Stephen Russell12th St between 8th Ave and Hudson StHeart One · Location 39 · Drawn May 2004A panoramic view from the tape drawingLOOK AROUND 12TH STDrag the panorama or use the arrow keys.Drag the panorama.PAN PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Download photograph 12Video podcast0:00This drawing was done on the southwest corner of West 12th Street and 8th Avenue0:05in a staircase descending from the sidewalk into the basement of Spyros Food Mart.0:30This is Stephen Russell. He was drawn in May of 2004.0:36His drawing is counting one person.0:58Okay.1:00Saris Sarasini, number 38, heart one.1:05He's here.1:06We're going to walk to the other side of this square right here and put a figure of Mr.1:15Russell.1:16It's going to be about a block that direction.1:21And today's fair will include this neighborhood.1:26So we'll walk through here.1:27Hopefully by the end of today we'll be to this point and beyond.2:16We spend as much time as we can looking at the photographs of these people before we2:21draw.2:22We're dealing with obviously just a facing forward depiction.2:31We don't get the privilege of a profile, but we give it our best shot.2:38Trying to get a sense of bulk, trying to get a sense of general size.3:10How has your opinion of the project changed over the last three years?3:16What's the largest change?3:18The largest change primarily is organization.3:22That's been the big change.3:28It's changed because before, for a greater time it was a solo effort.3:35It's turned into a fantastic collaboration between many people, including yourself.3:45and it's become essential to have ourselves organized in a way that we can3:54share the information fluidly amongst ourselves and though the process this4:01initial process of drawing the people where they're going to be drawn how4:05they're going to be done hasn't changed the lick the net the product of all this4:13effort has changed quite a bit. That's the graphic design side of it.4:17Broad decisions were made early on and those broad decisions have stayed true.4:27It's definitely improved a lot.4:37I'm fortunate enough to be collaborating with really talented computer people, so that's4:45that people are really graphically keen.4:49So it went from being a little more of a hodgepodge of web pages to being a little more finely4:58finely tuned.5:20In a much broader sense, the big thing that's changed is like, this project initially, the5:29fleeting ideas, the fleeting ideas, we assume we're only going to take 15 minutes to finish.5:36This has taken long enough that we've gone to war with two countries.5:39It started in [unclear] war.5:43But the context for this project, the project hasn't changed,5:47but everything around it has been changing quite a bit.5:58Learned a lot from this.6:04Stephen Russell was a firefighter who worked wonders with wood.6:09build furniture and cabinets, and once even made a wave-skipping hydroplane that he raced6:14around Jamaica Bay.6:16Firefighter Russell of Engine Company 55 also built a display case at his fire station in6:22Little Italy that became a memorial to him and four colleagues who died at the World6:27Trade Center.6:28Black-framed pictures of them now hang there.← Location 38Heart One · Location 39Location 40 →
