Sean Carroll Photographs & Projects
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How to Get There

This series of videos documents the routine (and not-so-routine) travels of my daily life. A collection of footage from moving trains, cars, bicycles, and airplanes, How To Get There highlights my never-ending movements and the constantly changing landscape that passes by on my journeys from one place to another. The videos are short vignettes that serve as visual instruction manuals for those journeys and feature specific trips I’ve taken over the past years.

In making these videos I’m interested in revealing something about our collective need to constantly be on the move. How To Get There is based on an appreciation of the vast and complex transportation network that is so ingrained into modern American life, connecting each individual and the places they inhabit into a larger whole. These short videos manifest examples of the everyday triumph of getting where you need to go.

HOW TO GET THERE :: 2010-2013

This series of videos documents the routine (and not-so-routine) travels of my daily life. A collection of footage from moving trains, cars, bicycles, and airplanes, How To Get There highlights my never-ending movements and the constantly changing landscape that passes by on my journeys from one place to another. The videos are short vignettes that serve as visual instruction manuals for those journeys and feature specific trips I’ve taken over the past years.

In making these videos I’m interested in revealing something about our collective need to constantly be on the move. How To Get There is based on an appreciation of the vast and complex transportation network that is so ingrained into modern American life, connecting each individual and the places they inhabit into a larger whole. These short videos manifest examples of the everyday triumph of getting where you need to go.

How To Get To: Peekskill

This video was created for Peekskill Project V, organized by Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.

 
Video and Editing by Sean Carroll Original Score Composed by Robert Halstead How To Get To: Peekskill is the latest installment in How To Get There (seancarrollphotographs.com/projects/how-to-get-there/), a series of videos that document the routine (and not-so-routine) travels of my daily life. A collection of video footage from moving trains, cars, bicycles, planes, and boats, How To Get There highlights my never-ending movements and the constantly changing landscape that passes by on my journeys from one place to another. How To Get To: Peekskill in particular reports on the journeys one might choose to make when traveling from Bushwick, Brooklyn (the neighborhood where I live in New York City) to the city of Peekskill, New York in the lower Hudson Valley, some 60 miles north. Travelling alternatively by automobile, bicycle, airplane, and train the video aims to show just a few of the many routes from New York City to Peekskill. How To Get To: Peekskill was created for Peekskill Project V (http://www.hvcca.org/peekskill-project-v/) a program of Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (http://www.hvcca.org/).
 

How To Get To: Work

 
The bike commute from Bushwick, Brooklyn to the Financial District in Downtown Manhattan, New York City
 

How To Get To: The Forest

 
The bike ride from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to Forest Park, Queens, New York City.
 

How To Get To: The Hamptons

 
Taking the train from Jamaica, Queens to East Hampton, Long Island, New York on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Railroad.
 

How To Get To: Aruba

 
The journey by air from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City to Queen Beatrix International Airport, Aruba, Dutch Caribbean.
 

How To Get To: Carson Pass (Winter) & Back (Summer)

 
The road from Hope Valley to Kit Carson Pass (elevation 8574 ft.) along California Hwy. 88, the highest all-season mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada.