Thursday, January 26, 2012


I LOVE THE CAVEBASEMENT! It's perfect! Thank you for posting that video, it made it much clearer for me in my head. Kate's visit to New Orleans was not only a fantastic time, but a very productive brainstorming sesh. We held meetings daiy and kind of narrowed things down to these ideas and plans of creation:

1) absence as a value
2) liminal space travel
3) wishful thinking

Kate- Wishing Well and Porthole

Vanessa- Packaging Molds and Projector Jam

Me- CAVEBASEMENT projection and Steamboat Organized Neatly ala
I'll elaborate:
The CAVEBASEMENT really sparked my interest because when I was in Iceland, I saw a photography exhibition about one of the coal minors that was buried underground for 50 days in Mexico a few years ago. One of those poor souls was a triathlete and continued his exercise regimin underground by tying lumber to his body, climbing up and down the course etc, see picture above. I thought these pictures were an amazing example of facing adversity and somehow keeping our goals ahead of us. Anyway if this I wanted to create a projector that was inside of a coal mining helmet, so the place where the light is, projects images or video vignettes of solitude or hope. Haven't really figured out that aspect of things yet but I think it'll look really poetic.
Also Kate and I were talking about possible shapes etc. to create to use for a neon light piece or maybe collect tiny little objects and create a shape, or cut a shape out of mesh window screening- we saw this done at an exhibition in NOLA it looked like helicopter shapes and when the overlapped it darkened...

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

CAVE/BASEMENT


This is a not so good quick and dirty video of the "cavebasement" as Sio so nicely named it. Talk soon!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Monday, January 9, 2012

tickets to steamboat

Hey guys- I found roundtrip tickets to steamboat on trip advisor for $500 flying out from DC on May 19th and flying home on Monday the 28th. Seems like this is the best we can get. Let me know if you guys spot any other travel deals!

Trip Advisor