If you don’t know who Speed Levitch is, he was the one walking with Wiley Wiggins on the Brooklyn Bridge in “Waking Life”. Read Timothy “Speed” Levitch’s myspace blog. Then become his myspace friend. Maybe his outerspace friend. You’ll be glad you did.
Posted by Jon Levin on January 9th, 2007 under Interviews, Spirituality, Movies, Culture. Comments: 1 | EMail This Post
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Comment from Jonathan Phillips
Time: January 10, 2007, 12:35 pm
His idea for what to do with Ground Zero is the best I’ve heard so far.
“I’ve been working to promote my idea for Ground Zero that’s imbedded in the new short documentary we’ve been taking around to film festivals called Live from Sheeba’s Dance Floor. It’s called “The Buffalo Idea.” It’s an idea that came about from a whole conversation of artists. And we’d like to use the land currently called Ground Zero and turn it into a Joy Park and grazing land for American Bison. The idea is that the central monument should not be an inanimate piece of stone but it should be something that’s alive, that has a heartbeat and that propagates. I think that a lot of what was felt by the people who came up with the idea is that the American Bison represents and indigenous American community that has been experiencing September 11th for 400 years. According to different statistics I’ve heard, there was something like 75 million Buffalo on the continent when the first Europeans arrived and by the 1890’s there was about 200 left. Definitely a tribe of holocaust survivors. A tribe that knows the suffering of September 11th, and the healing. I myself have had the opportunity to stand with free roaming Buffalo in the wild-a great feeling. An amazing experience, almost cosmopolitan. You’d be surprised to see how much cosmopolitanism exist within the average bison and I’m sure the average bison would be surprised to see how much wild exist in the average cosmopolitan.”
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