check out pomme de pareterre for the garden right across from ours at the festival. so good.... harnessing the energy of 1000 potatoes!



this was perhaps my favorite at the festival... although it has been there since 2003. it is a triangular house of green glass with no roof and two entrances/exits. it is translucent and so acts both as a mirror and window.



this one emulates water droplets on a spider web. inside the droplets are plants! i wish you could move them on the string or something. c'est beau! = "it's beautiful" = the only thing i knew how to say in french at the festival.



this one was right next to ours. you could jump on it since it was made out of rubber. it was quite dreamy.





this was ours. you can make any kind of tree you want with the pieces. it was inspired by the lego trees that are actually (surprisingly) unmodifiable. these are made out of resilient foam. there are many different sized pieces so you can go crazy with your unique tree. planting our own pines in a real pine forest... haha.

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now i am working on a website for violinist rachel lee at harvard. javascript libraries to the rescue! this will be my second official website made for someone else. i need to do more. i'll have all august free for that.

stevie wonder is playing for free to open up the jazz festival in montreal. that's on tuesday, which is also canada day. zebra is visiting me from boston, and minnow is visiting me from dartmouth. they might visit at the same time, but i am not sure. i hope this is ok, zebra and minnow. ok?? we will get crepes and bixi all day long. we will also use canadian dollars... omg!

last summer it was proposed that one could get by with 9 phrases/words:
-hi
-bye
-yes/yeah
-no
-what's up?
-not much
-cool
-bummer
-oh!/oh?/oh...

"hey laurel"
hi!
"what's new with you?"
not much.
"sweet."
what's up?
"well, i had a really shitty weekend. first i crashed into the ground with my bmx bike and my guts started spilling out of my stomach, and then my grandma died."
bummer.
"yeah, i've been through a rough patch."
oh...
"are you going to see stevie wonder?"
yes
"want to go together?"
no
"but what's to loose?"
(my) cool
"have a good time"
bye