Anna "La Scary"
Calmx had joined us at Follin Gallery for the festivities and dashed off with KatKitty up to a nonexistent opening up in Chelsea, while I read some of the hundreds of emails that had stacked up to read. When they returned it was off to Odessa for another burger 'that could not be beat', a trip to the Editrix's pad, a shout out at Clayton's and finally off to headquarters so KatKitty could nap (heck of a way to waste $250). We did manage to get up to the Chelsea Hotel and get some real sleep so we could handle all of Sunday's activities.
Sunday, we went back to headquarters and called Anna Lascari, the executive director of The Red Spot Outdoor Slide Theater, to see if we could get some PR and digitize slides. We made an appointment for 3pm. We called calmx to see if she too would like to join us in our media session.
It turned out to be extremely hectic as hundreds of slides were shot, KatKitty's 3D camera was downloaded, public relations material was obtained (no, we haven't lost it) for a grant proposal, and we sneaked a peak at her latest work titled Lots of Heart. There's real AB+ blood vials in there! We have below a photo of Alan Red Spot Daugherty courtesy of Red Spot artist, collaborator, curator, and friend Doug Ciarelli, who curated the New York/Miami show.
When we left Anna's studio and crossed the street we saw a beautiful leather couch in front of a closed store at 85 Mercer. We started to figure out just how to move it to the Bowery HQ. We looked around the immediate area for a very large wagon. We came back to find an oriental man and wife eyeing the couch with every intention of putting it in front of their TV, had we not sat down on the thing and possession being 9/10ths of the law. This turned out to be our first 'La-Scary' moment. We thought of moving it into Anna's building until we could figure out just how to haul its' leather ass home. Just at that very moment Anna came out of her elevator and let us put the couch in her hallway until we could find a dolly or donkey or something. With disaster averted, KatKitty and I started back to HQ and found a hardware store on Broome and Mott that was still open. We bought four little caster wheels, nails and back up screws. You can guess the rest, as we wheeled the thing down Kenmare Street, we stopped and had coffee in front of the little corner luncheonette. We got some envious looks as folks would have paid us good money to sit on our comfy Italian couch. It reminded us of someone who did that in a mid-80's Art around Tompkins Square Park. We finally got the thing installed at ArtCall HQ, and KatKitty promptly took an inaugural snooze in it.
Headquarters
was now taking shape and there were now signs of intelligent life forms.
When KatKitty woke up we took off for the upper village. We stopped in
for a Clayton confab at his 161 Essex studio building. We made it official
that The ArtCall Date is June 30th and that we will have it in the downstairs
inner office there. That being settled, we showed Clayton the ArtCall Diary
hard copy (I have it onhand wherever I go) and he went wild about collaborating
on getting it and other local reporting into hard copy. Clayton just loves
hard copy and tactile art.
KatKitty
was 'jonesing', she needed her high-tech toys. We called Follin Gallery
and asked if we could get our computer that had been housed at Follins
and
move it to the new ArtCall HQ. The deinstallation seemed to go smoothly
(tug, tug, tug). The cab ride back to HQ didn't appear too bumpy (slam,
whiplash, slam). Yet when we reinstalled the computer it didn't fire up
right away. KatKitty took another nap. I got another one of those "La-Scary"
moments. Nap over with, calmx decided to have a 'committee meeting' at
Odessa. After another 'burger that could not be beat' we three did our
best to keep the ArtCall's focus tight. We then cabbed to the Chelsea
to enjoy the last of our $250 a night beds.
We
awoke Monday just past checkout time, got coffee and ate the last of our
food stockpile. My jaw dropped when I saw the tab. It was over a months
rent here at ArtCall HQ. I was shocked (and calculating)! But not knowing
is not knowing and well ...(sigh) back to HQ we cabbed. Got the computer
restarted (whack, whack) as it was the main chip that had come dislodged,
went back to Follin Gallery and got the rest of the computer supplies,
got the world's best coffee at Ray's News, did another fabulous Clayton
confab, and went back to HQ for sunset. The day just seemed to be one big
blur. The ArtCall WebbCamm was installed and running locally. I won the
flip for the couch and KatKitty had to use the air bed.
We awoke to the smell of fresh kona coffee at HQ and got Bobbi ready for the ride back to JFK. We had one last stop at Kostabi World at 90 Ludlow Street, to see the computers once more and get specs for their KostabiKam. There were all kinds of sirens going off on Delancey Street as we left our building. Sirens everywhere and traffic at a standstill as we continued east on Delancey. Something was going on, but we couldn't see the cause of the trouble till we hit Orchard Street. There was a guy on the edge of the corner building at Delancey and Ludlow and he was threatening to jump!
Jottings: Streaming Media East 2000 Hilton Towers June 12th-14th All day.
photos ©carol braddock aka red ed, calmx paul
kostabi, katkitty, doug Ciarelli
Permission of Red Spot Archives, Kostabi World, and Follin
Gallery
artwork©LAII, anna lascari, nico smith, paul kostabi
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