I was away from the garoffice yesterday. What was I doing?

Monday night I BBQ’ed with Amy and our friend Mark Rodriguez. Mark’s been living and working in L.A. since getting out of school a couple years back. He does a lot of art installing, and works as an artist’s assistant a fair amount, as well. He makes a mean guacamole. I picked his brain about the L.A. art scene.
Later Amy and I reworked the Disembody and 23E logos. We made duotone graphics for stencils, stamps and screen prints.

Yesterday morning Amy and I went to Fringe to measure the space for the theater seats. That didn’t work out, as I don’t yet know the actual sizes of the seats. But, while there I realized I needed to flip the central wall dividing Fringe to create the theater and lobby spaces. That wall will diagonally bisect Fringe. In all my original plans I had it starting one third of the way along the left hand wall of Fringe and ending dead center on the right hand wall. Yesterday I realized it needs to angle not from left to right but from right to left. Hopefully that won’t be too big of an issue for the build crew.

After that revelatory trip to the gallery, I met with my friend Chuck, a film producer in L.A. He’s been helping out with contacts and advice.

Then I walked five miles back to the garoffice. I love walking in L.A. This is a truly beautiful city, chock full of people watching. An hour hoofing through L.A. is an hour well spent: Highland, Melrose, Fairfax, Wilshire, these are streets full of varying sights and sounds. I think a lot of people miss this aspect of L.A. We tend to think of New York as a walking city and L.A. as car-bound. But that’s not my experience here. Walking L.A. is just as fabulous as walking NY. Both cities offer a cornucopia of architecture and people and businesses to drink in.

In the evening I spoke with Jonny about the ephemera page, in particular the video going up at the archive. It also looks like Jonny is going to make some posters for the show as he learns to screen print. Turns out another of Erin’s many skills is screen printing.

It looks like we may have found some of the items we need for the recording studio. I’m meeting a friend of a friend this afternoon to look at his little home studio, and the gear he might loan out. As well, I’m meeting Jake, Susan’s friend, who might make our architectural model, this afternoon. And I have leads on two wireless lavaliers, which is a big deal, as sound is our greatest fear right now. All and all, everyone I know is really reaching out in an incredible manner as the deadline approaches for the opening. The generosity of the folks I know is rather overwhelming.

Last night I watched Ulrich Seidl’s Animal Love, which was simply beautiful. The more of his films I watch the more impressed I am. They are incredible portraiture.

I watched William Greaves’ The Fighters a couple nights ago. The fight I fast forwarded through because it was boring. Guess I’m not a boxing fan. But the observation up to that point was beautiful. I find I’m partial to documentaries that don’t (explicitly) say or do much, that seem pointless, plot-free.
Whether I’ll get anything remotely like that, I don’t know.

Which is why I LOVE this project!