BCL Report – August 22, 2008

I’m not sure why we didn’t start doing this earlier, but here’s the first report of our weekly activities. We’ve been meeting on Fridays for almost half the summer, trying to make, plan, and do events/projects/demos/awesome. Today involved us revisiting our seed bomb recipe, beginning the stenciling for posters for our upcoming Dance Party (details soon), and plotting our next adventures.

Broken City Lab, Friday August 22, 2008 - Stenciling + seed bombs

We started by revisiting our seed bombs that had been out in the wild for a week or so, only to discover that they were rock hard and certainly not germinating. Though we hadn’t used red clay, as had been recommended in other recipes, we reasoned that our lack of success was due to our ratio of natural clay to soil.

Broken City Lab, Friday August 22, 2008 - Stenciling + seed bombs

Josh was busy painstakingly cutting out the stencil of our logo for the flyers/handouts for our upcoming Dance Party.

Broken City Lab, Friday August 22, 2008 - Stenciling + seed bombs

Danielle, Michelle, and I cut up our cereal boxes, which we’re using for the flyers.

Broken City Lab, Friday August 22, 2008 - Stenciling + seed bombs

Josh somehow managed to cut out the stencil with incredible detail (the .org was actually legible)!!!

Broken City Lab, Friday August 22, 2008 - Stenciling + seed bombs

With successful stencil in-hand, Michelle and Carolina began their production line of flyers—base coat of white, then neon, then grey.

Broken City Lab, Friday August 22, 2008 - Stenciling + seed bombs

Danielle went to work creating a new mixture, which Josh documented (I think in Michelle’s notebook), I can’t remember it off-hand, but I know we used significantly less clay this time and wildflower seeds.

Broken City Lab, Friday August 22, 2008 - Stenciling + seed bombs

The resulting seed bombs, much softer, but still moldable.

Broken City Lab, Friday August 22, 2008 - Stenciling + seed bombs

The resulting flyers, well one side of them anyways. Next Friday we’ll finish them up and hopefully have many germinating seed bombs awaiting us.