabu! And don't worry, new episodes of A FOOLS IDEA will keep coming as I have time to edit them! Thanks for your continued support and helping us promote great artists!

A special thank you to all of our patrons; you have enabled us to make a contribution to the Victory Fund & Institute (a great charitable non-profit) on behalf of Aitor Basauri's featured episode of A Fool's Idea!! Thank you so much, and if you haven't yet seen the video, please watch it here: http://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=970657&rf=38459

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TO BE RELEASED ONLINE September 17th 2014:

WHERE: http://www.patreon.com/blightproductions

COMING SOON, a totally NEW episode of A FOOL'S IDEA, featuring the incredibly funny – Aitor Basauri (joint artistic director & performer in the world famous comedic theater company Spy Monkey). Take a journey with us through the ups and downs of life in one of the most hilarious theater companies in the world!

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A generous portion of the proceeds raised through our Patreon page to support Aitor's episode of the series will be donated to The Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute at www.victoryinstitute.org.

Please share, tell your friends about the episode, help support a great cause, and introduce your world to this amazing artist! Thanks!