Since last post: made friends, drank great beer, ate excellent tacos, dined on a roof with a skyline view, seen the Bambu' installation at the Met, visited the disappointing AMNH, got my bike, saw my family!
Yannik and I are also planning to collaborate on a contest over the next few weeks, although it is proving difficult to manage this over a 5-hour time difference. The project is the Fallen Heroes Memorial, south of Fort Worth, TX. I'm going to copy my thoughts from our first short conversation below.
"i think its an opportunity to play sculptor, architect, and landscape designer al at once. Briony cemetery + Holocaust memorial + something tall
its strange that each fallen warrior gets a photo. thats obviously a chance for a repeating element. maybe the photos are each hidden inside boxes or visible only from one very specific angle. Or you've got to walk through a landscape where each is revealed individually, so that you don't see the memoril as series of images, like a cemetery, but instead its more like a never-ending procession of images."
On an unrelated note, I have received several bizarre packages at work over the past couple of weeks. I can only imagine what my deskmate thinks when he sees me opening all these small, ticking packages. A couple of them are now perched above my desk, watching over me smugly. I get the feeling that they are quietly watching me, waiting for me to screw up and miss a deadline. On long days, they haunt my periphery, mocking me every time I glance up.
You blank-faced, pestilential chronographs, your days are numbered.
I think I have you beat, 3 weeks and running here. Time difference is 6 hours by the way, and yes, we have to start working on this thing. Ideas for better workflow?
ReplyDeleteDamn, yes it is 6 hrs. I am going to be able work in the evenings, so like 4AM for you. So maybe I'll write up an email with my ideas and thoughts and photograph anything I draw. Then you can read it when you wake, think about it during the day, and email me back during my afternoons. I read your stuff when I get off work, and we start the cycle again.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if we'll be able to skyp during the week, maybe we'll have to do that on the weekends. We also ought to set ourselves a definite schedule. I can work on that tonight.