We might want to start outlining how our grant is gonna look, the deadline's february. Here's a start! www.burningman.com/installa...ines.html
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Wed, November 9, 2005 - 8:54 AM
Thanks Nicole.
It looks like we can get funding early-ish if it is something that takes a lot of time to build. We need to start prioritzing the planning, something I haven't been so good at lately. How about this weekend? Saturday, late morning? I may have to work Sunday, but could meet in the evening if I do.
I've been told recently that this part is actually quite important in the funding-decision: "Please tell us what it means to you and what you're trying to communicate to participants." Doubt it trumps a coherent plan, but something to consider when writing it up... -
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Wed, November 9, 2005 - 9:08 AMI think sometime this weekend sounds great.
What it means?
It means that waving around and making fire happen is ~awesome~
Trying to communicate to participants?
That waving around and making fire happen... is ~awesome~
^_~
But I'm not sure. I think we could talk about how we're trying to make something that will instill a sense of powerful magic in people, and that past that we're really curious to see how people interact with it? Just written all fancy~like? I mean, for us, that statement is sort of backwards. We're interested in what participants could communicate to us and to other participants through the tool that we build.
I mean, how would you answer that for colossus? "We're tying to make something really big! People can climb on it! It spins!" -
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Wed, November 16, 2005 - 12:42 PMWell, that didn't quite happen. After thanksgiving though, seriously, we gotta get started.
bm.tribe.net/thread/235f...a3bf9deb55d0
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Tue, December 6, 2005 - 12:32 PM
Speaking of grants... someone at Reed's house this weekend suggested we seek non-BMorg funding through foundation art grants. I did a quick online search yesterday and didn't find anything that we'd be even maybe eligible for (and unfortunately the few that we were maybe eligible for, the deadlines have already passed for 2006 funding.) But let's keep an eye open for any other sources of funding anyway...
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Wed, January 4, 2006 - 12:58 PMso when do you want to get together on that? -
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Wed, January 4, 2006 - 3:39 PM
The grantwriting has begun; there's a Writely file in circulation with the current version. Email Nicole for the link/access to the file. Not much has been written yet and there's still the matter of a complete blueprint & budget for the project, but it's coming along - yay!
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Wed, January 4, 2006 - 4:21 PMblueprints and budgets are helpful, it's true - I'll email nicole :) -
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Thu, March 30, 2006 - 5:09 PMI don't know where along the process you all are now, but for your consideration...
Michael Christian reputedly sought funding for his project for last year, and said directly that he wanted to weld a jungle gym tower you could climb inside. He was told it didn't fit the theme. He returned with this write up after consulting the theme and multiple hippies for content:
Hypha
by Michael Christian of Oakland, CA
The Hypha is a magical thread-like structure composed of cells attached end to end and forms the main tissue in many fungus species. My incarnation of Hypha will be constructed of steel and will allow participants to climb and interact within its 24 foot height. This particular steel inspiration has been fully designed to dissolve the boundaries between us that our culture has sanctioned, to become part of the Gaian Supermind. The confines of learned culture and embedded language are embodied in this piece. It demonstrates what Wittgenstein called the unspeakable, the transcendental presence of the other, which can be abstracted, in various ways, to yield systems of knowledge which can be brought back into ordinary social space for the good of the community.
Ah, the power of language!
Same project, reworded...
Best wishes...
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Thu, March 30, 2006 - 5:10 PM(content copied from Burningman.com)
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Thu, March 30, 2006 - 5:45 PMFor anyone here who doesn't know, they got their grant. In fact, got more than they asked for, so much more that they all bought themselves plane tickets to Hawaii! So they probably won't read this until they get back, another two weeks or so. Congrats, guys! Have a mai-tai for me. -
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Re: Bmorg Grant
Thu, March 30, 2006 - 7:17 PMYou're kidding, right? I mean about them going to Hawaii.
It'd be pretty cool if they were going in two weeks, since that's when I'll be there.
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