i can dress myself is shooting our very first music video at the end of this month and we would love to include all of our funky friends in a fiendish granny party!
If you are available and would like to participate, please join this event and we will message you with the details as the date approaches.
Thank you all for being ever so lovely. :)
Image of Funky Ones Grahamas taken at Treasure Island Music Festival by Julian Cash Light Photography.
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Our first sighting of Grahama’s House photographed by a Black Rock Citizen at Burning Man 2011!
See how she simply glides across the Playa like a beautiful lavender mirage!
Thank you Aeturnum!
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Grahama’s House by i can dress myself. Produced and engineered by Joseph A. Meyer.
Written for Grahama’s House the Mutant Vehicle, Elephant Bird Camp, Burning Man 2011.
Special thanks to the Funky Ones and Elephant Bird Camp and Burning Man LLC.
We leave for Black Rock City on Wednesday! Check out Grahama’s House at Elephant Bird Camp on Divorce at 7:30
Bradbury & Bradbury creates highly detailed designs that not only have pleasant color schemes, but are also very intricate and lively. Once I stumbled upon this website, I knew I was going to use their designs. They are also located in the bay area!
This is the wallpaper we will be using for the interior of GMAH. It is actually going to be a combination of papers: frieze, wall border, ceiling borders, blocks, ceiling paper, and wallpaper. This will make a complex arrangement of patterns and dimension. Although it will cost an arm and a leg, I believe this addition is an important component to the great GMAH that will really “sell” the concept and tie the whole project together.
Some big things have happened to GMH since we last checked in. All the rope lighting used for accenting arrived, we decided to ignore insurance (fingers crossed) and we got some building done on the damn MV!
Last weekend we worked from noon to 9p on both Saturday and Sunday. We made some really big strides. We purchased pretty much the last of the hardware and lumber we would need to finish the structure. We in turn put the plywood on top to complete the deck and then subsequently installed the linoleum flooring. We then built our railing and finally finalized our roof design. All huge steps. The rail is solid and could support Andre the goddamn giant. A linoleum floor with a rug on top will get slippery with playa dust, but it will be much easier to clean. Anyways, throwing a rug up there will fix any problems anyway. Structurally, all we need to do is build the roof, which has a folding design so it can fit through things like toll booths.
After numerous tickets and a very expensive tow, the truck has been moved to an empty lot in Pleasant Hill and is in the hands of Michael and Antje to look after. This is a bit of a burden for everyone else as our camp primarily lives in SF. But not having to move the thing twice a week and having it out of my hands is worth the trip out there. We plan on working both weekend days all day until the burn as we still have to build the rail, panel the outside, panel the inside, wire the lights, install wainscoating, glue on wallpaper, install the interior floor, build a secret cabinet, set up the sound system, build a ceiling, detail the interior/exterior, put on the siding, etc. There is a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it! Building resumes after 4th of July weekend. Till then!
Just spent about $500 on rope lights and controllers. The lighting is gonna be off tha granny panties!
Insuring a box truck is proving harder than expected
I am at a crossroads for our beloved box-truck turned comfy abode. I had been putting off getting it insured for the past 4 months, but when I got a notice from the DMV to show proof of insurance or the registration would be revoked, I decided it was finally time to get off my ass and just pay up. Of course this wouldn’t be too big of a deal, I would call up AIS and they would find the cheapest insurance provider for me to fork over my cash to. I decided since the burn was coming up soon it was best to just get the insurance and get protected, yet little did I know how hefty of an ordeal I was about to leap into.
Our journey begins with a call to AIS 2 days before the proof of insurance is due (I am lazy like that). We go through the process and I am thrilled to learn that the insurance will only cost $239 for 6 months, all I need to provide is the VIN number of the truck. I quickly realize I do not have it as the title is in the truck itself, which I have also realized I forgot to move last week. Fortunately, I borrowed my girlfriend’s car to drive to work and used that during lunch to find and repark it. Once I get to where I remember parking it, it is nowhere to be found. I drive around all over the neighborhood, assuming my memory might be deceiving me. The more I look the more I panic, as I realized that it might’ve been towed. 2 calls and 4 hours later I have recovered my truck from the tow yard with $810.50 less dollars in my pocket.
I go back to the truck the next day and look on the dash to write down the VIN number since I forgot to bring the truck key with me (and forgot to to get the VIN after I got it back from the inpound). I call back AIS, hoping that we can be done with this ordeal only to find that the VIN does not show up. I start getting worried again and soon discover that the truck is in fact registered as a commercial vehicle, which cannot be changed. What was once $478 for a year of insurance has jumped to $2600!
I decided with few options available to do the following. I will risk not insuring it considering how little it is driven. The consequences being I get fined $200-$500 and have a possible tow. By all accounts this is much less than getting insured. We will soon move it to a lot in the east bay where it will be worked on and where Michael and Antje will watch it in the meantime. There’s a company I found that will insure vehicles temporarily and specifically for Burning Man, so hopefully that’ll work!
I finally submitted the application for Grahama’s House last night. I just had to put the finishing touches on the sketches and sent it off! They feature all our favorite Elephant Birdians, including The Minister of Purpleganda, Get Down Calendar Girl, Thundermouse, and Damsel in Disguise.
