Pilgrims of Pleiades

I Something God

I Something God from Aleks Degtyarev on Vimeo. What we did:  We externalized the spiritual journey into a days walk through the city. We got up at 5am and took a train from Bay Ridge Brooklyn NY to Inwood NY in NYC. We began our walk from Inwood and ended our journey entirely by foot [...]

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Jewish Lightnin’ (pilot) @ The LAB Gallery

The LAB Gallery will host a live art instillation/performance Jewish Lightnin’  on June 19-20, 2012 The Lab Gallery is located on the corner of 47th St. & Lexington Ave. New York, NY. Performance will commence at: 5:30-7pm Jewish Lightnin’ (pilot) Promo from Aleks Degtyarev on Vimeo. About the Project:  These are stories about the coming of age [...]

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Affection

Affection One day I was on assignment at the Parish Art museum. I had accomplished my aspiration; I was an art commentator, although some call us critics. On that particular day I could not explain the compassion that radiated from somewhere deep within me. As hyperbolical beams shot out of every pore in my body, [...]

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Sourcery Music

One is lucky to find or make a friend, but when that friend transforms into a collaborator, that appears to be magical. When you can fuse two friend collaborators together to create something even more elaborate and magnificent, all prior wishes are shattered and only the promise of total surprise remains. In this case I reference my [...]

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Velvet Never Dies

I must explain that in the Czech Republic beer drinking is sort of a way of life. Or is it? Well, it is if you are an American student studying abroad. Most students of beer will note that in the Czech Republic there is quite a resplendent selection of beer to choose from. If you are [...]

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Ryder Stronger 2011 Roundup

You may have been to his site http://manboyinthepromisedland.com/ or idling your days away on something less useful, but in either case; A Miracle to TOAST! Pipe Adams has made it all the way down to Guatemala by sheer iron clad gumption and a petroleum soaked will. If you are not familiar with the follies and adventurous forays into the never-lands  of my dear friend [...]

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The Droolers

From Merrick to Bayridge- a desperate clamor against time. A short bike ride to the end of the world. That’s what was on the agenda for Pipe and Marlo on May 21 2011. The last two hunks left on this hunk of rock.

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MuzeeK Automatique (How a manboy learned to live his dream)

The last organic instrument I tried playing was a ukulele. When I say organic, I mean, non-amplified, non-electric, non-digital. In Costa Rica that dream was shattered, along with the Ukulele, in a strange shamanic ritual involving some green tree frogs and lots of Cuba Libres. Wait, maybe I should start from the beginning here. This [...]

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Shoe Fits (our Short Film) official release

This is it… the movie we slaved on for two whole weeks.   Thanks to Panman Productions and FreestyleLife.com everyone can enjoy the antics of the Original Hooligans.

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Supermoon?

“Thanks to a fluke of orbital mechanics that brings the moon closer to Earth than that it has been in more than 18 years, the biggest full moon of 2011 will occur on Saturday, leading some observers to dub it a “supermoon.”” ~Yahoo News I don’t know where you were on Saturday, March 19th. 2011, [...]

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