I spent part of yesterday trying to sell books, De Chirugerie which we got from the investor, and a few of my own which are art monographs worth $100 or so each it seems.

Also, made a new budget. It’s not online yet. I’ll tackle the ephemera section of the site very soon, promise.

The new budget is the first to include in kind items. It is rather revealing. Even without pre-production labor, we are looking at over $50,000 in loaned equipment and services. It boggles the mind. The actual budget for Disembody could be near $100,000 once we figure in labor and cash expenditures. Cash expenditures looking like they’ll be somewhere around $22,000. Which I guess is good news for investors, because those costs (plus labor incurred during the two weeks the show is up - approximately $10,000) are the official budget against which profits are measured.

Thinking about the budget in these terms, we’re actually very close to achieving our goals. We’re only about $7,000 away from what I want in our cash reserves for materials. Of course, we’re more like $20,000 away from what I really want available in investments. There are still a fair number of items I’d like to have in the concession stand, and a few build issues I think we have left unresolved. But still, to think that we are only $7,000 away from pulling off a project with a budget approaching $100,000 is pretty awesome.

In less dry news, last night Kathryn measured Keturah and Carol-Anne for their hot pants. Kathryn has already cut out all of the pieces of C-A’s hot pants. This is certainly going to be one of the stranger elements of the shoot.

Afterwards, I met with Alex to talk hardware needs for the editing, capturing, logging, dialogue recording, etc. We ran into Skye at the bar where we were meeting. I got a list of specs from Alex as to some of our more specific equipment needs. And Skye and I talked over some of the editing and conceptual aspects. We’re going to be certain to have AfterEffects on the editing machine for him.

This morning I received the investment pamphlet from Erin. As always with her work, it is fabulous. I’ll post it online when I find time to post everything else. That should be soon. I only have two more weeks of thesis ahead, and I finish moving my stuff down to LA in just over a week. Once in LA I should be focussed exclusively on Disembody (okay, except for that little thing called making a living) through de-install in August.

Tonight I am meeting with Hanif to discuss my thesis and Disembody.

Finally, Han and Marcella both sent me links to Frieze articles recently:

Reality In The Age of Aesthetics

Public Relations