Date: March 31, 2001 Location: Steve5's house, San Francisco Note-taker: J.D. Notes URL: http://www.bianca.org/events/bm2001/notes/2001-03-31.txt RCS ID: $Id: 2001-03-31.txt,v 1.1 2001/04/04 20:45:11 jdfalk Exp $ These notes are no longer in the order taken, but instead in an order that kinda makes sense when reading it. Maybe. MOBILE SHACK ------------ We want a mobile shack! We'll swoop down on other peoples' camps, cheese them for a while, and zoom off at a stately five miles per hour. There was talk of putting a videocamera on the mobile shack, which would transmit (somehow) to a projector back in the stationary shack. After much discussion and debate (mostly about pizza), it was decided that the mobile shack will be a flatbed truck, either rented or purchased. There's easy parking in Oakland; Imber will coordinate moving the truck once a month to avoid street cleaning tickets. The truck will be decorated heavily, probably with wood and EL wire, including a visible classic shack shape. To reduce truck rental costs, this truck can carry many of our supplies and maybe also haul a trailer full of other supplies. The trailer could be left behind at the stationary shack, or it could be part of the mobile shack setup. The mobile shack creation team is not yet defined, but from interest levels at the meeting I'd guess Freeform, Brent, and probably Mike K. (though he wasn't in attendance.) We need to find a truck driver (DTodd?) for the trip out, and train others to drive it on the playa. STATIONARY SHACK ---------------- The shack is a lounge. Other people do circuses and stuff. Last year the shack was too open. This year we should have nooks. At first the thought was to make nooks simply by arranging couches, but it evolved towards making actual walls out of bubble wrap (rachel knows where to get it in bulk), lights, and fabric. Couches! Lots of talk about home-made couch substitutes as well, but we want standard couches too. More lights. Better electrical plan. The people working on lighting and electrical shouldn't also be doing a million other things in the first couple days. (More on teams below.) We'll use shadecloth (as seen on the roof in '99) for the sidewalls of the shack, instead of fabric. The kitchen and the DJ booth will be inside the shack again this year, not outside in the rain. Imber volunteered to crack a whip and make sure the shack is put up correctly. Christina and Laurie want to work on the bubble walls. Brent wants to help with lighting, Imber wants to be a gopher for electrical. KITCHENS -------- There will be both a mobile kitchen and (after further discusson) a stationary kitchen. Mobile kitchen will be fairly minimal, just enough for half a day or so of grilled cheese and salty snacks. Cold-ish storage will be back in the stationary kitchen. The stationary kitchen will be decorated to make it look all homey and stuff. Kitchen team includes Christina, Wendy, M. Food team includes Jenifer. MUSIC ----- DJ booth will be in the stationary shack, transmitting via old-fashioned ANALOG radio (possibly with digital as a backup.) Mobile shack will be tuned into bianca radio (possibly using the made-up callsign KETA?) Jim P. has the radio now, and it worked the last time he tried it. It needs an antenna, which should be mounted on the roof of the shack. Guest DJ's will be subject to the following propoganda (on signs, etc. around the DJ booth): "play something different" "bianca loves to be surprised" "shackgroove is a state of mind" Florida has become the canonical example of a place where boring house music gets played in clubs. Todd will talk to Rob about using his sound again (very likely, Rob enjoyed hanging with us last year.) Sound setup team seems to have defaulted to Todd and J.D. again. We also discussed the need to have more people with the ability to adjust the volume and debug issues. Paul and Jim P. will handle the radio. MONEY ----- Mama Jenifer says Papa Stephen will be the treasurer. There's about $1,000 from Shackgroove to start us off. Todd and J.D. currently have hold of that money. STORAGE/YARD SALE ----------------- Storage is $150/month, and bianca.com won't pay for it anymore. We will take up a collection to cover it for May (because the yard sale is May 19th and 20th), then maybe move to a smaller storage space (still supported by donations.) Couch storage is needed -- is the Roses' basement available again? Laurie wants to start collecting couches now. Freeform, Imber, and Laurie have volunteered to sort through storage before the yard sale. Freeform, Imber, and J.D. are on the yard sale team. Houseness needs shackgroove DJ's (no scaring away the customers) for both days of the yard sale. FUNDRAISING ----------- Possible fundraiser at Dolores Park -- somebody (Laurie?) should check on permits & dates. Ann will follow up on t-shirts. Stephen will be hit up for t-shirt designs 'cause he's cool. Shackgroove party/fundraiser (maybe at Spot's again) May 25th, and some time in July, because we made so much money at the last one.