Progress Report

February 17 - 23

2 hours - Planning meeting primarily focused on the Spring Equinox Festival. The Imagination Masquerade and Trade will be held March 29th at the Abbey Theatre from 8pm - 1am. The first two hours will focus on the artisans trade and silent auction. Live performers will fill the Abbey inside and out - firedancers, drummers, musicians, poi dancers, jugglers, burlesque dancers, etc. The Abbey will be portioned off into areas of fire, air, earth, and water. At 10pm the masquerade will start, and the music will include djs and possibly a couple of bands.

4 hours - Creating decorations for the Abbey. Half a dozen of us met at Molly's house and created giant flowers to hang from the ceiling, a tie-died sheet streamer waterfall, fire streamers and blower and other decorations.

1 hour - Kurt and I began constructing the first mushroom for the giant mushroom forest which will be featured at the summer festival and previewed at the masquerade. We are starting with paper mache and wire - if we can perfect a solid design we may try to build some strong enough to climb on.

2 hours - Researching domain and hosting and buying a domain. Talked to IT at FLC and Brainstorm but didn't really get much help as they weren't familiar with Joomla. After talking to Dan, researched different hosting sites online that already had Joomla Apps. Purchased a site for a year through SiteGround and uploaded Joomla. Our site name is We4C.org.

4 hours - Working on Turtle Lake Refuge website. Completed a couple recipe videos, polished several of the videos, took screenshots of many of the videos and cleaned them up in Photoshop, uploaded videos to Vimeo! and YouTube, cleaned up webpages in Dreamweaver.

Progress Report

February 10 - 16

6 hrs learning Joomla by watching Lynda videos and experimenting with Turtle Lake Refuge website files.

3 hrs taught someone else Joomla and experimented further

1 hr Setting up Facebook account and exploring features

Progress Report - Week 3 and 4

January 27 - February 2

2.5 hrs - Weekly Meeting - developed and discussed: Spring Fundraiser, pros and cons of seeking non-profit status, other ways of raising money, organization. 10 plus in attendance.

2 hrs - Creative Meeting - Shared visions for the summer festival which is at the heart of the project - discussed different workshops, art and music ideas; looked over Mikkae's 8-page proposal for a documentary on the festival.

30 min - Set up an account with Lynda. Watched preliminary videos.

2 hrs - Installing Wamp and Joomla on hard drive and computer and trying to get them to work.

4 hrs - Refining Vegas Skills on documentary: Editing, Color Correction, Text, Subtitles, and Credits; tryed to figure out text in photoshop

1 hr - Watching Vimeo videos

Feb. 3 - 9

3 hrs - Weekly meeting: formed separate committees for the Spring Fundraiser/ masquerade ball / mini-festival; website / magazine develoment; summer festival; and long-term business / non-profit organization plan.
Used a "talking stick" to go around the circle and get everybody's input on each branch. Approx. 10 in attendance.

2 hrs - Met with Molly to edit, revise, and learn the functions of our Wiki site; discussed vision for summer festival and how we would involve local businesses; discussed design of the website.

3 hrs -Installed Joomla and Wamp on lab computers, more lab comuters, reinstalled, reinstalled, reinstalled, other computers, other harddrives, more reinstalls. Success in opening Joomla's installation once - but immediately stopped working.

4 hrs plus - More practice in Vegas: editing, color correction, learning credits, and text, and Vegas's limitations.

1 hr - Watching YouTube docs

Progress Report

January 13 - 19

3 hrs - Second of weekly meetings I attended. About 20 of us spent the evening hashing out the mission statement for the group and what we were about.

3 hrs - Met later in the week with Cy and Stacey to further discuss the project - including the festival, the magazine, the website, and organization. Created a Wikispace for the group:

http://durangoartfestival.wikispaces.com/

4 hrs - Developing and writing proposal for the project.


January 20 - 26

3hrs - Weekly meeting; discussed development of the website and other objectives and roles that need to be filled on the production side and the festival side.

3 hrs - Researching open source management systems and Joomla. Watched introductory and tutorial videos; explored Joomla site and how to get started; researched other projects that have been done with Joomla.

3 hrs - Met with Cy and Mikkae to discuss Dreamtime and elements that we would like to include in our festival and website. Set up a Myspace page and Gmail account. Tried to get a Facebook group going.

1 hr - Readings

3 hrs - Further development and personalization of proposal with focus on web development.

Acorn Milk Anyone?

Acorn Milk from Brian Barnes on Vimeo.

So gonna give you a couple videos we produced for the website in case you're interested in trying some local wild food recipes. This one shows you how easy it is to make acorn milk. And it's really good.

Growing Roots

This is the documentary we produced on Turtle Lake Refuge for our final project. Had alot of fun with this project and learned alot. Hope this film can inspire a person or two to check it out and try some local raw food lunch!

A Taste of What is to Come?

I think there's a good chance Bush and Cheney are going to get hit with more than a shoe after they leave office. Of course they'll probably have private security out the wazzoo for the rest of their lives too.

Hopefully we can really take this country in a new direction and start to reverse some of the intense animosity we have provoked around the world.