Notes from June 2009

Moving to new studio space

As of today, we have a new studio space at Cathedral Park Place in St Johns. It's a good space for editorial and projection work, as it has no windows, and goes completely black when the lights are turned off. Big thanks to Ken and David for supporting our work and making this space available to 40 Frames. We still have a fair amount of sorting, viewing, and cataloging a recent donation, so our work will be cut out for us this summer. There is no real address for the space, so we'll either use a PO Box, or have it sent to the apartment. More on that later. For now, it's a matter of moving tonnage of equipment to the new space.

June 24, 2009  –  permalink

KEM sold

The KEM has sold to a local maker. The buyer, myself, and three of his friends moved the KEM, a Magnasync 2200 recorder, and a bunch of spare parts to a second floor apartment on SE 60th. Getting out of the studio with the wheels on the KEM and concrete floors, and freight elevator down to the loading dock, was easy. Getting the machine up a flight of stairs was not so easy. It reminded me of the time when Pam and I went to San Francisco to move a Steenbeck out of a flat on Bernal Heights. The flat was located near the top of a very steep hill, which made it impossible to back our large van into the drive way, so we were forced to park at the bottom of the hill. Once inside the flat, The machine had to go down a flight of stairs that were a special Italian marble, and the owner was very explicit about not leaving any marks on the stairs when moving the machine. Luckily, we had a budget to hire three movers to get it down the stairs and into the van we were driving.

June 21, 2009  –  permalink