[dcw] Call for Volunteers -- Halloween Mask Project

[Nicholas Weigand]

I can't make it this Friday (in Southern California for a memorial service)
but you folks should go ahead and meet if it works for everyone else.


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Tim F <davi... at yahoo.com> wrote:

> August 27, 2013
>
> Hi gang --
>
> Hurrah -- it's great to see email flying about this!
>
> Let's try to find a common time to meet at the space to talk about it and
> see what I have done so far (even if that's just eviscerating a helpless
> toaster...).
>
> How about this Friday evening at the space, around 7 pm?
>
> -- Tim F
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 8/27/13, Nicholas Weigand <daw... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [dcw] Call for Volunteers -- Halloween Mask Project
>  To: davis-commun... at googlegroups.com
>  Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 2:59 PM
>
>  So my
>  understanding is that we wanted to make swappable molds of a
>  couple of masks (actually, that the system would stay in the
>  space to be used by anyone who feels like making molds for
>  anything, not just masks).
>
>
>
>  It was suggested that we do this at the Dia De Los
>  Muertos celebration in the E St. Plaza that the DDBA is
>  holding on Halloween.  We also have the opportunity to run
>  something for "Artober" although I don't know
>  which dates are still available.
>
>
>
>  Ultimately it would be nice to have the machine
>  available at the space - and this is a fire under our feet
>  to get it done!  I hadn't committed to the Dia De Los
>  Muertos event yet, but if there is sufficient interest here,
>  and it sounds like there is, maybe I will do that if nobody
>  objects.
>
>
>
>  Nicholas
>
>
>  On Tue, Aug 27, 2013
>  at 2:10 PM, Jeff Tolentino <jeffto... at yahoo.com>
>  wrote:
>
>
>  I just finished another mask and
>  would be up for doing yet another for this project.  Would
>  we have the ability to have multiple molds to swap in an
>  out? If so it would be cool to have a few people
>  contributing mask designs.
>
>
>
>  Also what is the timeline for this?   I have
>  lots going on next month.  If we are shooting for
>  Halloween, that would be doable for me, but I vaugely
>  remember something about earlier October on this (which
>  would be harder for me to do).  Plus I'm guessing there
>  would need to be some time to get the mold prepared from
>  the original piece.
>
>
>
>  Jeff T
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  From: Braden Pellett
>  <goo... at dabrado.net>
>  To: davis-commun... at googlegroups.com
>
>
>
>  Sent: Tuesday,
>  August 27, 2013 1:53 PM
>  Subject: Re:
>  [dcw] Call for Volunteers -- Halloween Mask Project
>
>
>
>
>  Nice.
>
>  I'm going to try reaching out to the newly forming Third
>  Space Art Collective to see if there is any interest in this
>  project from their members.
>
>    - Braden
>
>
>  On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:35:55PM -0700, Tim Feldman
>  wrote:
>
>
>  > August 27, 2013
>  >
>  > Hi gang --
>  >
>  > Last week Nicholas and I agreed to go ahead in a
>  valiant attempt to create masks in time for Dia de Los
>  Muertos / Halloween, using a vacuum-forming plastic
>  technique. (Are we brave, or what ?!?)
>
>
>  >
>  > I have already designed the framework for the wooden
>  mold, and I will start building it soon.
>  >
>  > I have already purchased an innocent little bread
>  toaster (used) and am about to sacrifice it, hacking out its
>  guts on the altar of creativity (we need the heating coils
>  to warm up the plastic sheets).
>
>
>  >
>  > I have already found suppliers
>   of plastic sheets and plaster of paris.
>  >
>  > We are looking for a floor-standing bicycle pump, which
>  I will mutate into a vacuum pump.
>  >
>  > Now, we need >>> ARTISTIC MAKERS <<<
>  to design and sculpt a master pattern for a skull-like
>  mask... hence this CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!
>
>
>  >
>  > If you've got the artistic chops and the energy,
>  let's get together at the space so that I can show you
>  the technical requirements for the master pattern. Email the
>  group, please -- it's a community project!
>
>
>  >
>  > Full speed ahead!
>  >
>  > -- Tim F
>
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