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Saturday, September 18, 2010
West Texas <3
The skies in west Texas are stunning. And the people here are as generous as the skies are wide. I am so overjoyed that ebm was launched here. We could not have picked a more supportive locale.
It is certain that I will miss someone but while sitting in the bar at the Lubbock airport, thanks are due to all of the following here in Texas (in no particular order), who made ours and Heidi's work possible :
Jon and Danielle Whitfill
Joe Arredondo
Chad Plunket
Mark Hilliard
Jim and Priscilla
Cleon and Patsy
Rick Dingus
Jorgelina Orfila
Chris Taylor
Sara Waters
Will Canning
Rider and art depot and Rider's dad
David Mondt
Upe and Carol Flueckiger
Paloma Lidzy
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Friday, September 17, 2010
the littlest ebmite
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heidi lecturing at Texas tech
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
the post is raised, the sign goes up soon!
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Monday, September 13, 2010
this morning in camp
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The first photos are finally making their way up to Flickr. Visit Vime's account to see them all (way too many, but we're using it as one of our backups.) Once we have a little time to serve the digital and marketing worlds we will curate them, and throw a chosen few on to the EbM flickr account. And up here.
I'd load some photos now, but we have very limited and very slow internet access, and blogger just can't handle pulling photos in by URL. Boo. I'm afraid you will have to make do with pix from my phone, which are generally dull since I'm only on site to make supply drops from Lubbock. Otherwise I'm hunkered down in Fort Purgaccountsatory, an interstitial space between abject venomous jealousy and profoundly sinful pride. Think Odysseus crossed with Othello. Yes, Picture me cloistered in Fort Othellsseus.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Art Depot aka Fort Charity, Hope & Faith
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Big E's bbq is across the street from Fort Apocalypslightlyoverbudget
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Carson & Amy's late night drive
While here they picked up the sign post, shootin' wood, impotable water for concrete mixing, concrete sacks, and food supplies.
Here you can see Carson strapping down the 15' signpost for the trip. Chad Plunket welded the three sections together for us. Terry Mason made the post in sections for us to travel here. Again, ebm is impossible without amazing support from family and friends. It often feels to me like a lesson to renew and reinforce my faith in the kindness and generosity of human beings.
Hopefully Earthbound Moon will serve to inspire that faith in others, too, in the future. Then we will have truly accomplished something worthwhile.
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the view from Fort Purgatory
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final concrete pour today
Amy's on her way in to Lubbock from Bledsoe soon. She's picking up the final load of concrete today. Given no more unforeseen misfortunes, we will have the sign base poured, with base plate and concrete anchor bolts in place by evening. Amy is also going out to the airport to, hopefully, pick up Ben's bag. Lubbock terminal Continental says they have it. But we've driven out there before after being told that, only to leave empty handed. Of course, with Heidi's bag, we were at the airport picking up Alex and Continental assured us the bag wasn't there when it was. lol
Sunday morning, overcast and cool. Beautiful day. Carson just texted me that the crew (Alex, Amy, Ben, Carson, Heidi) are having pancakes and eggs and coffee in the desert. I'm holding down our urban fort, Fort Finances, with coffee from the gas station down the street and Muse's Uprising blaring on my computer. All is Edenic and mythological. We're phenomenally lucky folk.
Sunday morning, overcast and cool. Beautiful day. Carson just texted me that the crew (Alex, Amy, Ben, Carson, Heidi) are having pancakes and eggs and coffee in the desert. I'm holding down our urban fort, Fort Finances, with coffee from the gas station down the street and Muse's Uprising blaring on my computer. All is Edenic and mythological. We're phenomenally lucky folk.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
while others toil in the desert
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Friday, September 10, 2010
Continental attemts to sabotage EbM. Bad airline! Bad!
We've no idea what Continental's excuse for losing both Heidi's and Ben's bags are. But David Mondt at TTU is an angel of patience and salvation. He resolved our issues with the payment and legality of Heidi's and our lecture. Now we're outfitting Ben w new desert kit. Then I'll race to Bledsoe and drop them off in the desert and race back to Lubbock to pick up the sign post from another of our Lubbock heroes, Jon Whitfill. And his angel of a wife, Danielle, who is putting up with being the EbM post office.
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
we have achieved Heidi and Ben
I'm at the Lubbock airport. Heidi and Ben are here, too. soon we will embrace and head off to Lubbock for errands and then Bledsoe.
wait, you say, don't forget to visit the baggage carousel after meeting the artists.
don't worry my observant friends, their luggage was left in Frankfurt for no good reason we can divine. Punishment for not having proper visas? As if a night in the frankfurt airport weren't enough.
Nonetheless we are soon off to Bledsoe. Photos will follow!
wait, you say, don't forget to visit the baggage carousel after meeting the artists.
don't worry my observant friends, their luggage was left in Frankfurt for no good reason we can divine. Punishment for not having proper visas? As if a night in the frankfurt airport weren't enough.
Nonetheless we are soon off to Bledsoe. Photos will follow!
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
In the News!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
We left the tarps in the desert
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Tuesday September 7
I'm at Texas Tech for the day. I met with Joe Arredondo of the landmark arts program here, and we discussed the fee for Heidi's lecture. It looks like everything is worked out. Next I descend to the art departments basement to finish installing the diorama.
Carson and Amy are running errands and then off to the site to nail down camp. As always, Jon Whitfill was invaluable in getting us out there.
Heidi and Ben come in tonight. I'll pick them up at the airport and we'll stay at Art Depot, our Lubbock base tonight. Then out to Bledsoe tomorrow to begin installation. Woohoo!
Carson and Amy are running errands and then off to the site to nail down camp. As always, Jon Whitfill was invaluable in getting us out there.
Heidi and Ben come in tonight. I'll pick them up at the airport and we'll stay at Art Depot, our Lubbock base tonight. Then out to Bledsoe tomorrow to begin installation. Woohoo!
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Monday, September 6, 2010
at the staging site
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
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