Sirocco Research Labs

Archive: Project

• Sirocco Mystery

  How would one make a director’s reel inside of the Sirocco Research Labs?

  

  We’ll see.

  Published May 14th, 2011 by Jimmy Marble

• Working on the Stuff

  We’re deep in it these days:  Build­ing the sets, build­ing the lights, build­ing com­rade­ship.  This time next week, a music video is going to exist in the real world.  That, I believe, is cat­e­gor­i­cally exciting.

  Take a look!

  
  Acci­den­tally draw­ing lions when try­ing to paint a wall.

  
  
  Build­ing confetti.

  
  Adi look­ing like a mil­lion bucks.

  
  
  Invent­ing a feather tree.

  Stay tuned!  I think this is going to turn out well!

  Published February 10th, 2011 by Jimmy Marble

• Calm Before the Good

  Jan­u­ary 31st, 2011

  Dear Jour­nal,

  We are work­ing on two music projects in Feb­ru­ary.  As it sits, the plan is pretty well mapped out. What I like is that in just a sec­ond, all of our new ideas will exist as mov­ing images. I can feel the calm before the storm, and I like every­thing about it.

  

  Adi mid color test

  We’ll see what it looks like when we’re on the other side.  Everyone’s excited.  This is a rocket ship head­ing toward good.

  Best Wishes,
  Jimmy

  Published January 31st, 2011 by Jimmy Marble

• Guerilla Moviemaking

  This past Sat­ur­day we woke up at 6am, ate eggs, and spent the day run­ning around the neigh­bor­hood, draw­ing on walls, crouch­ing in alley­ways, and throw­ing con­fetti into the air. By sun­down we had shot a movie.

  We spent the rest of the day’s energy on bur­ri­tos and ping pong. Con­sen­sus is: being out­side is awe­some, think­ing on the fly is awe­some, play­ing the Fugees dur­ing mos shots is awe­some, and also so are friends. Throw­ing Pop Rocks at your friends’ cars isn’t always a good idea, but some­times can be a fun trick.

  Look!

  

  Adi on set

  

  Sarah Fang!

  

  fire­ball pile

  

  we ain’t got no permit

  

  “can we hold hands in the light of day?” “not legally.”

  We can’t wait to show you the movie!

  Published January 10th, 2011 by Annie Murphy

• A Lighthearted War = in da can

  

  Today was eas­ily one of the best days of 2011.

  Even cops were smil­ing at us!

  Published January 8th, 2011 by Jimmy Marble

• Time for Coupons

  I made a coupon and holder that peo­ple can cash in for adven­tures. You can take these instruc­tions in which ever direc­tion you want, but here’s my step-by-step:

  1. Find a book with nice pictures

  

  2. Cut out a pic­ture for the front of your coupon

  

  3. Write on the back

  

  4. Make a case for your coupon

  

  

  5. Hope for the best
  

  Published October 1st, 2010 by Forrest Perrine

• We Can Spin Some Yarn

  At some point peo­ple began giv­ing our gut­tural sounds mean­ing, and ever since exis­tence has been full of mys­tery, allure, and frus­tra­tions.  “What did he mean by that,” the cave-girl won­dered, peek­ing at her cave-boyfriend’s lips after he said, “You’re one of the good ones.”  How can we ever say what we actu­ally mean when each of us has such a unique rela­tion­ship with understanding?

  And that’s not even touch­ing on the sta­tic nature of the sym­bol vs the fluid nature of mean­ing.  Which is prob­a­bly the most fas­ci­nat­ing part of com­mu­ni­cat­ing and what I’m try­ing to explore almost always.  Pos­i­tively or neg­a­tively, the mean­ing of the words change with dura­tion, but the words stay the same, some­times enhanc­ing their orig­i­nal mes­sage, but just as often reveal­ing deep ironies.

  Which inevitably brings me to Love.  As Cleo says in Cleo in the Uni­verse, “How can I love some­body when infin­ity exists?”  How can I tell some­one “I love you,” when what’s mak­ing my heart beat isn’t those three words, but some­thing much nicer, big­ger, and more sin­cere?  I’m stuck with these clunky lan­guages which don’t allow for any sort of unique­ness, and are tied to his­tory, mythol­ogy, and all that.  There just aren’t enough words.  I need an infi­nite amount.

  But, that’s life.  We only get “I love you.”  And so, we put our most frag­ile hopes and thoughts into these sta­tic words that stay the same, while the mean­ing remains in flux.

  With this project, I wanted to explore the fragility of the mean­ing, and impose it on the sta­tic sym­bol.  Instead of impen­e­tra­ble, revered, and absolute, the words are del­i­cate, made with the flim­si­est, most ephemeral mate­ri­als at my dis­posal.  I want the words to be vul­ner­a­ble.  I want them to be affected by peo­ple pass­ing by, by grav­ity, and by their own imper­fect construction.

  The project is on-going, but this is Part One:

  

  

  8x12’ Acrylic yarn and scotch tape.

  Published August 31st, 2010 by Jimmy Marble