Journey’s end

When we decided to become professional transients in the service of Empire, we held a “Give Away/Going Away” party in our old apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Friends came by from noon until midnight and picked our apartment clean of furniture, books, DVDs, and appliances. We put what was left into boxes, put those boxes into a 5’ by 15’ storage unit in Sheepshead Bay, and then boarded a flight to Jakarta, and lived out of a big green rolling suitcase for the next four years.

Today, our boxes arrived at our new apartment in Los Angeles, where we’ll be working on a video project for at least the next year. There’s still a lot to do for Empire—there’s a book to publish, and an online adaptation to finish—but the days of the green suitcase are over. Time to buy some new shit.