among friends

(And just when I thought I was done with among friends…) Nao is competing on Bravo’s next big thing, a reality TV show premiering June 9 called “Work of Art: the Next Great Artist.” Crazy, huh? Is this in itself a relational art project? (Think “Rosa Does Joan,” anyone?)

Either way, the others are goin’ down, cause Nao’s gonna win.

Bravo doesn’t know what is has coming.

You go, girl.

P.S. I hadn’t done this blog thing in a while. I forgot how to log on — good thing I had Sebastianna’s old emails with the instructions.

I’m sad.

We love Nao. And her Star Wars hat.

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Get Involved! – March 26th

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Comfort Station, Nao Bustamante
Campus Center Lobby

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM – E.T.: A Performance Shoot, William Pope.L
Ryan Student Center/Gym
Spots are limited; first-come, first-served. To attend the performance, please arrive a half hour in advance at Ryan Gymnasium.

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Open Pizza Dinner
CPGC Café, Stokes Hall

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Concluding Roundtable Discussion
Stokes Auditorium
Presentations from among friends artists and students recapping the week’s events.

10:00 PM – ?? – among friends / ”Remaking Rumours” Afterparty, Jen Delos Reyes
Lunt Basement
Performances by musicians involved in the “Remaking Rumours” project.

Your favorite Bustamante is cooking up some curative art n craft tomorrow in the campus center. 11am-4pm. There will be edibles!

Nao’s coming tomorrow…what?!

She has to get up at 4:45 for her morning flight, so be nice to her and maybe even offer her some coffee. Or chocolate.

A sewing party.

A million thanks to Rebecca Church, who lent us two sewing machines and figured out how to make the pouches.

We got our prototype for the heart gel pack pouches from Nao last week, and started out the third quarter festively with sewing parties Tuesday and Wednesday nights. With five borrowed sewing machines,amazing expert sewers, and regular folk to do the cutting and gluing, we pulled it off. We thought we might need a third sewing party (who doesn’t love a party?), but Jane and Hannah stayed late into the night Wednesday to finish off 55 pouches.

Thursday night I was all set to return the sewing machines. But Facilities Management was closed and couldn’t drive me, so I had to return them by wheelbarrow. Giant wheelbarrow. If you ever need one, check the shack behind Gummere. If you were one of the people who saw me huffing across campus Thursday night dragging a wheelbarrow decked with sewing machines…now you know why.

Come by our Comfort Station in the Campus Center, Thursday 11:00-4:00, to see the fruits of our labors.

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In John’s conceptual art class, we discussed the British artist Michael Craig-Martin. In his piece “An Oak Tree” (at the Tate), he set a half-full glass of water on a glass shelf and called it an oak tree. To him, it was an oak tree—until he couldn’t get through customs at the airport, so he broke down and told them it was actually a shelf and a glass.

When I was home for spring break, I saw that on my dad’s filing cabinet, he had a set of magnets from an opening of the Craig-Martin show “Alphabets and Sunsets.” Each magnet was a different letter of the alphabet, with a picture on it in the style of “A is for apple, B is for boy.” However, I soon realized that the pictures didn’t go with the letters: A had an umbrella, B a wine glass, and C a knife.

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The canopy has been rented for the comfort station. Thank you Taylor Rentals. Thank you James for making me realize the party rental place was Taylor Rentals and not Taylor Reynolds, like the number in physics. Thank you Dorothy for making everything happen at the Campus Center (that’s where all the comfort will be next Thursday).

In conceptual art class today, David gave John a fuzzy red hat and put red and yellow face paint on him. The assignment was “Give and take.”

Like the expressions in the back?

Today I went down to Fabric Row on South 4th St. to pick up some materials for Nao’s talismans. Ever-trusty Liz Turner came along as my unofficial unpaid among friends photographer. Here’s what I got.

I got 10 yards of velcro at Pennsylvania Fabric Outlet.

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