 October Exhibition Diary Part 2. I took the PATH and F Train to DUMBO to check my "test strips" (for the best type of tape to use in the Freight Elevator Project installation). I arrived at the building at 7:30 am, entered through the loading dock, and was surprised to see them still hanging after the weekend. Only one piece had been partially torn off, by someone who just couldn't resist. All three brands of tape held the paper up, but the Scotch TM 667 was the clear winner for repositionability, durability, and leaving no residue. One brand left some gunk but it was easily wiped off. As I was taking pictures of the elevator (to see what kinds of photography problems I'm going to have when I document the piece next month), a delivery man got on at the third floor and said "Did you spend the weekend in here? Last time I saw you was Friday afternoon." I tried to explain what I was doing and got "the look." Anyway, he was friendly.
Photography is going to be a problem, because there is no way, even with the wide angle lens, to frame the entire 14 foot length of the wall. Also, the walls are super-shiny so the light is super-uneven (but only in the camera--in person the three overhead fluorescent panels provide almost gallery-like lighting). Also, I'll have to disable the flash, since it creates laser beams bisecting the image. Below is a head-on image; the piece will occupy most of the wall where the test strips are hanging (see upper right).
 Back to the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour: the Jersey City Reporter came out yesterday, with a spread on the tour. My name was listed under "N" (along with about seven other Ms) but they got the location right on the map. My studio is Number 17 on the tour map. The city mails out balloons (leftover from the Mayor's last campaign, I noticed) which we're supposed to hang outside our studios, along with a big number. This week I'll be test-driving the spheres and struts I'm using for the elevator piece by installing them vertically in the studio--a kind of practice run for the DUMBO event. (Here's how they look oriented horizontally).
Scotch 667 hmmmm? Good tape tip, Tom. Ren has become enamoured of quality type tape. He can hardly get enough of the stuff. He has attempted to tape our old dog Wheezer to the floor. Once on the side of the interstate outside Buffalo Wyoming a couple freshly rehabilitated cons in a Cadillac made us a gasket for our fuel pump out of duct tape. They had a big dead dried fish taped to the hood their car. After they got our truck running they asked us to come Look at Boom.
Boom was a big black Colt 45 revolver nested like a baby in a powder blue horse blanket. Boom wants everything you got Big Red said the senior looking of our two saviors. I returned from the cab of our truck with must have looked like more than everything & we shared it there & left them drooling; the wandering apostles of the totality of the utility of tape.
Great story Frank.
Those guys don't sound very rehabilitated to me. Did they actually fix your truck and then rob you?
Ren's experiment reminds me of something my brother did once. Using a coat hanger, string, and tape, he rigged up a harness around our collie's neck that was supposed to perpetually dangle a dog biscuit in front of her nose. The idea was she would run forever, I guess. She just writhed around on the floor, trying to get it off; most disappointing.
On a related subject, Bruce Sterling's tribute to superglue is worth a read.
The 4 year old at my last painting job would finish off the blue 3m 1 1/2" painters masking tape every night after I left @ $6.50 a pop.
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Photography is going to be a problem, because there is no way, even with the wide angle lens, to frame the entire 14 foot length of the wall. Also, the walls are super-shiny so the light is super-uneven (but only in the camera--in person the three overhead fluorescent panels provide almost gallery-like lighting). Also, I'll have to disable the flash, since it creates laser beams bisecting the image. Below is a head-on image; the piece will occupy most of the wall where the test strips are hanging (see upper right).
Back to the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour: the Jersey City Reporter came out yesterday, with a spread on the tour. My name was listed under "N" (along with about seven other Ms) but they got the location right on the map. My studio is Number 17 on the tour map. The city mails out balloons (leftover from the Mayor's last campaign, I noticed) which we're supposed to hang outside our studios, along with a big number. This week I'll be test-driving the spheres and struts I'm using for the elevator piece by installing them vertically in the studio--a kind of practice run for the DUMBO event. (Here's how they look oriented horizontally).
- tom moody 9-30-2002 9:53 pm
Scotch 667 hmmmm? Good tape tip, Tom. Ren has become enamoured of quality type tape. He can hardly get enough of the stuff. He has attempted to tape our old dog Wheezer to the floor. Once on the side of the interstate outside Buffalo Wyoming a couple freshly rehabilitated cons in a Cadillac made us a gasket for our fuel pump out of duct tape. They had a big dead dried fish taped to the hood their car. After they got our truck running they asked us to come Look at Boom.
Boom was a big black Colt 45 revolver nested like a baby in a powder blue horse blanket. Boom wants everything you got Big Red said the senior looking of our two saviors. I returned from the cab of our truck with must have looked like more than everything & we shared it there & left them drooling; the wandering apostles of the totality of the utility of tape.
- frank 10-08-2002 3:02 am
Great story Frank.
- steve 10-08-2002 3:37 am
Those guys don't sound very rehabilitated to me. Did they actually fix your truck and then rob you?
Ren's experiment reminds me of something my brother did once. Using a coat hanger, string, and tape, he rigged up a harness around our collie's neck that was supposed to perpetually dangle a dog biscuit in front of her nose. The idea was she would run forever, I guess. She just writhed around on the floor, trying to get it off; most disappointing.
On a related subject, Bruce Sterling's tribute to superglue is worth a read.
- tom moody 10-08-2002 3:44 am
The 4 year old at my last painting job would finish off the blue 3m 1 1/2" painters masking tape every night after I left @ $6.50 a pop.
- bill 10-08-2002 6:51 pm