On the Job: Day 46, 8-17

Yesterday we pulled paints and lights- today we pulled more paints and ladders. Today might have been the last time I ever leave the building before construction is completed. Tomorrow will be our last day working, but since I can't make it, I've asked Lance or Luke to take a few photos for me again. Tomorrow will consist of final touch-ups on the last box (which Lance and I helped with earlier today) and plastic-wrapping the entire seventh floor (which requires moving the scaffolding from box to box). I took three photos today. All of them while I was leaving, one was too black to make out, the other was blurry. A poetic way to end this adventure since the whole thing practically moved too fast to record with any degree of accuracy or justice. Cheers.

On the Job: Day 41, 8-10

Another day at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Still working on touch ups. Micah and I are... well... still working in the Doom Box. I think the restart number in that box is at the minimum 5 at this point. So far so good, except for the spot that peeled... *twitch* but we fixed it...? Grr. 

There was a water main that broke. We couldn't clean our brushes out today, no big deal, but it could suck if it's not fixed tomorrow. 

I took lots of video today. I don't know when I'll get it up. I'll keep you posted. Ha, pun... posting on a blog.

On the Job: Day 37, 8-3

We are officially on touch-up mode. Most of our crew has been spending a lot of time on floors five and six working on final touch ups in those boxes. If I had to make a prediction, I'd say we will be done by the start of school (Sept. 23) easily. That being said, that prediction will only come true if the darn boxes stop peeling. Micah and I should be working in our box again- keep your fingers crossed for us that this is the last time we have to finalize it. I was working on a box today where I taped off sections to be repainted and left myself little notes as to how I wanted to paint it- such as the "By (insert poorly drawn hand here)" notes.

On the Job: Day 32, 7-27

NPR show didn't happen this morning. We got bumped again to either tomorrow (Wednesday) or the day after (Thursday), same time, same place, different day.

Micah and I finished our box today! As we were peeling off the LAST piece of tape however.... one tiny little spot started to bubble. I called Dan over and by the time he was through, half of our wall had peeled off. There is so much compound on the walls (which was used to smooth out the plaster) that the paint just peeled right off, almost in a solid sheet. It made me wince to watch. So now, instead of the box being finished today, we'll be lucky to have it done by Friday. It was sad.

On the Job: Day 28, 7-20

Micah and I started in our  new box today. We got some "It's a Boy! Blue" and "this is what key lime pie should look like" on the walls. As I was taking the tape down around the it's a boy, we had some major peeling issues yet again. Dan came and did some patch work, it's going to be a slow recovery for that spot. Hopefully that's our only rough spot on that wall though. Really, really- hopefully lol. I realized just wrote an entire narrative about our box and then had a random picture of Luke thrown into the mix down at the bottom there haha.... Oh well. While driving to the Kauffman Center this morning I was behind a guy in a pickup truck. Most men that have pickups can be spotted transporting a dog in the bed. This guy had two geese. Don't know what was up with that really. Made my day a bit happy.

On the Job: Day 23, 7-13

Finished my Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Cat Tongue Pink sections today... If that green hasn't been named I think I'd like to call it Sick Casper, it was kind of a ghostly green. Going to be working with a white tomorrow, which is a HUGE part of that bay so that should be cool. It is official that we have paint on all floors on both sides, though not in all boxes but I'm sure that will come soon enough. I'm listening to a bit of David Bowie right now. Don't know why that's important to mention, but it happens. We're still working on fixing one of the bays that had been having MAJOR chipping issues with the paint/gesso, but we're hoping to have solved the issue. I found out we have a Pinkey and the Brain pink today, which excited me and got a certain theme song stuck in my head. Overall it wasn't a horrible Tuesday.

Lance - just some photos

So a lot of us take photos while we're working on the site, on our way to the site driving, or even walking up that semi-tiny extensive super long walk up the hill. Just thought I would share my captures.





The sky was pretty awesome today.



Looks like you did make it in the photo guy...haha



Done painting at the Kauffman.
Wind blowing through my hair.
The sun is out.
LIFE IS GOOD!

On The Job: Day Eighteen, 7-6

Not too much happened today. Not much time for photos. Cheers.

On the Job: Day Fourteen, 6-29

We have at least five boxes done as of today. Nice, sweet, fan-tas-tique. 

On the Job: Day Nine, 6-22

Tuesday, I took video footage instead of photographs. It will take a while to get all three clips on Vimeo to put on here but I'll get them uploaded as I can.

Kauffman Mural Tour: Part One

Kauffman Tour, Day Nine: Part One from Abby Gallagher on Vimeo.

Part Two:

Kauffman Tour, Day Nine: Part 2 from Abby Gallagher on Vimeo.

Part Three:

Kauffman Tour: Part Three from Abby Gallagher on Vimeo.