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A Trio of Birthdays

Sunday, March 11, 2012

1. This week, on March 15, Drawing Life turns three years old. 2. Minerva Durham’s Spring Studio, New York’s busy basement of figure drawing and one of the forges of my creative life, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this month. 3. On the 12th, my brother Frank Hatt is celebrating another one of those decade birthdays. [...]

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Okie Troglodytes

Thursday, May 27, 2010

In the mid-1980′s I was living in my home town of Enid, Oklahoma, working as a video producer for a local ad agency.  I had access to industrial video gear (a Sony DXC-M3 camera and portable U-matic deck), a romantic identification with stone age cave painters, and some unembarrassable friends, one of whom lived on [...]

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Release

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The tradition of the wild party for New Years probably has something to do with the idea of catharsis, an explosive releasing of pent-up emotion through acting out.  We want to exhaust the frustration, regrets and resentments of the ending year by burning off the lingering energy to awaken to a fresh new day.  Of [...]

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Subway Sax

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Subway Sax from Fred Hatt on Vimeo. In honor of my brother, Frank, and in celebration of his moving back to the Northeast after a sojourn in Oklahoma, I’m posting a video we made eighteen years ago. This is Frank improvising on his alto saxophone in the West 4th Street Subway Station in Manhattan on [...]

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