A few friends of mine have been working nonstop all summer to put this awesome fest together at the Soap Factory. There’ll be music, art & workshops — some of which I’m helping with. OpenCircuit is doing a wiki workshop, and FWD-MN will be doing some workshops on alternative economies.
In other news, I came into some Einstürzende Neubauten, X and Diamanda Galas records this weekend. I never imagined “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” could sound so frightening.
More work on the siding.
Found some rough spots.
And it looks like a smurf village is growing in our yard!
Matt did an awesome job of pulling this together in two days, and we had a ridiculous time today running around collecting photos of kids crying, teenagers making out, mullets, odd hats, animals giving birth, and other, more obscure things. In the end, Molly and John were victorious.
Most of my favorite photos, though, weren’t on the scavenger hunt list!
From the hard-to-find print shop (I’m going to make one for Bryan):
This was on our list: posing with a costumed character. John & I happened to both be there at the exact same time!
We each made our case for our set of photos:
And to the victors go the spoils:
And my favorite photo wasn’t even taken by us, but by a machine:
I’ve been pretty busy with making sites lately — more of these posts to come in the next few weeks.
Roger did the design and I made the site and set up the shopping cart — my first shopping cart. I used OSCommerce, a free open-source cart, which was simple enough, but I spent a lot of time taking out ugly clip art that was hard coded into the PHP, which was a little odd. I also found the plug-ins to be precarious — they aren’t self-contained packages, so you have to edit code in your pages and run the risk of making other add-ons stop working. That made me a little uncomfortable! But, so far so good!
Now we’re in the process of pulling the siding off the house. One side done, three to go!
Tip had two seizures on Saturday — one in the bathtub while I was trying to clean her up from her first one. Poor girl. I treated her afterwards with a little bit of ice cream, then a walk over to the dog park.
