“i saw grey tonight, he said he didnt think we could pull this off!!! lets bring it!” -jt

oh, we conquer!

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hail! a public action has been planned by party workers sean caffrey and john trefry in the project of a rival squadron at 752 moreland, atlanta. features include tag-teamed 2-dimensional work, bric-a-brac house, and dr. frankenstein’s dinette set.

Currently having 2 huge wall panels in my studio and listening to Procer Veneficus.

Greetings mesdames and messieurs, twinks and taurs,

The first book, ‘marquis’, of the work.group epic _ex_nihilo_ has been closed. For those who were unable or unwilling to attend the show at the Museum of Design Atlanta in person, the work.group has put together a virtual romp where the text and vignettes follow the same temporal order as the work in the the MODA installation.

The virtual show may be found at:
sisyphean.com/projekts/marquis/install

In addition, the work.group has compiled and made public a series of
digital images of the installation process, the work in situ, and the
fête d’ouverture.

These images may be found at:
sisyphean.com/galleries

here are some pending issues that i think we should discuss:

† type of paint to be used for narrative tracks… i specified ‘one shot’, needs to stand up to transfer lettering and irregular perimeter.

† final tally of lettering, titles, dialogues. how many sheets, do we need back-ups…

† printing of vignettes, what kind of paper, are we printing them, how large?

† mounting of non-case’d media. will everthing not in a case be under glass? if not will they be spray mounted, framed, pinned… materials that are under glass: how will we hang the glass, bent nails, custom frame corners, rails?

more to come…

ok, i have found the place that does the labels for the high museum, it is called a ‘dry ink transfer’ process, it sounds like what they do is actually print letraset for you, it is a place called adprops in atlanta, shit aint cheap though so we should evaluate whether this is the way we want to go. the pricing is as follows: 24″x30″ is $150 for the first copy and $105 for backups, 11″x14″ is $75 for the first copy and $50 for backups, and 8″x10″ is $65 for the first copy and $40 for backups. maybe we should just get the backups?

anyway… it would probably be prudent to edit down the text that i have written. i do not think we could get by with any less than 2 of the 24″x30″ sheets in any situation, unless we completely eliminate the text.

progress report on arlington vignette underlay. any thoughts on view, cropping? i know the rendering blows. compositional suggestions welcomed.

i am not sure if this belongs in the manhattanville station (probably not since it is an atlanta paper, perhaps more intimately involved with the ballad of amsterdam). i have the toastmaster masthead saved without the headline or phony newsprint if you need it.

30 pages of text in the fashion that they may be then adhered to a wall (or
equivalent media to be printed by wrk.grp)

6 sheets of glass @ 24″x36″ (final cut size to be specified by wrk.grp)

30 board feet of cherry or equivalent

6 yards of velvet (colour tbd)

15 high quality 11″x17″ colour laser prints

60 4″x6″ photographic prints from digital files

4 full sets of epson inkjet cartridges

2 gallons flat interior paint

4 enamel sign paints @ 1/2 pint increments

open for discussion.