PSU Undergrad Social Practice Class

Social Media And Art Presentation

2009-04-30T22:31:00.001-07:00

These are links for a presentation Eric is giving about social media. Feel free to browse:

social media as a site and/or medium for project:

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

http://thegreenwashingblog.com/

http://www.myspace.com/top8gallerythree

http://collaborativesaints.pbworks.com/

http://mayaescobar.com/website/accionesplasticas.html#

http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/02/11/mtaas-automatic-for-the-people/

http://www.kmikeym.com/

http://www.urbanhonking.com/powerseller/archives/2007/09/ac_dickson_sell.html

Social media used as distribution tool:

http://delicious.com/oharry

http://peoplesprojectsblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.publiccollectors.org/

http://www.christmastimeradiohour.blogspot.com/

http://beerandscifi.com/

What you are doing at noon on Friday , March 13th, 2009

2009-03-12T13:02:00.001-07:00

Dear Friends: Happy Friday the 13th! As part of my residency, I'll be donning a hockey mask and jumping out at people from the western underbelly of the Hawthorne Bridge with a real machete in my actual hand! I'll have raw beef and peeled grapes on-hand to add to the effect and totally gross everybody out! Ketchup? Chocolate syrup filmed in black & white, then projected onto the walls and floor? I'll also be wearing a blood-stained flannel, and what parts of my bald head you'll be able to see will be covered in hideous, realistic scars! I think this is going to be a really strong community-building event, and I hope you all can make it! Also I hope that it's warm and sunny out and that a lot of kids will be playing in those cool fountains! Also I hope the police come to cheer me on with their winning grins and people skills!

Okay, but for reals...

I really will be doing another installment of my boring old residency where I give people stamped postcards, ask them to write to someone (some two?) and then let me interview them for a few minutes. (I would do the Jason thing, but I already have warrants out, and the last thing I need is more jail time, especially with finals week AND swimsuit season just around the proverbial corner.)

Repost Galore:

The place: the amphitheater staircase that leads down to the regular docking place of the Portland Spirit boat in the Willamette River. This is right by the fountain area where kids and grownup kids alike tend to play on warmer summer days when the air is just so. This is north of the Hawthorne Bridge on the west side of the river. Some call this place Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Others call it nothing at all. Others call it home. Some know this place so well they just call it Tom.

Noon-2pm Friday, March 13th, 2009

Postcards, pens, and stamps provided.

BYOBelievability

Love & Lemurians,

R o z z e l l

M e d i n a

Attendance is mandatory, but in a good way.

2009-03-12T12:49:00.000-07:00

TOTAL DISSENT 2- OREGON PAINTING SOCIETY FEBRUARY 25 2009

2009-03-09T22:02:00.000-07:00

Structure Building on Newberry Hill

2009-03-08T20:14:00.001-07:00

Total Dissent- Racial Identity Class. February 18th 2009

2009-03-04T13:38:00.000-08:00

2009-03-03T19:36:00.000-08:00

Hey Everybody. Sorry for missing some days. The growing season is starting up and i've been busy at home. Im posting to remind everyone that the Arts Gathering at my house is this Saturday 7pm AND to say that Tasha and I are conducting our "structure building" class on the same day at 2PM in the meadow behind my house. You are all invited to come participate and then stay for the Arts Gathering and then to sleepout in the structure we all build. Tasha and I will distributing invitations tomarrow in class (Wed.) with further details.... It would be great to see guys this weekend.

my adress is as follows: 14019 NW Newberry Road Portland, OR 97231

Social Explosion

2009-02-28T13:08:00.000-08:00

Thursday was information rich to say the least. Public Social discussed the opportunity for change that's hidden within the meltdown of the economy. Some of us became part of a student group who manifest media to raise awareness of sustainability. We're essentially part of who decides how to spend some of the Miller grant. Then it was Soup and Comedy which was good fun. The TV was a bit intense for me, especially the Will Farrell movie. I wasn't closing my eyes to be anti social...it's just that the smash bang pop of that kind of media is easier for me to swallow if I just listen to it. Thanks for reminding me to not hold my breath ;-) Oh and the smiling bear sculpture- precious. That made me bust a gut.

Then Adam and I took off. He's going to South Africa soon for at least a few months, maybe to stay. He's going with an open mind and no concrete plans. I was really happy to deepen friendships within this social practice class and expand my web of community, but I wanted to spend some more one on one time with Adam before he leaves since I might not see him again. We went to Mt. Tabor and played push hands a bit and an astronomology class happened. I like teaching one on one cause then I can pay attention to one person and I feel the transmission of information is deeper and more meaningful than if I have to talk to a group where someone will inevitably be left out since I can't adapt my communication style to everyone.

So how does this relate to my residency? The Legba veve for the crows was something like a symbol to send a message to my deeper levels of consciousness where my real decisions are made. A gift to social creatures such as crows was all part of the symbolism. It seems to be working. I make different decisions and move more gracefully through the world when I'm not working against unconscious desires. Using symbols this way is sometimes called magick, but it's really just a way of programming yourself for greater effectiveness in the art of living. I think it's way better than just letting the TV tell me what to do.

Survival without so much industry and with less money to throw around means cooperating with people and sharing. It also means cooperating with the non human intelligences of this planet and treating them with respect so we can learn from them.
My residency is part of my overall dream of helping Portland to transform into a permaculture oasis, modeling good behavior for the rest of the country. The connections I've made this term are part of that process.

Water Feature Engineering Homework

2009-02-26T19:40:00.001-08:00

Experience & Education

2009-02-26T17:18:00.000-08:00

I found this interesting bit about experiential education here.

500 Word Summary of
Dewey’s “Experience & Education”

For John Dewey, education and democracy are intimately connected.

According to Dewey good education should have both a societal purpose and purpose for the individual student. For Dewey, the long-term matters, but so does the short-term quality of an educational experience. Educators are responsible, therefore, for providing students with experiences that are immediately valuable and which better enable the students to contribute to society.

Dewey polarizes two extremes in education -- traditional and progressive education.

The paradigm war still goes on -- on the one hand, relatively structured, disciplined, ordered, didactic tradition education vs. relatively unstructured, free, student-directed progressive education.

Dewey criticizes traditional education for lacking in holistic understanding of students and designing curricula overly focused on content rather than content and process which is judged by its contribution to the well-being of individuals and society.

On the other hand, progressive education, he argues, is too reactionary and takes a free approach without really knowing how or why freedom can be most useful in education. Freedom for the sake of freedom is a weak philosophy of education. Dewey argues that we must move beyond this paradigm war, and to do that we need a theory of experience.

Thus, Dewey argues that educators must first understand the nature of human experience.

Dewey's theory is that experience arises from the interaction of two principles -- continuity and interaction. Continuity is that each experience a person has will influence his/her future, for better or for worse. Interaction refers to the situational influence on one's experience. In other words, one's present experience is a function of the interaction between one's past experiences and the present situation. For example, my experience of a lesson, will depend on how the teacher arranges and facilitates the lesson, as well my past experience of similar lessons and teachers.

It is important to understand that, for Dewey, no experience has pre-ordained value. Thus, what may be a rewarding experience for one person, could be a detrimental experience for another.

The value of the experience is to be judged by the effect that experience has on the individual's present, their future, and the extent to which the individual is able to contribute to society.

Dewey says that once we have a theory of experience, then as educators can set about progressively organizing our subject matter in a way that it takes accounts of students' past experiences, and then provides them with experiences which will help to open up, rather than shut down, a person's access to future growth experiences, thereby expanding the person's likely contribution to society.

Dewey examines his theory of experience in light of practical educational problems, such as the debate between how much freedom vs. discipline to use. Dewey shows that his theory of experience (continuity and interaction) can be useful guides to help solving such issues.

Throughout, there is a strong emphasis on the subjective quality of a student's experience and the necessity for the teacher of understanding the students' past experiences in order to effectively design a sequence of liberating educational experiences to allow the person to fulfil their potential as a member of society.

Sorry Night 2 (Blue Night)

2009-02-26T09:12:00.000-08:00

After the First night of Sorry action, Things got off to a bit of a slow start on Tuesday with several competitors not showing up. (below is the bracket from the night before)

The First match of the night pitted our very own Eric against the nights eventual bracket champion Kevin. Eric ended up losing the match, but quickly took over the position of official event photographer.(some of his pictures below)

The night sped along pretty quicly due to two competitors slotted for the 6:30 game not showing up, so the six competitors for the night played pretty quick games, and before you knew it we had made it to the finals.

The Finals once again were greatly entertaining with a crowd gathering after it went into the second game with the player who came out of the loosers bracket winning the first, and handing the player from the winners bracket his first defeat.(the winner from the night before watches the match intently below)

In the Second game the tables turned and Kevin (pictured on the left) who played Eric in the first round, took home top honors for the night!

stay tuned for info on wedneday nights action. The last night of the qualifying rounds happens tonight (Thursday-the red bracket) and the Saturday night will be the finals!

Soup & Comedy Redux

2009-02-25T20:38:00.000-08:00

Soup & Comedy Redux
Thursday, February 26
8pm
Ally's Apartment
NBC's Must See TV
(details in email)

*this image was just on the first page of googling comedy. we don't plan on watching blades of glory, unless someone really really wants to make an argument otherwise. the image is pretty funny, though.

Homeless Class!

2009-02-25T18:08:00.000-08:00

Sorry Tournament off and running (yellow night)

2009-02-24T15:10:00.001-08:00

The first night of the Sorry Tournament ended last night with some serious action. All the preparations had been made.

The night got underway early with the first game starting at 5, and from there it was non-stop sorry action till a little after nine

The final match was between Brian and Pablo (pictured below Brian on the right Pablo on the left). Pablo hadn't lost a game all night, and it was going to take a miracle for Brian to win, since he had to win two games in a row to be crowned the nights champion( and to be able to move onto the final night) but in a nail-bighter of a game he did it! winning two games in a row and securing a spot in the championships on Saturday night

Round two starts in just a few hours!

Public Social University - February 26

2009-02-23T12:55:00.000-08:00

PUBLIC SOCIAL UNIVERSITY PRESENTS:
Free Lecture Series Part 4
Public Social University is a forum for diverse workshops and discussions taught by the people and for the people. Workshops are always free. We currently meet in the central library on select afternoons. Public Social University was created by the members of the art and social practice undergraduate class at Portland State University. On February 26th, they will present a mini-lecture/presentation series to the public on the topics of: Destructo! A drawing game, an Italian crash course, a discussion on sublimating the economic recession, and screen-printing, taught by Lori Gilbert.

FREE
Date:Thursday, February 26th
Times: 3:00-6:00pm
Place: Central Library, in the US Bank Meeting room.

The Slipstream

2009-02-22T18:59:00.000-08:00

Yeticave visit: I just let go of something I was really attached to for a few years. I guess I had to do it that way for various reasons. I used painting as a way of making a visual record of my process, a process I invoked on purpose in the 90's, the process of intentionally undoing myself so I could put myself back together in a more effective and harmonious arrangement. I never really wanted to be a painter, but I fooled myself into believing I did because I had to prove to myself that I didn't want to do it that way. Musician just happens in me, as naturally as breathing. I picked up painting trying to ape the act of other people. I'd really rather be an urban kung fu farmer, but I was still too addicted to the death culture myself to realize it back when I decided to feed and water a painter identity.

Well one of my voluntary siblings stopped by tonight. It was a Yeticave visit and not just an old friend hanging out cause I did things differently. When she arrived she told me where she'd just come from in a shamanic workshop and it sounded like she would be better served by letting her do some art, make a viscerally felt record of her process then and there rather than continue chatting. So I asked if she wanted to draw in my sketchbook while listening to Bardo. So now my sketchbook has a bit of someone else's art in it, but I used my music to tune it to me so my defenses wouldn't reject it.

After as we talked her penetrating vision told me about how my room is constructed and who I was when I made the stuff that's hanging on my walls. I suddenly grokked in fullness that I'm done with the painter. I still like drawing, but I prefer the scale of things I can fit in my backpack, I prefer dry media that don't require using water I'd rather drink or use to make coffee or water plants, etc. just to make pretty pictures or keep a record of my unravelling. The short of it is I found an enthusiastic home for some canvases one of which was still empty and one that has an empty white canvas circle inside an india ink background. I'm downsizing in my drawing mode, but she's moving into a space where she needs more space to move things around. She's also more of a visual person than me so she might take to the painter naturally like I didn't. I also gave her the easel I had been babysitting for her that her mom donated to me from her store of unused art supplies way back (2005ish) when I was deep in the throes of my undoing posing as a painter.

So here's the social art project we dreamed up together: I took a couple of paintings out from behind the pile of old work I have in the Art Mausoleum I made around the landing at the top of the stairs in the house where I live and I said yeah they're kind of pretty, but they really belong in a graveyard. Sometime before the Aries equinox (end of March) I want to leave them in one. Next full moon perhaps? Maybe I'll leave them around the statue of Harvey Scott that looms over the south end of Mt. Tabor, pointing toward downtown, leading the people of the death culture to continue our rape of the planet onward and westward, puffing his chest out and scowling. To me that statue is a kind of grave. Leaving the paintings that are pretty, but really part of my unravelling process and not something I want hanging on my walls around a big symbol of death seems like just the purge I need to go where I need to go and do what needs doing. I don't need all that dead weight anymore.

First Outdoor Class on Mt. Tabor

2009-02-21T20:56:00.000-08:00

I guess it was the wind and cold. Oh well, Adam showed up so we practiced some push-hands and I did much better than usual against him because I practiced standing and establishing my root before he arrived.

Then as we walked down the mountain we talked about our permaculture ideas. Last night We went to a lecture at the Pacific Crest School just north of Burnside over by the Whole Foods at se 28th by an Austrian permaculture genius named Sepp Holzer. By working with nature rather than treating her as an enemy he's been able to grow fruit trees including citrus as part of a thriving and diverse oasis on the slopes of the Austrian Alps.

A couple of years ago Adam told me he wanted to be a kung fu farmer. At the time I thought- well that's cool for you, but how would I have time for my art? The more I learn about permaculture the more I want to be a kung fu farmer when I grow up.

With this kind of farming you don't have to work nearly as hard because you relate to nature as a partner rather than abusing her like a slave. Treat her kindly and she will reward you immensely. See, there's no need to water or weed or any of that because the diverse community of plants support each other. When you plant one thing over acres of land it takes all the same nutrients out of the soil as its neighbors. With a plant community like the 3 sisters known to the Native Americans of beans, corn and squash each plant trades nutrients with the others. Pests are controlled by the plant community's greater intelligence created by a diversity of organisms.

While I'm still in the idea stage of this process for the most part (I have a little pot of herbs I'm taking care of in my room and so far they have survived the winter) I'm on fire with inspiration to carry it to manifestation. A Dharma practitioner Adam met in a cafe asked him if he wanted to transform his lawn into a permaculture garden. We've talked about making it a business. I don't know how to pull it off yet, but I could see myself doing that sort of thing for my living and eventually run my own urban small permaculture farm right here in the city...and teach others how to do it themselves.

See, our present way of feeding ourselves is horribly wasteful. Global warming owes much to all the trucks that haul chemical fertilizers and feed for animals to farms and then they haul the harvest to packing plants and then more trucks haul it to the grocery store where people drive it home in their cars. If everyone in the city had at least a small herb garden we'd really be doing something to combat global warming. We'd also have much healthier food with more vitality and flavor than the half dead stuff we get trucked or shipped half way across the world to the grocery store. Evolve or die, human.

Grok this:

No Soup

2009-02-19T14:30:00.000-08:00

Soup & Comedy Cancelled
Ally's sick. Sorry guys.
We'll try again next week.

What you are doing at noon on Friday February 20th, 2009

2009-02-19T12:09:00.000-08:00

This Friday (February 20th, 2009) at noon, Camille and Rozzell will be combining their proverbial forces to bring the Portland area a magical interlude the likes of which it has either:

a) never seen before

b) been missing

c) been dreaming of for quite some time now, perhaps in the shower.

The thing: Camille is hosting another one of her fabulously magnanimous tea parties. Who knows what wonders await those who indulge in such delights? Rozzell is giving people stamped postcards that he made to be written upon then and there. Bring an address or two. Someone you miss? Someone to whom you owe an apology? Someone you have never ever met? Barack Obama? In exchange for the stamp and the postcard, you will allow Rozzell to interview you for a (maga)zine that he will soon be making.

Please come, dear friends. Tell your buddies. Tell strangers. Tell Oscar the Freaking Grouch!

Love & Learning,

R & C

Soup & Comedy

2009-02-18T23:39:00.000-08:00

Soup & Comedy Night
Hosted by Ally & Crystal
This Thursday Night
8 pm
Ally's Apartment
(see detailed email for address)

The First Day of Sol in Pisces Visions

2009-02-18T22:52:00.000-08:00

Clicky the linky to viddy me pics of skyscraper hopping. Enjoy.
See you on the mountain? Stars pretty.

astronomology mt tabor this saturday 7pm

2009-02-18T18:56:00.000-08:00

Weather permitting I'm doing a cross between astrology and astronomy class on the top of Mt. Tabor this Saturday evening. Meet around 7pm at the tree with 4 trunks on the north end of the top of the mountain, opposite the creepy scowly dude in bronze who looms over the south end. If the sky is cloudy but not raining class will still happen, but then we can tell stories, do some Tai Ji, come up with something else. If the sky is clear the sparkly region around Orion will be overhead with bright Venus to the west.

Forwarded from Ana

2009-02-17T22:02:00.001-08:00

Lets Get Connected

2009-02-17T15:26:00.000-08:00

Hello all, I am going to try this again. The new date for the outing is Saturday February 21st at 1pm in Front of Free Geek. Hopefully it doesn't rain, but if it does, the outing will be canceled and I will reschedule again! Hopefully we can try out this photo class before the term is over.

Yeticave Visit Improv

2009-02-16T20:55:00.000-08:00

This weekend I broke my usual habit of hiding in my cave and responded to a roomate's request for me to hang out with them and some visiting friends downstairs. They had some dub spinning on the turntables so I decided to come down and dance instead of just being irritated by the thumpy boom-boom up in my room where the only audible frequencies are nauseating bass. I danced for awhile and then went out to the front porch to cool off and view beautiful Luna rising in the east. A friendly black cat came to greet me and when I sat cross legged up on a big square part of the porch railing he jumped in my lap and let me pet him for awhile. Then a girl who was visiting came out and the cat fell asleep in my lap. We chatted for awhile and then she got a phone call and went into cell phone land which normally I would find irritating in the middle of a conversation. But then I noticed the cat blissfully ignoring everything and snoozing away. I decided to follow the cat's example and just looked at Luna, flinging some yucky Qi off my hands to the ground.

Later I went back inside and tried to dance some more, but I felt pretty ungrounded. I went upstairs to get my kung fu stick, a twisty willow staff that I've had since around 1994 that I've recently begun to use to strengthen and open my wrist joints. I danced to the dub for a good long while, letting the weight and wood of the stick to guide my motions and show me which way gravity goes, using it as resistance to work out tension in my hands and arms. I remembered the chillin' black cat in my lap and also my old training as an operator in esoteric rituals with Ordo Templi Orientis where I learned how to focus my mind to hold sacred space for a group.

It worked! The heart Qi in the room exploded and everyone thanked me for my dance. Then one of my 3 roomates called for a group hug and I found myself surrounded by about 10 people all hugging me and each other.

Then last night girl came back with a friend who she carried all the way from NE on her bike. I went downstairs to ask that they keep the thumpy speakers off for awhile cause I was working on remastering Bardo. She asked if she could come up and join me. I agreed. Later she brought up her other friend cause my roomates had become absorbed in their computers and he was all alone on the porch.

So I got to share Bardo with 2 relative strangers who tripped out on my art and music. They both loved the music. She kept asking, "is that you?" to which I replied, "yeah it's all me except a little bit of my mom and my niece at the beginning". It was a nice ego stroke to say the least, but most of all I'm glad my music is strong enough to speak for itself. It's something I've been cultivating for over 20 years. This album itself has been gestating since early '08. Since I play all the parts at separate times and construct it as I go I'm as surprised as anyone at the end result. I don't plan things when I compose. I play one part at a time as it comes to me so it's as if the music already exists on another level of reality and it uses me to construct itself.

Anyway, there you go. I've had a hard time all my life opening up to social experience which is a big part of why I chose to follow this class more than once. This weekend was a giant leap for me partly thanks to a little black cat on friday the 13th. Bad luck? Well just consider that the culture who decided that black cats and the number 13 were evil also thought that earth, women, dark skinned people and enjoying yourself were evil. Black cats and the number 13 are only made evil by fear which the little black cat helped to teach me how to transcend.

My # is 503 819 8485. If you'd like to hear Bardo in its native environment and/or see my artfully constructed living space give me a call and set up a time. If you bring a laptop or a portable hard drive that can communicate with my iMac I'll give you the remastered version of Bardo plus the PDF of the artwork. If you bring a CD I'll burn it for you, but I'd really prefer reusable media than the little plastic frisbees.

Water Feature

2009-02-16T18:47:00.000-08:00

that ball weighs 2000 pounds!

Kindy V-Day, short and sweet!

2009-02-15T19:24:00.000-08:00

The kindergarten Valentine's Day party was the envy of all who passed by the door. Much to the glee of the kindergartners, older kids frequently poked their heads in to glimpse and wish outloud that they too could partake of the three different kinds of cookies, capri punch pouches, and mail boxes overflowing with Valentines. (Everyone must bring one for everyone!) My favorite part of the day was when we first arrived at school; all the kids were instructed to go around each table and put a Valentine into each kid's mailbox. First everyone assembled their Tinkerbell, Power Ranger, Transformers, and Barbie Princesses Valentines they had laboriously scrawled their names upon the night before. Next was the dispersement. Some kids quickly accomplished this task, while others were like ping-pong balls, bouncing from table to table, chatting with other meanderers. Oh yes, spiderman, well what I have got here is spongebob. Some kids suffice to just stick a handful here and there, and call it good. Others merely wander until their plastic baggy is empty. I counted atleast three from my son in one little boy's haul. Through out the day we continue to discover Valentine stashes that have yet to be doled out, wondering why it hadn't dawned on the owners that while this delivery process occurred they were milling around with nothing. Then upon opening thier cards, although just beginning to learn to read, the sentiment is not lost in the phrase "You are the coolest, Valentine." Or, "Have no fear, Batman is here, Valentine." One little girl went over to another and said how thoughtful her Valentine had been and they hugged. We also were all given Valentine friendship books in which you approach someone and ask if they will be your Valentine or friend and then they write their name in your book. The teacher gave me one, too, and surprisingly I ended up with quite a few pint-sized Valentines of my own! With the sugar nearly bursting each of their little hearts, the class party ended with a lovely rendition of Skid-a-ma-rink-a-dink-a-doo (if you want to learn, I can teach you) and then we discovered one more vilgilante stash of Valentine heart lollipops with cards that we inserted into their backpacks as they headed for the school bus. Unfortunately, I can not post pictures of my days at Kindergarten, as other people's kids' faces can not be displayed on the internet due to reasons of safety. But once the post office is up and running I can post pics of that.

GATHERING/EXHIBITION

2009-02-15T10:56:00.000-08:00

I wanted to invite you all to this event happening at my house. If anyone is interested in exhibiting any of their work (objects or otherwise) or enacting any sort of group projects with those present, please let me know. There will be many great folks with few pretesions. We live about eleven miles north of downtown, so carpooling is always a good option.
Thanks, Nolan
nolan.calisch@gmail.com

Coincidence or Communication?

2009-02-13T13:03:00.000-08:00

Today as I walked from Muddy Waters Café to Laurelhurst park I greeted a scruffy old crow who I think might have been the group elder balancing on a wire and keeping watch for her peoples. A block further just as I was about to cross the street and enter the main west entrance to Laurelhurst Park a crow landed in a tree right over my head and dropped something into the decaying leaves right in front of me. I picked it up and it was a peanut, raw and unsalted just like the ones out of which I made Legba's veve as a gift to the crow folk. Crows are smart birds, among the smartest. I don't think it was an accident. For all I know it might have been one of the peanuts I left for them in the Arboretum. It's a short flight from there to Laurelhurst as the crow flies so it could have been. That was wyrd. I guess I got a Valentine from the crows.

x-posted to UrBlog.

Nostalgia 3, socializing with the Random Gaming Club

2009-02-12T20:10:00.000-08:00

Getting out of our classroom and getting out of our heads.

It's Wednesday afternoon. We head over to PSU Smith Memorial Center White Gallery to take in the (beautiful) documentation by MFA students in the Social Practice program;

(I remember) black and white photos of a neighborhood and it's people printed into a surround of text that propels you into the photo. For a moment, you're standing right next to... And a visual sea shelled-colored record of appreciation and wonderment for the life of a pet snail--a brilliant mixture of biology and interspecies love. www.manandmollusc.net/game_files/snail_draw.hmtl

(use this web address & learn to draw a snail; maybe you'll find snail love too)

We mill around and stare.

Then, Krystal gets us all down on the ground right there in the gallery to teach us how to do the Pigeon , a yoga posture to open the hips.

(so sorry I didn't get pictures of this but check out www.fitsugar.com/1615325 for a pic of the posture)

Next we wander upstairs to the 3rd floor in Smith. Someone notices flashing lights and some interesting sound effects coming out of a room on the north side of the hallway. It's the Random Select Gaming Club's afternoon of gaming. I mean, wow. We can't resist. The Club welcomes us in and shows us around. Some of us sit and game, some of us watch and dream, and then there are those who dance and sing and dance some more. This I got pictures of.

check out the Gamers and the club @

http://randomselect.groups.pdx.ed u

Nostalgia 2, taking breaks

2009-02-12T18:57:00.000-08:00

Our colleague Tasha took on the challenge to facilitate a body-centered break activity:

Okay, take a deep breath and run as fast & far as you can while yelling on the top of your lungs.

How to win? Yell the longest and run the fastest to get the furthest.

Some ran so fast they were nothing but a blur.

There were those of us who didn't make it very far. But effort counts. (ah-hum, I took pics the whole time). .

And others whose determination was evident from the get-go.

And what about that yell? With everyone

cheering him on, Eric began and ended

loud and proud. I was inspired.

Nostalgia 1, where we started

2009-02-12T17:59:00.000-08:00

Do you remember these collaborators, these brave & willing teachers, our first (hesitant?) venture into the wild and woolly world of Social Practice art making?

Tad, named after an All My Childen soap opera character. True story. He had gizmos in his pocket to play and make games on: some more legal than others. A wizard.

The memory guy (I can't remember his name, yikes). We threw out 10 words and with his memory-images in mind, he tagged each word to an image and presto! The guy was good. Camille got it down first try.

And frisbee golf. He taught us about the best (drive) throw and where to get it done. Who knew Portland had courses all over the place. Turns out Flossie is a golfer too.

This teacher knew his stuff: all about sustainability and water and evaporation. Drawings and a calm manner. He deserved a teachers evaluation form.

And last but definitely not least. The flute player. He played a sweet tune and then stuck around to learn from others, from us and even put in his 2-cents during our 'class' discussion.

Pleasant Thoughts of You

2009-02-11T11:09:00.000-08:00

Sweet Nothings

Join in on some righteous Valentine’s Day card making
The old fashioned way, glitter, glue and love….
Don’t have a valentine? We will give it to an unsuspecting stranger.

Meet Fireside at the Native American Student and Community Center
Corner of SW Broadway and Jackson Street

Thursday, February 12, 2009
1 P.M.

Ghost of Duchamp Invades Portland

2009-02-09T22:25:00.001-08:00

Snapped in motion without stopping cause I thought I was late to class. The context makes it public sculpture. Really it's a pretty elegant shape so why not? Porcelain is pretty high tech if you consider it in the context of human history. The pigeon in duct tape (?) adds a punk rock vibe. You can see this masterpiece (if it hasn't been removed yet) somewhere between 48th and 20th ave on Lincoln street.

Reschedule of BE CONNECTED

2009-02-09T21:15:00.000-08:00

Sorry everyone but I had to reschedule the Be Connected photo outing because the news predicts it's going to rain and snow. I changed it to this Thursday (2/12) same time at 11am. I have the flyer hangin' on the Free Geek thrift store board...at least the flyer will get more exposure!

Bardo

2009-02-08T20:21:00.000-08:00

Go here:

http://public.me.com/wandering_yeti

username is "Public"
password is eyed!sko

Bardo is done and stuffed into the Bardo in WAV folder. Download at will. I'll bring a few CD's to class tomorrow but I don't have many. Click the entry title to see the cover. I forgot how to layer multiple images in photoshop so it's only in iWeb for now. Happy fool moon eclipse.

Another tea party

2009-02-08T19:56:00.000-08:00

I had another tea party on Saturday. The weather was beautiful and it made for some good times.

Here are some pictures of the event. At first I read aloud for a little while waiting for the tea to warm up and then we played scrabble and ate some cookies. The scrabble game started out in a mature manner but at one point we threw out the rules and threw all the tiles together trying as a team to fit all the tiles on the board. I laughed until my stomach started hurting.

I am noticing that the people that walk by all seem to smile. If anything I hope that these gatherings will brighten the day of those who saw us. A video of a dance that took place during the tea party. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Pictures from Rozzell's Workshop @ PSU

2009-02-07T14:28:00.000-08:00

Also I made a Flickr set for the things that Ben & I learned during Rozzell's OMG DIY FYI workshop at Public Social University:
http://flickr.com/photos/58661292@N00/sets/72157613453303455/

Residency Documentation

2009-02-07T14:02:00.001-08:00

Here is some documentation from my visit to my residency today:
http://flickr.com/photos/58661292@N00/sets/72157613452391403/

My Residency is taking place at the bus stop that I use to come to school, it's on 182nd Ave & Powell Blvd in Gresham and is serviced by the 9 Powell bus headed west towards Portland.

Stop Motion Animation!

2009-02-06T17:25:00.000-08:00

Good Job Team!

Wood and Water

2009-02-06T13:05:00.000-08:00

I've been posting like mad in my UrBlog linked to the headline. Yes, there's meandering. It's the salt water in my blood reminded of the ocean every time the Willamette changes direction with the tides and all the time I spend in Portland's woody spaces I guess. Did you know there's rivers under the streets here? Underground water pulsing with the ocean. It's all coming out like this cause my old word patterns can't hold my new thoughts. Patience and oyster mushrooms, cosmos in motion, finding a safe path through the bardo. See the UrBlog for more.

Bike Farm Basic Maintenance Class

2009-02-05T11:43:00.000-08:00

Public Social University - Feb 2

2009-02-04T12:26:00.001-08:00

The third installment of Public Social University was launched earlier this week. We had three workshops:

The first was called "Let Yourself Express An Inner Monologue." Cara Deffilipi created a modern dance routine that we learned and embellished a little on. We were dancing to a Tom Waits song. 2 days later and my legs are still sore.

Here's a video of us trying to dance. Looks like we aren't so bad for beginners right? If you can see the video, click here.

For the next session, The Theory of Sandwich Making, Camilleo gave us the 411 on how to craft a sandwhich that does what its supposed to do: stay together, look good, and taste good. Did you know there's a science to this? It's true. From now on, my sandwiches will be twice as good as they were before.

For the third portion, titled OMG DIY FYI, Rozzell Medina asked people to pair up and then to talk about what sorts of things we might want to learn with our partner. We then went outside and learned them, came back to the library and shared with each other. Some people learned some interesting things. For example some learned about this young kid who plays drums on plastic buckets in order to raise money for college. Someone else tried to learn how to do kartwheels. Other people learned about hiccups, what causes them and how to get rid of them. We had a fun time.

time to rock out!

2009-02-04T01:40:00.000-08:00

i have started a blog about my residency with the psu geology department. you can see it here.

Anna and Amphone doing handstands

2009-02-03T16:50:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the late pictures. I uploaded my camera pics and found these. I think they are funny. If any of you forgot it was when we were all taught how to do headstands but the floor was too hard so we ended up doing handstands.

Anna has the perfect handstand!

FEED! Shwag

2009-02-03T16:44:00.000-08:00

Hi all, I made t-shirts and tanktops out of my boyfriends kitchen using only a linocut and oil ink. Let me know if you want a shirt. All the shirts I picked up at the bins and re-rewashed. All is free of course. I would be happy to make any of you one, please let me know your size. I thought panties and boxers were also a cool idea but I didn't think anyone would wear used ones...:)

The logo has FEED on the top with a mirrored version of it. You can choose black ink or magenta and have it placed anywhere on the shirt.

Lets Get Connected

2009-02-03T16:25:00.000-08:00

My first project is called Be Connected. The idea stemmed from a circuit board and how all the components are connected together in a group to make something work. The project is very simple. Everyone will be tied together by various lengths of string. The string could be tied to a belt loop or someplace that won't get in the way of your camera trigger finger. I will begin leading the class around the industrial area around Free Geek, then I will pass the reigns to someone else and so on. The idea is to have everyone work as a group while taking pictures (i.e. asking the group to stop at a curb to take pictures of ants or slowing down if you notice someone lagging behind). The creative expressions/perspectives will also change because now you will be confined to a group. Meeting time is mid day on a Tuesday so there should be plenty of activities to photograph.

I know the flier is a little janky...i did it last night in my room while watching Leno.

FEED!

2009-02-03T15:49:00.000-08:00

Hello gang, I am doing my residency at Free Geek and going to try and stay under the radar. For all of you unfamiliar with Free Geek they are a not-for-profit organization that rebuilds used technology to provide computers, education, internet access and job skills training to those in need in exchange for community service. If any of you want to check out the facility or the little thrift store the address is 1731 SE 10th Ave. There are great deals for electronics and accesories that will blow you away. I also love their motto, " helping the needy get nerdy". The vibe there is amazing and everyone i've met has been sweet and helpful. The idea to name my residency project Feed! came while I was waiting for the tour. I was thinking about the relationship with feeding one's hunger (either with food or the desire to learn) and electrical feeds. One being a human emotion while the other is artificial. I would like to combine the two within my projects.

My first day at Free Geek was on Saturday (1/30) and I was immediately put on library duty. An awesome lady named Laurel helped me reorganize the misplaced books. Going through all the books gave me a huge respect for computer programmers and how i'm so glad i'm not one! I will be there again tomorrow at noon (2/4) and hope to hang some fliers for my first project...

BLT Exercise

2009-02-03T13:15:00.000-08:00

Here's the video of the guy who exercises, pants, and cooks a BLT all at once. A tribute to our sandwich making workshop!

Maferefun Eshu

2009-01-31T18:52:00.001-08:00

Here's my peanut version of Papa Legba's veve.
No crows or other birds arrived while I did qigong a good distance away, but after I started hiking back to public transit I heard them having a good time.

Happy surfing during this Mercury storm between eclipses. Yowza. My mind is synthesizing connections between all of the various self programming technologies and ontologies I've studied and practiced over the years. Tendency to meander possible, but alas Legba is a wanderer. The cane shape on the right of the image represents his walking stick. Maybe if I stopped feeding Legba I'd stop wandering so much. But why would I want to do that? It keeps me in shape and gives my mind the space to sort itself out so I don't make stupid decisions simply from a lack of awareness. It's a great stress reducer which again improves my health while not burning fossil fuels. Wandering rocks.

Public Social University Is Back In Full Force

2009-01-30T19:56:00.001-08:00

A Long and Meandering Road

2009-01-29T23:27:00.000-08:00

The link is to my latest blog post talking about getting together with City Repair Project and manifesting some beautiful visions of a humanity in harmony with its homeworld. It might be long and meandering, but that's the shape of my mind. I meander like a river or the slow dance of plants growing and changing. Oops, have I exceeded my soundbyte time? Clicky the linky if you want to know more.

Bardo Listening Party Correction

2009-01-28T23:41:00.000-08:00

Arrrgh. The Soluna program on my iPod got the dates mixed up and put the eclipse picture with the full moon on the 24th. That'll learn me to trust the software without consulting my own knowledge of the sky. The eclipse in Leo is of course 2 weeks after the eclipse in Aquarius which is monday the 9th of february. So I want to have the listening party on the evening of sunday the 8th (still hail Eris! since as all Discordians know: 8 is 2 cubed, another way to write 23). Need to find a place. I can bring speakers. Ideally there would be enough space for dancing as this is Ascension Conspiracy's official emergence from the ambient soup and room to move helps the music serve its healing function.

Bardo

2009-01-28T20:54:00.000-08:00

On the way home I caught a glimpse of a bright, gibbous Venus sparkling above the first lunar crescent visible since the solar eclipse that danced across the Indian Ocean 3 days ago . The picture is of Sol a few hours before eclipse on Sunday since I didn't have my camera with me today.

Synchronicities abound between sky and ground...

Then a special Yeticave visit manifested via my friend Nolon (aka Cult of Zir). It turned my solo music project Ascension Conspiracy into a social event by the addition of another set of ears conveniently connected to a fellow audio engineer. We listened to my latest creature of sound Bardo. I had gone as far as I could with it due to the fact that I'm not just the musician(s) but also the recording engineer. I thought it might be done, but my objectivity was long gone a couple of months ago. Even without his intelligent feedback just having someone else's energy field present in the adytum of my artist residency changed my experience of it enough to get some objectivity back. It was decided that the song Ghost Heavens really is complete with the interplay between vocals and drums. Bass and guitar would just clutter it up. That dilemma having been settled it shall now be mastered and set loose upon the world. Bwahahahaha!

Go here:

http://public.me.com/wandering_yeti

username is "Public"
password is eyed!sko

and you will find the entirety of Bardo's predecessor Prima Materia as well as the original version of Ghost Heavens before I rebuilt it with drums and live vocals. In a folder called Next Album Prototypes you'll find unmastered (but quite listenable) versions of most of the tracks from Bardo. You may download freely. If you like what you hear and you can afford it and you want to help Yeticave Records stay alive voluntary donations can be sent to
galileo93 at yahoo doot com via paypal.

Mostly I just want y'all to be able to enjoy my music. It would just end up on torrent sites anyway so this is the way a lot of bands are going. I got the idea from Kirsten Hersch formerly of Throwing Muses originally. Then after doing my own printing and copying for the first release of Ascension Conspiracy, Awake in the Kingdom I realized just how much stuff goes into reproducing CD's and I only made 11 copies! Imagine if it were 1000 or 10000. That's a lot of tree pulp, oil for the plastic and truck fuel for transportation that is saved by sharing music on the internet.

I created Yeticave Records as a download only record company to bring my music habits into harmony with my green heart. I'd rather the trees remain standing, living, and binding greenhouse gasses into their bodies not to mention absorbing heat with their dark leaves and turning warming into the metabolic processes of their lives instead of radiating it back into the atmosphere like pavement or a rooftop with no plants. Is it really that important to have an object to hold in my hands? It's the sounds I'm really into anyway.

So in honor of Luna's eclipse in Leo on 9 feb when tonight's barely visible sliver reaches fullness in red I want to have a listening party for the finished beast. The actual eclipse happens in the early morning just as the moon sets so I want to have the listening party on sunday evening feb 8 (hail Eris!) when Luna is in Leo and still approaching opposition with Sol in Gaia's shadow. Not too late for working types. I should have it mastered and tamed for playback on any and all speaker systems by then. I don't have enough space myself to host such a thing. Any ideas?

My artist residency in Kindergarten

2009-01-28T20:01:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone! I am doing my artist residency in my son's kindergarten classroom. So far I am brainstorming some ideas for the old "kitchen" area. It is either going to become a grocery (in which I will make boxes of food with the kid's pictures and names on them, for instance, Silas' Soup or Kira's Cookies, etc) or a post office and I will get to put in a stationary-making station for the kids (using the left overs from my wedding invitations kits) with card stock, hole punchers, and other arty stuff so that the kids can make letters for each other and in mail carrier costume, "deliver" the letters to each other's "mail boxes" (which I also may be making). I am in the process of brainstorming ideas to further implement each kid's unique identity and input to go into the "local kindergarten post office" experience. The teacher has also offered me up to 30-35 minutes at the beginning of class sometime to teach the kids something should the inspiration hit me as I am observing her interactions, curriculum, and subject matter with the kids. I plan on spending my Mondays and Wednesdays before Art and Soc Policy class in his classroom, so that should give me some good time to get inspired with some project ideas. Today was exciting in that the kids were like a little ocean of movement during story and discussion time, all fidgiting at different moments but like a chain-reaction, one starts moving and then another and then another . . . . Also, kindergartners are soooooo expressive. If the teacher tells them anything, they respond with a hefty "Oooooooooooh" and/or "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh," whether reacting to a surprise or something familiar, they really do not censor or ration their opportunities to "release" these sounds. It is funny how, as we get older, or whatever it is that changes, "Ooooooohhhhhhs" and "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhs" just do not come as frequently and with such uumph. I almost want to start "ooohhhing" and "ahhhhhing" at mundane stuff, like in the grocery line or something. Maybe it will feel really good.

Year of Earth Ox

2009-01-27T00:18:00.000-08:00

Today is the first day of the Chinese year of the Earth Ox. I'm a Water Ox so maybe the ambient environment this year will give some form to my flow. Here's 5 windows into what catches my eye from today's walk.

I didn't make this...a tree plus wind did that. I claim the photo as my piece for this walk since I didn't need to do anything to the arrangement to make it pleasing. This is very similar to the Chinese character Shen, the conscious aspect of the heart. Can also be seen as a smiley face with its tongue sticking out. The tongue is the heart's representative in the head.

3 views of city reflected in river just after sunset.

Venus seen through wires.

Tea Party in the Park

2009-01-25T21:02:00.001-08:00

Making the tea hot using sterno cans. They are this weird flammable purple jelly that keeps things hot. They are used for fondue pots and the like. We also had cucumber sandwiches so it was a pretty classy affair.

Someone who came to the tea party taught us 'bibliomancy'. It is a type of fortune telling technique. You get a book, the type does not matter, and envision your question. You flip through the book and stop on a random page. (All of this is done without looking at the book) You then slide your finger along the page and stop at a random passage. You can either read the passage or a single sentence and that is the answer to your question. This was a lot of fun.

I do need to find a way of secretly documenting the people that showed up. Many of them were very wary about having their photo taken. They seemed taken aback by the idea of the parties and while apprehensive did come to talk to me. I am hoping I can get them to write me notes or other things as a way of incorporating these strangers into my project in a larger sense.

I am going to continue having parties in the park. Both impromptu and advertised. I will be checking weather forecasts constantly. I thought that this was a nice way to start off my residency. I talked to some people that work in the office buildings around the park and I am going to start bringing sandwiches and hot beverages for free. Or at least for a barter. I will give them food in exchange for a piece of their mind. I will also advertise said luncheons on the blog but, depending on the weather, these dates may change. So far, this Friday is supposed to be sunny with a high of 51. It shouldn't be so bad outside.

On the Way to Eclipse

2009-01-25T18:44:00.000-08:00

Today's first improv art expression with whatever is lying around happened as I was headed out the front door to go to the mountain (I live near Mt. Tabor) I came upon a plastic 6 pack thing that was unbroken. I'd hate to be a bird or fish finding one of those things by getting stuck in it. Half of the inhabitants of the house I live in clean up after ourselves, the other half leaves garbage laying around. So I dismantled it and it looked kinda cool so I arranged it on the chair where I found it and snapped a photo. Reminds me of Chinese dragons only in plastic.

Then it was off to the mountain where I made a face with rocks over by the west reservoirs. I was thinking about my dad who I lost when I was a kid because Mt. Tabor was one of his favorite places to go for a walk. It's a wrathful demon face because I got a lot of my anger issues from him. One tooth is darker than the rest symbolizing the dead tooth I'm having pulled soon. It got infected last december and made my face hurt so bad I couldn't chew. If I got angry it got worse. If I relaxed I got better. It was a great lesson in anger management, but I don't want to repeat it so the dead tooth and childish attachments to behaviors I learned from my dad are going bye bye via qigong and dentistry.

On the way to an annular eclipse in the tropical sign Aquarius the local star appears to be perched on the edge of a cloud.

Video Game Club (1/21)

2009-01-24T13:53:00.001-08:00

First Manifestation Complete

2009-01-23T23:50:00.000-08:00

The link at the top of the post will lead you to my UrBlog also known as Livejournal. I call it UrBLog because it was my first blog started back in 2003 when I was still in my first year of college and going through what astrogeeks call Saturn return. Strangely enough I just remembered that at the exact moment that Saturn was in the same degree of the zodiac he occupied when I transformed from water creature to air breather I was teaching my 3D basic design class about photosynthesis and the cycle of sunlight and air exchange between animals and plants. The story was told via the prop of my sculpture made of yellow yarn with which I made a web by tying fir cones to strands of yarn and using them like grappling hooks to weave a sort of net that culminated in a ball of yellow yarn at the bottom representing the sun.

It would seem that I'm just now starting to grow into the teaching role initiated in that experience. Saturn represents patience, discipline and time. Sound byte culture hardly knows what to do with him. Me Capricorn. Yeah so the Phoenix act is useful from time to time, but for some things like mastery of musical expression or skill with internal martial arts or growing a healthy garden daily maintenance and perseverance through a significant (for a human) span of time is required. An Aikido teacher once told me that you can't do anything well until you've done it 10,000 times. That's a lot of practice.

Bla bla bla...clicky the link, enjoy my pretty pictures. Wy'East was particularly pretty today wearing a granite colored cloud stretching all the way to Portland like a hat. I'm about to turn into a pumpkin. 'Nite.

Yeticave

2009-01-23T12:12:00.000-08:00

I've delineated the first couple of weeks for Yeticave visits.

Thursday 29 jan: 4-5pm
Friday 30 jan: 2-3pm and 6-7pm

Thursday 5 feb: 4-5pm
Friday 6 feb: 4-5pm and 6-7pm

2 people is ideal, but I can probably handle up to 4 if it works that way. If you want to bring a friend that's cool, but indicate when you sign up that you will be 2 and not 1 so I don't get too many people showing up at once.

The conversations that arise from having them in my studio/living space are part of what I want to invoke with this project. Part of why I want to keep the attendance down to a small number is so that I can truly focus on interaction with only a few people rather than scattering my attention throughout a crowd. Then there's also the fact that my room is spacious for me, but gets crowded quickly with more than me.

The way I see this as fitting into the social practice meme is that it's breaking the idea that only galleries and museums have the authority to curate an art environment. It's also an experiment to find out what kind of conversations arise from people who I wouldn't normally invite to see my room (only about 4 people have seen my space since I moved in last October) and interact with my various art objects on the walls, speakers and boxes doubling as furniture. I love to share my knowledge since hoarding it all for myself just gives me a headache, but in my own cave I have different thoughts to share than I do when I'm out in the wild of other people's space.

So if you want to visit sign up in the comments so that others can see which slots are still open. Next week I'll post some more times if there's still more people who want to participate.

Groove on.

2009-01-21T17:51:00.000-08:00

At 515 N.W. Broadway in Morgan's Alley is where I've decided to do my artist in residency. I am very excited about the location! This week i am going to go there and spend some time conversating with all of the businesses located in M.A... I've talked with Dayna Pinkham of Dayna Pinkham Millinary and she is willing to give tours of her hat studio and workspace to anyone that might be interested. So if you might like to try on lovely hats (men and women), see how they are made or just look at all of her creations, let me know and we can make an appointment! Thanks Flossie

Talk: the Yetiblog Nexus and Project Revision

2009-01-21T16:51:00.000-08:00

The link is to the Talk quarter of my website which is the nexus of all of my blogs. 3 are specialized and exist on my own website and one is my Livejournal which Eric also has linked from this blog's page.

A revision has occurred to me after realizing that I'm not really thrilled about the whole other people giving me walking routes idea. I already have an instinct for taking different routes when I need novelty. Anyway, I don't want to walk on any heavy car roads unless it involves a definite purpose like food, guitar strings, crossing rivers or freeways, or catching a bus. So here's my new idea that I find a lot more interesting:

My residencies are still the same with the heart of Portland as my Yang aspect and Yeticave as Yin. I had the thought earlier today that I could link the two by taking my space arranging altar building skills to the public. Then I flashed on the artist Andy Goldsworthy (thanks for the reminder E) who does artworks in the wild with stuff he finds laying around. I decided to expand my Citywood project which began as a painting derived from direct observation of the city from inside wooded areas at night, then became a video, and now will be a public art project. (unofficial of course. I prefer to be a free agent.Of course if anyone wants to pay me to do this stuff I'm willing to negotiate...)

I will make arrangements pleasing to my spacial and visual sensibilities with whatever I find at hand in parks and anywhere I find interesting stuff to make an installation. I will take photos and even go back to check and document the deconstruction of my temporary constructions.

Since this is essentially inspired by my affinity for crows I'm going to perform a sort of intentional act that you could call sympathetic magic, art, or voodoo, whatever works best for your worldview. I like to see it from any and all angles:

I'll Make the veve, or visual link to, the loa (google it if you want to know more) of the crossroads, Papa Legba in raw, unshelled peanuts. Then I'll play crow calls on my headphones really loud (not on my ears) and wait for the shiny black goofballs to show up with my camera already rolling video. I want to obtain sound samples of a whole bunch of crows going gaga for peanuts and also manifest a symbol of intention drawing the minds of humans to the fact that the boundaries of social include all life on this planet and not only humans who share a language and culture. Extending our awareness and respect to the non human intelligences of our planet is necessary for our continued survival. We need the trees more than they need us. Chew on that one, monkey.

This is also an aspect of permaculture which is a subject I'm just beginning to learn about. Basically it's an orientation towards cooperative interrelation with "nature". I put quotes around the word since the idea that we're something other than natural is complete bullshit in my view of things. All wealth comes from the earth including the matter of our bodies replenished, built and maintained by our planet's life support system. If you consider how long it took for hydrogen atoms to figure out the star trick it might be easier to comprehend how computers are every bit as natural as atoms, whales, and apples, or whatever of the 10,000 things you care to name. Still there are ways that suck and ways that suck less. Permaculture is a way to minimize suckitude by finding cooperative ways to do things instead of always operating by conquest. Grow food IN the forest rather than destroying the forest to make a chemical wasteland pretending to be an industrial farm for a short time. This has everything to do with global warming: more plants = less carbon in the atmosphere=less warming. Plants also slow the wind diminishing its ferocity.

Walking not driving, backpack neither paper nor plastic, reuseable cup and water bottle are just some of the practices I've adopted. My gift to the crows and Papa Legba is a symbol of my intention to learn more and eventually be able to grow some of my own food in a permaculture way.

My net brain is now fried. I'll post a schedule for Yeticave visits and a blurb about how the Yin of my project relates to the Yang sometime before the weekend. Visits will start a week from tomorrow. I still have to figure out times. Stay tuned.

Wandering Yeti Arts Term Project

2009-01-15T13:45:00.000-08:00

Hey y'all

This is a textual manifestation of the parameters of Greg Wandering Yeti's term project for the art as a social practice class winter 09.

The Yang aspect is the continuation of the Walking Portland blog that I started last term. This is a way for me to make more public the insights and awareness generated by a significant shift in daily practice such as quitting the car and using my own feet to get around. This term I will accept walking routes from others to find out what happens when something other than my own whimsy, habit or obligation directs the course of a walk. I will report back in the form of photos from the walk posted to blog including a coffee shop review describing anything learned via conversations with baristas or coffee addicts in a coffee shop I've never visited before. The boundaries of Yeti's natural habitat are Tualatin Mountain in the west, Mt. Tabor in the east, Alberta street in the north, and Powell blvd. in the south. I might be compelled to walk in Beaverton if the walk includes the Tualatin Hills Nature Park. Powell Butte is also a nice treat hidden in the Eastern suburbs. Seriously, if a city walk doesn't include some time on no-car roads surrounded by living wood it just wears me down. Breathing car exhaust is exhausting.

The Yin aspect of my project is allowing more than myself and a few of my closest friends to enjoy the harmonious flow of qi generated in my room/studio/temple/adytum recently enhanced by learning some basic principles of the Chinese art of harmonizing living spaces with the home world called Feng Shui. Adding the Chinese perspective helped me clear up my mental clutter which resulted in a living space less muffled, stifled, and crowded by clutterful habits than I had known previously. My clutter is finally under control enough for me to feel ok about letting other people see my studio...which happens to also be my living space. Bring a hard drive that knows how to communicate with Macintosh computers like an iPod or external hard drive and I'll give you a prototype of the next Ascension Conspiracy album plastic, fee, and shrink wrap free.

Later in the term Yin and Yang will combine to form a walk that starts from a meeting at the Yeticave. This walk I will direct. I want to hike the Maple Trail in Forest Park again and this time I'd like to have some company. It's a trail deep in a canyon where you can't hear the city and it's too far up for me to make it very often. I learned what emptiness means on that trail a few years ago. This journey will include a bus ride on the 15 Belmont where I demonstrate the technique of Bus Surfing followed by a hike in Forest Park. Bring food and water and clothes that can survive mud. This hike can have silent parts when that's the natural thing that happens. Sharing knowledge and telling stories is more the point this time.

I'll bring a schedule to sign up for Yeticave visits at our next class. Feel free to bring a friend.

Send walking routes to the email addy in the class list.

Groove on,

g

How to Throw a Rat Tea Party!

2009-01-13T23:24:00.000-08:00

I would like to introduce Stella (on left) and Sam!

To throw a rat tea party, first you must make itty-bitty invitations and create a guest list of only the most sophisticated rats.

You can use a frame and a swatch of fabric to create a rat-size table.

For the props, you can use old birthday cards and saved objects.

Here is Sam all dressed up!

Stella with her pearls and purse. Make sure your guests wear their most distinguished attire.

Here is the table with a miniature, rat-sized tea set (you'll need one of those).

Put a little smidgen of peanut butter on the edge of the table, and if that does not work, add some enticing cheese. I am afraid that these two were not very hungry.

Here are the props for your entertainment at tea. Every good party has performers! I taped BBQ skewers to magazine cut-outs, but popsicle sticks could work just fine, too!

And what is a party without some music.

Last, to aid in digestion, a stroll in the garden should suffice. This is Monet's garden, what a treat for a little rat!

Special thanks to my very patient crew (my hubby)!

How to sew down a shirt without a machine.

2009-01-12T12:02:00.000-08:00

Schools, Lecture Series, Residencies, etc.

2009-01-07T00:28:00.001-08:00

Hello and welcome to a new term and a new class. We will be posting our experiences here so feel free to subscribe if you want to see what we are up to. This particular post is information for the lecture Eric is giving during next class. This is by no means a comprehensive list of the topics. Feel free to peruse the links.

RESIDENCIES:
Retreats and artists studios
Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede
Skowhegan

More public-based residencies
SF Recycling
New York Sanitation Department and Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Artist hosted/created residencies
Island Fold Art Farm
The Pancake Clubhouse
Laurel Kurtz Official Unofficial Goodwill Residency
PSU Dept of Conflict and Resolution Residency

EDUCATION:
Conferences/Mini-Lecture Series
A Grassy Mound (With Kind Regards To Utopia)
Utopia Night - A Science Fiction Marathon
Pawel Althamer At The Centre Pompidou
Thomas Hirschhorn 24 Hour Foucalt
Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance

Schools/Classes
The School of Life
The Exploding School
Paul Thek's 4-D Design Class
Public Social University
Chiron Studies
Mountain School of Arts
Social Practice Spring 2008
The Land Foundation
Public School in LA
EXCOTC
United Nations Plaza
Sundown Schoolhouse (Fritz Haeg)
Village Free School in Portland

That's A Rap!

2008-12-29T09:02:00.001-08:00

This is the sound file of the rap that Davis helped us make. If you can access it, try clicking here.

Groovy by Public Social University

Fandalism Free MP3 Hosting

Images from Public Social University

2008-12-09T16:30:00.000-08:00

Public Social University was a whole lot of fun and it was a great way to utilize the public library's free room. The students in the class clearly loved being facilitators and educators. Here are images of what some of the classes looked like:

Monday Nov. 24
The first class was organized by Gia. She brought in a friend who takes old shoes and gives them new life. She gave us a bunch of paint and some brushes to work with and we transformed the old shoes.

I was really into the shoe I painted, but I concentrated so hard on making it perfect that I ran out of time to paint the second shoe.

The next class was led by Lily with a participatory lecture style. Lily gave us helpful tips on how to be brave, and what she does when she needs the courage to do something.

She was talking about bravery in an everyday sense, not in a superhero kind of way. Each of us talked briefly about something we felt we needed more bravery for in our lives.

For the third class, Zach brought his newly finished, transportable printing press. It's modeled after the Gutenberg press.

Each person was given a couple foam plates that we could draw on and then we turned our drawings into prints. A bunch of younger kids showed up for this event and had a lot of fun.

For the final class on Nov. 24, Judith brought in a couple people who taught us some Capoeira Angola, which is martial arts disguised as a dance and practiced by slaves in Southern America.

This was a really great workout and we each learned how to do some offensive and defensive moves.

After this we also learned how to play instruments that are made of everyday materials. These instruments are an important part of the dance.

Wed. Dec. 3
For the second installment of Public Social University, Eric started with a class about utopian and dystopian science fiction. He explained how the two terms are blurred in sci fi movies. His favorite dystopian/utopian sci fi movie is Gattaca.

Discussion followed about the relevance of these movies to our lives.

The second class was led by Tracé. She gaves us a great tutorial on how to properly sew your buttons back onto your clothes, how to mend hems, and how to make frays in your clothes go away.

Each person got to practice what Tracé was showing us with our own practice-materials.

For the third class Davis organized a hip hop session where the entire class participated in making a rap.

Each person wrote some lines and rapped them into the microphone. By the end of the class, we had a 3 minute song! The audio file is posted here.

For our final class, Ace led us through a presentation about morality within comic books and his fascination with superhero comics.

He showed us the comic where Spider Man dies as well as the first Watchmen comic.

Public Social University Part 2 on Dec. 3rd

2008-11-25T20:52:00.000-08:00

PUBLIC SOCIAL UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS:
Free Lecture Series Part 2
This is second installment of the presentation/lecture series arranged by Public Social University - a free school and workshop group created by the members of the art and social practice undergraduate class at Portland State University. On Dec. 3rd, they will present a mini-lecture/presentation series to the public on the topics of: Utopian/Dystopian Sci Fi Movies, Permaculture and Chinese Martial Arts, Mending Clothes, and Making Hip Hop raps. All are invited.

FREE
Date: Mon. Nov. 24
Times: 2:00-5:00pm
Place: Downtown Central Library; U.S. Bank Meeting Room
More information: click on poster...more information will be posted below soon.

* * * * * MORE INFORMATION BELOW * * * * *

1:30-2:00
Sci Fi Movie Listings
by Eric Steen
Information: A presentation of utopian and dystopian science fiction movies, ranked from worst to best.

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2:00-3:00
Permaculture and Chinese Martial Arts
by Greg Wandering Yeti and Adam Stone
Information: Lately Adam and Greg have had regular conversations centering on our practice of Chinese martial arts and permaculture. They will manifest one of these conversations for our presentation and include some demonstrations of basic exercises from the internal Chinese martial arts.

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3:00-3:30
Simple Mending
By Tracé Hulette
Information:
Tired of Falling Hems? In need of Buttons replaced?
Come learn to thread that sewing needle and complete basic sewing tasks

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3:30-4:00
That's a Rap!
By Davis Eliason Brown
Information:
A look inside the hip hop world. Learn to work in collaboration to formulate a positive hip hop rap. Learn how to Rap with others and how to mix sound with linguistics.
Bio:
Davis grew up in Wisconsin and Iowa before moving to the west coast. He enjoys stimulating conversation and has been producing hip hop hop music for the last four years. Originally intending on studying Pre-med as an undergraduate, he now finds himself struggling to decide whether to continue in that direction or to switch to a more design oriented field.

Upcoming Public Social University Lecture Series!!!

2008-11-18T10:19:00.000-08:00

PUBLIC SOCIAL UNIVERSITY PRESENTS
Free Lecture Series Part 1
Public Social University is a free school and workshop group created by the members of the art and social practice undergraduate class at Portland State University. On Nov. 24th, they will present a mini-lecture/presentation series to the public on the topics of: Making something new with your old shoes, How to be brave, Printmaking, and Capoeira Angola.

FREE
Date: Mon. Nov. 24
Times: 2:00-5:00pm
Place: Downtown Central Library; U.S. Bank Meeting Room
More information: Click on the poster image and/or see below

* * * * * * MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PRESENTATIONS BELOW * * * * *

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Trick Out Your Trainers - 2:00-3:00
More information coming soon

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How to Be Brave - 3:00-3:30
Information: A short workshop in Everyday Bravery. Come join us and learn the practice of everyday bravery. With guidance and support, we will seek and find our very own unique everyday bravery ritual and take it home to kick-start a practice of bravery that we can live by. Everyone welcome, brave or not.

Bio: Lily Gael is a performing artist, dancer and writer who still feels afraid every time she performs. By going ahead and performing anyway she began her own practice in Everyday Bravery. Lily's practice also includes talking to strangers, letting her awkwardness express itself in interactions that Are awkward, and crying in public.

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The Print Factory - 3:30-4:00

Information: In the workshop we will be designing our own blocks from cheap materials and printing them. No experience necessary.

Bio: The primary Print Factory is centered around a portable printing press and it's crew. As Print Factory crewmembers, our goal is to make everyone who passes by us on a street corner an art collector, free of charge. All of our printing materials are donated by people such as yourself, who have either purchased a Travel Kit or have invited us to print at their venue. Local artists have helped build up the Print Factory library by continuing to donate original plates. Each print gets a Print Factory stamp of authenticity with the artist's name, making it part of our catalogue while recognizing the individual who designed it. We want to encourage artists to donate so they can continue the life of their plates and get their creations out to the public.
Producing art on-site while handing it out to the public sparks dialogue about the processes behind printmaking and the historical impact of the multiple in everyday life. Sharing the process and the product of printmaking stimulate community by provoking questions about the utility of printmaking and the nature of art.

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Capoeira Angola - 4:00-5:00

Information: A workshop demo and introduction presenting the Brazilian martial art/dance, and music. No experience Necessary.

Bios: Judith Fleming has been practicing capoeira for almost two years finding out about the dance form in Olinda, Brazil. Since her trip she's been training primarily with contra-mestre Pedro Cruz with grupo Raca in Portland, Oregon. Shaun Lauyers has been practicing capoeira for about the same amount of time. Though Shaun started practicing martial arts at a younge age and has dabbled in other dance forms such as hip-hop and breakdancing. Shaun began training with contra-mestre Pedro Cruz until he experiemented with another form of capoeira, capoeira Angola. Angola is the older, more traditional form of capoeira. It's a slow game, very low to the ground, but equally as challenging as capoeira Regional such as grupo Raca. Shaun trains under Leon and others with a group called FICA, in Portland, Oregon. This group has roots in Bahia, Brazil, and now, throughout the world.

Melfi, Marlaina's Dog, Lead's Class

2008-11-17T04:43:00.000-08:00

Marlaina did an impromptu leading of the class last Monday when she had brought her dog to class for Tracy's Dog Co op project, so we let my dog (Melfi) lead the class and we all took turns letting her lead the way...we ended up in some (pissed off guys) driveway through bushes all the way to the interstate's off ramp...We documented the whole thing and thought I would send you the pictures for the class blog. Marlaina held her first, then Harrell, and Ace for the last bit...

Waiting for her to make a decision...

At the freeway off ramp.

Judith Takes Us on a Hopscotch Marathon

2008-10-28T02:04:00.000-07:00

It was Judith's turn to lead the class. She took us to the Park blocks, directly across the street from the Portland Art Museum and had the class build one giant and wild hopscotch. The hopscotch map led in and out, over and around, and had all sorts of surprises. See the video below to see Davis hop through the entire thing. After we all jumped through it, we left it there for some lucky person or child (we were right next to a daycare of some sort).

Lily Leads Sleep Exploration Class

2008-10-26T08:23:00.000-07:00

On Monday Oct. 20th, Lily Gael led a discussion in the classroom about what makes a particular art project fall within the realm of social practice. She then took us on a mini-tour of the PSU campus in search of places to nap in public, wanting to get comments and support for her idea to create a Napping Station for PSU students/teachers. This seek-and-sleep experience became a collaborative experiment with everyone in the class suggesting places to stop and nap. The Roving Napping Pod eventually napped in both a fairly private landing space, and in a much- traveled hallway at Smith Hall, in the Psychology Dept's waiting area on couches and chairs, and on the first level of a stairwell in Cramer Hall where they stretched out shoulder to shoulder to fill up the space. Passer-bys (the audience) got into the Napping act and participated with spontaneous cultural gestures that seemed natural to being in the presence of others sleeping (even though the locations chosen for napping were unconventional). The audience tiptoed up stairs, lowered their voices to whispering when passing by, used charade-type sign language to communicate with friends if sitting close by, and took circuitous routes to where they were going to not disturb the napping group. The experiment led to many inspiring ideas from the class about how the Napping Project might evolve.

Our Trip to Hangar Orthotics And Prosthetics

2008-10-21T22:08:00.000-07:00

The other day we stopped by an orthotics and prosthetics office called Hangar. This gentleman was nice enough to show us how some of the equipment works as he explained to us the many types of prosthetic devices they could produce.

In this image, he had scanned Zach's hand with a device. The computer could read Zach's hand and sent an image to the computer that could be turned and rotated in any direction. It was pretty amazing.

I also took a video of him testing an electronic device on Lily's leg. You can see how it causes her lef to move uncontrollaby.

Greg Leads Class To Marquam Park

2008-10-15T11:10:00.000-07:00

Greg led our last class. He took us to Marquam Nature Park just off the PSU campus. We hiked silently for about an hour or so. Before we entered the park, Greg led us through some excerices that brought us into a greater appreciation and connection to our surroundings. He reminded us of how every breath we take is part of a cycle of life between people and trees. This was a beautiful experience for myself and for a group activity. Thank you Greg. These are some pictures that I took and a video of a Wooly Caterpillar at the bottom of the post.

Lori Gilbert Leads Class

2008-10-12T10:24:00.000-07:00

Last Monday Lori Gilbert led the social practice class. She had us take photos with strangers as if we were in a band with them. Then she turned the photos into band posters. The one above was with some guy wearing a suit and carrying a brief case. He really got into it. Thanks Lori for the fun exercise.

Welcome Back!

2008-10-03T08:13:00.001-07:00

The summer is over and a new class has started this Fall. I will be updating this blog with documentation of group projects and group activities. Feel free to subscribe via email or with an rss feed over on the right side.

Home Schooling

2008-06-06T07:25:00.000-07:00

On our last day of class we visited a group of home schoolers. We drove to a park in Tigard and met up. A group of home schoolers meet together at this park once or twice a week so that the kids can meet up with other kids and the parents can get out too. The kids told us that they loved being home schooled and wouldn't want to go to public schools because as far as they can tell from movies, public school looks boring. They are glad they don't sit behind desks all day and they are glad they get to learn what they want...like fencing. I know a bunch of people who home schooled, some of their complaints was that when they were high school aged they didn't have a whole lot of social networks and sometimes they wished they were at a school. They also had a hard time starting up college where there were due dates and they found they were "behind" in subjects such as math and writing. This may not be the case for every homeschooler though.

The home schooling option was actually my favorite out of every schooling option we visited. I liked that the parent or parents get to spend more time with their children and I liked that the learning was open to how the parent felt the child would learn best. There are a couple extremes for homeschooling: one is that it's just like school where the child is working at a table for 6 hours a day, the other is "unschooling" where the child simply learns things from living life and will hopefully want to learn how to do things that are important because they have a desire to. My opinion at this point is that something between those two, in the homeschooling realm, is the most attractive option.

Lastly, a few days ago we learned about the family with 9 kids that just surfed all the time. This seems to be an intense example of the unschooling, or more like ignore-schooling. There is a great radio piece on NPR here and a trailer for the documentary here.

Hello/Goodbye

2008-06-05T01:08:00.000-07:00

I'm glad I met you all. I learned a lot this quarter. Best of luck in all your endeavors--Sophia

2008-06-03T16:55:00.000-07:00

We did a lot of schools and I have a lot of stuff I learned in the tours. Schools have a profound impact on who we turn out to be.

Hunger

2008-06-02T18:57:00.000-07:00

This is the truck we lived in. I feel a class distinction when I tell the story of dumpster diving for vegetables, lettuce and tortillas. I guess I felt awkward when everyone was talking about the documentary.

School Trip

2008-05-22T11:55:00.001-07:00

The school trip was fun. I enjoyed the kindergartners the most. They were thrilled by our help and interaction. Eric looks like he is having a good time here.

check this out. You could be part of this site!

2008-05-12T18:00:00.000-07:00

http://www.wefeelfine.org/

Public School

2008-05-12T07:57:00.000-07:00

Listening to our guide for the Metropolitan Learning Center tour. The realization that we were in a public school was blurred.

2008-05-08T12:36:00.000-07:00

These works of art should be assembled into a show of work in a large gallery so these children learn about the process. More people need to see their work.

2008-05-08T07:43:00.000-07:00

Visiting the Metropolitan School was fun. I would like to see all the schools that we have visited so far join an alliance and share their strengths and probe their weaknesses .

on the radio

2008-05-06T18:45:00.001-07:00

Starting my show now

http://radio.pnca.edu

May 7 Field Trip

2008-05-06T10:09:00.001-07:00

Our field trip on Wednesday is to the Metropolitan Learning Center.
Please be there at 2:00 sharp.
We are meeting with Ruth Frankel.

here is their address: 2033 NW Glisan
and
website: http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools-c/profiles/?id=154

Class Presentations

2008-05-02T11:59:00.000-07:00

Friday, May 2, 2008
class presentations
So maybe my request to see other classmates work, was as Beth mentioned, an attempt to gauge what people in our class ultimately value. Because that in essence drives artistic practice right? Or creativity. What you think about informs your ideas and ways of navigating the world. They may not line up all of the time, but I think that they sort of do. Whether it is blatent like, I disagree with the war, so I will go to a protest. Or I like to hang out at my house so I sit around a lot, even if I think I value protesting the war, the real value is the hanging out at the house. Maybe if there was a way to meld the two, like protesting from my couch, it would align the differing values of Values. Plus, maybe it is worthwhile to know what work we value in order to be good social practitioners.

Field Trip

2008-04-30T09:03:00.000-07:00

Today we will be visiting the Trillium Charter School in North Portland.
http://www.trilliumcharterschool.org/

Dear Alex,

2008-04-28T12:42:00.000-07:00

I would like to employ your assistance.

I'm having trouble getting started.

Will you help me approach food cart owners to see what their slow hours are? I want to start recording some interviews, taking some pictures, identifying some interest and working with the people who seem most into the idea of having a publication that gathers words and images from Portland State food carts.

And another question for everyone: if everyone (and every newspaper or publication) in the city is suddenly into foodcarts (or if I've just noticed that people have always been interested) does that make my project less interesting? Am I regurgitating something that's already been done?

Thanks dudes.

Nicole

Residency...

2008-04-27T10:10:00.000-07:00

I live down by Johnson Creek and I sit out on the shore to do a lot of my painting. Its actually my residency. I get most of my ideas gazing into the creek.

week long "spring focus" at PNCA

2008-04-25T11:10:00.000-07:00

If anyone is interested in seeing the proposals for theses or defense of semester long thesis projects at my school please come by (there is usually free food at lunch time)

My friend Ryan made a newspaper and his presentation should be pretty interesting. He is going to be in the MFA program next fall. (Thursday 4pm rm 204) There are some other great artists as well. Email me if you are curious or want recommendations

PNCA

1241 NW Johnson

-Sarah

Temporary Link Post

2008-04-23T01:45:00.001-07:00

This is a temporary post. These are links that Eric will discuss in class on April 23.

The PSU art and social practice group:
Avalon Kalin
Amy Steel
Varinthorn Christopher
Katy Asher
Laurel Kurtz
Cyrus W Smith
Sandy Sampson - 1 and 2
Eric Steen
Jen Delos Reyes
Harrell Fletcher

The CCA Social Practice Site
Sara Thacher

Artists:
Pawel Althamer
Suzanne Lacy
Mierle Ukeles Laderman
San Keller

Variations:
Hannah Jickling
Shelby Davis
Gary Wiseman

Artist Groups:
Red 76
Amity Works
Temporary Services
RtMark
The Yes Men
Rebar

A link to groups that are not art groups.

Education/Schools/Pedagogical Models
Pawel Althamer At the Center Pompidou
Joseph Beuys - only links to a picture
United Nations Plaza
Public School
CUP
Cesare Pietroiusti - Practical Skills
Thomas Hirschhorn – 24 hour Foucault
Utopia Station
The Land
High Desert Test Sites

Visiting the Village Free School

2008-04-22T10:27:00.000-07:00

One element of this class is traveling to alternative educational centers around Portland, learn about the different models, and somehow incorporate a pedagogical element into our own residency projects. Last week we visited the Village Free School in SE Portland. In the picture above, Paul is telling us that the school operates on three overlapping principles: freedom, democracy, and community. Here, the school maintains a noncercive education; anything the students do, they choose to do. There is no standard curriculum, instead, the staff helps the students find their passions and develop those as naturally as possible. Also, the students have an equal vote with the staff and the parents in deciding any rules and decisions for those school. This model was interesting to say the least and we have had many conversations since then about ideals and if there is value in learning something you don't want to learn.

Pictures from Village Free School

2008-04-22T10:02:00.000-07:00

We visited the Village Free School last Wednesday. Here are some pictures. Thank you Paul & Chris for being lovely hosts.

Some more interesting sites
http://portland.freeskool.org/
http://www.albanyfreeschool.com/
http://www.brooklynfreeschool.org/
We talked quite a bit about Summerhill, here's the web http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/

High Tech High

2008-04-22T09:38:00.000-07:00

I saw a report on High Tech High that I thought may be of interest regarding our exploration of alternative education models. The high school is part of the San Diego public school system. It is for students interested in technology, they are admitted by lottery because there is so much interest and too few spots. I think you can find a short video of interview I saw on PBS if you follow the link above.

2008-04-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

Fellow artists and creative companeros, this is a creative opportunity for us to collaborate with out art and thoughts. Have at it!

open house

2008-04-18T11:32:00.000-07:00

Ezra
635 N Fargo st
pdx
610 505 5539
ezraduke@yahoo.com
fri 5-9
be there or be somewhere else
you have no choice
all my love
ez

PSU Undergrad Social Practice Class

Social Media And Art Presentation

What you are doing at noon on Friday , March 13th, 2009

Attendance is mandatory, but in a good way.

TOTAL DISSENT 2- OREGON PAINTING SOCIETY FEBRUARY 25 2009

Structure Building on Newberry Hill

Total Dissent- Racial Identity Class. February 18th 2009

Social Explosion

Water Feature Engineering Homework

Experience & Education

500 Word Summary of Dewey’s “Experience & Education”

Sorry Night 2 (Blue Night)

Soup & Comedy Redux

Homeless Class!

Sorry Tournament off and running (yellow night)

Public Social University - February 26

The Slipstream

First Outdoor Class on Mt. Tabor

No Soup

What you are doing at noon on Friday February 20th, 2009

Soup & Comedy

The First Day of Sol in Pisces Visions

astronomology mt tabor this saturday 7pm

Forwarded from Ana

Lets Get Connected

Yeticave Visit Improv

Water Feature

Kindy V-Day, short and sweet!

GATHERING/EXHIBITION

Coincidence or Communication?

Nostalgia 3, socializing with the Random Gaming Club

Nostalgia 2, taking breaks

Nostalgia 1, where we started

Pleasant Thoughts of You

Ghost of Duchamp Invades Portland

Reschedule of BE CONNECTED

Bardo

Another tea party

Pictures from Rozzell's Workshop @ PSU

Residency Documentation

Stop Motion Animation!

Wood and Water

Bike Farm Basic Maintenance Class

Public Social University - Feb 2

time to rock out!

Anna and Amphone doing handstands

FEED! Shwag

Lets Get Connected

FEED!

BLT Exercise

Maferefun Eshu

Public Social University Is Back In Full Force

A Long and Meandering Road

Bardo Listening Party Correction

Bardo

My artist residency in Kindergarten

Year of Earth Ox

Tea Party in the Park

On the Way to Eclipse

Video Game Club (1/21)

First Manifestation Complete

Yeticave

Talk: the Yetiblog Nexus and Project Revision

Wandering Yeti Arts Term Project

How to Throw a Rat Tea Party!

How to sew down a shirt without a machine.

Schools, Lecture Series, Residencies, etc.

That's A Rap!

Images from Public Social University

Public Social University Part 2 on Dec. 3rd

Upcoming Public Social University Lecture Series!!!

Melfi, Marlaina's Dog, Lead's Class

Judith Takes Us on a Hopscotch Marathon

Lily Leads Sleep Exploration Class

Our Trip to Hangar Orthotics And Prosthetics

Greg Leads Class To Marquam Park

Lori Gilbert Leads Class

Welcome Back!

Home Schooling

Hello/Goodbye

500 Word Summary of
Dewey’s “Experience & Education”