Visited SF for a weekend. Hung out with my friend, William. He likes to make smoothies with beets, kale, carrots, celery, ginger, bananas, and soy milk.
de Young Museum observation deck
New baby cousin, Leah w/ Byron in the Sunset.
Amelia!
Sightglass Coffee Roasters in SOMA.
California Street Line Cable Car
Hyatt Regency @ 5 Embarcadero Center
Ravi’s Office @ 2 Embarcadero Center
Tartine Bakery & Cafe, the Mission
Brothertiger _ Like Water
ASM International Headquarters, Materials Park, Ohio, USA. By Buckminster Fuller & John Terence Kelly.
“The forty-five acre estate, known as Materials Park has been home to the headquarters of ASM International (formerly known as the American Society for Metals) for the past fifty years. The three-story 50,000 S.F. office and laboratory facility wraps around the circular base of open aluminum dome in a series of elegant radial layers. The eleven-story high geodesic dome, spanning 250 feet in diameter, is the largest openwork dome in the world.”
It all started on August 5th, 2010, when Glen Phillips (organizer of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time’s Performance and Public Art Festival) and I exchanged correspondences about having Materials & Applications (M&A) submit a proposal to the Getty for a grant to perform Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hemrol, and Eric Orr’s 1968 dry-ice installation “Disappearing Environments”. On January 19th, 2012, after 3 planning sesions, M&A, 40+ participants, Judy Chicago, and Donald Woodman collaborated to create “Sublime Environments” at Barkar Hanger at the Santa Monica Airport.
The day started with some bagels from Brooklyn Bagels in Historic Filipino Town.
Then we started getting prepped up for the big performance. This included white jump suits, white spray-painted hair, and work gloves.
The dry-ice came in 12”x12” blocks, and delivered in big bins. We were building 9 ziggurats, with 91 blocks each.
The participants were divided into 4 groups, each group building one ziggurat at a time. Tthe first half of the day consisted of building 4 ziggurats. After lunch, the 4 groups proceeded to do another 4 ziggurats. Then, all the participants helped to build the final ziggurat.
Judy Chicago.
Marya Villarin
Nick Rodrigues.
Charlie Peel.
The sublimation of the dry-ice blocks changed throughout the day. As the day got warmer, and the air more moist from the ocean, the fog got thicker. Notice the photos as the day progressed.
The final piece being placed by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman.
At 5:30PM (sunset), participants lit 30-minute road flares, 10 to each ziggurat, to create a red, glowing, emanating environment.
And to think, I had no idea who Judy Chicago was when I first spoke with her on the phone back in August, 2010. She had fans who dressed up like her at the opening. No big deal.
As the night wore on, the ziggurats slowly began to crumble as the blocks sublimated and shrank. And much like the products and monumental things in our lives we treasure, the block will also disappear, without a trace.
“Rethinking Glendale Boulevard” Workshop w/ James Rojas @ Echo Country Outpost on Glendale Blvd. When I moved to LA (the second time), I lived right up Glendale Blvd. @ Fargo St., and had to bike the dangerous stretch north of Sunset Blvd. all the time. Disaster. Glendale Blvd. really is an unpleasant street to be a pedestrian, cyclist, or business owner. The workshop really inspired me to start some investigating…. we’ll see what happens. Lots of neighborhood friends were there : Rachel Klein, Autumn Rooney, Ashley Atkinson, Erik Yesayan, Greg Wittmann Craig Collins (President of the Silver Lake Reservoirs Conservancy), Eric Garcetti (City Council Member).
Stopped by Materials & Applications’ test run of Disappearing Environments in frogtown. The team had decided on a final form and configuration. They built two of the structures and lit some flares to test them out.
Ready for Pacific Standard Time!
“Flight Assembled Architecture”
Semi-autonomous flying robots programmed by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler “will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks” to build a 3.5 metre wide structure.
FRAC Centre Orléans 02.12.2011-19.02.2012
A project by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea
in cooperation with ETH Zurich
in collaboration with Really Awesome Great Experiments and their “8 1/2 x 11 Experiment”, Bruce’s Buddies threw a supper social, pancake brunch edition. We really wanted to take over the sidewalk, redefine Occidental Blvd. as one that has the possibility for more than something pedestrian and static: Occupy Sidewalk.
I love Los Angeles. Bags of oranges, all year round for fresh squeezed O.J.
photo by Jamilah Welch.
“The incredible Mr. Gramling will be improving on the piano (and other instruments) to classic short silent films. We’re picking the movie right before, he’s gonna make something totally different.” @ Really Awesome Great Experiments
Really Awesome Great Experiments open with 8 1/2 x 11.
cards by Isis
screen-printed Furoshiki cloth
Donna, the dress-form, showcasing Graham Keegan’s hand-dyed Kikko indigo scarves.
paper lamp shades by Isis.
Tyvek ceiling.
Then off to the Annual Midnight Ridazz All-City Toy Ride from East Hollywood to Downtown. Then Downtown to a warehouse. with Ben, Marya, and Avishay.
BLOOM is now installed at M&A till Spring 2012. Designed by Doris Sung in collaboration with Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and Matthew Melnyk.
“The design of the project, based on research by Sung and Wahlroos-Ritter, explores the possibilities of a thermally responsive metal surface which reacts to both the change in temperature and direct solar radiation. When the temperature of the metal is cool, the surface will appear as a solid object, once the afternoon heat penetrates the metal, the panels of custom woven bimetal will adjust and fan out to allow air flow and increase shade potential. The thermo-bimetal alloys used in the project expand the notion of surface and structure in architecture.”
