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on October 30, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
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Dormer + Dormer + Dormer + House = Awesome by Friends of Spaulding Court
What better way to address crime and build community than to stack a dozen old dormers on an old house?
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107% funded $220 pledged
- 8 backers
- Funded Nov 01, 2010
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on August 15, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
Posted project update #6hi yall! dlux report #6!
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on June 10, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
Posted project update #5aaalmooost theeeere
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hey we hope yall are well and everyone's having a good summer!
ok so we're hard at work preparing everything for our imminent house guests / visiting artists / interns / weekly influx of local produce! we now have a rocking donated full view refrigerator, a healthy serving of new water service, and have started getting in touch with many of our inspiring neighbors, friends or other local heroes about coming over for dinner when the session is in full swing so that our visitors can broaden their scope a little and spread their new (detroit red-) wings a bit. go team! anyway lots of work now = better experience for our residents!
on another positive note, someone (trumpets please) just led the charge in tearing down the crooked rotting garage to make space for (BIGGER TRUMPETS) a newly donated trailer! it's a kind of contemporary covered wagon made by a current cranbrook architecture student named Aaron Jones. and you may ask just who will be the lucky occupants of this mobile treasure? we will all have to wait and see! we love the attached photo, but maybe you've already seen it on Sarah's fb
and Sarah Cox, our only student resident (MFA candidate SVA, NYC), is now officially in the D and already interviewing people towards her thesis - go Sarah! and only a few days in but she's already helped out around the studio too, in preparations for some re-plumbing of the bathroom, opening up the stairwell to upstairs to brighten the downstairs and of course helping cram what was left of the garage into a dumpster - wow! what can we say writers are powerful people
one thing worth mentioning - anyone have troubles with amazon payments? did it work smoothly? we got word of someone having trouble, but since word came through amazon, we're not sure what happened at all. please let us know if we need to resolve anything, make some calls on your behalf or whatever.
oh yeah - and our 'new' countertops ...see photo ... we were super inspired by this kitchen built in the 1600s in the south of france (fully cantilevered wraparound stone countertops) during our travels way back when and decided since we're about to start cooking for about 12-16 people average per night ... maybe we need more workspace in the kitchen! so the lumber left over from last years' attic remodel (think gordon matta clark) was put back into service downstairs. fun!
well ... less than a week to go! more pictures and such forthcoming after we meet a few more of our house / studio preparation deadlines = we are up to our eyes ... with progress ... and well-sanded and sealed burn marks in what used to be the living room!
AND of course none of the kickstarter funding has even been touched yet, so you can anticipate many more updates once we're actually in full swing and actively researching and documenting this whole process.
more soon, and thanks again!
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on May 17, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
Posted project update #4YOU DID IT!! WE DID IT!!
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on May 15, 2010Funded!
DFLUX.ORG • DETROIT RESEARCH STUDIO by the brumit / wagner team
DFLUX.ORG is a multi-disciplinary residency program created to explore & celebrate Detroit through creative social engagement, public art and radio.
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105% funded $4,209 pledged
- 64 backers
- Funded May 15, 2010
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on May 6, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
Posted project update #3wow!! yay!!
hi everyone!!
again ... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Sarah and i are COMPLETELY ELATED to have your support!
we are officially past 100% and thriiiilled!
wow!
yay!ok and secondly - our humble apology: we haven't written many of you individually with a hearty THAAAANK YOOOUU! yet (as we love to do) ... but now that we're done with our super crazy huge (awesome!) Chicago art fair installation ... we will be!
and we have several more residents to announce too - yay again!
stay tuned - much to look forward to!
thanks again and talk soon,
jon & sarah
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on May 1, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
backed a project
LP - Children's Experimental Guitar Orchestra - Hoi An, Vietnam by Sean Meadows and Jake Klotz
The Children's Experimental Guitar Orchestra LP. Recordings from the Rivers of Hope creative arts summer camp. Hoi An Vietnam 2007.
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on April 21, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
backed a project
Trade School by OurGoods
At Trade School, students barter with teachers for instruction. Classes range from butter making to ghost hunting. Help us run Trade School again!
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101% funded $9,133 pledged
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on April 21, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
backed a project
HaroldArts PoolParty! by Jacob Kart
Help Harold Arts turn an abandoned indoor swimming pool into a unique recording studio for our 2010 residency!
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on April 21, 2010
the brumit / wagner team
Posted project update #2our visiting artist roster is shaping up!
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hope you're all well and we REALLY REALLY appreciate your support! we couldn't
- or maybe shouldn't - do this without you! we're now at 56% towards our goal
and fingers crossed! and if you have some friends with too much tax return for
their own good - QUICK, GO DO AN INTERVENTION ON THEM! - we still have 44% to
go towards our visiting artist fund! any and all help is greatly appreciated.
anyway everything seems to be ramping up for the summer and our visiting artist
roster is shaping up very nicely. here are just a few of the names of some of
our distinguished visiting artists coming to work with us this summer. more
names and info as they materialize!
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FINISHING SCHOOL,
public practitioners, new media collective
ok so maybe they are from LA, and maybe they do wear matching tracksuits, and
maybe they are smart, prone to activism and use computers from time to time
- but give them a fighting chance already! FS is just plain fun and they're
smart folks, thoughtful, armed with computers, elastic social strategies and
a good heaping helping of well-socialized man-vibe! their projects are really
too far-reaching for me to try to write a witty synopsis, but let's just say
that we're thrilled they're coming to join us and expect great things to emerge
from their collective head, however confounded it may feel during their stay
with us. we'll just have to make sure to introduce them to the other solid dudes!
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WAYNE GRIM, musician, composer, sound artist
we just can't say enough about the sonic magic of Wayne J Grim Jr - pure goodness,
true grit, and creative umph, his diverse works include both very short and very long term projects alike, including scoring silent films for ensembles, creating RUST, a generative new media composition piece (imagine non-looping sonic wallpaper for your desktop) designed as a freestanding player, playing guitar, a shoebox, or a variety of other instruments in a wide array of ensembles and one-night improvisations and spontaneous compositional throw-downs, as well as an ongoing collaborative and permanently unfinished album of duos called BUDDY WEED JR. i do believe he's hoping to find some abandoned buildings while with us to use as temporary collaborators in creating a new composition equating epicity with utopic yearnings, as dystopic as that may sound. we'll just have to wait and listen!
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Shannon Stratton,
writer, critic, co-founder, director of threewalls chicago
we're getting visited by a walking warehouse of brainpower! we're talking conceptually
large here, gargantuan scholarship and enough umph to collaborate, publish,
curate a show or two, lecture on craft theory and then go have breakfast. she's
super busy with threewalls, teaching at SAIC and making her own work in her
'down time' (?) among other things, so we're stoked to have her join us and
try to wrap her head around the city of the future!
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ok!! AMAZING!!
and so we're still waiting to hear back from quite a few folks, a political
science / policy buff from baltimore, an aerospace engineer, a couple of solid
nerds, a photographer, and some other fun people ... but more will be revealed
in time ... and we promise to share ...
thanks again and thanks for all your help in getting us this far!
jon & sarah
the brumit / wagner team
Detroit, MI
Sarah Wagner and Jon Brumit are an accomplished artist team and couple of over 17 years. They have collaborated successfully on countless projects ranging from remodeling jobs to teaching at the Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco or the School of the A... view more
Fantastic! Sounds wonderful. Congratulations!!!