Poll Two

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 36, 8-2

Well.... Our box peeled worse today than it ever has. Is that three or four times where we almost start from scratch? Can't hardly remember. Took some video- Down below. Cheers.

 
Kauffman Center Mural updates Day 36 from Abby Gallagher on Vimeo.

On the Job: Day 35, 7-30

I wasn't here day 35 (Friday), but Luke and Lance were kind enough to get me some photos of the day. The video-grapher stopped by with Mark Salmon to do some interviews.

Kansas City Star

We were showcased in the Kansas City Star this weekend! The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts posted the link to the story (as seen below). You can read the article by clicking here! I also took a picture of Amanda reading the actual article from the paper. Happy reading :D

NPR Story now online

You can click here to read a bit about the story and to listen to the story that aired on NPR yesterday morning (7-29-10).

I sound like a huge dork on the radio. I like that they describe Dan as having "wavy chin-length brown hair and a stubbly beard." Made my day.

Poll One

How did you happen upon this blog?
1- Random Net searching
2- Member of the mural team
3- Heard about it through Abby
4- Read about it in a magazine/paper or heard about it on the radio
5- Other

On the Job: Day 34, 7-29

Pretty uneventful day. Got a second coat of the huge blue chunk up on seven that I had started yesterday. Micah and I are touching up our box again (the one with the hole after hole after hole) and that seems to be chugging along still.... Uh..... That's all really. I took tomorrow off to go home and celebrate my mom's birthday in St. Louis so I won't be documenting day 35 tomorrow, but I asked Lance to take some photos though so the day still gets documented. Our NPR story aired this morning- did anyone catch it? I'll post the link tomorrow when I find it. I think it's exciting that after our first radio interview aired we got our first votes for "read about the blog or heard about it on the net." Sweet- keep telling your friends about us and don't forget to check out the links to the other blogs our kids work on! Cheers. 

On the Job: Day 33, 7-28

Cha. I hate painting with blue. The seventh floor is DEFINITELY at least 10 degrees hotter. I know I've said that before....... but it's still true. The end :D

Blog Business Cards

So............. I was feeling a bit creatively starved today..... and bored.... and I... Well..... I made a business card for the blog. Might sound a bit crazy, but this way I can hand them out to my friends or family members that as me about the blog and they can have something to remember it by. I know, I'm crazy. I'm okay with that. Don't be jealous, if you're nice I might give you a few. :D

Condensed Universe, same color scheme as the original blog banner (Designed by Micah Barta for those of you that have forgotten). I printed them on a heavy stock paper but they're not as stiff as card stock. Didn't think I should go OVERboard with what they're printed on since most people would pitch them anyway.... though I did consider laminating them... hmmm.  The image that has the glare is more accurate color-wise, the others look pretty dark.

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.

Process book meeting #4, 7-26

So, we all met at Barnes and Noble for our Process Book Meeting last night. We looked through books and magazines to find inspiration for our layouts, color schemes, and possibly type face choices (though we seemed to have settled that matter already. Mo did well). I am working on color schemes and though I like the bold colors of the first image and the fox image below, the woman in sepia tones kind of spoke to me. The idea of having a set of muted colors with one pop of color seems pretty logical considering how saturated most of our photos will be (there are a TRUCK LOAD of colors in this mural). It was a good meeting, we have a lot to think about now.

The rest of us were not as bored as Lance.

On the Job: Day 31, 7-26

The peeling paint issue that had arisen in the box Micah and I have still been working on seems to have been averted for the time being (knock-on-wood for you suspicious types). We are hoping to finish the box up tomorrow which may or may not happen, it will be a close call. I managed to make it to floor 8 today to take pictures of the glass (photos below of course), as well as a few other random things.

Tomorrow (being Tuesday) morning you should tune into NPR (89.3 for those of you in KC) and check out the story they interviewed us for. They're playing the story at 5:30a, 730a, and 930a. Wednesday the story will be up on their website KCUR.org (in the archives). I'll post a tangible link Wednesday when I find it.

Sheesh- I used a lot of parentheses today. (Hoo. Yeah. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing. (Not true, but you get my point)). Uhm..... guess that's really all I know for today.

PBM: Tonight

Process book meeting tonight: We're meeting at Barnes and Noble on the plaza at 7 tonight to look through some existing books for ideas/inspiration. We will not be meeting on Friday since Micah and myself will be busy/out of town so I guess our next meeting will be held a week from today (Monday the 2nd I think). More details to follow.

Process book meeting #3, 7-22

Well... for the first half of our meeting we talked about owls... and then we talked about birds in general... but the owls took over again and we continued talking about them through one strawberry smoothie, a cup of soup and half a sandwich later...

No no, just kidding. We actually got some very important decisions made tonight which will really help us get cracking on this book. We assigned some jobs and discussed important specifications for the jobs. We're excited. Still. Again. Always.

On the Job: Day 30, 7-22

Uhm. Er. What?

Micah and I painted a lot today. I washed my brush out at least ten times, which is a new personal record.

Don't know if any of you knew this or not, but we have no running water inside of the building. We have three buckets that we fill with water every day that we use to wash our brushes in. Then, at the end of the day, we have to go dump the buckets, rinse them out, and finish washing the brushes outside with a hose in a pile of sand. We call it "going to the beach." It's hot like a beach, but generally noisier and smells pretty bad since it skirts the port-a-potties.

We are NOT working tomorrow, so day 31 will be on Monday and you probably won't get a post from me tomorrow. Note: I did say "probably."

We're having the third process book meeting tonight instead of tomorrow since we're not painting tomorrow. Guess I'll post those pics later too haha. Wow, I'm a blog-aholic. Oh well. By the way, we just hit 20 followers! Woo!

Have a good weekend. Cheers and all that jazz.

I know I spelled Dillinger wrong, it was a long day.

Dan had a delayed reaction with getting/sending out this email so we'll have to wait until tomorrow to get the online link to the radio bit.... Looks like that "probably" is already decided upon.