Last weekend I was in Chicago for Stel’s wedding. It was beautiful to see him and Angela so happy.
I stayed with Phil and Libby (below), and we enjoyed a few brief convos on Disembody. I’ll be back in Chicago in two and a half weeks for their marriage. So, in essence we’ll have three newlyweds on the set. Which is cool.
After Stel’s wedding Phil and Lib and I ate at Healthy Food Lithuanian Restaurant on the South Side. Delicious!
I got in to SF Sunday night and went straight over to Keturah and Alex’s place in Berkeley. We were going to go over the budget for the interior design and the tech needs, but instead I saw a bottle of Jameson’s, and the next thing I knew it was 3am, I was drunk, and we had burned through 4 or 5 episodes of Gossip Girl, and the documentary Models by Ulrich Seidl.
Worked on some financing issues yesterday. Also tried to get ready to go to Chicago this afternoon. I’m meeting with Phil and Libby and attending Stel’s wedding tomorrow. I also made some stuff for the Forever What? installation in SF in one week.
In the afternoon I took a break and sat down to educate myself. I watched the Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One DVD docu feature on Wm Graves. Then I watched Symbio 2 1/2. Then The Horrors of Malformed Men and The Final Programme. These were loaned to me on VHS by the incredible Bonnie Banks. Symbio I watched on Skye’s advice. Simply fabulous. Mix that with F for Fake, and we’re starting to get close to what I envision we might get from Disembody. Though what I’m shooting for is that combination slammed face first into a combination of The Passion of Joan of Arc and The Fifth Element. That’s a bastard child I couldn’t help falling in love with.
One thing I find unfortunate is how few of Wm. Greaves other films are available, affordably, on DVD.
Well, thanks to the incredible David Meckel, I got an appointment with an architectural model firm tomorrow. We’re going to talk budget and schedule. And we may yet have an architectural model for this show.
In other news, I just got back from Chicago where I met with Stel. He and I discussed the projection and audio system for the theater. I checked out the system he has installed in his house. We’re borrowing that projector. It is beautiful. Though we discovered that I had completely misunderstood him when he described its capacity to me earlier. So, a few weeks back the theater went from 16′ wide by 20′ deep to 16′ wide by 10′ deep (I mistakenly thought that was the maximum throw of the projector). However in meeting with Stel I discovered the throw is indeed fine at 20′, and so the theater magically grew back to 20′. I think this news may have given Carol, Keturah and Carson a heart attack.
As well, it looks like Stel may invest some money in the project, which is huge news.
I also met with Phil and Libby in Chicago. We went over the soundtrack and recording studio, which was assuring.
Last night I met with my sister and her partner. I meet with them again tomorrow evening to discuss their contributions to the show. I think Ali is going to make crew hoodies. I am so excited to be able to give something like that to all the amazing people who are making this art work.
Her partner Terry is a fabulous artist, working in wood and metal. I think he may make the concession price lists that are installed on the wall behind the counter folk in the lobby.
Finally, my friend Tiffiny took a few investor pamphlets to hand out to her clients. She is a high-end Chi Nei Tsang healer. She works with a lot of people who are supporters of the arts, and might be interested in this project.
