Meetings2007

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Playa To-Do

tick-tock

Board

• bolts and wingnuts for board
• create wheel of adjectives
• create "Lost" & "Found" sign for above board

Dome and Porch

• put together roof/shade for patio

Art Car

• weld, weld, weld
• attach lighting
• Find metal gas cans (Call Aaron/ Emily Re: their gas can)
• Extras to be bought - Josh Allen
  • Spill tarp

Food

• Grocery/Booze shop - Diana & Brigid
• figure out dry ice/ice situation - Vaughn
• Propane (grill)- Jeff

Misc

• bike checks (tires, etc) (Everyone on own)
• buy rebar (lots and lots of rebar)
• review grey water plan (Come back to after board pre-build)
• get 1 more futon
• get 1-2 futon mattresses and/or throw pillows (Meghan and Jeff)
• Get bullhorn-Wade
• Chicken wire -Heather
• Wicking fabric- Meghan, Jeff, Diana
• Water buckets- Carl, Vaughn

Completed Items

here's where you move the items from above that have been completed. It'll give us a sense of accomplishment...or something

• buy metal - Carl & Meghan - morning of 8/4
• decide on logo (stethoscope)
• shower structure needs?
• get more lighting for board
• finalize menu
• Create shopping list
• Create Booze list
• finish extra dome piece
• locate missing dome poles- At Meghan/Jeff's place
• iconify tiles
  • create template
  • paint on tiles
• Center platform (Caleb)
• glue all dome pieces together
• grind and paint car
• stencil of logo for dog tags (Vaughn)
• finalize board pics
• get coolers (check with SB)- Vaughn
• get propane stove (SB?)- Vaughn
• Picture designs on board
  • sketch on board
  • paint
• paint dog tags
• design trailer get-up
• buy porch supplies
• board pre-build
• prettify the seating area
• Sound system
• Ipod
• Propane (camp stove)
• WHO IS DRIVING: Truck/cars.... (Vaughn on 5 ton, Angel's car maybe, Jeff's car, Sunny's car)
• extras to be bought
  • Belts
  • Fuses
  • Light bulb

Food & Drink

Shopping List

Booze List

• Hypnotique (case)
• Citron Vodka - 1 (+1 at loft)
• Vodka - 2 handles (plus 2 at loft)
• Whiskey - 2 jugs (Angel??)
• Tequila - 2 (plus Sunny's 1) (real stuff, not Cuervo please)
• Rum - 2 handles
• Gin - 2 handles
• SoCo - 1 handle
• Cactus Juice - ??
• Champagne - 6 bottles (6?!)
• Misc from personal bars

Mixer List

• cranberry juice (frozen) - 3
• O.J. (frozen) - 5
• Red bulls - regular - 4 cases
• Red Bull - SF - 2 cases
• Gatorade, powdered - 1 orange, 1 fruit punch
• Tonic Waters - 6
• Coke - 6 cases
• Diet Coke - 3 cases
• Sprite - 2 cases
• Pepsi - 1 case
• Hansens - 2 cases

Produce

• Lettuce
• Tomatoes
• Mushrooms
• Onions
• Peppers
• corn (14 ears)

Bread Aisle

• Peanut Butter (crunchy & smooth)
• Bread, 6 loaves (inc. sourdough)
• Tortillas ( 2 BIG pkgs)
• buns (burger and dog)

Meats

• Stew meet, beef
• burgers (2 bags)
• hot dogs (3 packs)

Chips & Dips

• Potato Chips
• Salsa
• Avocados (for guac)

Refrigerated Deli Section

• Cheese, individual slices (50 slices)
• swiss cheese
• Turkey
• Ham
• Roast beef
• butter
• Cheese (Big shredded)
• Sour Cream

Coffee

yes, it gets it's own section

• coffee (have 2 lbs, need 1 back-up)
• coffeemate
• half & half

Hydration/Cooling

• water
• dry ice

Sundries

• batteries (Meghan to check)
• propane (grill) (Jeff)

Bought

• 55 gallon water barrel w/ siphon pump!
• Strawberry Jelly
• Ziplocs
• Foil
• bamboo skewers
• garbage bags
• rice (cous cous ok?)
• baked beans
• Mayo
• Mustard
• ketchup
• Pickles, dill
• tortilla chips
• Tequila (Confirmed-Sunny)
• Lemonade, powdered
• Iced Tea, powdered
• sugar
• powdered creamer
• coffee (2 lbs)
• Beer (tecate) - 5 big cases
• pre-made marinade
• dish soap
• cardboard/paper plates
• Chicken (cubed and whole)
• fritos
• Garden Burgers (not Boca) (1 box)
• paper bowls
• tp (one ply)
• paper towels
• cutting board
• funnels
• sponges
• Bacardi Razz (1 handle)
• emer-gen-c
• propane (stove)
• Tofu, extra firm (2)
• chicken broth
• tomato soup (6 boxes)
• chili
• veg chili

Final menu

• Monday - PB&J, Cold Cuts, Chips
• Tuesday - burgers, dogs, boca, baked beans
• Wed - grilled cheese & tomato soup
• Thur - grilled chicken, corn on the cob
• Fri - Shish Kebobs, rice
• Sat - Quesadillas
• Sun - chili, fritos

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Wed 8/1 Meeting:

Here is what was discussed at last night's meeting. And away we go....

Trailer

• If Chris gets a tow hitch, he'll pick it up on Saturday. If not, we need to coordinate the truck picking up the trailer
• We need to figure out how to art-car-ify the trailer. This includes creating a floor, deciding on how to attach rails, and looking at the chairs/cushions Wade may have access to as a possible seating solution

Truck

• Truck pick-up - Saturday 8/25 morning (who?)
• Truck packing (all hands on deck) - Saturday 8/25 3pm

Travel

• Departing The Brewery at 10am on Sunday 8/26
• Stopping in Reno Sunday night. Stay at Peppermill.
• Walmart trip in Reno *after* we check in for those who need last minute supplies
• NO sit down breakfast on Monday morning. This slowed us down last year.

Last night's work

• all boards are primed
• all boards are braced

Saturday 8/4 (1pm at Brewery)

• morning - metal pick up (Carl & Meghan)
• art car work
  • welding begins (hopefully)
  • grinding body to prep for painting
  • begin painting body (white)
• dome covering
  • cut more pieces
  • begin glueing
• board - start drilling holes?

Wed 8/8 (8pm at Brewery)

• Board pre-build

Other items to be done before we leave:

• count screw/nuts for board pieces (448)
• locate missing dome poles
• finish extra dome piece
• glue all dome pieces together
• buy porch supplies
• iconify tiles
• decide on logo
• paint dog tags
• other stuff that exists that I can't think of right now
• Finalize menu/grocery list/booze list
• Grocery shop
• Figure out cooler situations/dry ice/ etc...

Meeting#Fuck it, here's what's left:

Schedule

updated 8/2/07 PastThursday, July 26th - Art car, shopping lists (food and other communal goods), Center beams in boards, corner braces added, Paint the boards

PastSaturday, July 28th - Art Car, cleaning and setting up weld points

PastThursday, August 2nd' - Art car, mount tiles on board

Sat, August 4th - Art Car-big welding day?

Wed, August 8th - My Birthday. Celebrate me. I'll be out of town.

Sat, August 11th - Mandatory sit-down meeting @ 11am @ the loft! Be there or be an a-hole! Art Car @ 1pm.

Wed, August 15th - Art car...last minute "What the hell did we forget" check

Sat, August 18th - Art Car

Wed, August 22rd - Really last minute "What the hell did we forget" check

Sat, August 25th - Pack the truck, 3pm! Carl begins purchasing stuff he needs for the playa

Sun, August 26th - Depart!!! Carl finishes purchasing stuff he needs for the playa

Mon, August 27th - Arrive on Playa. Woot!!!

Thurs, August 30th - Threesome Thursday )'(

Mon, September 3rd - Start again...  :)

Meeting#Seven, Thursday, May 10, 2007

Theme Camp

• Twice the old board = twice the old fun! Two big boards both at 16' x 9' both in 2 sections for 'easy' transport
• Carl has assured us the plans are still in his head if not on a piece of paper in the bottom of some box in the bottom of some closet
• Chris is worried
• Carl smiled
• Skip the camera tree, save some dough (roughly 4 hundy)
• Heather pretty much hates us and we just got started
• Heather won't pee in a Gatorade™ bottle
• Josh will be giving 'Pee in a Gatorade™ Bottle' demonstrations at next week's meeting
• Jeff is keen on his new sooper-dooper shower structure (told to us via Meghan)
• Meghan insists she can't speak for Jeff, which may be the most shocking piece of news we've heard all year
• Jeff appearently issued a 'Yummy Cupcakes" moritorium on their household, Meghan is breaking it
• Trashistan sux
• Grey water system shall be larger and improvier
• Jeff also has big plans for tent shade
• Will we accept Trashistan within our borders? Details to be ironed out with their ambASSador
• Theme Camp questionarre(sp?) mostly got filled out
• As no one has stepped up to the plate, ie. Jeff is busy and Caleb would kill us all, Carl will once again be foreman for the board construction
• Carl is also going to get a welding rig this weekend and plan out the art car
• Josh and Caleb will finish fixing the brakes this weekend

Art Car

• One of two broken brakes is now fixed. Josh assures us that 100% of the brakes will be fixed...soon

Travel Details

• Dr. Carl will arrive on Sunday...yay!

Miscellaneous Details

• Garage sale: Part II winnings, $746.66
• Bring a pocket fisherman with which to fish for ravers
• Calculate Caleb's blast radius so as to estimate the size of First Aid Kit we'll need

Next Meeting

Thursday, May 17th @ Barbaras @ 9p

Meeting#Six, Sunday, April 1, 2007

Art Car

• V&C will whip up a rendering of the art car form
• We need to get measurements of the trailer so we know what we need to attach a railing to it
• Lots of ball jokes

Art Car Design Sub-Committee Meeting of Design Parameters and Credentials

Barbaras, 10p. Wednesday the 4th.

• We must must must do a MPG test so we know how much fuel to bring. We could also attach pedals to the jeep in the event we run out of said fuel.
• Trailer. That's all I wrote. I think because we need one but that's clear from the earlier item.

Garage Sale

May...in Los Feliz

Theme Camp

The discussion boiled down to a two board setup with a wheel between the two boards. One board would be the stuff we're looking for. When it's found, that tile moves to the Found board. Each board is painted with an artwork. One artwork gets covered up as the other is revealed making it even more arty than just plain art. The wheel in between the two will contain adjectives/modifiers for items marked with a wheel icon. The "finder" must spin the wheel to decide what they have to specifically do/find. Within/attached to that wheel is a prize wheel that people spin to decided their reward. Make sense? Great. Get building.

• Theme camp is now taking resumes for a project manager. If you have gusto, tolerance, attitude, uppity-know-it-all-ism to rival Carl's, and a partially functional brain you're the one we want! Submit resumes to Dr. Carl

Miscellaneous Etc.

• Inventory update: Wade has a stack of 3x3 carpet pieces we can put inside the dome
• A Meeting schedule shall be laid out by me. This way we can roughly plan our future. Roughly.
• Party meeting will take place when Diana thinks it should

eof

Meeting#Five, Mar 7, 2007

Theme Camp Discussion

Final 3:

• Mad scientist camp
• Scavenger hunt
• Management & training

Aaaaand FIGHT!

Step 1:

Eat cheese. A lot of cheese.
There was much discussion of worms in pork. Apparently if you pour coke on pork then worms come out. A committee is formed to study the issue. Tcahchke is determined by the committee of Meghan not to be fat. It is determined that a more impartial committee should investigate.

There was a discussion of death by beer launching catapult. We are reminded that your ticket says you could die.

We are reminded that the art car form has to be handed in before June 30th. But sooner is better. The art car in question is currently stuck on the side of the road in valley village. There is much discussion of the appropriate way to get the car running again. Much opinions were raised, nothing authoritative was said.

Tshcake is not a fan of birds. Or the birds are not a fan of him. Do birds really like anyone? Tchake also does not like Anubis. Rude bastard of a dog. Next follows a discussion of Anubis’ attempts to maintain dominance in the loft. Also his habits of eating cat food. It turns his poo orange. It is determined that tschake in fact does not like birds. An intervention is suggested.

Next discussion of whether or not we are starting the meeting. This motion is not carried as a smoke break is counter proposed. The smoke break is passed and carried.

Step 2:

Discuss theme camps.
How will we vote? Jeff goes to get paper. Pre-discussion on the discussion. Called Josh and got his voicemail. Jeff doesn’t care about our teeny tiny democracy. It is decided that we will vote tonight.

• Mad Scientist Camp:
  • Pros:
    • It could be a lot of fun
    • Fairly wide open
    • We can subdivide projects so small teams could create experiments
    • Can mix “elixirs” to give to people
    • We could wear lab coats
    • We can shock people
    • Hamster wheel – sound and light
    • Jeff wants to incorporate box of pussies
    • Geiger counter
    • Make people eat vinegar and baking soda
    • Make them wear a hamster suit
    • Frenology
    • Measure people
  • Cons
    • They could die
    • Need to be manned
    • Could be less of a group effort
    • Could become too unfocused
• Scavenger Hunt
  • Pros
    • It could be a lot of fun
    • Tried and true
    • Have hardware
    • Become a “thing”/recognized camp over the years
    • We know it went well last year, and we can give more attention to the art car
    • Wonderfully interactive
    • Improve upon last year’s presentation
    • bullhorn
  • Cons
    • They could die
    • We did it already
• Management & Executive Training
  • Pros
    • It could be a lot of fun
    • We get to yell at people a lot
    • Retaliate against corporate world
    • Get to use a lot of corporate speak
    • Anti-theme
    • Get elements of obstacle course involved
    • Water cooler penalty
    • Lot of room to have fun
    • Swivel chair races
    • Could get supplies/furniture for super cheap
    • Filing race
    • Extreme copy and collating
  • Cons
    • They could die
    • Papercut
    • Remind people of life left behind
    • Props could get very pricey
    • Could take up a lot of space
    • Storage
    • Getting props to “storage”
    • Activities may be too cerebral for playa
    • Probably not repeat business
    • Could be hard to wrangle people

Step 3:

Vote
And the winner is Scavenger Hunt.
Further discussion will be had at the next meeting to make this more interesting/better/different from last year.

Homework:

Discuss
Caleb used to find Boy George attractive. “He had womanly hips” - Caleb

Meeting#Four, ??, 2007

Meeting #Four was an orgy of pancakes and mimosa, little to nothing was accomplished

Meeting#Three: February 11, 1007

LA Regional TownHall Recap

• communication
• more events
• workshops
• Singularity/Dark Skies
• Dr Carls Drinks-bar, where?

Chris says:

Wookiee is spelled wookiee

Accounting and Money Stuff

• Accounting meeting: $243.00, garage sale winnings
• Budget committee: Chris, Diana
• Will discuss:

Upcoming

• Next garage sale:
• End of March at Wade's future house
• Saturday, March 31st

'Note: Meghan and Jeff definitely don't fucking mind housing the BM crap'

Poker party:

• Feb 24th
• Charles: DJ???
• Traditional poker party
• $20 buy in
• Lighting
• Doors open at 7, Poker starts at 8, Buy-ins stop at 10
• Evite tmrw
• Reserve tables – Place on Beverly or place Wade knows
• Have RSVP's by Wednesday the 21st
• Poker chips
• Snacky bits
• Beer, wine, some hard alcohol
• Charity
• Food drive: LA Foodbank
• Josh get cards
• Jeff/Meghan Alcohol – serving trays
• Jeff topless bartender
• Chris Costco
• Carl – legal issues

Inventory: write down what you have.

Theme Camps:

Until next meeting...
February 25th, 5pm @ lofty

Art Car

Wade's Jeep is ArtCar!

Meeting#Two: January 7, 2007

Important Dates

• Saturday 1/13 - yard sale @ Meghan & Jeff's - 6am
• Wed 1/17 - BM tix go on sale!!! - 10am PST
• Sat 1/20 - Jeff's Bday Observed
• Sunday 2/11 - meeting @ Wade's - 7pm
• Saturday 2/24 - poker party/fundraiser @ loft - 7pm?

Yard Sale

Where: 1154 North Howard, Glendale, CA 91207
When: THIS SATURDAY 6am set-up, 7am 'opening'
Why: Dr. Carl seed money

The goal is to get money so that no one has to front money for the poker party, and any additional cash goes into the official Dr. Carl fund

Who's in charge of what:

• Jeff - signs for posting around the neighborhood
• Diana - online advertising
• Carl/Josh - getting folding table for set-up
• Vaughn - box o' coffee
• Wade - change
• All of us - for showing up to help, and bringing shit to sell

Budget

Meghan has graciously offered (no, really) to head up the budget committee for this year. A separate meeting will be scheduled to start hashing out our proposed spending.

Fundraising Concepts

To alleviate some of the BM camp costs, we decided to try out fundraising this year. So far we have the following ideas:

Poker Party @ the loft

Saturday 2/24 - 7pm. Games start at 8pm.
Final details to be discussed at the next meeting, but so far:

• Evite - Vaughn will send out at the end of January
• Unlimited buy-ins
• winner gets 30% of the pot
• donating a % to a charity???

Party at the loft

Date TBD
This is just a general party, people buying cups/drinks. We also discussed doing a raffle, so if you can get your hands on cool free schwag, start squirreling it away now.

Possible Charities

(we can brainstorm more later as well):

• BRAF
• Habitat for Humanity

Structure Discussions

Porch

Meghan wants it to rotate. It's not looking good. However, we did talk about having roll-uppable (and downable) shades to control sunlight. Josh has some bamboo-ey roll-up shades that he's donating for the cause.

Dome

Josh is going to look into acquiring used billoard canvas so we can get a jump on the dome covering this year.

Tent shelter

Jeff said he's got this one under control. Everyone gets a spot in the shade except Vaughn.

Theme Camp Ideas

Here's the first go at brainstorming.

• prayer flag tree
  • giant metal tree sculpture
  • people attach leaf shaped prayer flags so we have a complete tree by the end of the week
• Giant boardwalk games
  • skee-ball
  • whack-a-burner
  • milk can throw
• Obstacle Course
• Sexually themed obstacle course
  • dildo wall climb
  • ball pit filled with stuffed cats
• Spectator Volleyball
  • volleyball net set up with bleachers on either side of net. People play from stands
• Climbing Structure
  • giant metal structure that people can climb on
• Bowling Alley
• Punch-a-clown/Be-a-clown theme camp
  • one side of camp is be-a-clown and we dress people up
  • other side is punch-a-clown. we drop people off
  • or we just have stuffed clowns
• Comic Strip Camp
  • Create comic strip wall with either blank boxes, or pictures and blank voice bubbles
  • OR create comic strip with blank voice bubble that people can put their face thru and take pic
• Mad Scientist/Useless Experiment Camp
  • gauge your hamster-tude
• Fingerpainting Camp
  • fingerpaints, canvas, you get the idea
• Apology Camp/ Random Apology Camp
  • People can come and write their apologies to someone and we can deliver them to either the person, or just deliver to a random person. Or we could just grab someone off the street in front of camp and have the person apologize to them
• Letter to myself
  • write a letter to yourself of where you think you'll be at the end of the week. We send out after the burn
• Pet-a-pussy camp
  • a load of stuffed cats
• digital photo mural
  • get old/cheap digital cameras and display pics that people take on a wall of tvs/ giant screen
• scavenger hunt
  • keep Dept of Collections
• Dr Carl's Museum of Oddities
  • similar to scavenger hunt, but people bring items to include in museum

Miscellany

• Chris is taking truck locating duty
• Do we want to do the camera tree?
  • we're completely out of cameras
• Meals - Jeff will head up planning, and we'll split duties at the event
• Bring more extra rebar this year
• Get another sun shower, so we can have one warming while another person is showering
• Inventory - start gathering a list of what you have at your place so we don't double buy stuff. Send it to Diana

Stuff after Di left

• Jeff threw out the suggestion of using a riding lawnmower to tow a flat bed trailer as the art car
• Wade's car:
  • If he can't donate the car to charity he'll donate it to us, his favorite charity
• Tow Wade's car up with a trailer, then switcheroo! Attach the trailer to Wade's car for expanded art car goodness
• Thusly, we need a hitch for Wade's car

Meeting #One: December 3, 2006

I just pasted in the outline from the agenda and notes I took as we chatted

Thoughts/Complaints from last year

• Monies
• Camp
• Other stuff
• Tiles wtf to do?

Complaints

• Food buying-snacks (next year everybody brings own snacks, group food will be just dinner/alchohol)
• Water system was excellent
• Proper tent shade structure
• Front porch-like the rangers
• Improve grey water system
• Camera tree. Do we do it?

Bitch about the new theme, alot

This year: ignore this years theme

• Placement - Eplanade

Fundraiser

*one for us
*one for regionals
*Mid-January garage sale
*January 24th?

• Shade shelter like the rangers
• Budget - do a budget, someone in charge?
• Work list - chore wheel

Art car

Josh give us your truck, or not. Ass.

Camp Theme

• Scavenger hunt again? Add to list of ideas.
• Museum thingy

To do

• Inventory of stuff we have

Peeps

• Amity
• Caleb
• Carl
• Chelsea
• Chris
• D
• Diana
• Jeff
• Josh
• Lyle
• Meghan
• SBS
• Tony
• Vaughn
• Vincent
• Wade

Next meeting

• Come up with viable ideas.
• Garage sale setup
• Sunday nights - January 7th, 8pm - bring stuff for the garage sale to Meghan and Jeff's house.