Fri, Aug 05 2011:

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Stewart, Shannon, Adam, Mathew, Jeff

Public Archive

• GMF planning - Chandeleur balloon map with birds, Mikel editorial
  • $1400 printing?

Fundraising and writing

• NSF (12th) grant - Liz, Shannon, Jeff, ...
• EDF, due 13th - what is our plan?
• Journal of Aesthetics and Protest - draft sent, final by end of Aug
• abstract sent for Antipode - reply within a week

Documentation

• Video shot list by Mathew for review soon
• new spectrometer docs going up soon, Spectral working group

Field work this week

• Mathew - interviews - folks who live on site of engine room? - sched. of interviewers laid out
  • art walk - put up a gallery of our images and did kite building and flying, lots of interest
  • head of superfund sites … say hell yes - interested in GM for documenting reclamation sites
  • mainstreet/farmers market headcount kite map soon
  • met with Center for Land Use Interpretation folks at their work party
  • got images of the (bonneville?) salt flats - flew kite off the back of pedicabs, volkswagen sun roof
• Gowanus last weekend
  • infrared/visible map of entire upper canal
  • discussion of how to incentivize people to stitch maps
  • discussion of precision/accuracy of our map data - Eric Wolf’s thesis

Collaborations

• Hamil Pearsall - Clark U - GIS class, collab. on curricula
  • flight, late Sept. - use data for ongoing classwork
• Guide wrap up, translations
• undergrad class at PNCA - Mathew & Molly [class] on toilets
• Kit sales - cheaper $9 balloons - a pallet of space rental? Breadpig.

PLOTS: the organization

• nonprofit filing soon soon! end of aug, 4 months before Jan for review?

Recent & Upcoming events

• Adam to Mexico