Time Machine: Victor Jessen, Time’s Surreptitious Splicer by Francis Dougherty

Still from Jessen’s animated credit sequence for Theme and Variations.  The filmmakers name descends with wisps of cotton clouds. Like the ever branching dendritic pattern water takes in…

Time Machine: Time Travel for the Fisher Price Set by Francis Dougherty

Time Machine: Interstitial Moment, Real News for Time Travelers by Francis Dougherty

With all of my past allusions to time travel, the fictional trope, I thought it was time that I accounted for my flippancy with some hard time travel news. Who wouldn't want a time machi…

Time Machine: Redacted by Time by Francis Dougherty

One of my colleagues, speaking of our collection of unique recordings at the Library for the Performing Arts, has said that, “all of our recordings are made by professionals, but recor…

Time Machine: Interstitial Moment, VHS vs. Communism: Posts from New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center by Francis Dougherty

The return of Daylight Saving Time means that we have all just experienced a temporal displacement.   Let’s set Time Machine back by a small increment and briefly revisit the VHS…

Time Machine: Interstitial Moment, VHS vs. Communism by Francis Dougherty

The return of Daylight Saving Time means that we have all just experienced a temporal displacement.   Let’s set Time Machine back by a small increment and briefly revisit the VHS…

Time Machine: Cloverleaf and Helix, The Early Years: Posts from New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center by Francis Dougherty

My dystopian commute through New Jersey is bound by the cloverleaf exit from the Goethals Bridge and the helix to the Lincoln Tunnel; it is my first temporal displacement of the day. Moving …

Time Machine: Cloverleaf and Helix, The Early Years by Francis Dougherty

My dystopian commute through New Jersey is bound by the cloverleaf exit from the Goethals Bridge and the helix to the Lincoln Tunnel; it is my first temporal displacement of the day. Moving …