A quick 10-minute post today. Scrambling to get ready to go to Mexico City for a week...

Just came from a meeting at school with John Peterson, who founded San Francisco-based Public Architecture. A group of students is working with him on an installation going up at the end of January (the reason I went to the Children's Museum a few posts back) to exhibit some of Public Architecture's public space projects. There's a hallway in the Gund Hall lobby that's out of the way, narrow, and not used very much except for service stuff and the few people who take the elevator. We'll be building benches out of recycled materials and placing them in this hallway. (Check out Public Architecture's scraphouse project, a single-family house built entirely out of salvaged materials in front of San Francisco City Hall last year. There are walls made of phone books, chandeliers made of old stoplight lenses and lamps, etc. etc.)

Also try to find sometime this winter to watch Put The Camera on Me. (Or listen to the story at This American Life's website or this URL.) Seven-year-old kids making unbelievable movies with dad's video camera, about Nazi torture, child abuse, and turning gay-bashers gay. Plus, the kind of Machiavellian manipulation and simmering rivalries that you never thought possible from prepubescents.