MIT, Round II
August 30, 2007 at 8:04 pm | In Koppelman | No CommentsWe successfully made it to MIT, sans police detail this time. We also took a much shorter route that went right by Trader Joe’s. If you’ve ever had Trader Joe’s peanut butter-filled chocolate covered pretzel bites, you know that they’re too good to pass up. So we got them, along with these beauties:
Eventually there will be a computer set up there to link to our website about this exhibition (cosmicenergy.tufts.edu)
The amphorae are coming along nicely. Thanks to a lot of vermiculite and paint, it now looks like this:
That’s it for now! More later on the progress…and some changes!
MIT, police, and the cosmic furniture that wasn’t.
August 27, 2007 at 4:49 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments“What is cosmic energy and where does it come from?”
Maybe the MIT police department! My colleague and I ventured into Cambridge on Friday to visit the fabled MIT Equipment and Furniture Exchange. Since we temporarily had at our disposal a large, black vehicle (Rodeo Drive, anyone?) it was a good time to go. We hopped into the car and began what we thought would be a fun jaunt and turned out to be an odyssey. Before leaving, our co-worker gave us two things: iffy directions and the advice to “bring a gun.”
Harvard Square was packed with pedestrians behaving badly, and lots of construction. After nearly getting run over while trying to not run over some jaywalkers, we turned up Mass. Ave. and found ourselves in the MIT wasteland. I don’t know what they’re building over there, but there’s a lot of it and it’s confusing, and dirty. We couldn’t find the place we were looking for (Building WW15, if you’re interested) but we did find a lot of wrong turns! Finally, we, ahem, copped to it and pulled over at the MIT police station.
We were in the middle of receiving some directions from a very nice police officer when an even nicer one offered to take us there. He was in full getup: the boots, the pants, the motorcycle helmet, you name it, he wore it. While we were a little baffled at his kind gesture, we couldn’t resist the escort and quickly hopped back in the car. He sped off, (key word being sped) and got us around the corner, up Memorial Drive, and past the BU Bridge in record time. He then pulled into the parking lot, and gestured at one of the 45 million open spots. Thanks, officer!
As he sped away and all we were left with was the faint sound of Elton John on his radio, we turned and looked at the Equipment Exchange…with the big, black, CLOSED sign on the door. So much for planning and execution. Undeterred by such inconveniences, we again hopped in the car and headed to plan B: lunch!
We’re trying again today…I’ll keep you posted on our success.
Our friendly officer did not have this hat on. But he did have a very fast motorcycle.
Cosmic towers and the men who build them
August 23, 2007 at 10:58 pm | In Insight, Randomness | No CommentsThe Tufts Gallery is not usually known for its proliferation of men. I suppose the same could be said for the arts industry in general…however, in recent days, we’ve been taken over! You can see one in this picture:
No, that is NOT a human-sized hamster wheel, although we all sort of wish it was. Inside this rollercoaster-like object will sit the third “mushroom” type structure - a slightly smaller version of the sculptures downstairs in Koppelman. However, lest you think we’ve gone too far into the land of dude, the mushroom thus far is…
PINK!
It’s made out of Owens-Corning insulation foam. Which, by the way, is the ONLY color in the world to have its own trademark!
Here are some more shots of the cylinder.
Progress!
August 17, 2007 at 4:39 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsJust to keep y’all interested, here’s the update on Koppelman so far. Sorry for the long wait - I’ve been on vacation [to the Cosmos?!] but things have been moving right along!
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