For those of you who missed the show at Java Lords in L5P in Atlanta last week, members of the wrk.grp will be making a pass by the John ‘Fucking’ Portman lecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology next Wednesday, August 27, 6PM. Who knows what bro will talk about, but who cares, he was the master.

prepare to empty your wallet or max out your credit card in support in philadelphia’s city kitties: “On Friday, May 30 from 7pm – 10pm, City Kittiesand Project SAFE will hold a silent art auction and opening party at Studio 34 in West Philadelphia.” more details are available here.

the work.group has made available one hot piece for auction at the fund raiser to benefit the urban cat rescue organization:

the print - limited to a run of three (3) - is a product of some unbound photoshop gimp tennis taking place over 10 days in may of 2008, hand placed within the finest extruded aluminum frame available at value village in 2004. a gallery for each step of the process is available for viewing.

“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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HO!
Having accepted the Fun-A-Day challenge thrown down by Philadelphia’s Artclash Collective,
the work.group has passed the month of January 2008 executing the design of 31 houses - a house a day.
Having succeeded heroically in this task, the work.group hereby issues an urgent summons to witness its triumph
at the presentation of ‘house-a-day’ as part of the 4th annual Fun-A-Day exhibition.

Fun-A-Day 4
4522 Baltimore Avenue
West Philadelphia
http://www.artclash.com

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.

if you have the fortune to live some place other than metroatlanta, you still can witness the work.group blowing atlantic station’s mind; to enjoy this experience virtually, simply click here and wait half an hour for the images to download to your machine.

clear your calendar, wednesday night, june 6th. as we never seem to announce it in time for you wrk.twnks to buy your plane tickets, please find with a kind window of notice, your summons to appear at the museum of design for the work.group’s 2nd bout with the esteemed institution as part of ‘the design prescription.’ having learned the ropes 2 years ago we merely seek to percuss the cheek of the casual exhibition-goer with the silken glove of our wit, a suitably delicate trifle amidst the farce of those who see design as the panacea to hyper-obesity and flock-logic. we just want to have a good time and work our asses off.

the inaugural meeting for moda2007 took place this weekend in west philadelphia. the other inaugural meeting is scheduled sometime next week at eats, perhaps? adherence to the ‘program’ was discussed; it was determined to let the work roll and compose a text appropriate to moda’s concerns. the work will be divided up into three boards; speaking for the philadelphia workers, we plan on taking atl.stn images assigned by jt and inserting some image/drawing fragments from elsewhere - you can expect to see pretty much the same shite seen in ‘history of america’.

a few preliminary maps were composed; view them now to guide the three branches of work:

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for those of you fortunate enough to learn wtf gerhard richter has to do with hdm’s candy warehouses, or how horny some other guy gets for alberti whilst waiting for his watercolours to dry, you may have had the opportunity to peep 66.6% of the current work.force at the acsa conference in center city philadelphia at the psfs building on saturday morning breaking off a live performance of the feature article, the completist. special thanks to brian ambroziak for his gracious, heartfelt, and satisfying inclusion of ‘the completist’ into his paper session, and special thanks to robert kelly for coming out to show his support. see you in the slide library!

atlantic_station_exit. john isn’t sharing his plan for moda, presumably because he has already completed the projekt and is waiting until it is too late for any feedback/bitching to shed some light on it for the rest of us. nevertheless, i drew up a plan of the interstate interchange next to atlantic station; i figured that would be as good of a place as any to alter the plans of people who are wishing to approach the site. maybe i/we can move up to howell mill or moore’s mill to head some others off the path.

also, should a projekt category be set up for moda v2, or is the ‘news’ section enough?