Director John Walter is completing his documentary on Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach. The film THE EARTH MOVES: A documentary about Einstein on the Beach is on the verge of completion but Walter has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finish the film and release it. Philip Glass created the powerful music soundtrack for the films Powaqqatsi and Koyaanisqatsi which were impactful films with incredibly strong environmental messages. I want to support this particularly because Chuck Close’s portrait of Philip Glass compelled me to want to draw really really well at an early age. I have a very vivid memory of going to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and staring at that portrait for more than an hour when I was 10-years-old. This documentary needs to see the light of day. Check out the Kickstarter campaign and support it however you can. Thanks! – Shepard

Side bar image by Chuck Close, Phil, 1969 courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art