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I met the Fairy Godmother
I’ve been living in Cape Town, South Africa here and there, on and off again for the past couple years. This last trip (January to early May, 2008), left me thinking – wow. what a fertile place! I met the most incredibly creative people. Just to name a few: Dave Duarte of Huddlemind Labs, an…
Read Morethe Purpose
somebody asked me today what the Purpose of MMA was today… or was it – did I have a philosophy? what were my underlying principles? Let me say that, there is something earth-shattering about the drive behind this; something primal. It’s driven by something extremely intuitive, & I’ve found a few others who have put…
Read Morelots shakin’ at the Monkey
I have some really amazing friends. I met them at a party. Their own party. I didn’t know them yet, but Paige Green gave a slideshow of her work, and Arann played some music. I can tend to be a bit of a tough critic, but I was impressed! This was 3 years ago. Since then,…
Read MoreThe Day the Bus, the food, the facilitators, the live music, the equipment, & the participants Got Stopped by a Big Rig on it’s Side!
Yes – I was on Bolinas beach with the majority of my crew, setting up at rapid speed, anticipating the arrival of the bus load at any minute! I was also waiting on the food, the rest of my supplies, my facilitators, my musician, etc. It occured to me that my cell phone wasn’t getting…
Read Moreit always goes Back to Architecture School
So – let’s take this a step back even further… Architecture School. University of Oregon. 1996-2000. It was an incredible time for me – surrounded by incredibly Creative people. It was truly there that I was so ecstatic to learn that, guess what? Rules (via art) are meant to be broken! This is where real…
Read MoreA Wild Conception
I thought I’d begin with a small description of: The Very First Messy Monkey Event. The only rule was that there were (essentially) no rules. The intent was to: Think Outside the Box, to use unconventional means to experiment with “art” to use large brooms & other wide utensils to stray from any detail or…
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