Playhouse on the Square / Circuit Playhouse offer extended.

For a 100.00 cash (or CC through the blog) donation to Bomb The Blight (to cover overhead), I have 2 tickets to any show on the schedule for Circuit or Playhouse.  The face price of the tickets go between 33.00 and 38.00 each, so you are only giving between 24.00 and 34.00 over what you would pay at the box office.  Also, if you go to Bosco's afterwards, you get 10% off your meal!

Help us meet our goal of 10,000,000 seeds and have a night on the town!

Whats left at POTS:

• Peter Pan
• A Christmas Story
• The Santaland Diaries
• Speech and Debate
• A Midsummer Night's Dream opera a cappella
• From Up Here
• August: Osage County
• Grey Gardens
• Ragtime
• The 39 Steps
• Footloose
• Dividing the Estate
• Eleemosynary 

Take your pick!!

A call for volunteers

I had a brief discussion with one of the people from the local Sierra Club about the project and working together.  He had an interesting fact.  I have been promoting the fact that wildflowers help with pollution.  What I did not know is that on sites such as the one I have proposed for site number 6, the old Firestone plant, the plants themselves suck up heavy metals from the soil and trap them in the plant fibers. 

What needs to be done is every 14 weeks (about 3 1/2 months) through the growing season, the plants need to be cut down and removed.  The plant matter itself is hazardous waste and will be transported and disposed of as such.

If we can put together a group willing to go harvest these plants gather them for disposal, I believe the Sierra Club will get on board and we can start developing a blueprint to clean up areas of Memphis that are otherwise unusable.

It does take about three years of this type of treatment to remove the heavy metals from the soil.  The other option is to just pave over the land and seal the pollution in for future generations to deal with.

So, who will enlist and help with this?

A two week break..

I have a bit under two weeks from the last engagement to the next.  So, the cannon is getting a little bit of a makeover.. new paint job, new legs, rubber at the contact points (legs and bottom of the tank/barrel assembly), and a shiny new full color Bomb The Blight decal on the barrel to replace those boring letters I had on it.

Also, I am going to be changing some of the structural elements so we can go to higher pressures and throw further.

I will not be posting pictures of the remodeled device on the blog.  To see the changes and see how far we can throw, you will have to come out to the event on December 4 at the field near P&H cafe. 

Our First People Powered Event!!!

I have not done the final tally, but I am just going to call it complete.  We will be having our first People Powered Event, funded solely by your donations soon.

I am going to take input.  I know the holiday season is insane for most people and we already have one scheduled for December 4 (Field beside of P&H) and December 11 (South side of Sam Cooper where it meets Parkway) The December 11 one is pending clearance, though I do not think it will be a problem.

So, where do we go next and when do we do it?  Do we want to do an event the week before Christmas or should we start 2011 as the year of People Powered Beautification?  You folks made this happen, you tell me where we are going!

Post comments here or on Facebook.  I will be reading them and working this week.  The sooner we can decide on a site, the sooner I can get started on clearances and planning.

ONWARD!!

Donation Offer

I have a season subscription to Playhouse on The Square and Circuit Playhouse.  I am willing to trade a ticket for any show that is not sold out for a 50.00 donation.  I love the theater, so I am giving away two tickets.  Donate 100.00 at Broad or through the blog tomorrow, and get both tickets!

I will receive an email when the donation is done through the blog, and will post immediately to the blog, twitter, or facebook if these tickets are taken.  First come first serve!

If you donate through the blog, email blight@memphisphotoworks.com with a first and second choice for the shows you would like to see and a couple of dates for each.  I will pick the tickets up on Monday and immediately put them in the mail to you!

At Broad, I will take the information personally and maybe even do a little joy dance! 

Broad Avenue - Day 1.

Met some of the longtime followers of the project today.  It was so good to talk to all of you.  Also picked up some new fans today!!  Drake and Zeke this morning was a blast, those guys are so super cool.  If you ever have the chance to talk to them or even go on their show, I highly recommend it!

During the event today,we raised 78.00, so we are roughly 1/3 the way to another bombing event.  Tomorrow we will be doing one at 1:45 at the corner of Merton and Sam Cooper, slightly east of the map I posted earlier in the week.  Come out and join in!

Awesome Individuals.

The following are people who have donated goods, services, time, whatever to help this project move forward...

• Candice Hawkinson - Time and expertise navigating the ways of property clearances and general helpfulness.
• Krista Endres - Donation of a Battery Powered portable air compressor and two batteries!
• Holly Hagan - Donation of two extra batteries for the compressor!
• Margot McNeeley / Project Green Fork - Compostable cups to be used as wadding for the cannon! 
• Mike Lizotte / American Meadows - 4 pounds of seed for the project.  So super cool! 
• The attendees of the events, all your pocket change and small bills DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Saturday at Broad.. Your input needed!

For the event Saturday at broad avenue, we have an option. We can either do the narrow strip along Sam Cooper as planned, or we do have an option to use a small lot that is surrounded by a fence at the corner of Merton and Sam Cooper. The fence will be coming down soon and the lot will not be mowed, allowing the flowers their best chance for coming up.

Either way, we will be using the cannon. This is a definite. The owner of the property has given us permission to open the fence and go into the lot, and it will concentrate the paint to create more of a color effect.

So, which should we do? I really need to know today!


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New Promo Video!

Paint Sprayer and other exciting things..

The garden sprayer repurposed to pump paint into the bombs works beautifully!  Thanks to Gwyn Fisher for sparking the idea.

In other news.. I have been hard at work compiling a promotional video for the project.  I will post it as soon as I finish it, though I hope that will be in the next few minutes.. considering it is 20 minutes to Midnight right now!

As I said last Sunday, we will be skipping Thanksgiving weekend.  I need to sleep! :)