This tube came in the mail the other day. Pleasantly surprised to find Michelle and Jordan’s Save-The-Date tucked inside.
The poster is appropriately and delightfully designed for them. Can’t wait for the real invitation to arrive. I’m expecting someone to pop up out of a cake. A chocolate truffle cake. With bacon on top.
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
i hosted a figure drawing class at Really Awesome Great Experiments. But instead of spending lots of money on a professional nude model, we just all took turns drawing each other, clothed, and swapping public transportation stories, drinking mulled wine and hot toddies.
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
Doug Tiano had an amazing idea for an Echo Park Time Bank & Bicycle Kitchen float for the annual Echo Park Holiday Community Parade.
Recycled cardboard, painted on one side with cars, smog, traffic, general unpleasantry.
The other side, painted with rivers, flowers, corn, flowers, clouds, happiness, love.
We took over Sunset Blvd. So great to have the roads to ourselves.
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.
