the post is raised, the sign goes up soon!

a phone pic from the desert forwarded through Fort MarketingGuy

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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.

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.

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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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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!

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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!

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