On Monday night Kathryn and I had a great evening with Hanif. We talked for hours about collectivity in art, and alternative models of production/creativity. Like him, I have great faith in the digital. He’s putting the finishing touches on the catalogue essay for the show this week. I expect to print the catalogue next week. And start distributing them around LA and SF (and Chicago and Tokyo and Omaha and Taipei and New York and…) by mid-week next.

I edited and uploaded a slew of new clips to the archive Monday:

Some build meetings are really just excuses to drink,

Three clips about financing and my friend Stel, who swept in to help me out when things looked strange
Payback
Details
Money

Four clips from the first meeting with our lawyer, wherein I explain that
investors shouldn’t sue me
despite the fact that investors might lose every penny
I intend to change the art world forever
artists don’t actually make anything

Tuesday I met with my friend Steven Goldstine and he put me in touch with a number of his contacts in LA, including David Wilson of the Museum of Jurassic Technology and Christopher Coppola of Project Accessible Hollywood.

Tuesday night I caught a rideshare from Craigslist, getting in to LA around 4am.

I spent Wednesday getting caught up. A lot of emails about promotion. I’m rewriting the blurb for email promotion. I finalized the show times. I also updated the website a bit. Jonny has been going gangbusters on the ephemera page and gallery.
Erin has begun the calendar/catalogue.

I also spoke to Jordan Biren yesterday. Which was great. I’ve been hearing great things about him from so many people. It was a real pleasure to talk to him about the project.

I picked up the posters today, and spoke with David, our contractor, at length. Tonight Amy and I will go measure Fringe for what I hope is the final time.

We’re 16 days to the opening, and 12 days to the first install day. I’m oscillating between exhaustion and excitement pretty much all day every day.

Oh, and I guess I should mention this cuz it could potentially play into the film, my sister called to tell me that the crew sweatshirts may not be ready for the opening because she has to fly out to Oregon where our biological mother was rushed into emergency surgery today. As it stands, Ali, my sister, says it appears she has some bizarrely strange illness. I’ll provide more details when I have them, but for now, that’s all I know.