[sudoroom] Art Murmur

Fri Jun 22 22:42:33 CEST 2012

Thanks for the insight Christopher,

I will note, however, that last month's art murmur saw an art installation
in one of the adjacent storefronts in this very same building. It didn't
get too overfilled while I was there, and seemed like the person at the
door kept pretty good tabs on flow.

There is a rear exit already, and the space happens to be just a bit
outside of the main art murmur areas, so there could be fewer people merely
by geography.

// Matt

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Christopher T Palmer <ctp at ctpdesign.com>wrote:

>  Hi there,
>
> I am brand new here, so please excuse my jumping in and speaking to this,
> but Art Mumur and crowds I know a lot about.
>
> Besides the art and techy and teaching things I do, I also run a button
> company in the back of Warehouse 416, on 26th Street.
>
> If you open up for first friday, and get people's attention, you could be
> completely swamped with visitors - inundated to the point of impassability.
> The fire department has already been cracking down on venues with no back
> door exits, and limiting their capacity...and coming around on first friday
> to see if people are complying. It might not happen the first night the
> space is open, but word spreads fast.
>
> If there is a way to set up on the sidewalk, with info papers, blinky
> stuff, noisy stuff, anything to catch people's interest I think you will be
> much happier. If you have people who can lead tours on the spot for those
> who show a genuine interest then the space inside will be much more
> manageable for you, and much more meaningful for your visitors.
>
> Hope this helps :)
> CTP
>
>
> At 01:12 PM 6/22/2012, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
>
> May want to check whether the landlord is OK with inviting the general
> public inside during Art Murmur. Organizing a class for a dozen people is
> one thing, but having a few hundred people file through is quite another...
>
> Inviting people inside would also be a significantly larger commitment on
> our part.
>
> Patrik
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com >
> wrote:
>  great ideas from everyone regarding the art murmur! sounds like there
> are some really exciting plans. i am sure that we can have multiple things
> going on as well in the box office space - something in the window and
> other items in the room itself. having walked past the space during the
> last art murmur, there are definitely large numbers of people who will walk
> past and enter anything that has open doors and "cool ass stuff" inside.
>
> was there a date/time set to meet for the folks who are interested in
> working on art murmur projects?
>
> best,
> marina
>
> ps - i wonder if we can go ahead and reserve the classroom space for the
> night of the art murmur if it's not already reserved? i am sure we can come
> up with a creative way (involving blinking lights i should hope) to lead
> people down the hallway into the classroom where we can display more stuff,
> or have people working on stuff, or or or...etc
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
> Any more ideas for the upcoming First Friday / Art Murmur?
>
> Did anyone contact them to put us officially on the list?
>
> One idea I had was to make a giant 3D version of our logo. Suspend a large
> cube covered in almost transparent red cloth by one corner to the ceiling.
> Then use EL wire or LED strips to trace the connections inside the cube,
> maybe animating them to look like nerve impulses.
>
> This is something that could be made very large yet lightweight and
> collapsible: mostly thin cloth with a few internal rods to give the cube
> its shape. Not what we originally had in mind in terms of a window display,
> but worth considering, if only because of its simplicity in construction.
>
> If we do go with the window installation, I put a pack of six suction cups
> in our locker at Techliminal. Feel free to use any of the motors, gears,
> and switches in the bag in the plastic bag in the locker too. We've got at
> least 5 little DC motors, which I think run on 4V and could be used to
> power some light-weight pieces.
>
> Did anyone attend the Make:SF meetup on building automata out of
> paperclips at Techliminal or TechShop? Filling the entire window with
> moving paperclip automata powered by a few hidden DC motors could be really
> cool (and quite modular - everyone can build a little piece). I believe
> they have another one coming up next week:
>
>  http://www.meetup.com/makesf/events/67790022/
>
> http://blog.dugnorth.com/2012/01/how-to-build-simple-machines-with-paper.html
>
> Last random thought: it would be great if we could do something with the
> slot in the window as well - maybe an arm reaching out through the slot
> towards the viewer?
>
> Patrik
>
> </procrastination>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Felicia Betancourt <
> fmbetancourt at gmail.com > wrote:
>  my 2 cents...some interactivity would be great, either in the display
> window or inside.  Something as simple as a projected TwitterWall, maybe?
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Erica Edmondson <kikilplus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  Oops, jumped the gun on sending this email. Here's try #2.
>
> I'd be interested in a group hack for the wall robot, as well as helping
> to organize further events for Art Murmur. Unfortunately, I missed the
> meeting yesterday, so I might be a bit out of the loop.
>
> Has a logo for sudoroom been either drafted or finalized yet? If so, it
> might be a good idea to incorporate it into the display. I've got some
> sewing skills; I could piece together a wall banner or something of the
> like.
>
> -Erica.
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Erica Edmondson <kikilplus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  I'd be interested in a group hack for the wall robot, as well as helping
> to organize further events for Art Murmur. Unfortunately, I missed the
> meeting yesterday, so I might be a bit out of the loop.
>
> Has a logo for sudoroom been either drafted or finalized yet? If so, it
> might be a good idea to incorporate it into the display. I've got some
> sewing skills; I could piece together a wall banner or something of the
> like.
>
> -Erica.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Daniel Finlay <somniac at me.com> wrote:
>  I'd be happy to help make a wall drawing robot, of this general variety
> (dry erase?  chalk spray?). Have wanted to anyway:
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK0rrWFQKlQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>
> Would anyone else want to meet up on occasion to hack this together
> Arduino-style?  Or come up with some group project completion strategy?
> Probably make a wiki page for it if we try?
>
> -Dan Finlay
>
>
> On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Could someone take some pictures and measurements of the box office
> window? That way we could start sketching some ideas online. I think we
> need motion, lights and color, to attract people's attention from the
> street. The whole thing can be hanging from the wall above the window,
> attached to the window itself with suction cups, and/or sitting on the
> window sill. Need some pics of window sill, and someone to check if we can
> safely suspend some weight from above the window.
>
> If we have anyone with artistic skills, keep in mind that painting part of
> the window (with water soluble paints) from inside or outside is an option
> as well.
>
> Just having a cool art piece in the window would be much, much easier than
> opening up the door an entertaining guests all evening...
>
> Patrik
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Tracy Jacobs <kinetical at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>   I'm really excited about our space being centered in the First Friday
> Oakland Art Murmur main drag, and I wonder if we should form a committee to
> prepare and publicize an event for July 6th?  We have had some discussion
> about setting up a Bio lab and kinetic sculptures in the cool glass box
> downstairs.  Other things that could happen are performance of any kind,
> poetry reading or essay reading, really anything. And we should let people
> and media know that we'll be a part of the art walk.   I am terrible at
> promotion/marketing, so I am I hoping someone else might have skills at
> that.  I think it would be a nice opportunity to draw community attention
> to our evolving group.  I'd love to hear whatever ideas people might have.
>
>
> Tracy
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