Tuesday, March 23, 2004

  This evening let's meet at my place at 6-6:30 after work. Some of the topics: Budget- phil Design for a sundeck- greg Camp theme- bark Shipping, truck paperwork- groot I have this years theme camp questionaire printed out but wanted to sit down with a person or two to help make sense of it. After we meet tonight I thought we could venture around the corner to the Black Beetle for some appetizers and a cold one. I'll post a general invite on the Yahoo club to meet at 7:30- 8pm? to brainstorm about the camp theme. -Barkley
8:44 AM

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

  Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by Barkley Anderson () on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 15:35:39 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments: Phil and I met with Eco, who gave us alot of background on the Tanabata festival. Tanzaku are strips of gromited paper representing stars, inscribed with a wish and attached to trees taller than a person formed of a bunch of sawed off bamboo tree tops. Persons write a wish or haiku on strips of paper and they are hung on wish tree. Event is childrens focused fairy tale but all ages participate. It is not secular or over-commercialized. Tanabata the emporer of the Milky Way, Orihime, his weaving daughter, and Hiboshi the suitor and cow herder are the characters- Represented in the sky, the lovers are the stars Altair and Vega. Once a year they meet over a bridge of stars. The Tanabata festival is celebrated during the summer months, not specific to July 7th (though most celebrate on this date) x: 103 y: 7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
3:35 PM

Monday, March 15, 2004

  Submitted by Barkley Anderson Monday, March 15, 2004 at 09:19:08 Lets try to meet in the next week. Anyone who is available and interested in meeting, reply to barkley@barkley.org. I'd like to assemble our team leaders and any camp members to discuss our camp theme and possibly arrange a few work weekends and discuss a west-coast work trip. Posted on the Whistleworks messageboard ( http://barkley.org/whistle/whistle_blog.shtml ) are some early thoughts on a theme based on Tanabata, the Japanese festival of the stars. Let me know what days/evenings/times work best for everyone and I'll do my best best to schedule a meeting date to accomodate. Thanks, -Barkley
9:19 AM

Monday, March 08, 2004

 

Story of Festival of Stars and wishing stars decorations link

Once upon a time, the emperor of the galaxy and his beautiful daughter, princess Orihime, lived on one side of the Milky Way. The princess was a very hard-working girl; every day she wove from early in the morning till late at night, so she never had time to go out and meet a nice man. The emperor, who was concerned about this, decided to introduce a man to his daughter. He chose a hard-working cow-herd called Hikoboshi, who lived on the other side of the galaxy. Orihime liked Hikoboshi at first sight and the two soon fell deeply in love. However, the princess soon started to neglect her weaving. This infuriated her father, and in anger he separated the lovers, sending Hikoboshi back to the other side of the Milky Way. They were so upset that they wept day and night. The emperor, thinking it was too harsh on them, decided to let the couple meet just once a year. So on the seventh day of the seventh month each year he allows Orihime and Hikoboshi to go across the bridge of the Milky Way and meet each other. http://www2.gol.com/users/csr-kts/hiratsuka/tanabata/
4:39 PM

Saturday, March 06, 2004

  Greg, Phil and I met last week to discuss camp budget. Phil has a rough breakdown that will be posted shortly. We discussed an additional theme that could, if done correctly bridge the studio and the Vaults of Heaven themes. Based on the practice of "wishing upon a star" participants would write their wishes (or haiku- ill explain) on strips of paper representing a star and placed inside a dramule capsule, or attached to a piece of bamboo. Also fimo and ceramic clay stars adorned with symbols reprenting peace, love, happiness, fertility, prosperity etc.. (asian symbols or pop culture icons or both) could be fired as general purpose wishes. These pieces could be used for gifting or for decorating a night sky of wishes using a dome as installation space for hanging wishes. The Tanabata festival or Festival of Stars in Japan is a related or parallel cultural practice of wishing on stars based on Chinese mythological story rich with metaphors. There are wish trees for the purpose of people writing their wishes in the form of a haiku and attaching them to metal frame trees like leaves in public displays. Wishes are also wrapped around pieces of bamboo and sent floating down rivers. Also hung from lightposts are colorful woven tassled stars.
11:47 AM

  Check this out: wish_origin.doc

Also a wishing tree and chinese/japanese festival: Tanabata festival
10:19 AM