probletunity

So, last weekend I was out in Desert Hot Springs, hot tubbing and such, when my neighbor Paolo from the film center called and said there was some flooding at Machine. It turns out that our (perhaps negligent) landlord let another hot water heater fail in the apartment above us (yes, this has happened before), which flooded our office and destroyed a bunch of stuff.

At first I thought this was really terrible, but I shortly realized that this was a great opportunity to fix a major problem, which is the gallery is really to small to hold all the people who come to events, and the back office is much larger than it needs to be. And since the office is trashed anyway, what better time to move the partion wall back 10 feet to make the gallery a whole bunch bigger. Yay!

In another lucky coincidence, my friend Mark Dagget just made a new website for fund raising campaigns called Pledgie, so I went ahead and made a campaign to fund our repair and renovation project. Read more about my plan to renovate and repair Machine and see some photos of the carnage.

Should this all seem terribly uninteresting I can also offer you this insane video sent in by Ryan of a rabbit repeatedly attacking a snake.

teaching

another testimony to my pedagogical powers to thrill a crowd

pepper friends

AD&D Art Faire

As part of the sprawling Machine Project presence at the ART LA 2007 art fair (more about that later) artist Brody Condon and Machine favorite Ryan O'Toole organized a lawful evil Hackmaster campaign.

Poets Anthony McCann, Joshua Beckman and Emily Dickinson collaborated on a poem just for the occasion.

Uniforms of Snow

The barest chance
leaked through the trees--
a tooth upon our peace.
The wind began to knead the grass.
Another house I burned.
Adventure most onto itself
the soul condemned to hound
and cease to recollect
the chaotic and the good.
I wear my wings--I wear my belt--
a glee posesseth me.
The hours slide by fast and just
through realms and nether realms.