AKA - December Meeting Notes
Extraordinarily good meeting last Wednesday night. Here’s what’s up:
AKA TEMPORARY TATTOO CONTEST
As a potential vehicle for crass self-promotion and, ultimately to pave the way for possible future material donations from sponsors so we can build things; we (DJ Jenny) came up with a great idea: design an AKA temporary tattoo and get all the graphic designers in on it.
- Entry Fee $5 (for prize; pay for tattoo manufacturing; admin supplies; ads; etc.)
- Prize: a cool magazine subscription (maybe from another country)
- Maybe make it an annual thing and whomever wins gets their tattoo displayed for a year
- Format: 8”x10” mounted on foam core
- Full-color designs (for 1,000 tattoos: 2.5”x3” = $192 and 3”x4” =$320) – see: http://www.tattoosales.com
- Rules: must incorporate the (3) letters “A”, “K”, and “A” in the design
- Judging: Voting by jury made up of the public in attendance at a gallery opening similar to Mobile Gallery Competition
- Cool magazines for possible prizes:
http://www.wallpaper.com
http://www.modernismmagazine.com
We will keep everybody updated and will probably get this going soon after the holidays. Please make comments or throw out ideas here.
PLANT THE PIECE PLANTER
We have the design pretty well established and will try to post images on the website soon. If you need background, please see this website: http://www.threemiles.com/plantthepiece/ and our AKA website: http://www.akaconnect.net/ for continuation of the saga. Here’s what we will be doing next:
- The design needs to be formally drawn and detailed (Chris and Eric will team up on this - estimate a 2 month turnaround)
- Submit drawings to a contractor(s) for an estimate (Chris imagines it will total less than $10,000 if we manufacture the planters and let the contractor do the rest - landscape; electricity; lighting; sidewalk demolition; etc. – I think at least $15G and I am always right)
- Then we begin fundraising. Chris and Noah (creators of the piece) have a device in place on the plantthepiece website wherein they sell the clay guns for money to build the planter. Other sources will include: professional affiliations; interested private companies; advocates for the Neighborhood Resource Center (where the planter will be built); artist organizations; and, possibly, grants. We need to get some grant ideas/advice from Mary Lou at the NRC.
- grant writing resources:http://www.wrl.org/depts/admin/developl.html
HOLLYWOOD HOUSE UNDER THE “D” COMPETITION
We’re working on materials for the competition to be held sometime after the New Year. Here are a few issues decided upon at this last meeting:
- Prizes: Public Jury Prize = $500 and Owner’s Choice = $500 (with the possibility of winner taking both)
- Entry Fee: $20
- Submissions may be in PDF format (to make things less difficult and costly for overseas entrants)
- We want to stress in this competition (as well as in all others) that entrants need not be architects and that non-architects are strongly encouraged to submit.
- Estimated cost for the project is $30,000 (excluding lap pool at $60,000)
We’ll be looking for a venue/gallery for the show to be held around April (Chris suggested the 1st Floor of 23 West Broad as a possibility - and the Space Fold as another if it’s built by then).
AKA MOBILE GALLERY - THE SPACE FOLD
We’re awaiting a response to last months design questions from Singularity Studio (Adrienne and Carlos - http://www.singularitystudio.com) so that we can get started detailing the Gallery. In an ideal world, we’d have the Gallery up and running for First Fridays Arts Walk: http://www.firstfridaysrichmond.com this spring and can host our first show: Hollywood House Under The “D” or the AKA Temporary Tattoo Contest.
AKA MOVIE NIGHT
- Date: 01-27-06, The 3rd Thursday in January…yep, another year gone.
- Location: either BCWH (architect’s office) or C3 (cool warehouse in Shockoe Bottom) depending on who is willing.
- DJ Jenny suggested that we might utilize her place of work as a source for borrowing good movies – the Williamsburg Public Library. She’s offered up these resources to help
catalog link to check for DVDs:
http://catalog.wrl.org/
suggest a book (or DVD) title for the library to purchase:
http://www.wrl.org/bookweb/bookrequests/index.html:
Please make suggestions/comments here.
AKA TEMPORARY TATTOO CONTEST
As a potential vehicle for crass self-promotion and, ultimately to pave the way for possible future material donations from sponsors so we can build things; we (DJ Jenny) came up with a great idea: design an AKA temporary tattoo and get all the graphic designers in on it.
- Entry Fee $5 (for prize; pay for tattoo manufacturing; admin supplies; ads; etc.)
- Prize: a cool magazine subscription (maybe from another country)
- Maybe make it an annual thing and whomever wins gets their tattoo displayed for a year
- Format: 8”x10” mounted on foam core
- Full-color designs (for 1,000 tattoos: 2.5”x3” = $192 and 3”x4” =$320) – see: http://www.tattoosales.com
- Rules: must incorporate the (3) letters “A”, “K”, and “A” in the design
- Judging: Voting by jury made up of the public in attendance at a gallery opening similar to Mobile Gallery Competition
- Cool magazines for possible prizes:
http://www.wallpaper.com
http://www.modernismmagazine.com
We will keep everybody updated and will probably get this going soon after the holidays. Please make comments or throw out ideas here.
PLANT THE PIECE PLANTER
We have the design pretty well established and will try to post images on the website soon. If you need background, please see this website: http://www.threemiles.com/plantthepiece/ and our AKA website: http://www.akaconnect.net/ for continuation of the saga. Here’s what we will be doing next:
- The design needs to be formally drawn and detailed (Chris and Eric will team up on this - estimate a 2 month turnaround)
- Submit drawings to a contractor(s) for an estimate (Chris imagines it will total less than $10,000 if we manufacture the planters and let the contractor do the rest - landscape; electricity; lighting; sidewalk demolition; etc. – I think at least $15G and I am always right)
- Then we begin fundraising. Chris and Noah (creators of the piece) have a device in place on the plantthepiece website wherein they sell the clay guns for money to build the planter. Other sources will include: professional affiliations; interested private companies; advocates for the Neighborhood Resource Center (where the planter will be built); artist organizations; and, possibly, grants. We need to get some grant ideas/advice from Mary Lou at the NRC.
- grant writing resources:http://www.wrl.org/depts/admin/developl.html
HOLLYWOOD HOUSE UNDER THE “D” COMPETITION
We’re working on materials for the competition to be held sometime after the New Year. Here are a few issues decided upon at this last meeting:
- Prizes: Public Jury Prize = $500 and Owner’s Choice = $500 (with the possibility of winner taking both)
- Entry Fee: $20
- Submissions may be in PDF format (to make things less difficult and costly for overseas entrants)
- We want to stress in this competition (as well as in all others) that entrants need not be architects and that non-architects are strongly encouraged to submit.
- Estimated cost for the project is $30,000 (excluding lap pool at $60,000)
We’ll be looking for a venue/gallery for the show to be held around April (Chris suggested the 1st Floor of 23 West Broad as a possibility - and the Space Fold as another if it’s built by then).
AKA MOBILE GALLERY - THE SPACE FOLD
We’re awaiting a response to last months design questions from Singularity Studio (Adrienne and Carlos - http://www.singularitystudio.com) so that we can get started detailing the Gallery. In an ideal world, we’d have the Gallery up and running for First Fridays Arts Walk: http://www.firstfridaysrichmond.com this spring and can host our first show: Hollywood House Under The “D” or the AKA Temporary Tattoo Contest.
AKA MOVIE NIGHT
- Date: 01-27-06, The 3rd Thursday in January…yep, another year gone.
- Location: either BCWH (architect’s office) or C3 (cool warehouse in Shockoe Bottom) depending on who is willing.
- DJ Jenny suggested that we might utilize her place of work as a source for borrowing good movies – the Williamsburg Public Library. She’s offered up these resources to help
catalog link to check for DVDs:
http://catalog.wrl.org/
suggest a book (or DVD) title for the library to purchase:
http://www.wrl.org/bookweb/bookrequests/index.html:
Please make suggestions/comments here.
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