Coffee and Doughnuts.

What a good way to get a sunburn. I feel like I lost twenty minutes of my life; the breath of stale plaster/concrete dust.

Hey everybody...

My name is Dr. Nick, I am here now to enlighten you. Marjorie told me to tell you merehhhhhhhhhhhhh.

DECONSTRUCTION phase II

DISMANTLE: petro-stop

Tomorrow between three and three-thirty I will be at the site, for those interested I will see you there. We have many tools but if you have a cordless drill bring it. There is a chance of intermittent rain showers tomorrow but, it does not appear to be significant so I think we will be okay to work. The Asbestos inspection occured this past Tuesday, it takes ten days from the the day of inspection for the city to issue a demolition permit; the property owners have a demolition contract and are only waiting for the permit to materialize.

Tomorrow evening I will host a pot luck at my house, I'll do the main course, I am thinking fried catfish however still open to suggestions, vegitarians what would work for you?

Saturday morning we will commence once again and see how far we can get. Lets plan on meeting at 9:00.

f@&# studio!!

thats right, I said it

Chair Affair

Cardboard + Ass = Chair

the construction of the chair requires it to be made completely out of cardboard using any sort of glue. nothing else.
deadline: March 15
www.aias.org/chairaffair
winning prize: $2500 - along with smaller cash prizes

scott and i are pursuing this competition. my personal goal is to get it done by the 11th so that I can spend the rest of the time on the other deadline... studio. if anyone has any spare moderately-sized pieces of cardboard (preferably used-clean cardboard) please let us know. we're both entering our own separate designs.

notice two: DECONSTRUCTION

Sunny and short sleves, no chapping today. Daniel, Sandy, Sofia, myself and Scott's tools were on site this afternoon and considerable progress was made. The roof of the west section is completely removed and much of the ceiling knocked down. Daniel and I were able to remove two large sections of the west parapet wall and the remaining section is not far from being freed. Some progress was also made on the north wing wall, many welds have been cut though a few difficult to locate welds still remain.
Tomorrow I should have a much better feel for the developers demolishion plans and we can move foward accordingly. A couple of people have volunteered to leave studio early Friday with the thought of working through the afternoon and early evening with pot luck dinner to follow at my house. For those able we will reconvene Saturday morning and see how far we can get. Scott has several ideas for lowering the roof top heat pump and Daniel and I have put some thought into how we will remove the roof and structure below. After four o'clock Friday afternoon we can get a generator and only be charged forty dollars for the weekend. I will cover the generator for this weekend but next weekend perhaps the cost can split up among the group.
We also have a number of new photos which will post tomorrow.

We should be very proud of ourselves for an excellent weekend.

let's add a member!

I've talked to a few of you about this already, but here it is out in the open and for everyone to agree or disagree on.
I think Matt Peacock should be added to ΔSTIGMA at this stage. I think Matt is just as enthusiastic about all the things we have discussed so far. Beyond the fact that he is my friend, i consider Peacock to be an outside of the box thinker and a very informed person. I would hate for us all to miss out on the ideas he can bring forth as ΔSTIGMA evolves.

Please comment. Include yes or no.