BCL Report: February 4, 2011 (Repairs and Reviews)
A Friday with everyone around the table usually translates into a lot of excellent new ideas, and yesterday was no exception!We spent the evening reviewing the progress we’ve made on some initial...
View ArticleBCL Report: Feb 18, 2011 (Maps & Portals)
Around the maps, we’re beginning to imagine two cities collapsing into one.As part of How to Forget the Border Completely, we’re doing and planning all sorts of things — border portals, border...
View ArticleBCL Report: March 4, 2011 (Design & Play)
Another Friday evening at Lebel with the crew in action — making letters stand up, cutting maps, interpreting law, and designing impossibilities.Above, Michelle, Josh, and Mike Marcon discuss what...
View ArticleBCL Report: March 11, 2011 (Maps & Letters)
Once again, we gathered at Lebel for another fun Friday full of brainstorming and map making. This particular Friday we met with Mel, a jewelry designer with his BFA from Yugoslavia, to discuss the...
View ArticleUncharted Maps by Shannon Rankin
Made me think of Michelle’s work on cutting out the Windsor and Detroit maps.This is Shannon Rankin’s Uncharted Maps — an idea for a treatment for the content, though I think it’d be interesting to get...
View ArticleBCL Report: April 21, 2011 (making decisions)
Thursday night was a night of decisions and tests.We’ve spent the last couple of weeks just trying to get caught up generally with projects and Thursday marked the beginning of the deciding how to...
View ArticleI made an iPhone App and so can you !!!
For one of my last projects with Sigi Torinus as part of my BFA degree I made an iphone App.I was able to speed up a usually lengthy process by skipping over the coding portion of creating the app....
View ArticleBCL Report: End of April, 2011 (the Art of Planning & Collaboration)
Over three days this week, we got a lot done. And, as I write this, stuff is still getting done. This is why collaboration is such a valuable model for art practice.But, it’s not just about getting...
View ArticleDynamite Wildflower Guerillas
Guerilla gardener(s) started a website documenting their efforts. It’s simple and makes me very ready to embrace the impending summer.They write:throw sseeds some of them take some dont take some grow...
View ArticleDay 4 at Eastern Edge
Yesterday, our walking tour adventure continued as we visited the last five stops on our list.Rawlin’s Cross is known as St.John’s most confusion intersection. With traffic lights pointing in various...
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