May. 18th, 2008

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On Saturday I went up to Oakland early to go fabric shopping with Scott. We took the BART over to the Mission but didn't have much luck. There were actually four black fabrics with red roses but in none was the pattern regular enough for our purpose. We headed back to the Bembe where it soon became apparent that I was coming down with the new Awful Cold that had kept Russell home sick much of the week. I left early and came home and took a nap.

That revived me enough that I went out with Chris & Kelly to the kick-off for the Zero1 festival at the zeotrope Homouroboros. There is a video on YouTube of it in operation too.

The installation’s giant tree-like steel frame suggests a Victorian mushroom cloud, with 18 life-sized monkeys hanging from its curved branches. Passers-by pound on six drums, setting the entire piece spinning. Then using strobes at night or liquid crystal shutter goggles by day, a mind trick called “persistence of vision” causes the discrete monkeys to appear animated like a movie at 12 frames per second – and the animation consists of a serpent-like human hand feeding a monkey an apple!

The night was balmy since we were having a heat wave and probably 50-60 people had come down so we had a pretty good crew of drummers. I had to give up fairly quickly so as not to exacerbate the RSI in my hands. *sigh* But I can imagine how amazing this would have been at Burning Man without the light pollution of the light rail station and whatnot. Amazingly wonderful art!

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