Meerkat Manor

News~Archive

2009

Julian, Randal, and others: We launched creative.ly image bookmarking website!!!!
Julian light painting OSCON photos
Julian talks at OSCON Starting at 22:00
Ivan/Randal upgrade look of HC
Lots of progress on HC
Sandwich's bouncy castle birthday was so cool!
Sandwich survives another quarter of school.
Julian takes light painting photos at MySQL convention
Sandwichgirl pin setting movie
Robert and Adam make Storyory
Our friend David French stays for a week or so
Ivan Gets a job
Revamp of Meerkat Manor website.
A band stays over at MM
freeCameron

2008

Idiot ball gets a domain
Ivan moves in!!!
A photo both at a wedding Sandiwch went to in Oregon
Randal's Cravat on instructables
Randal at brides of march in SFgate
Randal Meerkat images
Randal at Doré Alley
Rebuild of Furtographer.com
Most of the Meerkat participate in the MP3 experiment
HC Art-A-Thon
Jackie voted EDIA president once again
Burstein lives at MM for a month or two.
Sandwich turns 30. We have a viewing of Logan's run in a parking lot. At 30 everybody people "go to carousel" (die). palm crystals will be checked and distributed. bring space-age defense weapons as you see fit.
Step 5 mentions sandwich girl. heh.
Erica light painting fun
Xmas at Meerkat Manor
Orphan Thanksgiving.
Merkat Manor did a "scare crap out of kids" Halloween Haunt where we transformed the garage. It rocked!
CTFL Battle San Francisco in Dolores Park
We make Sweded Army of Darkness
Robert's Urban Birthday Adventure Walk (RUBAW)
Robert works on HC big time.
Jackie and Julian got married. :)

2007

We love Randal!!!!
Meerkat Palooza! 4 nights of creative ecstasy.
Julian is in Business Week. You can also see at this photo of him at the Web 2.0 convention.
Randal is moving to the mecca called "The Castro". He will be missed.
Robert got a job for over this summer in Seattle running a homeless youth Art program. He will be away from for three to four months.
Robert has been hosting movie night on Thursdays which has been awesome.
DA makes the new Burning Man poster. Jackie helped with the lettering. He did some of the work at Meerkat Manor.
There has been much progress at the EDIA. Thanks to Sonja, there is now an EDIA website. The EDIA newsletters continued to do good.
The Human Creativity Project continues to evolve beautifully. Thanks in part to inspiration from DA, the scope and complexity is finally getting trimmed to something which is both beautiful and completely reasonable to implement.
The Sandwich party was a blast!
Belen moves in!

2006

Julian is endlessly working on The Human Creativity Project . Is going wonderfully, although it seems to take a while to get things just right.
Robert moved in. He is awesome!
Sandwich is off to Antarctica for a year. She's actually wintering this time. Crazy!
Joshua built gigantic bunny ears at craft night at Meerkat Manor. To see what he did with them, read the article.
MoveMyData.org will do a lot for the world in the time to come. It was a big hit at OSCON.
Randal + sisters< of indulgence sitting in a tree.
Some of us and our friends helped to put on Bunny Jam Or look here.
Jackie became the president of the EDIA (Excelsior District Improvement Association).
Dan and Nicole are moving into a place of their own. They will be missed.
Ex-housemate and frequent visitor DA made the Burning Man poster for 2006.

2005

Human Creativity Project. That's all. Things are solidifying, growing, and expanding. There's a lot more to come in time. It's very exciting.
Julian went to Apache Con, took photographs and made many more friends who may end up involved with the Human Creativity Project. He's taking more Edible Light style photos these days. Well, actually he mostly just works on the Human Creativity Project these days, but when photographic creativity must pop out, this is the form it takes.
Nicole now has a website of sorts.
Megan now has a website.
Sandwich had her going away party The "edible light" art form has evolved a bit. I hope to do some of this type of photography at ApacheCon this year.
Julian got laid off from SGI. This is great! Now 100% of his time is going to the Human Creativity Project.
Randal is working on a redesign of furtographer.com. He's also been churning out rockin' business cards and other fun media.
Jackie put up her own website jackiejack.com - lots of neat-o illustrations.
Annie Sprinkle put out her new book, Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex. Randal, Jackie, and I made the photos and illustrations for it.
Sandwich got a new laptop. She's been doing a bunch of work on her room, making it super sandwichized.
Nicole signed on to continue helping run the Berkeley Free Clinic after her current obligation ran out. The clinic clearly helps the world massively. Thanks Nicole, for helping to save the world.
Nicole and Joshua are working on plans for building a sculpture for Burning Man.
We've started doing craft night. Some nights kick ass, but on others we half skip it. This may change.
Here are some more house photos.
I, Julian, am putting all my time into the Human Creativity project. Things are going well, but more time and resources are always needed. I'm always looking for collaborators by the way. I'll be going to OSCON in portland at the start of August. I'll be staying with my friend (and past supersnail campmate) Dori.
The Meerkat Manor site got updated and cleaned up just a bit.
Sandwich came back from "the ice" and has started to settle in once again.
Megan zipped to Italy to spend some luscious time with Allessio. She will be touring Europe and performing with the Invisible Circus. Go Megan!

2004

Late 2004

Thanksgiving at Meerkat Manor 2004 It was yummyrific!
Sandwich is in Antarctica again. While she's gone Megan (who kicks ass) will be a Meerkat. Megan camped with Supersnail camp at Burning Man in 2002.
I (julian) got a great book agent. The next rev of the burning man book is coming along well. I shot one more year at Burning Man.
Everybody in Meerkat Manor camped together as part of Billion Bunny Voyage to Lepus Landia camp. It was great.
DA did the DPW thing at Burning Man. It went well. Now he's off to travel.
We had an awesome going away slumber party for Sandwich. It was great. Lots of playing Atari 2600 and 7800 games. Lots of pillow fights and cookies.

Mar 2004

Randal and DA both frolicked around for the Brides of March.
The basement is getting closer to where it should be. Getting rid of tons-o-stuff. More to do still. We kept changing things in the kitchen and now it's starting to settle into place quite nicely.
We hung the "sky chair" in Nicole's room. Her room is getting really close to being just the room she wants.
Nicole and her kitty Jezebel moved in. Gosh, but she's super super great.
DA moved in! He'll be here for 3 great months. When he takes off for DPW duty, Sandwichgirl will join us. Gosh, but life is good!
Carolyn and her sweetie took off for Louisiana. So far we've gotten a post card and an email saying their adventures are going well.

Feb 2004

We have a Meerkat Manor tribe
Recent photo silliness
Sandwichgirl left Antarctica for New Zealand.
We redid the area by the laundry downstairs. The old set up always seemed awkward. The space wasn't being used well. Now it'll be better and a no longer super icky.
- Jackie gave it a new paint job
- 4 shelves custom cut for odd spaces
- Repainted the garbage can (black with a silver stripe).
- New medicine chest.
- New cabinet shelf thing.
The downstairs water closet/sky project is in the works. The old walls, ceiling, and floor were removed. The new walls and ceiling were installed and painted with primer. The new floor was cut. More progress on this in this in time.
Jackie heads to LA for a quick exciting trip. Ask her about it.
We're all sorting and reducing the stuff we own. If something you own isn't improving your life, then it's just dead weight. Reduce + organize.
In moves Carolyn (sadly it's just for a month). She is so bouncy and smart and helpful and neat!!!!
Randal moves in all his stuff and his room takes shape. The house seems so full of life and goodness right now.

Jan 2004

Lots a work on the house. Wrapping up projects. Ben moves in and cooks a kick ass pie full of lemon and sugar.

2003

Dec 2003: Just starting to look for possible new Meerkats to replace Jeff and Molly. We got a christmas tree and decorated it nice. Randal is taking photos at the Sea Of Dreams new years party.
Nov Dec 2003: Revamping the house a bit. We keep working on kind of a massive spring cleaning. Jackie, Randal, and I keep redoing things about the house and working on reducing and organizing stuff. Jeff is working on packing and making for less stuff. Yesterday he sold off 17 boxes of his books.
Nov 2003: Jeff writes a novel via the NaNoWrimo project. It's his third successful one. You kick ass Jeff!
Nov 2003: Randally Randal moves in. Not sure yet if this is permanent or temporary. Depends on if this ends up being a 4 person household or 5 person household. Randal is incredible to live with.
Nov 2003: Molly moved in with her love Aaron (and out of Meerkat Manor). They live in the castro now. I miss em so. Jackie and I need to visit em. Molly says we may be able to tempt em with our washer and dryer.
Oct 2003: Thanks to the ever incredible Molly Monster and a beta test with a printer at her archive.org work, Jackie, Randal, and I work on the Burning Man book non stop. Lots of nights with no sleep. Now we have a proposal that looks likes, feels, and tastes like an actual book. It really turned out like I'd hoped. Quite political in many ways. Soon we'll be pushing to find a great publisher.
Sept 2003: The Burning Man 2003 project worked out great. For a week at Burning Man shot almost exclusively concept shots. This will help the book a lot!!!!
August 2003: Non stop prep for Burning Man. All Burning Man, all the time. Molly and Jeff both let us know that in time they'll be moving in with their respective sweethearts and sadly leaving Meerkatville.
Meerkat Manor goes back 7 years, but the website is younger. For more stories come over and ask to see the house book. Write something in it if ya get the chance.