Part Of the Installation At Cooley MP5

The End Of SIXSIXSIX

The SIXSIXSIX: A Co-Relational Weaving (In Six Acts) project has ended. I would like to thank everyone who participated in the project. There were 33 of you at the 4 events. Please watch  this blog for more information and documentation from SIXSIXSIX.

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Meeting Details For Fourth Dinner

Please meet at the NW corner of East Burnside and 12th at 6 PM Friday, September 12, 2008.
(Riding the bus to the meeting location is suggested).

Wear - Blue (and shoes you can walk in).
Bring - Drinks you like to drink (and share), a knife, a fork, a spoon AND three things to leave behind.

Kalapuya: Original People Of the Upper Willamette Valley

'The Upper Willamette Valley has been populated by a series of native peoples for thousands of years. The most recent native American inhabitants of the Upper Willamette Valley were collectively called Kalapuya. They spoke 3 closely related but mutually unintelligible languages of Kalapuya linguistic stock: Tualatin-Yamhill (north), Santiam (central), and Yonkalla (south). They lived throughout the valley in bands ranging from 20 to 500 inhabitants. The band in the Eugene area was the Calapuya Proper. Several villages were concentrated near Eugene. An increased concentration of major tributaries in the Eugene area was more productive for subsistence activities, and therefore this was a more populous habitation area.Kalapuyans were seminomadic. Groups generally remained within a specific sub basin of the valley, moving on a seasonal round between winter villages and summer base camps. People congregated in large winter villages as soon as the flood waters began to rise, staying from mid-October to mid-March. Houses were pole structures with bark roofs surrounded by earthen banks; each held from four to ten families. During the remainder of the year, people divided into smaller bands to harvest food and hunt on the rich floodplains of the Willamette River. They did not build summer homes, but occasionally constructed windbreaks of fir boughs. Summer base camps were used for harvesting tasks and were frequently revisited over the centuries. From these locations—winter villages or summer base camps—smaller groups went to task-specific sites to exploit upland or lowland resources. '

by Margaret Robertson 2002

For the complete article from which the above is an excerpt go to: http://neighbors.designcommunity.com/notes/1347.html

Kurt Schwitters: Merzbau

Alongside his collages, Schwitters also dramatically altered the interiors of a number of spaces throughout his life. The most famous was The Merzbau, the transformation of six (or possibly more) rooms of the family house in Hannover, Waldhausenstrasse 5. This took place very gradually; work started in about 1923, the first room was finished in 1933, and Schwitters subsequently extended the Merzbau to other areas of the house until he fled to Norway in early 1937. Most of the house was let to tenants, so that the final extent of the Merzbau was less than is normally assumed. On the evidence of Schwitters' correspondence, by 1937 it had spread to two rooms of his parents' apartment on ground floor, the adjoining balcony, the space below the balcony, one or two rooms of the attic and possibly part of the cellar. In 1943 it was destroyed in a bombing raid.

Monotone Symphony - One of the first recorded instances of sound in visual art.

http://www.yvesklein.de/symphony.html

GASCO: Willamette River Cleanup

From The Oregonian May 22, 2005

'NW NATURAL AGAIN ASKS TO DELAY CLEANUP'

'Summary: For more than 10 years, records show, regulators have told the utility to dig out a tarry mass polluting the Willamette River
The federal government says a toxic tar reef that juts into the Willamette River near downtown Portland poses such "an unacceptable risk to human health and the environment" that it should be dug out this summer.
In 1913, the Portland Gas & Coke Co., known as Gasco, began manufacturing gas from oil on the Willamette's west bank, between what later became the Fremont and St. Johns bridges. Within a decade, the plant was making the lowest-cost gas in the nation by selling byproducts.

The work created huge volumes of waste that Gasco dumped directly into the Willamette and, after 1941, into four settling ponds. Once pipelines brought natural gas to the Portland market in the 1950s, Gasco closed the plant and changed the company name to NW Natural Gas Co., later shortened to NW Natural. The company still stores liquid natural gas and has two tenants on the site. It sold the site's southern portion, later developed by Siltronic Corp., which makes the silicon wafers that computer chips are printed on.

But the tar remained. Pollution spreads

By the 1970s, tar waste from the four ponds had been mixed with soil and spread between the Siltronic and NW Natural site. Test drilling in 1998 encountered tar and tar oils at 60 feet. Tar oils have turned up in two neighboring wells near the river at 120 feet. '

Alex Pulaski: 503-221-8516; alexpulaski@news.oregonian.com
Julie Sullivan: 503-221-8068; juliesullivan@news.oregonian.com

please see this link for the complete article regarding the GASCO Superfund site on the Willamette River:

http://www.oregon-health.org/assets/PH/News%20Articles/PH%20-%20Oregonian%20-%20NW%20NATURAL%20AGAIN%20ASKS%20TO%20DELAY%20CLEANUP.htm?/base/front_page/111675586579500.xml&coll=7&thispage=1