8 May
2018
8 May
'18
10:13 a.m.
RE lighting let's use broken ballasts as an excuse to pull down working
fluorescent fixtures as spares for other parts of the building. Count me
in to help out with upgrading to LED lighting sufficient to work happily
in this area, Robb! Also kudos to everyone who has worked so far on
cleaning the area and coming up with a great plan to make better use of
the space, not to mention a freakin 3D artistic rendering with a penguin
for scale :)
On 2018-05-04 04:11, Jenny Ryan wrote:
Let's have a meetup to discuss visions, values,
and available resources to build out a community media lab in Omni's basement!
Tonight, the Omni consensed on Art Bison Design Coop's move to the basement and
transition to becoming a community screenprinting studio! Perhaps an ABDC member could
speak to what that might entail for the basement and what would be needed wrt
renovations/improvements?
Afterwards, we initiated a conversation about ongoing ideas over the past many months to
build out a truly inter-collective community media lab for creating rad propaganda, zines,
banners etc:
* Over the past 9 months, there have been many
discussions about, and a good deal of work put into, the basement area formerly known as
Material Print Machine as a potential inter-collective media lab for printing, copying,
button-making, screenprinting, banner-making, zine-making, newspapers etc. Interested
folks who've discussed the idea and/or worked on cleaning and clearing out that space
include Jenny, Robb, Abe, Julian, Needa Bee, Marcus, and others I'm probably
forgetting right now.
** The structure that seems most fitting is that of a working group, open to anyone to
join and help steward and maintain the resources we already have available. The idea would
be to lock valuable materials / supplies in a cabinet and host workshops, media-making
sessions and offer access based on sliding-scale donations to cover
materials/supplies/maintenance costs.
** For more info on the resources we already have
available as well as a proposed layout, see:
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Basement#Media_Lab
Continued discussion in the meeting notes at https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom ... maybe
not mentioned: the lighting ballasts need to be replaced. There are some interim lighting
solution tee'd up beneath the bench dat robb built.
I'D LIKE TO PROPOSE AN INITIAL MEETUP OF FOLKS INTERESTED IN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT
FOR THE AFTERNOON OF SATURDAY, MAY 19TH OR, ALTERNATIVELY, THE FRIDAY EVENING BEFORE IT.
HERE IS A DOODLE FOR ALL Y'ALL BUSY-ASS FOLKS:
HTTPS://DOODLE.COM/POLL/AG7ER35PQKAC5B2A
An initial agenda draft lives here: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/omnimedialab - please
add to it as you see fit! and invite people whom you think may be interested...
<3
Jenny
Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
https://omnicommons.org/kitchen
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