Sheffield Live Project

Don’t worry…

livewhirl — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:16:40 +0000

…if you missed out on our presentation, or you didn’t get a chance to come to the Whirl in the Woods, you can watch our videos here.

The Making of the Whirl in the Woods…

The Event video…

More Images from ‘The Whirl in the Woods…’

livewhirl — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:48:28 +0000

We began building the event on Wednesday 7th November, and we did not count on the ground being so hard to break!

But this is the heart of the home a mere 2 and a half days later, after a serious amount of toil! The stove looked particularly good…

Heres a shot of our apple shelf to the left and the vegetable shelves on the back screen

The shadows looked particularly effective in the early evening!

The Event

livewhirl — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:38:51 +0000

The Whirl in the Woods event was yesterday afternoon. The morning was pretty hectic but everything seemed to fall into place. By 2 o’clock everything was ready and all we had to do was take up our positions and wait for the first visitors to arrive. By 2.30 the place was full of people. The mulled wine and warm apple juice went down very well and everyone seemed to be impressed and inspired by our work.

Here are a few photographs from the event.

The Threshold

India behind the canvas screen,

The washing line.

And a few night time shots.

At 6pm the event closed and with the help of the handspring guys and a few helpful visitors the whole site was cleared in under 2 hours.

Overall the project was a great success. Well done everybody.

A quick update

livewhirl — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:34:11 +0000

Here is a quick photo update for you.

The first screens are falling nicely into position on the site. Suddenly they no longer look huge and threatening. Once they are in position on site they will do the job they were designed to do perfectly.

…Stunning…

Rachel, Martin and India are camping out on the site tonight to protect our precious screens. The rest of us are slaving away in front of our computers preparing the presentation for tomorrow morning.

In the critical zone…

livewhirl — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:34:54 +0000

Another week, another day on site. And a cold and at times drizzly one too…I started off the day with one jumper and ended the day with three as well as an anorak. The uber complicated screen was finally finished by Dave and Andy, as well as the remaining ‘canvas’ screen. The completion of the screens waa greeted with muted celebrations by the team:

Work is progressing well on the shower tray (India) and the frame for the threshold (Dave and Martin). Heather is doing a stirling job stipping paint from the door in preparation for sanding, always patient, never complaining (helped by Andy). The once ‘under threat’ canopy is now definitely happening, worked on by Juliet and Daniel (who wins the daily award for biscuit provider…we even had sweets as well!). Rachel has perfected the art of the ‘chisel schwisel’ and is making shelves to hold apples (why? you may ask….come along on Friday to find out). The pod is partially clad in very sexy white lycra…

…hopefully more can be found to finish the job.

All being well, tomorrow will be the final day of all out construction at the sawmill, with installation on site beginning on Wednesday. And yes, we are definitely camping…Wednesday, Thursday and Friday!

Photographs

livewhirl — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:54:11 +0000

Papa Lazarou says “Don’t worry Dave, the drills will work next week.”

This frame was a pain to build. It’s nearly there though.

The strippers

have resorted to using fire.

It was all going so well….

livewhirl — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:48:55 +0000

With the end of the screen building within our grasp, the team turned up on site bright and early to complete a hard weeks graft at the sawmill. We had two frames to drill and screw together, and following our personal best of three full frames in a day, that seemed like an easy task to end the week on and go out on a high.

Until….

‘The drills bust!!!’

‘Ok, thats fine we have another drill, lets keep going’

One Hour later:

‘The second drills bust!!!!!!!!!!’

‘ok we have no more drills….’

We then spent the afternoon rewiring a drill and generally cursing our bad fortune. Also more interestingly, half of the team were attacking an old door with a blow torch! pictures to follow…

So with darkness closing in and the swarms of evil flying biting bugs descending on us, we had to admit defeat.Once again, so close and yet so far…

We may be beaten and brusied from a punishing week at the sawmill, but when Monday comes the final battle to build ‘The Whirl in the Woods’ will commence, and we will be running on ‘MAXIMUM DRILLAGE!’ ,who will win? tune in next week to find out!

Teaser

livewhirl — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:22:42 +0000

A few eye-level images of the design in 3d!

News from back at the ranch (arts tower, that is)

livewhirl — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:04:19 +0000

Cool, good work guys! Looking good. I wonder if we should think about staining the frames with something so they go a bit darker to match the slats – surely we could find some nice cheapish woodstain from somewhere? What do you think?

The news on the document front is that we have decided sections and sub-sections, divided these in 3 and are each looking after 1 chunk. We have an InDesign template on the go so and are beginning to churn out pages. Lots to do!

Today

livewhirl — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:54 +0000

Today we completed three more screens. As you can see, the team worked well past sunset.

Note: It is very difficult to see your pencil marks when someone is standing in front of the spotlight.

Me and Dave also managed to build the frame for the pod. It was a little bit wobbly, but hopefully when we cover it in lycra tomorrow, it will be fine. I just can’t wait to see it sitting up in that tree!