new honors students...

hopefully we will be able to utilize the blog as a place to expand discussion beyond the classroom that we are shackled to this semester. To get on here, I have to add you one at a time. Email me at danieldean (at) gmail (dot) com to get on...

daniel

Container Link

Despite the demise of the show, y'all aren't the only ones to deal with this type of medium in today's social climate in the sphere of collective consciousness. It just goes to show that y'all are onto something. I've come across a lot of articles and references to shipping containers being examined for new purposes, and I just thought I'd share in case not everyone has seen them. Here's a link to one such article.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30088780

Poster Revised and Scheduling for this Week

Here is the revised poster.
Feedback is welcome.
(I apologize for my inability to wrap my head around the true nature of this show/the [container(space)] project. I am trying my best, but feel free to let me know if my wording doesn't capture it. )

Also, Daniel, can you post your availability for this week?
I am available to help install the floor this Saturday after 3pm and for a few hours any time on Sunday.
Were you able to cut enough planks(?) for the floor?

We are trying to install all the work next Tuesday right?

Kevin, did the postcards get sent out for printing?

Where is everybody...?

Poster for Upcoming Show

So here is the poster I made for the container show. (I changed it once after talking with Kevin.)
I want to print it out at a larger size than 8.5 x 11 and post them around AVT, the JC and other places on campus.

Please let me know what you think and if it needs any changes.

Thanks!

Here's what I have for the front of the invitation card. I just want to cofirm the information I
have for the back:
Located at Container Space in the sculpture yard in the Fine Arts Building
opening from 5 to 7 pm on April 16
Show running from April 16th to the 24th

video of container meeting with Jeff Sapsford

about a twenty minute video of...well, watch it and see

Some Research Materials

Here are some links to companies involved with the making or certifying of the container.

1-SKS Paint Co.
-they made the "paint" which is a "cholorinated rubber finish" called by it's trade name, Unirubber-= HB. More can be found on their site

2-Hung Myung Industrial Co. Ltd., Seoul Korea

-Original manufacturer, in 1978, good luck finding a website

3-Bureau Veritas
-They have tons of info and a good story on their site.
-The original company that made global trade posssible by the standardization of shipping standards, regulations and such for insurance companies. They inspected this container in Nov. of 1978 for approval to be used on the high seas

4-Genstar Corp (london) originally bought the container from Hung Myung Ind Co Ltd. Seoul) They we bought by GESEACO in 1998 (location??) and somehow ended up at mason as storage on one of the athletic fields for a while. The GMU ID number that is on the right door indicates to the person who keeps such records at GMU that it was surplused at least 4 years ago, afetr which they keep no records but there is more info she can find, contact me if you want that office number..(rose?)

Container Construction:
-Theres lots of info out there about how containers were designed for a specific purpose to uniform sizes to expedite shipping at ports, there ability to quickly be moved to trains and semi's...maybe look there

-----Also, Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, a professor at Leipzig, made a meteorological study of the Christmas Eve Storm of 1821, which is the one that crushed many insurance companies and from which Bureau Veritas was born, bringing into being the modern global shipping industry we know today. This guy made a map but I haven't been able to find it...

Materials:
Screws-I have a bunch of original rusty screws that can be used for research, not for object-making. Think photo, print or chemical anlysis...
Rust-I have a pile of rust and sawdust that might be used somehow
Boards- I have a lot of original floorboards that are cedar. I for one am curious about their age, probable origin, etc
ID Plates-I'm currently trying to strip all the paint off of these to make relief prints from them.
Paint-Theres a ton of paint and rust on the outside of the container that can be taken away or used somehow, rubbings? scratchings? etc

Look back for more to come,
daniel