Concrete and rope.. a beginning.

Timescale has begun! Or rather, the art grant proposal for Timescale has begun. Assuming the Burning Man organization agrees to write me a series of very large checks, about nine months from now Timescale will be a reality.  One mile long, and about eight inchees wide (plus, you know, about 50 feet of buffer.. gotta have that line of sight through the Earth's history for adequate humility!)

Last weekend I got together with raindrift  and nicoletbn  and we tied a bunch of tags to a piece of rope, creating a very lovely scale model of the proposed scale model.  This coming weekend, we will build some wooden formwork and begin casting concrete.  If all goes well, we'll wind up with a heavy, imposing concrete box in which to place the rope, upon which to mount the written proposal. The whole shebang will be delivered to the Burning Man offices in a matter of weeks, and then the finger-crossing begins. And the panic. And the joy, the planning in earnest, the stress, the massive coordination, the sleep deprivation, the work juggling, and the complete loss of extraneous social life.

headlouse  says "I love how vibrant you become when you are being creative." And this is just the beginning.