an organ, some signs, a carnival booth, a southern home facade, and some thoughts on life in the city of charleston

so i found the guts of an organ on the side of the road and i totally plan to hack into it and make noise with it, or failing that it will become raw material for a future sculpture installation project
and as luck would have it i found this very appropriate sign, just in case i forget what to call the place i work in

and i found all the magnetic signs from a cold stone ice cream store and put them up on my metal wall. I figure on those painfully hot days i will look at the ice cream menu and think cool thoughts.

i also tinkered around with the line piece some more, once it is finished i will clean it up and paint it and then it will really pop.

last week i gave a lot of my building energy to the out of hand events company. I have been making sets and props for them like this southern home facade built to house a 9'x12' rear projection screen. I was given a very basic drawing and idea to work from. in the end the illusion was carried through.

i like this kind of work because creating a simulated environment really interests me.

my other bit of magic was making a "carnival" booth out of two sheets of 1/4" plywood. I hacked this together in a couple hours and then plastered it with printouts of coney island posters to give it that authentic carnie vibe

I have been thinking alot about how charleston functions as a city and it's relationship to the idea of a simulation. I have always seen charleston as the perfect example of the simulacrum that baudriallard speaks of. Charleston is more the image of a city than an actual city. Because the city is designed to cater to tourist, college students and young professionals the city landscape reflects that. The city fosters a locust approach to living. Swarm in, go out to clubs, restaurants and disposable non-essential retail, go home and think nothing of it. Because Charleston maintains the appearance of a city everyone assumes it is a city. But it functions more as a version of one than as an actual city. and speaking of simulations of things, i am still working on my army of water bottles and as soon as i finish with those i will post them here.