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Thursday, May Day, 2008: Mary, Eve, Cory, John and I met in the morning at PS1 with Douglas Cohen from The Educational for Sustainable Development/National Youth Alliance, to discuss collaborative projects and funding ideas. We walked to the docks looking towards Govenor's Island. We filmed interview segments in preparation for this evening's Newtown Creek Beta launch. Doug was wonderful, I invited him to sail with me to the Queen Charlotte Islands, off the coast of British Columbia. <top>
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008: Cory, Mary and I met at noon at the National Arts Club near Gramercy Park in Manhattan, to view a room to potentially host a Waterpod™ fundraising event on June 26, 2008. The space was perfect, gorgeous and eccentric. Alden James, the club president, and the wonderful program director Steve Mascatello, took us up to the 2nd floor to see the grand resident Raven. In the afternoon, Eve joined us (Eve and I had not previously met) at Mary's LMCC studio. We photographed eachother for the Waterpod™ website, and prepared for our May Day performances and interviews. <top>
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Friday, April 25, 2008: I return to New York for the Launch of Waterpod™ Beta. While attending the Mary's LMCC open studios, I am introduced to the new floating island, where I will be performing for the May Day exhibition. The Montreal based artist Eve K. Tremblay will also be joining us. The week will be spent re-designing the website , and producing plans for the future of the project. <top>
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Thursday,
March 20, 2008: Cory Mervis, David Darst and I met with Paula Berry, head of the Hudson Quadricentennial Celebration in 2009.
Tuesday,
March 4, 2008: Eve and I met with the Gouvernement du Quebec
to solidify plans to traverse the waterways of New York and head up to
Lake Champlain. The next day we met with David Bruson from MTV.
Friday,
February 29, 2008: I had a second meeting with Creative
Time regarding the project and help they can give. Met with Shane Brennan,
he will curate a digital ecological project on board.
Wednesday,
February 27, 2007: Cory and I hit the pavement in Queens
and Greenpoint in search of a barge. We found out about some illegally
moored barges, some in need of repair, and learned a bit about the New
York dockmaster.
Saturday,
February 16, 2007: Cory, Leslie, David and I met with Jim
Hallogan and Larry Harvey in San Francisco to discuss the Waterpod and
surrounding ideas.
Tuesday,
February 19, 2008: Eve K. Tremblay and I met about her involvement
in the Waterpod.
Saturday,
February 2, 2007: Patrick and I met with Peter Hort about
legalities.
January 22, 2008: Cory Mervis officially came on board as
the third member of Waterpod! Check her out in projects like "Voter
Drive" 2004, and "Astor Place Imagined" 2007. She is amazing.
December 20th, Patrick Callery came on board!
Friday, December 14, 2007: David Darst, Leslie Bocskor, Mei Yee
Croll and I met with the Mayor's office and the Department of Cultural
Affairs.
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Thursday, November 1, 2007: Mattingly and Hunter are invited to submit collaborative sketches of Waterpod™ Project to: Greener Sessions Art Exhibition: Sketching Solutions for Climate Change, Venice, CA. Nov 17/07 - Dec 8/07
'While the manifestations of climate change rock the world, Venice, California has something to sketch about it. In this collaborative, exhibition based think-tank participants will design a new starting point to create and find solutions - transforming a general state of anxiety into the realms of possibilities.' <top>
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Monday, October 22, 2007: Veronica Flores came to New York and we took the opportunity to build a test model, 13' long, in my studio. We built the mold and continue to collect materials to fill it with. <top>
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Sunday, June 10, 2007: Mira returned to Vancouver for the time being, and I continued to live at Juan's place until his return from Venice, when I officially began my nomadic travels of New York. From my New York end, I have had some successful and productive meetings, designed and deployed a timeline for Waterpod events, completed the first book (Please see PDF versions: here) as well as a working model. <top>
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Monday, June 4, 2007: Juan donated his large studio in the East Village for our work. We moved in that afternoon and spent the entire seven days there, leaving the place only once in a while for a meeting with Jee Won Kim, a krumping party at Greg Liburd's abode, Curlies Vegetarian with David and Leslie, and one or two other times. <top>
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Sunday, June 3, 2007: Mira and I began photographing maquettes, officialized the new logo, scrutinized the fashion line, and designed the press package. <top>
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Saturday, June 2, 2007: Mira arrived in New York Thursday night. We got settled in on Friday and
started working on Saturday. Discussed plans over an iced coffee in the heat of the morning, and headed into Chinatown to purchase some items at Plastic Land. We headed back to Brooklyn and made a few more plans over a meal. Back at 302 Eastern Parkway, we began assembling, resining, and planning maquettes, scenes, and promotional materials. Juan Puntes is going to Spain on Tuesday and would like to take some press packages with him. We are making four domed packages, and will save one for the record. <top>
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007: Anne Percoco began contacting businesses and individuals in New York and the surrounding boroughs about locations to dock the Waterpod. <top>
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Friday, January 12, 2007: Chere Mira,
You know, when you wrote to me last, about your "waterpod" and your desire to hear me ramble on about water, floods and floating worlds (I used to close many of my my letters with the words "A flood of blessings") I immediately thought of Joyce, since absolutely nothing that I could write could match the virtuosity of this logorrhea from the Ithaca episode of Ulysses. I hope that you enjoyed it and that it does not come too late.
What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier returning to the range, admire?
Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its umplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8,000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: Its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including billions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents: gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs, and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe) numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.
A bientot,
Raphael <top> |
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Tuesday, January 2, 2007: I picked up supplies from the International Center of Photography and had them carted away in two mobile storage units that reside in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. <top> |
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