I came over here to work on a model to photograph for the model maker. But was distracted by champagne, beer and liqueurs.

Now we’re waiting for Jonny to get here. We’re transferring video from Skye’s external drive to elise’s. Making of footage for them to peruse in preparation for the film. We’re also listening to horoscopes.

Han writes from Cannes:

“films we’ve acquired at cannes so far:
Entre les murs (the palme d’or winner)
La vie moderne (Modern Life, Raymond Depardon’s beautiful and poetic doc)
Mermaid (the Russian Amelie, Sundance Best Director 2008)

“the post-cannes shit is killing me.”

And in other news, I sold De Chirurgie, the antique book that an investor gifted us. It went for $1,000, which was very exciting at first this morning, but then I went to Excel to add that to the raised budget section and saw that I already had it in there for that amount, on the assumption that it would sell for no less than $1,000. So, well, that part of the budget is now officially covered, not just wishful thinking, but it doesn’t resolve my issue with the additional moneys Alex and Keturah added to the budget last week.

LOL

Marcella and I had a good day yesterday.

Jonny got in to SF last night. We’re about to meet for breakfast and plan out our weekend here. Then tomorrow we drive down to LA.

Tonight we’re meeting some of the SF crew to hang out. I might go over to Berkeley early to make a model of the space out of cardboard. Susan found a model maker it appears. Now I need to get him detailed views and plans. This model will be the first move towards that.

Jonny and I also hope to make it over to The Headlands Center for the Arts to meet David, who has a residency over there right now.

And I finished Jared Diamond’s Collapse a couple days ago. I’m re-reading Postproduction by Nicolas Bourriaud.

Monday Alex and Keturah and I met at Danang to go over the budget for the interior design and the production facility and recording studio. It was a good meeting. They pointed out a number of necessary items I had missed. And gave me some concrete costs on chandeliers and other elements.



Tuesday I met with Marcella and Bonnie Banks. Mostly we looked at mp3s I got from Phil. Bonnie also loaned me a couple more vhs and another book. Earlier I was with Skye. We copied over all the footage thus far shot for the Making Of. I left him with two 500GB drives, one each for him and elise. They can start familiarizing themselves with the footage we have, the stories that might be developing, etcetera.

Skye and I also talked about art and film.

Before that I was with my friend LaTasha, a video artist, musician, writer and performer who is movign back home to NYC. We watched some docu of her performances from last year. She’s super mega-talented. I really want to find a way to get her involved in one of my East Coast projects next year.

I spoke with Amy, as well, and she’s going to help me get the food donated to feed everybody. Ali gave me some advice on that today. I’m also going to see if we can get some of the materials donated for building.

I started the day with our fabulous seamstress, Kathryn. She picked up the lining for the usher/usherette uniforms. They are going to be spectacular. I knocked out an email to Chantal to get her measurements. We have Jack’s (and I got her ticket, too).

Tomorrow I am going to try and hunt down AH and SG, two potential investors. And maybe SL, who is definitely not a potential investor, but is always good for great advice.

Jonny is coming out to SF this weekend and he and I will drive down to LA together Sunday.

Erin is working towards getting the ephemera page up, and getting ads and posters ready.

Ote is also starting the poster for Japanese distribution, which is great.

Finally, Keturah pointed me towards a potential screen printer for the candy boxes. Her art is great, so if she can do it, we’ll be in really good hands.

Just returned from Fringe. My father and I (he’s the de facto production assistant right now) measured the theater and lobby down to the 1/16th inch - with the wall mapped out for the Penrose angle and the wall center set for a 20 foot throw from the video projector.

The front of the gallery is at the top of this drawing. The wall bisecting the gallery is angled, with the right hand side (in the drawing) 12′ 4 3/4″ from the window seats at the front of the gallery. The wall hits the left hand wall almost dead center, pure luck, as the center wall pivots on a point midway between the side walls and 20′ from the back wall. Though I think we may push the wall forward three feet to get a 23′ throw.

Regardless, the center wall is at a 108 degree angle on one side and 72 degrees on the other side, creating angles synced to our Penrose tile themed ceiling.

The lobby of the theater will be 17′ 2 1/16″ deep on one side,  12′ 1″ deep on the other, and 17′ 3 5/8″ wide.  Those measurements take into account a wall that is 3 3/4′ wide.  The angled wall will be 17′ 11 7/8″ long.

Sadly, I forgot to get the measurements for the bleachers. GAR! But I’ll make a model in Berkeley Sunday, 1′ to 1″ scale and get those measurements figured out.

This is another potential problem, the column containing the plumbing on the left hand wall (in the drawing) has some sort of ornamental (or not) extrusion that angles out and will interfere with our metal frame for the ceiling support. As well, next to it, is a rectangular box protruding from the wall, well past where we wanted our wall to connect. So, we’ll have to build ceiling and wall around those structures.

We also mapped out the electric. Bad news there as well, 5 circuits, 10 amps each. Far less than we wanted. I’ll talk to David, Carson, Skye, and Alex next week about how we will handle that.