Rare Speckled Elephant for Lexi
London, February 2006.
Gondola Bar design for the Box
Bar design for the Wonderbox, ends up looking a little different after the buildout. Quick sketch.
PYGMY GYTAR
Journal from 2004 trip to the Congo to see the mountain gorilla and to track down Dini Din, the man who saved my life 16 years earlier. With Danielle Hubbard. I was in Florida with her father when she was conceived. Daddy Wade and I had driven down from the Imperial City with the proceeds of our high school sandwich shop.
Madagascar expense record
For 1987 journey with Stephen Correl to Ambila Lematso on the east coast of Madagascar. I love keeping these detailed records of costs and locations.
Chez Scattoloni, Eagle Landing
Sketch for Mario Scattoloni's daughter of an eagle's claws snatching at something now lost from memory. Barcelona, with Halldora Markusdottir.
Sketch of Albert Camus
Drawn at age 14. From a biography of the writer. Pencil.
Office at the Wonderbox
Different work stations for different tasks, a critical feature of the past two decades. Blue read about Carl Sagan's insistence that different types of work needed different desks and chair types. "This way, wherever I'm sitting or standing, I know what I am supposed to be doing," says Blue, "And only one of these computers can be connected to the Internet. It's too easy to avoid working without financial incentive, i.e., on art, and the temptation of the cats playing the pianos on YouTube must be resisted by not having the videos available at the click of a mouse."
Script for Teresa Nabais movie
For her movie about traveling alone to Afghanistan, Blue interviewed Teresa Nabais, Montreal photographer. He then transcribed some of the ideas in a subtitle format and then had Teresa write the same script in Portuguese. Her voice-over was then recorded in several takes, and her beautiful movie "My Own Private Afghanistan" was the result.
Notes for Creation 24
The first day of planning during a meeting with Alana Nason that led to the event Creation 24 at the Wonderbox.