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In addition to all the work with the garden, I've been spending a lot of time in the studio getting things ready for upcoming shows in San Jose and Vancouver. There's lots to do. With the final drop off of crate contents to be prepared for shipping to San Jose, I shifted from work on wind coil sound flow to the preparation of devices for the Shadow Machine in Vancouver.





I finally wired up this hacked mobility scooter so it can be controlled by remote control. This forms the base of a 'wandering' workbench which will be used during the performance. So far it works well but now it's time to sort out all the wiring and mechanics for the final version.



It's easy for me to be distracted by an interesting challenge. We learned how to crack the combination for the safe that was left here by the previous tenants. With Tim Hunkin's lecture about the fine art of safe cracking in the back of my mind, we carefully worked out the 6 numbers to the combinations and the opening procedures for the two exterior door locks. What made it relatively easy was the fact that the door was already open and we could look inside the tumbler enclosure to see what was happening with the mechanism. I found a 3D animation of how tumbler based combination locks work too.

Return to San Jose....I'm in the Yukon now

I arrived in Dawson City Yukon this morning. I think I'm channeling the spirit of the stampeders that travelled from California to get here during the Klondike Gold Rush. More on that later. This is what happened last week.

Back in the summer of 2006, I went to San Jose California to take in the ISEA 2006 symposium and the beginnings of a new festival, 01 San Jose. I took in as much as I could of the city and all the festival and symposium activity seceretly hoping I would someday go back and participate. This is what I posted back then. blog entry
And now I returned to San Jose and yes! I will be installing a scaled up in size version of my sound installation wind coil sound flow at the 2010 01SJ Biennial: Build You Own World.






Unbelievably, I went ice skating at a skating rink installed under the palm trees in front of the San Jose Museum of Art. I think the last time I skated was 1981 or so.








The venue for wind coil sound flow will be the interior of the Rotunda at the new city hall.