This whole week has been rainy.
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The weather makes up, a little bit, for the long drought of the past years.
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Workshoppers and agriculture crewmembers dig trenches for the irrigation lines along peach trees in the orchard next to the paulownia garden.
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Workshoppers use pick and shovel to dig the trench. The chicken is looking for a treat of worm. Uzair Quraishi (left) and Chelsea Berry (right).
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Exit 262 of Highway 17, the Black Canyon Freeway between Phoenix and Flagstaff, leads into Cordes Junction. The little Texaco station in Cordes Junction is a familiar road-sign to residents and visitors. To anybody calling for directions, it has been, 'turn left at the Texaco'. It came as a surprise to see it closed for business.
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This backhoe operator performs amazing gymnastics with his machine, to dismantle part of the roof structure.
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A few days later only the roof remains.
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The construction crew is plastering the ceiling in East Crescent Unit 6. The crew wears plastic suits to protect their clothing. Gabriel Hendrix mixes the plaster in a plastic barrel (Left). John Loughran smoothes plaster with a trowel, a tool used to apply plaster (Right).
[Photo & Text: Mirelle Packer]
Beth Erfourth takes a brief moment to pose with her plastering tools while working on the platform.
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Students of Kachina Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona, visit Arcosanti and experience the silt cast workshop. The students learn the silt-cast technique by designing their own plaster tile.
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Some students are sifting the silt for the next workshop, after they have finished their silt cast design. One of the instructors, Jim Huth, explains the silt-technique to the students.
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The wall for the fish tank of the aquaponic system in the camp green house is poured. The construction crew has moved the concrete mixer and raw materials for concrete to the camp green house area.
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Each batch in the concrete mixer makes 4 wheel barrels of concrete each time.
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February workshoppers work hard, shoveling sand and gravel for concrete. Sean Sciubba (left), Anita Punja and Haley Byrd (right).
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The concrete is poured into the formed wall.
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Construction crewmembers and agriculture crewmembers work together in the limited space of the green house.
Concrete is shoveled out of the wheel barrel in to the narrow frame.
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From Seattle Washington, The Dead Science and Parenthetical Girls performed what they call freaky jazz-pop with cha-cha rhythm in the octogon this past week. Shown in this photo is Parenthetical Girls who opened the show. Parenthetical Girls played some very avant guard rock with a strong Phil Specter influence.
With their drummer gone Dead Science performed as a duo. Recently their drummer had a child and was unable to tour with them. To compensate the bass player, who also played drums with Slender Means added percussion on his upright bass. Both bands were really talented musicians and contributed a cabaret feel to the octogon. After playing the octogon both bands are hoping to take time off from touring to stop at Disneyland in California.
[photo: Brad Crutchfield]
Welcome to Today@Arcosanti the replacement for daily progress. Upgrading daily progress to this new format brings many new features. Entries are now searchable with the search link on the right and indexed by category as well as date. We also now support RSS with a link on the bottom of the page. There are a number of news readers out there that will let you browse RSS content. Here's one for Mac OSX. Unfortunatly at this time we only have the old daily progress available in it's orginal format. In time we may find a way to migrate daily progress to the new format. For now historical Daily Progress can be found in the featured links box.
In addition to Today@Arcosanti we now have a new online store. Currently we have a number of books available by and about Paolo Soleri. In the future we will be offering some materials from the Soleri Archives. We have a limited number of silk screen bridge prints which haven't been available before.
Any comments are appreciated and can be directed to webmaster@arcosanti.org
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Welcome to the February, 2004, Workshop!
From Left: Uzair Ahmed Quraishi, Haley Kristin Byrd, Anita Punja, Chelsea Berry, Ryan Laska, and Sean Sciubba.
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The concrete fish tank slab for the Aquaponic System in the camp green house is poured. Construction crew and Agriculture crew work together to complete this project.
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The bottom slab of the fish tank has to cure before the walls can be poured.
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During the cold winter, a lot of agriculture work is done inside of the greenhouse. Agriculture crewmembers, Lynn Burnett and Brad Crutchfield, are pealing and cleaning garlic cloves to make garlic powder.
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Garlic cloves will be dried and crushed into powder form. Then sold at various farmers markets though out the year.
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Corey Frendberg took charge of the woodshop in October, 2003. One of his recent projects is to make new shower grates for the camp bathroom (right).
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One of the big ongoing projects in the agriculture department of Arcosanti is to make an Aquaponic system inside of the camp greenhouse. Agriculture crewmembers have been digging a big square hole into the ground of the greenhouse to make a concrete fish tank.
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