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Kuniko Vroman from FUSE/CADRE at San Jose State

Sam and I are going for a walk around San Jose today. We are going to attempt to walk 14 miles in homage to the walk that was taken to pick up mail for the residents of Home, Washington

Thanks Wikipedia!

Our blog for the project: http://www.an-archivist.org/toolsheddays/

Red76 is in San Jose for the 01’s Festival

This photo is from the 2006 01’s Festival Photo Gallery Karaoke Ice photo by Soda Spuds

The group has been working all year long on some freaking amazing projects. The festival events outline that we are proposing here is only a small snippet of all the work that Sam Gould, Gabriel Mindel-Solomon, Laura Baldwin and countless others put into this years projects.

Background information on Toolshed Days can be found at http://www.red76.com/pleasetext.html

Here is the tentative schedule of events

Day One – (Wednesday, June 4th – starting in the early a.m. at Montalvo) A long walk into (more likely around) SJ [from Montalvo] wherein people may join us, or meet us at our destination. The walk will parallel the walk members of Home had to take after their post office was shut down due to the mailing of “obscene materials.” Homeites had to walk to the Lakebay post office, the next town over, to deliver the newspapers they published, and any other mail they wished to send out of the area.

When we arrive from our walk into San Jose we’ll meet at a destination to be figured on later. We hope to talk about how far people will go to disperse information, and what is, and how do we, value the information we tend to disperse so ready nowadays.

Day Two – (Thursday, June 5th – throughout the day, various locations around San Jose) We will be setting up a mobile portrait studio that we’ll make available on street corners around San Jose. A sign will read, “Free – Home Photo Studio.” We mean Home, Washington, and Second Home, of course. We’ve printed up a 8ft. x 6ft. full color vinyl banner featuring a photo of Joe’s Bay taken in Home, Wa. People can get their photo taken as if they were in/at Home. We’ll e.mail them the portrait. At this time we’ll be able to give them copies of the Home edition of the Journal of Radical Shimming and direct them to the Second Home project.

Day Three – (Friday, June 6th, 5pm – at the laundromat up the street from Dakao [sp?]) We are planning a Skype Laundry Lecture talk with Steve Lambert and Jeff Crouse (two fellows over at Eyebeam in NYC) who built out the letter generator for Befriend a Recruiter.

Day Four – (Saturday, June 7th 3pm – Caesar Chavez Park) Aaron Hughes, the Great Lakes chapter head of Iraq Veterans Against the War is flying out from Chicago to take part in a presentation we’ll set up in Caesar Chavez Park, across from the museum. The presentation will include other vets discussing their recruitment and war-time experiences, discussions about the IVAW, and Aaron and I will be discussing the Befriend a Recruiter project and the role and available use of the mock-recruitment center in Second Life.

Apart from these activities we plan on doing a lot of work on the spot, setting up Liberty Hall’s wherever we may be to have impromptu discussions regarding themes raised in conjunction with the ToolShed Days ideas.

We’ve incorporated a blog within the ToolShed Days website to chronicle all of this chatter, as well as install means to upload on the fly – such as a cell phone mp3 interface wherein we can “call-in” to the ToolShed Days blog with current thoughts and post the audio. And, of course, we have the 800# for people to know where we are up to the minute for them to come and join in on the conversation with us.

will go here dammit!