Contents 1 Bluffs at Sunset 3/9/2008 2 Video Gentleman Video Pitch 3 Summary of November 18th Meeting 4 Old meeting minutes from the idea scroll

Bluffs at Sunset 3/9/2008

Present: Julie, Jeremy, Bobby, Michael, Sarah

• Took into consideration and implementation of sub-committees to get projects done. via Carly and Michael.

• Bobby and Julie chatted about venues for fund-raiser. Would love for it to be all-ages.

action Bobby confirmed Backspace on May 9th!

update Benefit is moved to May 2nd!

action Julie just wept a tear cause she'll be in NY!

• Julie discussed submitting the '10 Weeds!' zine to the Multnomah County Library.

Jeremy also suggested the IPRC.

action Julie sent an email to zine coord. at the library. Cross yr fingers!

update The Multnomah County Library wants NINE copies of the zine! They already have five from Reading Frenzy. Which leads to a Second Printing funded by the taxpayer!

• Jeremy expressed need for a 2nd printing of the zine and interest from Reading Frenzy to host an event there. Workshop? Tasting? Limited edition screen printed weeds you can eat poster show/sale???

action We are all gonna pitch in for the printing this time around 10 bucks each excluding Jeremy.

• Great Meeting! What else... Its spring!!

Video Gentleman Video Pitch

Overall Theme: Urban Foraging

Means of doing this: "showing and not telling," as little dialogue as possible

Aesthetic: Long roving camera shots coupled with more fractured, well framed shots

Content Ideas:

• Third person shots of us UE folks harvesting various plants, cooking them, decocting them, tincturing, serving them to guests, etc. An attempt to capture the process of foraging from start to finish.
• Bizarre close ups on various weeds
• Jeremy's pre-schoolers identifying certain plants and weeds
• Inverted footage of the KGW media coverage
• Usage of maps to geographically locate some of the areas where the shots are being staged

Conceptual Ideas:

• Mr. Rodgers crayon factory montage
• Upside down grazers (shots of heads eating weeds while people held by their feet)
• Few shots of full bodies (rather eating mouths, dirty hands, etc)
• Mock of leftist news scare videos

Summary of November 18th Meeting

At Sunday's meeting we established a template for wiki entries, which now consists of Identification (ideally including a photo) , Habitat, Harvesting, Medicinal Uses, Culinary Uses and Other. Brief citation info for sources should be included at the bottom too (title and author seems to be sufficient for now). We discussed some goals for developing the site, including printable identification keys, a glossary with all the relevant botanical identification jargon and medicinal preparation definitions. We'd like to incorporate more commonly found weeds into the wiki, both edible and medicinal, like mullein, plantain, dandelion, chickweed and dock to name a few. Another goal is to create a resource of information regarding preserving foods (like canning, drying, making jams, pickling etc) to make the harvest last! There should be flyers available to print, copy and distribute soon.

Thanks Jeremy!

Old meeting minutes from the idea scroll

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