Sunday night Minx surprised me with a suite in an expensive downtown hotel after I’d worked 14 hours straight loading machines — I took the above pic at dawn this morning before heading to SRL for more machines. She was only in town for one night on business, and I was so beat I could hardly form sentences… but she didn’t seem to mind. She examined my bruises and burns, made me a bath, and told me I tasted like sugar and salt. Then, I slept about three hours before rushing to SRL to work for another 12 hours today (exactly) loading machines. A few images from my past two days are after the jump, and I’ll upload more pics and video in the morning…
Update: My story continues here. This morning I slept in (yay rest), and woke today to a delivery of 2 dozen long-stemmed roses from Minx, wishing me luck on the show. Wow. No one’s ever done something like that for me.
Also: I wanted to mention here that SRL is doing this show as the highlight end event for Zero One/ISEA — and *no SRL crew are allowed in any parts of the festival* outside of our area in the parking lot. Nice, eh? It’s too bad, as I have friends with exhibits/talks in the festival, but it’s like “my kind” isn’t allowed in the nice big tents… Hope my friends come to visit me.
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Last night, so tired: lovely Nina, sweet Jonathon, and me. Photo by Mark Pauline.
Mike plasma cuts holes in the new skirt area for the Hovercraft while Mark watches and contemplates.
The human figure on the front of the Screw Machine:
