Channel Title: Pigeon Pat Channel Description: Pat McCarthy, pigeon flyer, sculptor, author of Born to Kill zines/books. Brooklyn New York. Been living with birds on the roof since early 2012. Across the world people raise pigeons, have been for millennia, and each region trains, fly's, and loves the birds in a unique way. This channel is a portrait of how we do it in New York City. Up on the roof. Stock flying hundreds of pigeons at once. NY Flights, Tiplets, Rollers, High Flyers. Rocking bundled flocks for all the neighborhood to see. Catching your neighbors birds. Out-flying the hawks. Talking shit at the Pigeon shops... This channel is also very much a portrait of my individual approach to the craft, the care, and the intricate ritual of this endeavor. Much respect to all who shepard pigeons. Brooklyn we out here. All video, music, architecture, text, by Pat McCarthy unless noted. I don't keep prisoners, all the birds on this roof fly free. <video> Big Apple Pigeon Show NY 2021 Description: Walkin' through the 2021 Big Apple Invitational Pigeon Show aka the New York Combine. Beautiful flights, rollers, tiplets, homers, tumblers, pouters, high flyers, and more. instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en Babylon Pigeons Issue 23 November 2021 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> Paradise Stork & Vegan Foie Gras in Oslo Description: Making a wood stork sculpture and vegan foie gras for my show PARADISE, at HULIAS gallery in Oslo Norway. Made the stork on wedn, foie on thurs, and had the opening fri. 200 foie served! Thanks to everyone who came. Tusen thanks to Isak Wisløff and Nancy Handelman for making the foie with me. And thank you to all at HULIAS -- Jørn Aagaard, Mads John Thomseth, Øyvind Bast -- and Ingrid Hjort, Aksel Ree, Louis Shannon, and Maddy Ringold-Brown. Images and text from the exhibition: https://www.hulias.info/exhibition/paradise also: www.patmccarthy.net </video> <video> New York Farmcore - Pat McCarthy sculpture Description: Five new artworks at Hudson House gallery, curated by River Valley Arts Collective. I made these sculptures on our Catskills farm, about our Catskills farm. Fall 2022. River Valley Arts Collective supplied me with several cubic yards of raw sheeps' wool and the material found it's way into most of this work. www.patmccarthy.net https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en Satan Ceramics. Bricolage. Magnatrac 7000. Niknak's Farm. ISRU. Anarchitecture. Pigeon flying. </video> <video> Owl in my pigeon coop #shorts Description: This owl snuck into my pigeon coop and hung out for a couple hours. All the pigeons were out flying, and hangin out on the coop's roof. The owl killed only one bird, a tiplet, and then they could not figure out the door to exit.. Neighbor Mike was over helping me clear trees when I discovered the owl. Mike's a bird guy too. He handled the owl remarkably. #shorts We out in the Catskill Mountains NY USA. Nov 2021. instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en </video> <video> NIKNAK'S #18 - vintage UTV complete rear-end rebuild HEALD HAULER Description: Workin on my side by side, a Carl Heald Hauler, installing new Peerless differential axle, new discs, bearings, hubs.. and hangin out with the dog Dondi, in the Catskill Mountains New York. The dump-trike was made in Michigan, circa 1980. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en Niknak's Farm Issue 18 Nov 2021 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> A Marseillaise Garden Description: Making a zine in Marseille France using my sculpture, the Chariot de Papier, a mobile zine-making machine. It's gas-powered. I built this in Marseille in spring 2016. I built this to make art with kids in la Busserine, a neighborhood in the quartiers nord. This zine is a survey of all the plants in the garden of the Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, the FRAC PACA. The plants have the names of great rappers from Marseille, largely from les quartiers nord. This performance was a contribution to the 2022 Trafic Marseille salon de l'edition independante, the great art book fair initiated by Laura Morsch-Kihn. sculpture: www.patmccarthy.net ig: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en A Marseillaise Garden Born to Kill fanzine Issue 103 Spring 2022 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> BABYLON PIGEONS #25 - schleppin the pigeons downstate Description: Moving my 150 pigeons from the Catskills to our roof in Brooklyn. sculpture: www.patmccarthy.net instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en Babylon Pigeons Issue 25 January 2022 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> Tearing down my 1st rooftop pigeon coop Description: I starting building this loft, called Babylon, on my roof in Bushwick Brooklyn in early 2012. Thousands of pigeons have called it home... Ill build new coops. IG: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?next=%2Feritred%2F&hl=da Art: https://www.patmccarthy.net/ Babylon Pigeons Issue 30 May 2023 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> a Towering Pedestal with a Porcelain Birdhouse atop Description: Drunkenly conceiving and building a readymade endless column, by screwing 5 sculpture plinths together and erecting it with our little tractor. Sitting on the roof of the tower is a porcelain sculpture of our Brooklyn pigeon coop. The sculpture functions as a birdhouse for small wild birds. The roof is a Buckminster Fuller dome, geodesic, lustered with gold. June 2023 Catskills NY by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> BABYLON PIGEONS #27 - This is my Studio Description: Sayin "this is" 100 or so times. Studio tour. Lots of incomplete sculpture. www.patmccarthy.net https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/pigeon_pat/ Babylon Pigeons Issue 27 April 2022 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> Gawking at fancy pigeons Description: The 2023 Reading Pigeon Association pigeon expo in Lancaster, PA. Me and Maddy dig the birds, talk about it, and buy a few esoteric pigeons for our stock. It's so cool to experience the different worlds of pigeoning. Because I'm a New York City pigeon flyer, these shows are the only place I experience all these crazy breeds in real life. sculpture: https://www.patmccarthy.net/instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en Babylon Pigeons Issue 28 January 2023 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> NIKNAK'S #19 - Hippie Chores Description: Suburu oil change, marijuana grow light setup, hunting mushrooms - artist's conk - with my dog. Catskills NY USA. Veterans' Day special. https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en Niknak's Farm Issue 19 November 2021 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> BABYLON PIGEONS #24 - Cleaning Birds with Dawn Description: Cleaning some pigeons that got too dirty. It's the perches' fault. Moreover my fault for not upgrading the perches. Gotta build box perches like we got in Brooklyn.. The coop is not overcrowded, no pigeons are on the ground. It's 75 birds in a 108 sq ft loft. Dawn dishwasher detergent works pretty well, as per reputation. www.patmccarthy.net instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en Babylon Pigeons Issue 24 by Pat McCarthy December 2021 </video> <video> Confetti-filled Pigeon Eggs Description: Dying pigeon eggs in kool aid and filling them with confetti and miss dior eau de parfum. And putting them in a porcelain carousel at NADA art fair NYC, 2023. This piece is part of my solo presentation with Entrance gallery. See the entire show: https://www.entrance.nyc/pat-mccarthy-nada-new-york-2023 www.patmccarthy.net https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en May 2023 by Pat McCarthy </video> <video> BABYLON PIGEONS #26 - Blizzard survival Description: About 12 inches of snow overnight, first real storm of 2022 in Brookyln. I was a drop under-prepared regarding the roof's readiness lol.. No big deal, we bounced back, shutter windows, shovel, and get the heater on.. Also trek to the pigeon shop for feed. sculpture: https://www.patmccarthy.net/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pigeon_pat/?hl=en Babylon Pigeons Issue 26 January 2022 by Pat McCarthy </video>

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Pat McCarthy, pigeon flyer, sculptor, author of Born to Kill zines/books.
Brooklyn New York.
Been living with birds on the roof since early 2012.
Across the world people raise pigeons, have been for millennia, and each region trains, fly's, and loves the birds in a unique way. This channel is a portrait of how we do it in New York City. Up on the roof. Stock flying hundreds of pigeons at once. NY Flights, Tiplets, Rollers, High Flyers. Rocking bundled flocks for all the neighborhood to see. Catching your neighbors birds. Out-flying the hawks. Talking shit at the Pigeon shops...
This channel is also very much a portrait of my individual approach to the craft, the care, and the intricate ritual of this endeavor.
Much respect to all who shepard pigeons.
Brooklyn we out here.

All video, music, architecture, text, by Pat McCarthy unless noted.
I don't keep prisoners, all the birds on this roof fly free.

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