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“Nobody Walks Here. It’s Too Hot or Cold or Wet or Dry.” — Human Transit
Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore. I’ve even been asked this about Los Angeles, where the climate is very mild by global standards. Well-traveled elites can form
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“Nobody Walks Here. It’s Too Hot or Cold or Wet or Dry.” — Human Transit
Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore. I’ve even been asked this about Los Angeles, where the climate is very mild by global standards. Well-traveled elites can form
Deeper Listening is a monthly sequence of walking videos made in Ithaca, New York. Each entry pairs local observation with the public language of environmental policy and climate reporting. The slowed videos invite sustained attention.
The faster VidCats preserve the monthly source footage as chronological catalogs. Together, they form a record of walking, weather, water, season, archive, and public reckoning.
Credits
Neil Zusman, archivist, producer, walker.
Neil Zusman is the chief archivist of the Fracking Resource Guide and Earthstage: Palau Edition. He holds a Master of Arts in Humanities (1990) and a Master of Library Science (2007) from the University at Buffalo. He is the managing member of Mixplex LLC and has exhibited video art since 1976. His work bridges archival practice, media art, and software development. From 1983 to 1992, he curated exhibitions of artists working with computers, supported by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Meet the Composer. He has worked as an educator at both the college and middle school levels and continues to develop his practice as a software developer, artist, archivist, and videographer.
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