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Sunday, October 3, 2010
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About Me
- Paul Bruno
- Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Noord Holland, Netherlands
- Been doing all sorts of art stuff for quite a while like studying to be an art teacher, but only worked as one for 3 months. Had a company called Arti Parti-Multi Medial Happy Happenings- for 5/6 years, but got so fed up with all the paperwork I decided to focus on doing things from the heart. Squatted Amstelrust and did 24h Open Sundays for four months with a big Belthane celebration as a Grand Finale. Then squatted 'de Sollenburg', a farm further along the Amstel river where we will soon be celebrating our 3 year anniversary of living off the Main Grid since Belthane 2006. It's a paradise, including Eden's apple trees. I find or get what I need, when I need it. Been specializing in geometrical constructions from bamboo and from that developped: the Power Flower (C) Working hard on manifesting a live size bamboo dome based on the Power Flower's infinite woven structure now. POWER FLOWER'S FIRST WORDS: IO SONO THE PARENT AND CHILD OF THE HOOP, AND THE STRAIGHT LINE. FOLLOW ME TO STARDOME, OBLIVION, AND BEYOND. I AM YOUWOMANITY...
This summer was quite eventful.
ReplyDeleteThe latest good news is I have a "new", working laptop, so I can surf the net and update my blog again.
One of the highlights this summer was Powerflower's woven structure applied to 10 willow trees.
Together with Friso Spel, we succeeded in finding the right procedure for setting it up, and did successfully, but...one had broken at the top and to fix it we had to bring it down again. Then once we had it replaced with a fresh one (all provided by my kind neighbour/friend/farmer Arie), and put it back up, one other cracked, because it had dried in the hot sun. After a few rounds of this we got demotivated and went on with the bamboo version. We experimented with skipping an aluminium crossing point to give the structure some more flexibility, but need longer bamboo's for that.
Then we had some new guests at the farm: Takuri and Pancho from Chile adding some South-American spirit to the soup. We started off fixing the rotting and leaking roof in the top room. I had designed a plan for it back in 2007, then we made a start on it last Belthane, but now, the three of us finally made it happen! The house was never built with the Sacred Sun in mind, and the Grand View of the Round Hoop was totally ignored...untill now:
As the farm is on the West side of the Hoop, and the Sun rises in the East, it will be a spectacular bedroom!!! And then you can go up the little stairs to the roof terras!!! And go down directly into the Secret Garden!!! Just waking up there one morning only would be worth the effort, and even without that morning I loved the experience of getting into this new area of carpentry and concrete stuff. Since 1st of October (3 days ago) Holland has a new anti-squat law and our project here is now officially illegal. Officially-officially it was illegal all the time before too, but now? Same-same, but different probably...