Art Weekend 2007 - Documentation
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On the 7th of June, from five corners of the East, came dedicated free-thinking artists and science explorers. To Bovina Center they went. Herein desciribes their experiences, goals, and accomplishments.
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Goals
Mark: I plan to create fluid-like intro and outro sequences to my new 3-minute animated work, create a method to visualize 3D tensor fields using particles, and figure out how to make virtual objects glow with blackbody-equivalent intensity and color. I will code and drink, and not necessarily in that order. (Dammit, two out of five. Better luck next year.)
Eric: Finish the current project and create some more samples. Accomplished!
Rachel: My goals are to use all of the crap that I brought, to justify the cost of hauling out here in the Subie. I am kidding, but only just. I intend draw something cool, photograph something cool, make some cool jewelry, and learn a new violin piece.
Nicole: I also hope to use everything I brought at least once and with moderate success. I brought paints, pastels, a sketchbook, all the cool cameras, and the guitar.
Chris: I hope to think clearly.
Everyone else: wants to do even more incredibly cool stuff.
Travel
Mark and El: We got up at 7:30 and on the road at 8:30 (after a breakfast of 4 hash browns and a coffee), the drive took 4.5 hours and we arrived at 1 PM.
Em and Eric: We got up at 7am, and left the house after 10am toddler time finished. 6.5 hours or so on the road discounting lunch. Lots of small towns in PA and NY. Neat.
Rachel and Markus: We got up at 7... something... modulo a return trip for a forgotten phone, we got on the road by 9 and arrived in Bovina Center and ultimately the farm by 8:27pm. It was a 9.5hr drive. We made it. 'Nuff said.
Nicole: Hit the road around 9:45am, drove through some amazing countryside, saw farms, cows, rivers, cute towns, and arrived in 4 hrs flat. A gorgeous drive.
Chris: Google maps led me astray.
Sunset View Farm
This was a 100+ year old, 6-bedroom farmhouse near the Catskills in New York. It had 200 acres of land surrounding it and a decrepit barn nearby. The barn was scary. We chose this place because it was available at the last minute (May) and was big enough to handle all of us. Other pluses were that it had lots of land and internet access. Minuses included the lack of a hot tub and garbage disposal.
Thursday, June 7
- Em plays some dobro
- Mark flys a balsa glider
- Nicole drives to get canvases
- Mark and Eric go get more food and wine
- Eric sets up 5" Maksutov telescope and large binoculars
- Eric and Nicole cook dinner (Eric cooks a sausage and chicken jumbalaya, Nicole cooks salmon chowder)
- El knits
- Markus and Rachel spot two zombie nuns in an old Ford LTD.
- Rachel breaks out violin
- Markus sets out the Steinberger upright.
- Pretty sure everyone had some wine followed by...
- Running around in a field through the fireflies
- Catching some fireflies
- Saw five of Jupiter's moons-awesome!
- Said hello to the rings of Saturn.
- Mark's pictures from today
- Markus' pictures
- Rachel's pictures
- Nicole's pictures
Rule for next year: "Length of time *with the plan* gets priority in case of a housing crunch."
Friday, June 8
- Nicole took a early-morning walk up the hill behind the house and snapped some photos
- Nicole makes oatmeal with nuts and butter and stuff.
- 10 AM guitar show-off session
- Markus plays upright bass
- Rachel plays violin
- Nicole is outside painting
- Rachel, when presented with a grand landscape, makes charcoal drawing of her own foot.
- Chris is on the way
- Eric is making chain-mail
- Mark is looking up Planck's constant
- Emily is in the study making music
- With the lead pipe
- Mark made a rendering of a few red squares on a white field
- Rachel, Markus, El, and Nicole make Moroccan-Shrimpy-Fruity-CousCousy yumminess for dinner.
- Many stringed instruments were played: guitars, cello, violin, mandolin, etc.
- Chris shows up with not only homemade saurkraut, but a pack of homebrew bourbon porter---possibly the smoothest heavy beer that I have ever tasted (Mark).
- We all burned through multiple bottles of Ravenswood Old Vine Zinfandel, Chris's homebrew Barolo, and a bottle of Penfold's Kanunga Hill Chardonnay.
- The ghost kid in the barn did not get us.
- Mark's pictures from today
- Markus' pictures
- Rachel's pictures
- Nicole's pictures
Saturday, June 9
- Rachel and Nicole cook eggs and bacon for breakfast
- Guitar lessons
- Nicole learns to play Kansas
- Walking around the grounds, feeling at home
- Nicole does more painting
- Rachel takes pictures
- Em goes back into the study to work on more music like a zombie.
- Chris wanders around the field, marveling at how many different kinds of flowers there are here.
- Chris works out ... because there's lots of space here.
- "Evil liquid of dark creativity." -Markus
- Giant pot of tuna noodle salad for dinner.
- My file is bigger than the server will allow, but you can listen to it and download it here: Network (Instrumental Oontz Mix) -- Em
- The clouds parted long enough for us to see some cool stuff in the sky, but then the plummeting temperatures and massive humidity turned it into a dewfest.
- Slideshow of all our photos on the video projector, accompanied by a 10-year tawny port
- One of the things I really liked about this was seeing some of the same items photographed by four different people who saw them in four different ways. I Really enjoyed this slide show a lot. -Rachel
- Mark's pictures from today
- Markus' pictures
- Rachel's pictures
- Nicole's pictures
Sunday, June 10
- Strawberry Shortcake for breakfast! Recipe
- General cleaning (the garbage room is scary and smelly)
- Met the basement troll.
- Nicole, Rachel and Markus left by 10:00.
- Markus and Rachel arrived home, safe and sound around 9:30pm.
- Chris left at 12:30.
- Emily and Eric at 1:30, got home about 8pm.
- Mark and El left around 2:00, got home at 7-ish. We didn't go to New York City as we had (poorly) planned.
- Mark's pictures from today
- Em's Pictures
- Chris got home safely.
General Impressions
Eric: There are way too many stars here.
Mark: The barn is very scary.
Nicole: No way. The barn is cool. This place is incredible.
Rachel: Leaving the house at night... the dark tunnel of doom, otherwise known as the mudroom, is fah-reeeeeky. Cool. >:)
Mark: Ideas that are relevant for next year can be put on the Art Weekend 2008 - Planning page.
Supporting information
- I created the pictures pages with this Perl script, for which you will need a Unix-like OS and the NetPBM and exiftags software.
