Weather Forecast Update

The Farmer’s Almanac says it going to rain with a high of 64.  The days surrounding… partly cloudy.  Yahoo (weather.com), on the other hand, has removed rain from Thursday but Monday through Wednesday forecasts are all rainy.
I don’t know which is best…  soggy building or soggy event.

Ascend fire

I test several materials to get physical fire ascend from ground to the air.  There are two materials work well. One is the 100% cotton yarn, the other one is natural jute#28. I rubbed more than 16 lines together, you can see from the video how they work.
Fire is light. The process that fires go [...]

we need a slogan! patanga.

its gotta be on the same level of sassiness as ’so’s your face’…not as serious as return to city of fire…
>better than a kick in the patanga.
>one patanga, two patanga, three patanga, four..
>he doesnt know his patanga from a whole in the ground.
>dont let the door hit you in the patanga.
>shake your patanga.
>where’s my patanga?
>your [...]

Colors

Ancient Egyptians as well as the Native Americans used color and colored light to heal.  Although color symbolism differs from culture to culture, many of the Native American color symbols have to do with the four directions or the four sacred mountains (blue, white, red, black – Cherokee or white, blue, yellow, black – Navajo)
Blue [...]

Truckin right along

I’m working on images for the map and altar ideas

this is spinal tap

lets put our heart and soul into this project – lets all get spinal tap!  vicadin could be all over the place- add wine and make special cookies…the audience really wouldnt know what hit ‘em.
ok, i bought plastic drop cloth and was trying different things…put cloth on it – air – decided water was not [...]

Thoughts about the mapping

These thoughts were in response to a few questions Mikeila had about creating the map. It led me to think about issues of obstruction of flow caused by the position of the library.
Where is the map to be located on site? It would be cool to have the artifact and then deconstructive studies of it [...]

scrims and variations

edward weston’s  – cabbage 
hokay.  i’ve been looking at what yuanman had posted the other day about eve ingalls work.  her forms reminded me a lot of something tortuous escaping from the ground – good energy movement of the sculptures and she an interesting use of materials.  then joan mentioned she was influenced by eva hesse – [...]

Memorial or Ghost Garden?