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All moved in!

I have no photos of my fabulous new (tiny) lovely apartment. So I offer you the above lightning storm attaching itself to volcanic plumes from one of my regular blog hangouts,  BLDGBLOG.

Back to mundane matters: now I just need to hang all the art in the new place, and then move my office to my sculpture studio (I'm going to do all my different kinds of work - sculpture and design - over there from now on), and then move my studio from Fishtown to Port Richmond (all parts of Philadelphia). So yeah, a whole month of moving, schlepping, hauling, organizing, schlepping some more, and breaking down 1,000 musty cardboard boxes and sneezing.

Cardboard is completely amazing. I have been thinking about it a lot. Of course I think about it, because I work with it as a sculpture...but I am appreciating it on a whole 'nother level right now. Like, I know for a fact that one of the cardboard boxes I have been using has been full of heavy heavy stuff and hauled from place to place over ten times right now and it still seems as strong as Day 1. Cardboard is impressive. And its the best color. I tried to get a paint color for my wall in my last apartment that was the exact color of cardboard and failed. Maybe I should just staple cardboard to my walls instead.

Oh, its sad.

I have been seriously neglectful of this blog. Came home from New Orleans, and at the last minute signed up to assist puppeteer Erik Ruin with his epic shadow puppet show at Puppet Uprising's May Day Cabaret this weekend. His other assistant couldn't do it, and he needed someone quick! We rehearsed for hours in a few short days, and I was charged with remembering a very long and complex series of motions and steps involved in running the show, which I didn't pull off without huge mistakes until the first performance. EEEK!

It ended up going well, and it was a big honor to get to work on the piece with Erik. I learned a lot about how to do a shadow puppet show with lots of unconventional methods using 2 overhead projectors. Yay!

Now, 2 big design projects due this week, while packing my apartment for the big move on Friday. Thanks to those of you who check my blog despite my neglect. I'll be back with a vengeance next week. Until then, all my blog post ideas are accumulating in my mental files.