Making DNA Chandeliers in NYC

Hey everyone! This morning, Marlyn & Alex hosted us for a fabric extravaganza. Joanne, Peter, Jon & Ophi joined them to cut and rip fabric strips, which we tied to wire and made "chandeliers." They'll help light up and glam-ify the egg dome at Huevos Ranch Eros.



(Left: Ophi & Joanne; Right: Jon & Marlyn)

7ft Chicken Instructional video #1

I've stitched together a few stills of the work the seattle folks did on Sunday and Monday. More to come!

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Egg-Dome wireframe

Jason completed his initial work on the internal support structure for our Egg-Dome. Preliminary dimensions are somewhere in the range of 40'x30'. This thing will be stunning.

We envision the dome to be internally lit at night, with a brilliant white covering. Semi translucent outer fabric will allow a inner "yolk" to be seen from afar. The yolk will be a 3-4' round yellow ball shaped light hanging from the center-top of the dome.

Chicken Sphinx Work Party

On the 11 of July some of the Seattle crew got together to put some meat on this chicken's bones. The (Messy) results as follows.

Tali covers the wire frame with cloth

This should help the foam stick

Tali and Inga let the chickens out

Jason fashions chicken legs

The foam

There's quite a bit more to do on this chicken, as you can see. Aaron and Tali completed the wire frame on the second one so we should be able to foam at next work party. We learned quite a bit on this first one. Made some foaming mistakes, but have a plan in place for fixing the imperfections.

The foam is stiff and rigid just as we hoped. It should hold up to playa winds without any issue. One unfortunate bit is the foam coverage was about 1/2 of what we were hoping for. It goes quick!

Oh and Jason about that over spray on the back concrete. Do you have a stiff shop broom? A little abrasion might just do the trick.

Welcome to Huevos Ranch Eros!

The Road to the Playa

Welcome to Camp Huevos Ranch Eros! This is the public space for who we are, how we did it, and how to find us when you get there.