Worlds of Dubai

What's sparkin' sparkees?

Worlds of Dubai is taking its first and most formative steps -- we have developed many of our cameras (the disposable ones that we distributed to people in Dubai...) and gotten them put on CDs which we've uploaded to our Flickr. Check it. On the right hand side, you can peruse the sets of the individuals that took the photos, they are migrant laborers, ex-pats, students, tourists, hotel workers, waiters..
Next steps: select and print photos, make an installation, tour dorms, make art.

Dubai love

_______: A Debut in Performance Art -- wood

3/4 of us made a wood run to The Home Depot.

_______: A Debut in Performance Art -- getting started

Warning: Due to desired anonymity, this post is vague...hope you like the group’s alias g-mail!

Three weeks in and we have a sturdy design for our grand project. But, with grandeur come glitches...alas. One thing we did not pre-mediate was that, with the construction of a giant structure, comes the need of a place to build it (and eventually to store it - but we will master that obstacle later). ________ is on a quest across campus to find every wood/design shop and it looks like we might figure out some solution. In light of the present challenges, _______’s very own designer decided that collapsibility of the structure is important, and came up with some new features to enable the structure to collapse into smaller parts once it is built (see a small bit of our drawings attached!).

This Friday _______ is trekking to buy supplies and soon the actual building will commence.

More ambiguous news soon!

white rabbit zine

just printed our first issue of the zine.

the release party is this thursday night in the painting studio.

we're still assembling them, but you'll be able to pick one up at the art lib, coupa, the bookstore and/or the coho sometime next week.

Materials Received

I have received my materials, which are 24 of these bamboo rods. My first impressions are that they are a bit shorter than I expected, they are fairly light, and their thicknesses vary a lot (see below), which may affect my design a bit.

I've also received two roles of nylon string, which look and feel a lot like dental floss. I'm not sure how they'll support loads but I'll just have to experiment.

I haven't had time to work on the actual design/construction yet, but on 1/30 I'm planning on taking all the bamboo rods to the machine shop and drilling holes at the ends, through which I will do the string connections. I will have my friends help me with the process.

The following images show my basic design plan, taken from a great online blog. I'm going to see how it works with my materials and then play with the concept from there.

SF Bus Stops Project

Here is Page 1 of the journal for my project.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Spark! Grant blog! This is where recipients of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) Spark! Grant Program will blog about the progress of their projects.