Techniques in using digital SLR cameras and photography techniques especially around lighting and taking photos of people.
Part listening party, part discussion, new music for a new age will focus on experimental music created by prominent figures of experimental religion and the new age in America starting around 1940. Listenings will include the music of Alan Watts, eden ahbez, John Cage, Anton LaVey, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, the Ya Ho Wa 13, and others. Besides listening to these artifacts, of primary interest will be the discussion of the possible linkages between experimental music (and art) and experimental religion in America. A good starting point for discussion might be art historian Donald Preziosi's short article Enchanted Credulities (http://www.x-traonline.org/past_articles.php?articleID=194), which explores the notion of "religiosity" that he finds underpinning both religion and art, as well as what he views as religion's essential use of "artifice" to generate and investigate its systems and forms.
if you get a chance, check out the hong kong community museum project:
doing something similar to epmoa in hong kong... nice to see how they've identified their goals in a slightly different way, but we could definitely learn from some of the questions they are asking (and answering!)
this afternoon at 6 pm east coast time they'll be on skype if anyone is interested in listening in / joining in the public chat....
The Public School is participating in "An Exhibition of Proposals for a Socialist Colony" in Houston, presented by the artists run-space, Skydive. Our contribution will be 40 class proposals, much in the same spirit as the way the school works already. It is purely speculative, an exercise in desire and imagination, but maybe also a context in which to argue about utopias and overcoming capitalism.
This class would be a 2 hour workshop where we would produce the 40 (or more) proposals, alternating between discussing, making, sharing, and repeating. In addition to the exhibition, we will also print a small publication with the same material, using our fantastic new (to us) Risograph.
Everyone who participates will be credited equally in both the exhibition as well as the publication. If you can't make it on Saturday but wish you could, then you're encouraged to add proposals in the comments below!
Hey all,
Quick note to let you all know what you should and shouldn't wear to class tomorrow:
It's supposed to rain, so this may go with out saying, but everyone should wear close-toed shoes. Also, no baggy shirts/sweatshirts please - long sleeves are fine, but nothing puffy.
Long hair should be in a pony tail or otherwise out of the way, and please no hoodies with dangly drawstrings.
We won't be gluing anything the first day, but as a rule of thumb it's probably good to wear clothes that can get dirty.
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Overview of Greywater Irrigation systems including:
Pros and Cons of Greywater reclamation
Types of Greywater System
Legality / Building Code Issues
The class will also include a hands-on workshop installing a "Laundry-to-Landscape" system, and/or a "Branched Drain" system.
Hi everyone. I'm excited the furniture class is getting close.
Here's a picture of the chair that will be one of the projects for the class. It still needs a few tweaks (the back of the chair needs a bit of a steeper angle to allow for more slouching) but this is basically it. A shelf below for the journal/magazine of your choice.
More to come...
hi all,
a belated follow-up; just wanted to post a couple links that will help us move forward with T/P-related offshoots & c:
solomon proposed a class on the manifesto stemming from our discussion on february 13th; i will do my best to organize this ASAP.
chandler created a theory/practice tumblr page to which we can add T/P-related quotes to our hearts' content(s).
and chandler turned me on to fuck theory which is at times hilarious.
more soon, from everyone!
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Basics in using a sewing machine.
Understand how to read patterns to sew.
(Perhaps in the more advanced class: how to make patterns)