CASA GOOFY
INTERNATIONAL
(and
los amigos childcare) ARE:
Programs
Under Artfare (a five oh one-see-three)
Below is the Artfare block on 6th.
Ave across from the Ronstadt Bus Center where
We’re writing a grant to turn the block green with photo
voltaics and roof gardens everywhere.
This grant will include the 16 rental units and temporary
housing, gardens, greenhouses and pond systems in Casa Goofy waiting to become
an art-in-nature laboratory AND the parking lot at Los Amigos Childcare.
If we can defray utilities we can start making real
progress. But it will take a year of
work and writing. Meanwhile we do what
we can.
CASA
GOOFY INTERNATIONAL MISSION
CROSSING
BORDERS TO BUILD THE REAL COMMUNITY
(The
Invisible Community Of Those Who Care About The Earth But Who May Never See
Each Other)
In a world in denial, a world in which even science, has
consistently failed to figure the rate of acceleration by which Global Warming
progresses, Casa Goofy International is here to help individuals take their
physical and spiritual survival into their own hands, think globally and act
locally, with homegrown food, art and culture.
GOALS:
CREATE:
AN INTERNATIONAL
ART & ARTIST EXCHANGE
(Because
The Rest Of The World Is The Rest Of You.)
AN ART-IN-NATURE LABORATORY
(Because If We’re Not Going To Destroy Our Own Habitat We Need An Interface Between The Human And The Natural Community
A THIRD WORLD GALLERY CIRCUIT
(Starting just south of the border in Mexico
STRATEGIES:
Maintain contributing memberships in:
Maintain contributing memberships in:
WWOOFERS (Worldwide Opportunities On
Organic Farms) and COUCHSURFERS.COM
Continue converting 16 units of housing,
(50% so far) to artists’ live/work spaces and WWOOFER quarters
Turn 6 ponds and two greenhouses into
aquaponic urban farms and art in nature labs.
Reinvent, (with a sense of humor this time)
The International Arts Center as an
investment, like Student Exchange, in community and people instead of big
buildings (with big money targets on their butts).
Where are these people? Where is this
“community” we’ve chosen to invest in instead of big buildings?
As the man in the trench coat and slouch
hat who hangs out in front of large public buildings always says,
“Time will tell. And questions still remain. And now back to you in New York LAREDO
MAKE SAFE, COMFORTABLE, INSPIRING SPACES
FOR VOLUNTEERS AND VISITING ARTISTS
(spaces in which
nature can come IN and creativity can go OUT)
FACILITATE THE
GROWTH OF NATURAL COMMUNITIES BY:
INVENTING
INTENSIVE GROWING METHODS FOR LIMITED SPACES
COMBINE WITH PHOTO
VOLTAICS
COMBINE WITH ART
RECYCLE, USE &
REUSE ALL RESOURCES
MAKE COMMUNITY
MURALS FOR FENCES
UTILIZE THE
“CITIZENS’ AUXILLARY” GROUP TO
CREATE ANTI
GLOBALWARMING FEEDBACK LOOPS
(To Lobby For
Large Scale Community Wide Projects such as:
“smokestack algae
biofuels plant” and “Solar Farm Trolley”
and solar electric
roof gardens.)
polar
ice melt, loss of reflectance, more tundra & permafrost melt, decaying
biomass producing greenhouses gasses, ocean turning from carbon sinks to carbon
emitters, acidification, coral reefs dying, etc. etc. these loops will go on
multiplying each other’s effects ad infinitum even if we get greenhouse gas
emissions down to pre industrial levels
A decrease in an increase in emissions is a good political deal but
nature doesn’t make deals (she makes hurricanes & heat waves).
Proceed
modularly. Make modules small enough to
be feasible and repeatable. Create modules that are anti global warming
feedback loops combined with art opportunities for children of all ages.
TACTICS
Casa Goofy International DOES (one WWOOFER
volunteer’s description):
“Develop methods of growing food which
save water, produce food in a small space to feed tenants/children at Los
Amigos Childcare,
Provide affordable and creative living
spaces for artists in the city,
Teach others (local as well as
international) about innovative ways of growing food, Promote recycling (water,
resources, trash,etc) to create art and a beautiful space for people to
live and work.”
WHAT’S
IN IT FOR TUCSON
The profitable exploitation of one of our
most plentiful local resources: artists. We have more artists and
musicians per capita than any other city in the U.S.
If a little town like Bisbee can put itself
on the map with a once a year Poetry Festival. If a little city like
Cleveland (with a river so polluted it burned one night) can put itself on the
map with a once a year, month long, International Performance Art Festival, if
San Antonio can put itself on the map with its River Walk, Tucson can put
itself on the map with an International Arts Center and a Third World Gallery
Circuit starting in Nogalles and proceeding South until it’s North (and don’t
stop there it’s too freakin’ COLD!).
Tourism is low infrastructure & high
dollar business.
And the added attraction just might help
fill those seven hundred units of student housing that filled the hole left by
the destruction of the International Arts Center when the City Council vacated
its own stipulations and subverted its own Historic Preservation ordinance,
JUST MIGHT...
also help fill the seven hundred more units
of student housing proposed by a millionaire consortium (I can name names, and
I know where the bodies are buried) if it gets to tear down the sixth block in
the history of Tucson
AT 1323 HUALPAI:
COMPLETE VISITING
ARTIST QUARTERS
AND ART IN NATURE
LABORATORY
AT 1329 HUALPAI
AND 3428-34
E. PRESIDIO ROAD
FINISH CONVERSIONS
OF APARTMENTS TO ARTIST HOUSING
AT ARTFARE:
BUILD BALCONY IN
THE “BRAVO GALLERY” & USE FOR
ART-IN-NATURE
DEMONSTRATIONS & PERFORMANCES
AND AS MAIN
SHOWPLACE FOR THE
3RD
WORLD GALLERY CIRCUIT CITIZENS’ AUXILLARY
AT LOS AMIGOS CHILDCARE:
BUILD “LIVING
WALLS” GARDENS AROUND SANDBOX AND BUILDING AND SHOW KIDS HOW TO GROW PLANTS IN
THEM
(Have kids come on field trips to Casa Goofy at 1323 Hualpai
to see how it’s done.)
FOR The
Future:
Container (raised bed style)
Gardens at each rental. Roof Gardens at
The AZ Hotel shaded by photovoltaics on brackets anchored to roof decks. The gardens arranged in patterns like the
Plain of Nazca, ancient temples, petroglyphs.
Smokestack Algae Plants at TEP, the
Apache Power Plant (in the million
gallon water tank left by the U of A when it gave up on “pond algae”) &
electric cooperatives. Live video
projections of algae combined with visitors on the walls & ceilings. See if
the life of the algae changes any depending on how many visitors are watching
them. Arrange the plants so they are
visible as art from Google Earth.
Aquarium shaped like the human body
with fish in them in storefront windows at Artfare, water pumped up to roof
gardens in the shape of human body & siphoned back down again, utilizing
the falling water for art ferris wheels & other machines.
Dirigibles with thin film photo
voltaics stretched between them to shade critical, strategic areas where
commerce is heaviest etc. beaming down the generated electricity by
microwave. (Someday the most strategic
location could be over the poles to combat loss of Albedo (reflectance)).
Display banner art and project
images on the underside of the dirigibles and thin film
substrate/membrane. Most appropriate
images might deal with ancient cultures with or without images from modern
street life being juxtaposed.
IMPOSSIBLE!? OK Fine….how about
For Now:
OK Here’s some “modules”:
Waste Vegetable Oil and biodiesel plant at
(this is a miniature anti global warming feedback loop, it filters waste vegetable oil and makes biodiesel, close to zero carbon footprint, and NO WAR REQURIED imagine how many greenhouse gasses we added to the atmosphere with the Mid East wars.)
WHAT’S
IN IT FOR YOU AS ARTIST OR INDIVIDUAL?
Opportunities
to:
Have
enriching cross cultural experiences by becoming hosts/guests to international
artists.
Host
field trips for kids of all ages to the art-in-nature lab in process at Casa
Goofy International.
Do
projects in that lab and have display space in Artfare’s atrium “Bravo Gallery”
across from the Ronstadt Bus
Center
Have
hands-on learning experiences growing their own food and art with very limited
space, time and money.
Experience
in real time, the real meaning of the word “RENNAISSANCE” .
Demo
projects done:
Solar pump/siphon system for utilizing sunlight and pumped water over and over for maximum efficiency & use of limited grow space.
Solar pond Food coolers used as “earth boxes” or grow boxes set in troughs to use water being pumped by solar pumps between ponds
Made plans to expand this system to circulate pond water through existing 24 ft. high greenhouses to use fish poop as fertilizer.
Set up air compressor & home made “air stones” for pond aeration.
Set up large (8# diameter) plastic pipe grow system for capturing water and sunlight under eaves of all units, especially where limited sunlight is a problem (the pipes have portholes & bottom holes to grow “strawberry pot” and “upside down” style)
Created cheap raised bed, intensive planting & coldframe designs & demos to utilize limited spaces.
Shrines To Go (“Shrines A Go Go”) series of art on wheels with these common elements: dirt, plants, melting ice, a black pocket that can’t ever be opened, a chalice with an offering, a prayer/chant/dedication ceremoney, candles, a picture, some part of a clown suit/image. Leave them at prestigious institutions so that a decision must be made: to discard, keep, give away, destroy, not decide.
Set up Thursday afternoons at
Taught mask making with
Ned Schaper from the Matt Bevel Kinetic Sculpture Institute:
John White, musician from CGI who plays banjo, fiddle,
guitar and ukulele, taught them music.
Jim from Artfare, has an education degree and plays clarinet
and trumpet:
Taught about insects with a
puppet show by an entomologist.
In spite of what Dr. Laura says about single parent or no
parent families, the kids are affectionate and are well behaved. They learn, they sing they dance, they do
art.
In spite of what Dr. Laura says about Day Care Centers, the
teachers here really care and they are a community within the larger
community. This Day Care has become the
well, the commons, the village it takes to raise a child. It accepts and cares for kids with problems
that no other Day Care will take and is having some success with them.
we’re working up a regular schedule of fundraiser
performance nights with food, entertainment, games and raffles.
We’re planning on doing:
Community participation murals (make a place for the art of children of all ages).
Gradually changing Dennis
Williams’ HVAC-R business by
Adding businesses one at a time that can offer: waste
cooking oil, use of space on off hours, catering, or just sympathy for the
project so that, little by little, our little community grows withing the
larger community and more and more time
Can be devoted to CGI.
AND IN ALL THE ABOVE:
We have fun and,
KEEP IT GOOFY!!!
CASA GOOFY NEEDS:
(a new blackboard to provide for dialogue aka “exquisite corpses” among residents, (I call it our ‘Little Black Mountain Black Board” and we REALLY need)
a $60,000 line of credit. Several amortization schedules have been drawn up for any individual or institution to choose from or offer their own terms. Payments (around $450/mo.) will all be handled through a title company with one free and clear duplex, appraised at $125,000, for collateral. The uses of the line of credit are:
Purchase grid tie photovoltaics to stop the
escalation of utility bills.
Finish the conversion of 8 rental units into artist
live/work spaces.
Finish the construction of visiting artist quarters
at the art-in-nature lab at 1323 W. Hualpai Road
This will:
make the project financially and ecologically self
sustaining,
complete the artist community that will support the
mission of outreach to other countries
unite the project around one clear vision:
a world in which the imaginary lines drawn by
scientists, economists, politicians and countries are seen for what they are,
so that our vision of global problems and solutions can be made whole.
AND…THIS JUST IN!!! (from NEWS MAN)
ASSETS/PROJECTS IN CASA GOOFY:
1323 W. Hualpai Rd
Two visiting artist quarters in
back. 50% complete. (see below)
1329 W. Hualpai Rd
3430 E. Presidio road.
Duplex not converted. 40 X 30 X
12’ High steel building converted into two artist studios. Greenhouse attached. 75% complete.
Art-In-Nature Lab 50% (?)
completed.
Community participation murals
on front fences and walls 5% completed.
International art exchange
website, planning stage.
VISITING ARTIST QUARTERS IN CAMP GOOFY:
Vans & busses in U shape with campers on top, common
kitchen & bathroom. 50%
completed. Large work-shade common
studio between.
(When finished, these will be free housing for WWOOFERS
& visiting artists in exchange for working on projects in the art-in-nature
lab.
ADVISORY BOARD & ASSOCIATES:
Brian Flagg, Casa Maria Soup
Kitchen
Bill Knauss, Builder
Jon McLane, host of “Free Green Radio” (KVOI) and Green Party
Mayoral Candidate
Carlos Lozano, CEO hunter for
Lozano And Associates
Paul Schock, founding partner of the former International
Arts Center
Peter Anton (retired) electric bike enthusiast, ecologist.
John Peterson, HVAC-R engineer
Daniel Ryan, artist, educator.
(Your Name Here)
MY VISION:
We create modules that can be repeated for our own projects
and can serve as models for other people’s projects.
Each rental has a studio/workshop attached or integrated and
a small raised bed garden shaded by a ramada or photo voltaic panel. And
photovoltaic car shades and at least one raised bed garden for each class at
Los Amigos Child Care. And a progression
of modular gardens on the roof of the Arizona Hotel with demonstrations in the
store windows below. This is survival
itself in an age when the family farm and good food itself is becoming a thing
of the past or something only the rich can afford.
These modules are also playgrounds or art-in-nature
laboratories because if there isn’t play involved then human interest can’t be
sustained. Survival has to also be
defined as artistic and cultural survival, the life of the mind and the
adventure of consciousness.
At Casa Goofy itself I see:
The cooling tower on top of the dome finished and cooling
the house. The greenhouses and ponds
functioning as one system. The living
quarters for volunteers finished in back.
The shop open to all who need to do projects. Kids from Los Amigos visiting on field
trips. Solar electric and solar hot
water systems, working, and swamp coolers with dehumidified and super cooled
air coming out of them.
And what do I hear? I hear conversations among artists and
between artists and the parts of the natural community that can only communicate
with silences or experiences written on the living air between us.
PRINCIPICUS GOOFICUS
(first
principles)
WHY
Casa GOOFY International?
“A very good
philosophy could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
---Ludwig
Wittgenstein*
“So, let’s WRITE
one…AND… .act it out…maybe we could call it….
er…uh…something
like Casa Goofy International”---Super Dummy
So from the “Free
And Worth Every Penny” department heeerrre’s……
SUPER DUMMY’S GAME
PLAN!!!
(according to
Super Dummy)
Saving the
universe (from itself) one idiot at a time
“Human survival
depends on our vision being restored to wholeness by artists and clowns. Science doesn’t do well with process and
whole systems.”
---General Lies,
Philosophy Professor, Casa Goofy University (retired, emeritus, a latin word
sometimes translated as meaning “without merit”.)
GOALS
Develop a sense of
humor about the apocalypse and a welcoming committee called….
Armageddon To Know
You.
And Armageddon To
Know You will have a one man band called,
The Lake Tucson
Sometimes the one
man band is unavailable because it has to split up…
(so it can walk
through the same river twice)
and then we just
have to wait until it gets back together again.
Form a super
committee to investigate the conundrum:
“If nature is
intelligent, why are people so stupid?”****
STRATEGIES
The
community does not end at the city limit sign or any other line.
Therefore
embrace absurdity around the world (and in neighboring universes).
“It’s time we got serious about getting
silly.” ---Captain Nobody, author of
“Global Warming Natural Disasters On $5 A Day”
When we’re joking
we need to be dead serious and vice versa.
When we’re doing something we need to be doing nothing and vice
versa. You see, THE HUMAN MIND….uh, er……hey
wait! Is this some kind of JOKE?!!---Fathed **
TACTICS
Rebuild the old International Arts Center
this time invest
in people & community instead of big-as-death buildings
with big-ass-money
targets on their butts.
Work with local
barrio child care center called Los Amigos (and a sister day care in Mexico
Children’s art is
unfair competition for adults. That
means it’s OK to STEAL from it. And because it’s THERE.
It keeps us
younger than we might otherwise be. As
far as imagination, gesture and improvisation are concerned, after the first
two years of development, old age
sets in.
You
see, the human mind……hey wait! Is this some kind of JOKE!!!??? (Hey wait! Did I say that before? Well, this time I’m being SERIOUS***.)
Create shrines on
wheels “Shrines A Go Go” shrines for a
Fast moving world,
interactive shrines that force people & institutions to decide or at least
to decide not to decide.
And remember:
People who don’t
stay out of the way of the gentrification steamroller
Get rolled.
ADD END DUMB:
And so forth and SO
WHAT? .
St. Francis, when
asked what he’d do if the world would end tomorrow, replied he would just keep
on hoeing his garden. Right on, St.
Francis! My Main Man!
If enough people
grew their own food we could survive global warming.
If a few people
grew their own food they could create their own art, culture and religion and
survive global warming culturally and spiritually even if all else fails.
But first you
gotta get REAL QUIET
And then…you gotta
laugh a lot.
* Ludwig
Wittgenstein was officially adopted as the Camp Goofy Philosopher Mascot, April 1, 2007 .…NO FOOLING!)
** “Brains
are like eggs. If you drop them from a
great height, like falling stars, they splatter out in all different
directions, and they seem to be bigger and smaller than each other, but if you
cook them up in global warming, they come out nice and round and more or less
the same.” Fathed (See You Tube: Dennis
Williams: Performance Art In Tucson
*** “Anything
expressed in words can’t be taken seriously.
Language is a leap of faith. And
then you die.” Captain Nobody
**** In regard to nature being more intelligent than people:
“If a lion could talk we couldn’t understand him.” Wittgenstein.
This goes without saying. People CAN talk and they can’t understand each
other. Which just adds further evidence
as to their alleged (but obvious) stupidity.
AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM
Keep up the good work, folks. Reduce that annual INCREASE in greenhouse gas
emission and call it a DECREASE. Maybe
nature will make a DEAL. Have the scientists measure individual factors and
pretend for the sake of sanity they’re not part of a non linear process where
the hotter it gets the faster it gets hotter (that’s never happened before has
it? I didn’t THINK so!) Keep the money and the GROSS national product
safe from those evil non linear processes.
Sort the data into boxes, label the boxes, feed them to the mainframe
and instruct it to ADD them with grade school math. ADD a box called AWAY, ADD a place called
DOWNSTREAM, ADD a place like HOME, ADD a box called EVIL, stick all the things
we can’t understand in the boxes and all our possessions will be safe from that
old devil PROCESS while it multiplies the boxes by exponents on exponents. The national and world economy depend on
careful, tedious, bureaucratic maintenance of this illusion, that ALL the lines we draw across time and space
remain sacrosanct AND the absolute value of this random, speculative process we
made into a BOX THINGY called MONEY.
(Since Rachel Carson’s SILENT SPRING came out in the
fifties, and ever since all the news media have been spending a lot of energy
NOT observing this (Yogi Bera says you can observe a lot just by looking),
scientific predictions of global warming factors have turned out to be
UNDERestimate by at least a hundred percent, and normally by over three hundred
percent. Could a simple semantic mistake
cause that much error? I don’t THINK
SO!!!) Your money is perfectly safe,
perfectly safe, REEELAXXXX! The
conventional wisdom has never been wrong before, and it’s never been wrong
before because? BECAUSE WE’VE ALWAYS
DONE IT THIS WAY!!! Case closed.
Let me just second the emotion of an eminent local attorney
here when he advised the U of A board that their obligation to the
shareholders’ MONEY must override their concern for the whole wild wide world
outside that MONEY, and must therefore override their personal ethics. If a few minorities get hurt and the
institution is running in the black, we have served the greater good. If large lending institutions create
situations that work against green building and leave people with their houses
underwater, figuratively and literally, the monetary principles on which this
great country was founded still stand. If banks, resolve their responsibility
to their shareholders by telling the drug companies to do research in areas
that are profitable instead of areas of the greatest human distress, economic
survival must still prevail over these minor concerns.
Money, like construction, has to grow without limits or else
it dies like a cancer that has eaten its host.
Our survival depends on our daily acknowledgement, that if money is to
retain its value it cannot afford to have values.
AND THE ICE MAN
Excuse me if I look a little wasted. They found me in melting ice in the Otztal
valley in the Italian Alps BECAUSE the permafrost and tundra are melting and
billions of tiny organisms are awakening, and billions and billions of their
tiny nano farts are going up to add methane to C02 AND hundreds of OTHER
feedback loops which are multiplying and adding themselves to the inertia of
global warming. Even if you returned to
pre industrial levels of Carbon Dioxide what about the other greenhouse gasses?
How could you ever replace the lost reflectance of the ice caps, refreeze the
permafrost, restore the coral, the forests, the lost species, the whole web of
life you’re right now shredding like an incriminating presidential document? And now let’s add the feedback loops of
social damage and along with them various forms of denial, not to mention one
of your favorites, BIG BOX MAN, obsessions with one or another I SO LATE ED
form of so called sustainable energy, obsessions which prevent the creation of
ANTI global warming feedback loops.
But what’s art got to do with it? And why international art? I’ve been dead for over five thousand years
so you may think I don’t know much, but I learned from the petty political
squabble that killed me, that WORDS can’t combat denial, they reinforce denial.
They can’t cross BORDERS, they only make more borders. But once we get an IMAGE into the back brain,
(because as Dr. Bong (ad man, ret.) sd. in Howard The Duck:
"IMAGE is ALL!!!) why then the argument is over and, in the best of all possible worlds, at least some amount of real communication could begin, let’s see images, images….
"IMAGE is ALL!!!) why then the argument is over and, in the best of all possible worlds, at least some amount of real communication could begin, let’s see images, images….
Including me and my companions on photovoltaic dirigibles
over the city, images of algae making photographs projected on power plants,
images made by gardens arranged in a pattern on the roofs of Tucson, images
from the Art-In-Nature lab at Casa Goofy BUT….
….a certain comic silliness is required. A certain single
minded seriousness has been the tragic flaw of similar efforts in the
past. (Therefore, Casa Goofy
But, we have to keep asking, can this thing work? After all, the whole stinkin’ world is
against it. The mass of the whole social
world doesn’t WANT to hear about solutions because that might indicate there’s
a PROBLEM. OOPS!!!
What if it’s too late? WELL, as I bled to death from a spear
wound there in that beautiful valley, I wished I’d forgotten about all petty
disputes between us all-too-humans, so I could REALLY have been there, to have
really lived this life every moment as if it were (actually each moment WAS) my
last and as if it were (the way each moment actually WAS) my first. And then, as life ebbed and the world seemed
so close and yet so far away, I wished I could have always been so moved...moved
(as when watching a great tragedy) from the place where things are happening to
us to the place where we are WATCHING things happen to us, that first and last
act of will? Like it says in Samson et
Delilah,
“Beautiful is it not, the end of
the world?”
It comes down (to put it in YOUR terms BIG BOX MAN) to a
cost/benefit analysis of living in a world that moves versus a static world
where we can hold on to concepts called THINGS which can only approximate
process by being broken into pieces, or as Hart Crane said,
“And so I entered the broken
world.”
But it’s our concepts of the world as a static assemblage of
bits and pieces that is broken. Once the
world is moving, and once we’re there,
we do what we’ve done for thousands of years, just pack up and move on, and
keep on walking until we find the distance that can make us whole.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
PARTICIPATE:
Get on our mailing list.
VOLUNTEER:
Volunteers will be fed, entertained and spoiled rotten. Donations of $100 or more grant you founding member status and get you a comic book face and a few choice words on all our community murals.
Bring food, friends, art & entertainment to fundraisers.
Help with clean up, construction and gardening. Help us work with the kids. Just take an interest. Be someone we can talk to about how we’re doing and what other things we could be doing on an on going basis.
Become a host. Think about what space you might have for visiting artists to use for a few days to a few weeks. Help us get a list of potential hosts going.
Participate in the fence mural project. There's a place for you and your kids.
BECOME A MEMBER:
Lifetime: $100 (gets your name, photo, & comic book face in one of our participatory fence murals (you participate in the creation of your image, and to get to attend (or not attend) all meetings of The Bored).
Annual: $50 (free pass to our shop & kiln & other facilities).
Contributing: ($25 or more. Five free art-postcards & whatever other goodies we can come up with.)
COSIGN A RE FINANCE WITH CASH OUT:
See “Casa Goofy Needs” or do it your way and organize your own gift.
(be a big time artist) DONATE ART
or just DONATE:
vehicles, ,anything that could be raffled off or sold for scrap.
(have trucks, have people, will clean your yard)
New or used vegetable oil.
(any kind of waste oil)
Solar panels, PVs, DC or AC pumps, generators, tools. Building materials
(come visit, see what we’re doing, see if you
have anything to
contribute, and talk to us about YOUR ideas.)
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD:
(attend online meetings, and less often physical meetings, help with fundraising, structural problems and planning.)
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD:
No responsibilities, just be wherever you are but be there for us: read, bear witness, listen, review & comment. Be somebody just to talk to about how we’re doing. (What is this? See the note below.)
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE CLOWN COUNCIL
Be on call to help mediate disputes, misunderstandings, etc. You have to wear some part of a clown costume while you’re mediating. (hmmm “The Clown Council”….does that phrase sound FUNNY to you?!)
CONTACT:
Dennis Williams
1323 W. Hualpai Rd.
520-429-0347
dennishwilliams@gmail.com
ON
FACEBOOK:
Dennis Williams
Casa Goofy International
AT
BLOGSPOT.COM
AT
BRINK.COM
Superdummy
Fathed
Note:
I see the Del Rey Motel is being re-opened as a place for live/work art studios and galleries. Looking at this through the eyes of a non profit making spaces for artists and making places for people this is enough competition to force us into foreclosure but I’m glad to see art moving away from the gentrification bulldozer and into the “scenic route” on Miracle Mile and there is a concept from Lincoln Steffens that is equally true, that all business is good for all other business, and if so, maybe all art can be good for all other art IF we work it a certain way, understand Henry Kissinger’s comment, “The infighting is so bitter because the stakes are so small.” And look OUTWARD and learn to cooperate because the stakes are now so high.
