Video night-organized by Lara Duren

Fantastic. We climbed up to the roof before hand, a perfect "1st spring day" in New York. We don't look for daffodills, the real signs of spring are bare legs and sundresses.


Crowd was mesmerized by the sometimes silly, sometimes dark, work. Artists included:

Barchael, Michael Berube, Amy Brener, Meredith Davenport, Rob Debbane, Lara Duren, McLean Fahnestock, Nathan Gwynne, David Kagan, Ellie Krakow, Yuliya Lanina, Jess Levey, Rebecca Loyche, Nathaniel Lieb, Lars Rasmussen, Sarada Rauch, Meg Vinson, Alex Golden, and Seldon Yuan.

There was fun with wheels, too, rearranging the space.



Resident Mary Mazzer also showed her work, material paintings using cardboard and chenille plus a panel of psycho-responsive watercolor drawings.

Floor circles

Here's the plan for the new paint job. Oil based this time, will be fumey but a helluva lot more durable. My friend Tilman recommended an equal surface are for the big circle and remaining white, a proposition made possible by the awesome SketchUp!




I premarked the circles the old fashioned way, a nail, some string, and a sharpie! There will be a small circle around the column around the benches, a medium circle accentuating the stage and a large one off center in the middle.

To Do

After a visit with my sister Sarah I realized there are a ton of half-done projects, the short-term mixed in with the long-term.

Thus the new to do list. Small bites, chew each 10 times before swallowing.

Softbox model

Final pod design

Got the pod design truly nailed down (har har) and even made a nerdy excel spreadsheet to estimate costs. Looks like they'll be $400 each, which doesn't account for some free supplies we already have and any other stuff we may be able to scavenge on craig's list + the like.

The Master Plan

Everything is so clean in a 3D model. Sigh. We've written a bit about the spatial plan in other posts, here are some images of what we are hoping to build.





The rooms, or "pods" will be on wheels, making for maximum floor plan flexibility. The walls will be made of independent 4' x 8' panels, wood or metal studs, stretched with transluscent white plastic like little softboxes. They are designed modularly so that they can be joined together or used as open space for exhibitions and projects by removing panels. Design and materials aren't set in stone yet, but hopefully will be soon.




The stage will double as the kitchen on a regular basis, with curtains installed to hide kitchen furniture during performances. The whole stage will also be moveable, in case the leaky pipe of death acts up again.