I also went back to Sunnyside Environmental School to see the model Boots they’d made.
THOSE KIDS. ARE AWESOME. My mind is blown by the variety and skill displayed! Do you see that water catchment system? All the little beds, and the screen door, and the movie posters? And everything from hippie-punk shag-carpeted tigerstriped models to drag queen bows and flowers, mean green flying machines and girls romping with dinosaurs.
We’re making the elephant and one as-yet-to-be-decided model.
Yesterday I turned in the final archival copy of my thesis paper. 68 pages.
LOTS of stuff happening this week!
Build days at Sunnyside starting today, Open Engagement running Thursday-Sunday, and graduation ceremony and the start of the senior show on Sunday!
But for now, here’s a news clip on my project that was on the Chinese National News and got picked up by Yahoo-China.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/video/lifestyle-19458046/title-29299011.html
dodyroller asked: thought you should know that the cute little trailer on our street (SE 26th) has a tow warning on it. It is parked right down the street from us and we love it. We don't want it to get towed.
Thank you so much! Taking care of it now.
Edit: Partially taken care of! The Boot has been moved to a new location, and given permission (from the apartment renters, at least) to park there. I still need to call people, though, because the ordinance they cited didn’t apply at all!
Again, thanks so much! You’re wonderful.
Yesterday I went to Sunnyside Environmental School, to talk to Jan Zuckerman’s class about fundraising for a couple of Boots and helping me build them. I brought along paper models of the Boots that they could cut out and assemble. After some difficulties finding sharp enough scissors, they got them cut out, and were having a great time decorating them. The models will probably be auctioned off at a fundraiser later this month, and the top-selling designs will become realities.
The kids were all really well-informed. They help serve sandwiches to people in need at the church next door, each Wednesday, and had questions about how families would live in the Boots, how the housed community would react, what someone could do if their Boot got towed, how the bathrooms worked, and whether people felt safer in these shelters. Their school is beautiful, too! The walls are covered with artwork these kids did.
My day
is not over yet. But this part went VERY well! Thank you, everyone who showed up and put a hand in, or just talked for a while!
A Thesis Presentation approaches. What do you do?
I present all this to a board of senior faculty at 9:30 am Friday.
Wild Thesis Presentation appeared!
PNCA selected Rah. Go!
Rah used Pillowcase Chibi. It’s super effective!
Thesis Presentation used all-nighter. Rah became sleepy!
Rah is sleeping.
PNCA fed Rah an Alarm Clock. It woke up!
Thesis Presentation used How Is This Art? It’s not very effective…
Rah used Visual Aids. It’s super effective!
Thesis Presentation cannot battle anymore.
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I have the best friends.
A Thesis Presentation approaches. What do you do?
I fear it may be time for a new battery or a new camera. It only held its charge for two days. We’ll see if it works better when I don’t accidentally turn it on all the time by stuffing it in an enormous overfull backpack.
In other news, the Channel 8 video is now on MSNBC, too! I’ve gotten one email from a person who saw that, and a couple teachers commenting on it. Very nice! And just in time for my thesis presentation, too, which —
—by the way, folks. I present all this to a board of senior faculty at 9:30 am Friday. Then a reporter from CCN, the official Chinese news network, is coming to do a 90-second short on it. I am freaking RIGHT the fuck out.
I still need to get a bunch of stuff printed and painted, finish the instruction book, and do my laundry, because I’ve run out of clean underwear.
My camera’s battery ran out of Pow and I kept working, so there’s a bit of a jump between the last photos of this Boot and this set. I put the Plas-tex on the roof, laid the vinyl floor, put on two coats of primer and the first coat of base paint. I also painted the interior trim and the inside roof/walls. Oh - and the end panelling, that’s new, too, since the last photos.
Next steps: second base coat, wheels, undercarriage box, and sink arrangement.
Last night I had nightmares about one of these falling apart because kids were climbing on it. To reassure myself, I climbed on top of this one, and it didn’t fall apart. Sadly I do not have pictures. I’ll get some later.
