days 43/44
Yesterday we had the first more or less intense prepare-the-exhibition-now working day, after the visit at Oris' place. We got some meal at the czech restaurtant in the afternoon (greasy french fries vs. alcoohol). Nick started more or less seriously with drawing, Julien was continuing previously started video work, bedtime was at 7am today. After 2 hours of sleep we met Marianna for serious talks about painting walls in the exhibition space as well as some technical questions about tools... and hooray: the Warsaw maps finally arrived! After some meal in the castle restaurtant Nick got really wasted and slept until 9pm while Julien got pissed about Photoshop and tried to fix something for the printing company... unfortunately Photoshop was in polish. Bad luck. We overslept and could just buy some stuff in the 24h-shop around the corner. Now, back in studio, trying to continue. Art is difficult. Sometimes. Video sucks. Always.
Yesterday we had the first more or less intense prepare-the-exhibition-now working day, after the visit at Oris' place. We got some meal at the czech restaurtant in the afternoon (greasy french fries vs. alcoohol). Nick started more or less seriously with drawing, Julien was continuing previously started video work, bedtime was at 7am today. After 2 hours of sleep we met Marianna for serious talks about painting walls in the exhibition space as well as some technical questions about tools... and hooray: the Warsaw maps finally arrived! After some meal in the castle restaurtant Nick got really wasted and slept until 9pm while Julien got pissed about Photoshop and tried to fix something for the printing company... unfortunately Photoshop was in polish. Bad luck. We overslept and could just buy some stuff in the 24h-shop around the corner. Now, back in studio, trying to continue. Art is difficult. Sometimes. Video sucks. Always.
days 45/46/47/48/49
Basically have been working every night, late, lots of organistation in daytime, people to meet, some partys... Wednesday - work. In the evening diner with Jacek at Apetyt, then Pustki concert at CDQ. Thursday - fancy Peroni party (not pierogie): we got the invitation from Alicija, went there to get some free food'n'booze and didn't grab one of those give-away bags with a free i-Pod shuffle in it. How stupid can you be ?
Friday we met Marianna and Łukasz Kaminski for a ride with the GAZ Jeep. Drove over to Praga to meet Pawel from Vavamuffin who showed us "his" favourite Warsaw district. At night some Fashion Show sponsored by Lexus. Very weird and fancy. Free food and booze again. Big thing this time: Helena Christensen walked the catwalk. The next morning was quite hard. Nick had a headache and slept through the day. Work then. Until now. Still work. We're running out of time it seems. But, slowly, the whole thing takes form. Nick did some nice drawings. The video progresses slowly.
Friday we met Marianna and Łukasz Kaminski for a ride with the GAZ Jeep. Drove over to Praga to meet Pawel from Vavamuffin who showed us "his" favourite Warsaw district. At night some Fashion Show sponsored by Lexus. Very weird and fancy. Free food and booze again. Big thing this time: Helena Christensen walked the catwalk. The next morning was quite hard. Nick had a headache and slept through the day. Work then. Until now. Still work. We're running out of time it seems. But, slowly, the whole thing takes form. Nick did some nice drawings. The video progresses slowly.
days 50/51/52
Preparations for the exhibition. We wanted to start the installation at lokal_30 on Sunday, postponed that to Monday and finally really started on Tuesday. Got visit from Vienna: Pete & Christine. And then hard worker Laszlo Kobatsch arrived Wednesday to help us set up the exhibition while curator Marianna was almost freaking out at the sight of the empty space. Nick had to cancel the Liars concert. Almost no sleep and a Vodka shot before going to bed.