Chat with mini:

10:12 PM Minyoung: i just read takas post

10:13 PM i think i do agree with her about keeping it as an out door library

10:15 PM me: you think people are going to take books out and read it there?>

Minyoung: well that was the initial idea

at lesat that's how i understood it

me: i didn;t know

10:16 PM but the book is not precious right?

its not like we are bringing them back to the library

we are recyling all of it

after the structure is taken down?

Minyoung: actually we were thinking we'd donate them to a library or something

or send it back to whoever lent it to us

10:17 PM me: its going to get wet

and torn

and being abused

its an outdoor environment

Minyoung: yeah true

me: i like the idea of taking a material in transit to being recycled

and use it for our structure

10:18 PM like just pause the process of recyling

Minyoung: can you post this to the blog then?

cuz if we are having this discussion, i think taka needs to see it too

10:23 PM anyways whatever we do with the books at the end of the season, either we return the books, donate the books, i liked the idea of having the books there for reading....because it kind of gives the structure a bit of a purpose and a fun twist

10:31 PM me: ken wants to use plastic as a material

i think it make sense for the outdoor part of it

Minyoung: hahaha

me: and it might be a good material to hold the books

10:32 PM think plaster on the outside, books inside skin

like insulation

i think the books shouldn't sit flat like a bookselves like the bow wow idea

10:33 PM ok ken and i will talk and post idea

Minyoung: yeah i dunno if you got this from any of our email exchanges but taka and i talked about how we'd be receiving more books and people might take the books they like as time goes by...and along with it the skin will change

10:35 PM me: o, ya i got the book change the environment idea

i like that

Minyoung: ok.

10:36 PM me: i thought it will be interesting to parrellel the recyling process

Minyoung: i was thinking of a modifying and pasting some shit together from mass carrier to make a story board

i really liked the graphics from mass carrier

and since the concept is a little similar i thought we could recycle some part of it

we need three 11x17 boards...one of them is for material and construction calc and shit

though

10:37 PM me: thats why i thought of the book as structure idea

recyluing is all about collecting

Minyoung: i see

me: and sorting and stuff

and the Collecting is big part to mass carrier

10:38 PM and if i would develop the book structure idea

i would collect books, and sort them according to binding strength, size of books

and other criterias

and we can make up different structure typology

with different types

Minyoung: i like using books as part of the structure

10:39 PM but i think it will need reinforcement

it will have to be a skin

me: and i like the idea that the final final structure is not determined

Minyoung: not a main structure

me: until we collect the books

i agree it might not be possible for the thing to just hold on its own

10:40 PM Minyoung: yeah i mean i think it can if it were indoors and we knew exactly what kind of books we'd be getting

me: ya

i think so too

its possble

Minyoung: since we don't know what kind of books we're getting nor are we sure the sizes are uniform...it's tricky

me: but a lot of work

Minyoung: yeah also a lot of work

10:41 PM me: i like that we come up with a cool plastic type structure

that hold books

basically rethinking a book shelves

structure

with recycled plastic

material

10:42 PM i like the interior is filled with books

Minyoung: yeah using plastic might be a good idea

me: so its softer inside

10:44 PM Minyoung: it'd be cool if we can tie it back to the whole postal service infrastructure concept somehow...that's why i suggested we use those bulk mail plastic totes...but they look too much like blocks and could be boring

10:46 PM anyways, i like a lot of our ideas we came up with so far

it's just a matter of sort of consolidating and streamline to a consistent theme

10:47 PM also it has to look fucking awesome

and has to be buildable

that's the hard part i think