Confirming receipt of this message. I’ve sent camera, the portable HD, and 1 video card along to Renee today via US Post. I had to move 2 weeks ago so I have the other card within my things I will send it along as soon as I recover it. If I haven’t opened a box […]

We just received the chip with the first 5  interviews Ngani has done with people who live/and or work in Larimer. These were the questions that Ngani asked: Could you please introduce yourself? How long have you been living in Larimer? Have you always been living in the same house? Do you own or rent […]

Today we received the videos in the mail and a letter explaining why we hadn’t heard from Ngani since December 15th. We had tried multiple times to call and email her, but she never responded. It wasn’t a good excuse and we decided to terminate our relationship since we needed someone reliable to represent us […]

Call with Eteam December 23, 2010 On Call: Lea, Lena, Renee, Hajoe, Franzy +++++++++++++++ Tech Issues: Hajoe described some logistics issues.  Ngani has shipped the card to them, but it has not arrived yet.  They have Monday Skype calls with her, but this past Monday, there was no phone call.  They are having trouble getting […]

today at 9:00 pm like every week

abbreviated transcription of phone conference Eteam Phone Call December 2, 2010 On Call: Lea, Renee, Franzy Franzy told us that Ngani has done five interviews so far, mostly with older people.  She will be working from Maria’s list to interview more people, including younger people in Larimer.  One interesting thing Ngani reported is that people sometimes […]

We had a great turnout last night for the UGGC Community Gathering. I had 6 more people sign-up to participate in the documentary – which brings us to 12 interested residents! Maria

incomplete transcript of one of the phone conferences scheduled to be held every two weeks 11/10 – 12-10 Eteam and Kingsley Phone Call November 17, 2010 Maria and Ngani met two weeks ago.  Ngani is going to be setting up shop at LA Grocery to do videos from there. Six people were at a Kingsley […]

email from Maria Ngani & I met this morning and we had a great discussion on the video project. She is excited and setting herself up to start working with Larimer community members on the footage. We discussed a few strategy tasks: 1.      I will create a one-page info sheet on the project and a […]

Around noon we gave a short presentation of our work to the to kids of the summer youth employment program at the Kingsley Center. Afterwards we went to Mama Rose’s again and ate shrimp curry and shared a fruit punch. At 2pm we arrived at Meadow street and while one of us was setting up […]

Today we met Renee at 9AM at our house to discuss what had happened so far and to hear what she thought about our approach and the project’s process. Halfway through our coffee, the phone rang and Maria called to let us know that Mr Bankston would be able to meet us at 11AM at […]

At 12:50pm we knocked on the office trailer that is parked in front of the old school building in Larimer. Carlos had sent us this way. He thought it would be interesting to talk to Mr. Emmett Miles who had bought the school building in 2005, developed plans for it and since then uses the […]

We decided to let the lemonade stand rest for two days. Sometimes people start to appreciate things more once they are gone. We used the morning to check out the “waffle shop”, a restaurant, initiated by artist Jon Rubin, which produces and broadcasts a live-streaming talk show with its customers. Before we could enter the […]

We had a late start today, one of us was battling some kind of stomach flu. We arrived at 2:30 pm and set up. Since it was Saturday it seemed like more people were home, so more cars were parked on the streets, two in front of the lot, one of them directly in front […]

We set up our stand around 1:00 pm at the same place as yesterday. Nothing had changed. We could still see the impression on the grass where the table had set before, so we just used the same spot again. It felt vaguely familiar and after we had settled in, routine started quickly. Nothing happened […]

We thought a good start to get a feeling for the neighborhood and its people was to spend time there. So, we opened a Lemonade Stand, that also offered Iced Coffee. We set up shop at 12:30 on a public lot on Meadow Street, near the corner of Paulson Ave. For the first 45 minutes […]

In order to have a base  from where we can operate, and get more insights on what is going on in Larimer, and provide a space where we can meet people, Renee connected us to The Kingsley Association, a community center in Larimer. We were provided with an office at “Imagine Larimer”, an initiative that […]

Thanks to Renee we are back in Pittsburgh for Part Two of this pilot program. The plan is to spend time in Larimer, develop and execute a “test” project before we’ll be leaving again on August 14, 2010 (less than two weeks). We are staying at the “city of asylum” on the North Side of […]

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Since we are making our working process public, the back and forth between ideas and revelations might seem confusing for an “outsider”, but it demonstrates our dialog with the site, the conditions and our ideas. (- And as stated earlier, this process usually happens in the privacy of our studio, now our studio practice is […]

After thinking about the phone conversation and the process in developing a project we felt that we might have made some incomplete statements in an earlier email where we said: – We might start by giving an idea, but only continue, if this idea grows through the input of others. Otherwise it’s the wrong idea […]

In order to get feedback on the first ideas we proposed, Renee organized a conference call with Lea, Lena, herself and us. Here is a summary of what we discussed. From the first ideas we proposed, the Pittsburgh Team liked the “Golf Course” and the “Village” idea. After having discussed the ideas among themselves the […]

We sent the following email to Renee, Lea and Lena. Hello Renee, Lea and Lena, We have been thinking about strategies on how to proceed in developing a project for you and we wanted to start where we had left off at our last meeting. In the second part of the email, we paraphrase some […]