12/13/05 - ALMA'S WORKSHOP
Alma Allen, Nancy Pearce, and Fritz Carraldo are still living on the land while in contact with San Bernadino County to finalize plans for the house and studio.
Alma Allen has set up an outdoor workshop to mill salvaged wood and work on sculpture and furniture.
We are extremely thankful to the Venice architect and structural engineer duo, Sophie Smits & Patrick Bambrough, (SMITS-BAMBROUGH, 310-306-5009), for creating the archtitectural plans and engineering, just as they welcomed their new baby Henry, little brother to Harriette.
PLANET OF SOUND (episode 2)
Quicktime, 5.7 MB
2 minutes, 30 seconds
by Nancy Pearce
Buck Moberly Productions
10/1/05 - FRITZ CARRALDO
Alma & Nancy have been abducted by a madman who dreams of building a Shangri-la in a barren desert.Whether the madman proves to be a genius, or just a tyrant, history will decide.
The building site borders a National Park and has major elevation changes, as well as coyotes, rattlesnakes, tarantulas, bobcats, and toe-biting ants. Alma's first assignment was to somehow carve out a steep road from a mass of granite in order to move two landships up to the future building site to serve as base of operations.
With the landships docked, Alma's attention is now focused on setting up a studio, so that he can continue creating sculpture, stools, and furniture, as well as have a workshop for building the house. He'll need it, since he's doing everything himself. The studio should be going by December, 2005 or January, 2006. Now that Alma owns a Bobcat skidloader (as seen in FRITZ CARRALDO), to pick up giant rocks and logs, he will be able to do larger-scale sculpture and furniture pieces.
Watch the documentary here:
FRITZ CARRALDO (episode 1)
Quicktime, 6.2 MB
2 minutes, 54 seconds
by Nancy Pearce
Buck Moberly Productions
(This is a sound film. If you don't hear sound, please turn up the volume on your computer, or check your settings.)
