TYPESHED 11 - Conference

A great conference exploring type in all it's many forms. Three full days of great lectures and events ... with people from around the world. Take a look at the line-up.

TYPESHED 11 - New Zealand

I am finally back after a great trip to New Zealand. One fine month of amazing places and great people. TypeSHED 11 was a great conference. 

We arrived in Wellington the final night of Sevens - a huge crazy rugby tournament ... where everyone dresses up the same and in groups. Thousand of crazy people everywhere. The next day our craziness started with trying to find someone that sell corn starch packaging peanuts for our installation happening on Thursday. This was no small feat. With our ethnocentric values, we assumed we would find them. The challenging feat involved trying to mix up the material in our hotel kitchen to calling everyone in the country --- finally rounding up some. The building process started Tuesday afternoon and continued until Wednesday evening. 

Thursday was the workshop where we launched these letters NEXT TIME into the water. Participants at the workshop also constructed words and objects and launched these too. We found the perfect setting for this. An island in Wellington bay that is a park reserve - Matiu/Somes Island Reserve. Matt the park ranger was most helpful.

The wind was shifting from the north to the south which made the launch a bit difficult. The disappearing type happened very quickly and before we knew it, it was heading out to sea, with the tide and wind on our side.

It was a fun filled day with so many great people. 

FREEZE OPENING

FREEZE - come and gone.

FREEZE opend last week --- and no sooner than four days later, we had 50 degree temperatures. The meltdown has taken its toll on the exhibition. Here are some photos from our project. Thank you everyone for helping out. 

Freezing at FREEZE

Well below normals FREEZING temperature have been happening all week. But beautiful cold and clear days. All the teams are putting finishing touches on their pieces. Our project came to a hiccup yesterday with me breaking my thumb with an ice auger drill. Yikes.

Here is the impressive x-ray. Final images will be uploaded tomorrow of the project.

Here are some lovely photos documenting the week.

FREEZE - snow is moving

Exploration of a snowdrift. The 200 foot wall has begun. With temperatures below zero, the snow is much like styrofoam. We are still needing volunteers!

Happy New Year.

FREEZE is starting

4LetterWord has started on our installation. This past weekend we built all the forms forms for the 60 foot ice wall. 1.75 inches of water was pour into them for our first of three pours. 

We are seeking volunteers! Here is the rough times that we need folks. Send an email if you want to help!

Friday, Jan. 2

2 skilled (some construction experience 10am - 4pm)

4 volunteers (10am - 4pm)

Saturday, Jan. 3

4 volunteers (upon arrival of snowblower (am) - 4pm)

Monday, Jan 5

12 volunteers total (shift 1: 10am - 3pm, shift 2: 4-7pm)

Tuesday, Jan. 6

12 volunteers total (shift 1: 10am - 3pm, shift 2: 4-7pm)

Wednesday, Jan 7

2 skilled all day (10am - 1pm, 2-5pm)

Thursday, Jan. 8

8 volunteers total (shift 1: 10am-3pm, shift 2: 4-7pm)

Friday, Jan. 9

8 volunteers total (shift 1: 10am - 3pm, shift 2: 4-7pm)

Anchorage Opera presents Carmen

The sold out show of Carmen in Anchorage just opened this past Wednesday. It was spectacular performance. The theme for the season is Passions of Spain. Collage techniques were used for all opera graphics paying homage to the Spanish & French masters.