Ok.
It's not.
Wait a minute. I get the, your day. What is, what is that? It's a beetle,
black beagle. He, a friend of yours? No, I tell you for sure. There are no
friends of mine. Nothing. Not. That's a very, very destructive outfit for
our garden. I'll tell you.
Oh, what do you do with them? Kill him? Kill him. I'll kill him. Well, how
about, where's that room in? What about, what about what, what about these
? Well, them are very destructive. They are tomato worm and they ruin most
any. They'll eat holes in tomatoes. They'll eat the vines and tops out of
the vines if you just leave more than a few minutes. But if you take them
out and kill them, which is, it makes a good worm out of them. So, then
they're good for the garden after they're dead, huh? Oh, they're good
after they're dead. Yes. Uh, you know, uh, what, what you doing today?
Where are you going with your, uh, squashes? Oh, we're going to Prescott,
we're going to the fair and, and this is one of our, uh, we think one of
our winning, uh, spaghetti of course you think this one's gonna win? Yep.
Yep. Yep. How many years you've been going to the spa?
10 years? You win something every year, every year that we went. We have
never come back without a ribbon of some kind. Who's this? You and Joe. No
, Kip. And I, we started in and then Joe Him and I went two years together
, kid and I went two years together and we've always had big pumpkins and
these little ones are what we call pipe pumpkins. And we've got some over
there and, uh, at the Arbor we pretty sure that's gonna be winners, but
this is a butter butter nut part. And I think I'm not too sure about it,
but I'm pretty sure we'll get a ribbon on it and this was a very, very
nice one, but it just didn't shape just right. I think that's a second or
a third. How that, this will be second place or third place there, be a
third if we got anything on it. But this one here is likely to get a blue
or a red.
They, they're really nice and this little, uh, uh, acorn squads here and
the way we judge them now, I lay my beetle down and I hope it don't run
off.
Well, we judge them. You see, we, we look at all these ridges and they're
, if they're all about the same, all the way around, that's what the judge
looks at see, and then one of them and they, even as a cam, this got a
little too much of a point on it to be a real good acron. But still it's,
uh, it's really nice. Hm. Say, I, I wanted to ask you, are there any
spirits in this garden? You know what? Spirits?
No,
you don't see anything. Just Joe and, uh, oh, Joe. And that's all that
worked out here with me. Is that what you mean? Well, I don't know. Do you
ever see anything or feel anything? You think? Maybe, uh, the ground or
the plant might be talking back to you? Oh, no, that's a good question. I
never thought of that. Joe. He's got him some wedding flowers standing
over there right now. I bet you he's,
well,
well, I don't know. Maybe there is a few spirits over in the greenhouse.
Maybe, maybe there might be, maybe we'll check over there. Ok. And see
what's over there. I don't know. I never looked in the greenhouse and to
put the dirt in there and, uh, they're gonna have to put the roof on
pretty soon or we can't transplant or plant anything in there this fall.
You see, I think they'll get it done. Do you? Well, they, they said
they're going to but I just haven't did it yet. That's all. Thanks a lot.
Is there anything else I can do to help you garden spirits?
You wanna, you wanna get a picture of them. You wanna get a picture of
them? Ok.
No, no, no,
I
we're over in the solar greenhouse, right.
These are, these are your planning beds? Uh Yeah, this is a solar
greenhouse that's been built on to the side of this earlier structure here.
So it has a multiple uses as far as greenhouse and heating the building.
So, like we're getting to experience a little bit of the concept, ah in a
small way and also have a useful tool for the garden as far as propagating
the plants and some growing enough winter vegetables for the staff people
that are here in the winter and a chance to play around with some things,
you know, get off the conceptual level. This is a pretty passively heated
solar greenhouse, which means you have a fairly large amount of storage,
heat storage incorporated in which in this case is rock beds, two
different types. Uh One's a river rock standard and one is our native uh
the salt. There is a t the rock is underneath most of these beds, the
higher ones, the beds are terraced. So it's going down into the ground. Ah
, reasoning behind that is so you can get a, enough of a draft, a chance
for a draft out of a chimney. And the terracing also gives you, ah, if
it's done, right, gives you chances to work at different levels like I can
work on this bed,
right. Yeah. And he can work the high part of the plant. Low part, the
plant is always in process, always cycling through. So has that advantage.
Uh, that one down there is just like every place else, but that's ok. You
can't win them all. And, uh, well, I think that's a storage area down
below, but then above it is a, a crop drying unit which takes in its own
separate dry air from the desert and, ah super heats it on the way. By
those, those, those skylights, there are all solar panels to collect heat
and then you can vary by that vent up there, how much heat goes out. So,
basically what the steady temperature in there is. Yeah, the vents, the
hole, the hole at the top, they're similar to the ones that run all the
way across the top here. So you have low intake air, high hot air rising
and then going out. So you have an air change, air flow through.
Well, the 100 ducks that are coming for the festal.
That was a big fantasy, right? The, the imprinted ducks, you get all the
ducks to lay eggs, right? And then uh kind of just uh then imprint them on
a little statue Apollo, right? So all these ducks whenever he comes will
follow them all around. So he has a captive audience. So makes him, 00,
those ducks. Yeah. Well, they gotta get the air to move around, right. So
, it's, there's some duct work here that's uh partially installed and
basically it, it channels air in to heat the rocks and then channels air
back out. So it takes the heat out to, to heat the building. That's the
heating function. And the cooling function would be, it would take cold
air. It would, it would run through a cold bed, a bed that hasn't been
charged up to get some cold air. That's something I don't think that's
gonna be worked that much in this building as in later greenhouse ideas.
This is the beginnings of a chimney stack that follows the same angle here.
The roof, you see this angle is a solar angle. So you get the, the winter
sun has, if it's set up, right, it won't reflect as much. It'll capture
most of the winter sun and reflect a lot of the summer sun. So goes back
down underneath through these uh through these rock storage beds. Again,
that's why there's two of them, one for each type of storage bed. Uh Yeah.
Yeah. These ah panels down here are in lead panels for cold air, fresh
air and then that's the outside going out. Now, let's see what else. Uh
This the original membrane or the, the first one will be a, a special
ultraviolet resistant plastic
uh maybe later on it will be something a little more permanent, but,
well, it'll, it'll be,
it'll give us options. There's a few ah yet to be, ah, proven details
which, which have to be, ah, there's a couple of those, ah, well, I'll try
it. Maybe it'll work things, ah, you know, the engineers talk about it.
That was Joe Mathers. Joe's been a gardener here for over four years and
Ivy Taylor has been our friend and neighbor since the start of the project.
Ivy's lived in Arizona over 70 years and this year he's giving us, as, in
past year, he gives us a lot of help and supervision down in the garden.
Now, the south vault was the first building constructed here at Arcosanti.
The 12 skins which the 12 panels which make the curve were cast on a bed
of earth, the earth bed being painted with this design. The design is of
young grass. The new shoots representing the growing point of the city to
be someday. When there's a little more built, this area will be the
southern portal of Arcosanti, a public space, a mall area where craftsmen
might display their goods, where people would go about their business,
where Children would play. Currently, we work here.
But uh in just a week and a half, this will be a large banquet area for
our festival.
This arch is not only the entrance to the city but is also the gateway to
the native environment. Arcosanti stands for the fusion of synthetic
information and environmental information.
We want to create a city which provides you with the best of both the best
of culture, the best of civilization and the best of what's here on the
earth for us to grow from and feed from as well.
The building of a Heliocentric society and a city energized by the sun.
This quarter spherical structure facing south acts as a sun collector in
the winter months. When the sun is very low in the sky and a sun shade in
the summer months, this abs effect heating and cooling effect creates a 10
to 30 degrees temperature differential from season to season.
The repetition of curves and ellipses is a pattern derived from our solar
system. In fact, the entire cosm gray of the universe is a repetition of
curves and ellipses.
And the shell of the apps was cast over a mound of sculpted earth, the wet
concrete flowing over the gullies and patterned surface giving us these
colors, these textures which you see the apps focuses on the function of
the building, it focuses on one's work.
And at the same time, it focuses on the native environment.
It creates quite a pleasant place to work and play.
My pottery studio is in the back of the apps and I play here all the time.
Let's see. Where was I? Oh Yeah. Circles and cubes. Uh spheres and cubes
are another recurring design feature throughout our Cas Santi. And the
significance is that a perfect cube and a perfect sphere really don't
exist in nature. Salt crystals are somewhat cubical planets, stars are
somewhat spherical but a perfect cube and a perfect sphere is something
which the humankind brought into existence. And uh this is part of the
significance of the designs in this building.
This is the crafts three building. The bottom floor is residential and
office office space. The two story level is an exhibition area and gallery
and the top floor is also for gallery space as well as uh some conference
rooms. On the third floor on the balcony is where our little cafe is.
The interior of the crafts. Three building has three important focuses.
The first is through the skylight to the heavens, to the cosmos. The
second is to the natural landscape once again.
And the third important focus is to the new city, a new urban alternative.
It's a lot like other cities, there's trees, there's parks, there's people
, there's no automobiles. This place will be a lot cleaner, a lot safer
for your kids. A lot healthier and you'll get around the places much
quicker. This building also has the ability to open these glass doors on
two sides, making this interior space very much like the outdoors. I'll
show you how they open too. You're gonna like this,
the king of the city,
all the dwellings in the future archology will have this option of being
able to open themselves to the outdoors. Now, this is a double function,
not only can you allow pleasant weather in and calm breezes. In the winter
months, you can utilize this greenhouse heating effect, closing both glass
doors, warming the space in the front of your house. Now, the roof, the
entrance way of this building was also cast on a earth pile. That's why
it's curved up tops. You've noticed the colors, the silk cast textures all
in all this building is a rather aesthetic statement in concrete and
building materials. We believe that life is an aesthetic process and, and
this is very important to us and this is why every year we have a Fall
festival a time when we invite artists, craftsmen and performers to Ar
Kante. And of course, everybody in the country,
a part of our intent is to create a healthy city, a healthy urban
environment. Cities can be wonderful places.
I wonder if you at Findhorn are anticipating your next step after you
become a village.
Would you consider an urban system something like this?
Every year in the fall, we have a celebration, a festival in which we
invite everyone in the country, everyone in the world. In fact, last year
was our first major festival. Uh And the theme of last year's festival was
health and healing. This year, our theme is art and the environment. Part
of the intent of the festival is to help generate interest in our cos
Santi to help us assemble a critical mass of creative people here to build
a well rounded, healthy community.
This is our friend Andrews Holmquist Anders has participated in the last
three festivals. And, uh
what brings you to a Kani Andrews in the, uh, at first it brought me
because the curiosity about a much written about place that I, I agreed
with another principle as Apollo. So it was um an experiment and, um, out
here there's such a freedom of flags, the wind, the sun, that's all you
need. It's like taking the flakes on a vacation, you know, in a beautiful
spot. I think they want to see the flag.
Ah, the winds changed for us.
I was always fascinated about the so called swallow tails on flags. And of
course they are, uh, like imitations of birds. It's, the name says it. So
, here I'm doing a, a, um, a wing proper out of feathers and, uh, I tend
to have quite a few of those different colors for the festival. Different
wings. The wing is close to a, to a flag. I feel it out, out in the wind,
moving, sailing, having fun. How many, uh, wings? How many sailors do you
? 10 to fly this year? How many flags all in all? There'll be, uh, nearly
50 flags. We have 50 polls and that should be you fill me. Mhm.
Ok.
Have you any future plans with Arcosanti? Well, as I spoke with you last
year and I've spoken to Carlo about, uh, being a resident here and, uh,
work on flags and develop my idea about flags is definitely one of my
future projects. Ok.
We'll see in a couple of years, like Paula said, when you've been here in
California, three years on the coast, come and see me again. He said like
three years, he gives me three years and I'd be too bored
and then we might be uh flag capital of the western hemisphere. That's
right. That'd be wonderful. Ok. Thank you. Thank you. Let's uh down in the
valley, we are constructing
uh our main performance area for the larger, larger performances of jazz
and dance. Uh We should go down there. That's where all our construction
energy is going these four weeks in preparation of the festival. Uh
Currently, that crew is uh been tagged the mule team because they've been
moving a lot of rocks, a lot of heavy equipment and a lot of earth. So
we'll go down there and talk to some of the mules. 123, go. Yes. Here,
here we are.
This is the most exciting moment. Ladies and gentlemen,
to the right
to, to, I'm gonna go,
oh, it's the Italian and English woman up top are having trouble lifting
the log over the, over the bleachers. Oh, I think they've got it. Now, the
Americans from behind are obviously pushing too hard. They can only get
together, work with the team. I think they're almost to the top. I
oh,
go, go, go. Yes, safety first. Always, always,
this is a monster. Ah, ok. They've almost done it. This could be a record
time. Ladies and gentlemen,
the log is almost in place. They've done it. They've done it. Well, can we
get a word with some of some of you? Can we get a word with you? Please
tell, tell me, sir, how long, how, how long have you worked on this crew?
Yeah.
Can't do, can't do, can't talk. Noah later. Come back right here. We'll be
back later.
Yeah. So can you tell me something about this log, please? Yeah, this log
weighed 200/200 pounds. It was very heavy. It requires six people as you
could see to, to carry it. How long have you been working on this stage
area? Oh, about a week, a week. Well, love sure was a lot of work. Thank
you very much. Thank you very much. Are you sorry? Uh The scaffolding will
support the main stage.
You'll see all this uh in the next video letter, there'll be a stage down
here, dance
concert piano, some jazz.
Here we are in a construction area. This is the excavation for the East
Crescent, a building which we've currently started and this is where we're
setting up booths for the craftsman who will be participating in our
festival. The booths are ar are arranged in about the same configuration
that the building. East Crescent itself will be arranged in and right over
here we have a builder. Could you do that again, please?
Uh How does it feel to be off the old grind of construction and working
for something enjoyable? Like the festival? I don't know. It still seems
like I'm working construction. Are you sure? But this is for the festival.
Well, yeah, it's, uh, it's a little different but not a whole lot. These
are the, uh, same forms which we use for, uh, pouring concrete and we're
uh doubling them this year as a to serve as booths for the craftsman. So
we're still working with the same forms that I've been working with for
the last couple of months I see. Slightly different. Yes. And just uh just
a month ago, they were down over here.
Uh Let's go take a look.
OK. Don't go over the edge Cheryl. So this is the beginning of a new, a
new structure at Arcosanti. This building will house a drafting room and
uh this is half the building right now and it's only the basement level.
It will come up three stories and it will be the celery residence and the
drawing studios for Apollo and the whole crew of architects which work
with him down at Cos Santi.
We're in front of the lab building. Now, we're going to go inside and see
what else is going on in preparation for the festival. First, we're going
to go into Randy's printing studio.
You're not gonna believe this.
Uh
Hi
am I? Well, here in the print shop we print all kinds of things. I've been
printing up raffle tickets for the, for the, for the coming festival. We
got all kinds of tickets here. We got, we got raffle tickets, we got
festival tickets, we got banquet tickets, we got parking tickets. Just
take your pick.
Would you care to? Should we sell a couple?
No, no, we're in Tim's Silk screening shop right now where Tim is whipping
off t-shirt after t-shirt after t-shirt. And how long have you been, uh,
printing these t-shirts? Tim? Well, we started on the day before yesterday
and we had the artwork, uh, done and, uh, now we're busy at work getting
them ready here. What else have you printed? Royal Festival? We did some
banners last year and, uh, they'll probably be used again this year.
Banners, banners how large feet by 4 ft, something like that and
they're all. Hopefully, we'll also do a small series of posters for this
year and Cheryl's doing bags. Cheryl who she, Cheryl who has the camera
and she's doing bags and we'll print those and excuse me, while I splash
this ink around a little bit here. Ok. Here's another one.
Yeah. Right. Three color half tone pretty spacey
and I'll probably sell a million of them. Yeah, I hope so. But it's good
street media. We're trying to sell them before the festival in hopes that
people will see them on the street and come to the festival.
Well, thanks a lot. Is there anything else you want to show us in here? Uh
, not really. Uh My process is a patented process and I don't want to give
it away so secrets, secrets. The t-shirt business is, you know, a real,
real kill or be killed. Well, good luck. I hope you survive the festival.
Thanks a lot.
We're in the vault area again. And this is Cheryl who's been our camera
person for this tape. Cheryl's a carpenter on the site. And recently she's
been refinishing, resurfacing this stage which gets erected in the
ceramics area when we turn the ceramics workshop into an amphitheater.
How's the surface? It's finished.
We're at the back door of the cafe and, uh, we'll see what, uh, but the
baker's bacon
sure smells good.
Well, I'm gonna be, uh, making about 5000 of these little critters here
for the festival
and probably about 5, 600 loaves of bread,
which we better get cracking on here pretty quick
and, uh, lots of brownies and cheesecakes and, uh, just good things to eat.
That's great. Thanks a lot. All right, see you now.
Hello. This is the Arcosanti Festival office. Have you got the 100 Ducks
ready for delivery? Yes. Yes, that's correct. Drop from a plane at 12 noon.
Yes. Ok. Thank you.
Well, that's about it for this week.
And, uh, I guess the only thing left to say is the next time you see us,
there's gonna be 12,000 people over there and a whole lot of things going
on. I heard a rumor that David or Caris was taking the video stuff to
Oroville this week. So we'd like to send a special hold out to them and,
uh hope that they enjoy their video equipment as much as we've enjoyed
ours.
Pardon me? For not introducing myself? I'm Richard Johnson. I'm a potter.
I couldn't have done this video letter without Cheryl. Let me tell you.