WEBVTT 00:00:03.289 --> 00:00:05.289 Ok. Hi, Katie, uh, Billy, uh, Sydney and Mark. We enjoyed, uh, seeing you 00:00:09.648 --> 00:00:14.347 and, uh, on the tape, we headed in the library at Ar Casati with, um, a 00:00:14.380 --> 00:00:18.717 little grape juice and wine and carrots. And so we're all a little sleepy 00:00:18.750 --> 00:00:24.296 and maybe a little, uh, slow to begin with. Uh, I'm here as the envelope 00:00:24.329 --> 00:00:29.146 as you know. And, uh, so I'm gonna take this tape back to you. Uh, I, I, 00:00:29.179 --> 00:00:32.417 what I want to do is sort of introduce some folks here who, who will be 00:00:32.450 --> 00:00:38.186 talking with you. Well, first is, uh, there's Randy Hunt here to, to my 00:00:38.219 --> 00:00:46.219 left and he is li librarian and, and, and, and Welder and Tony Brown who 00:00:46.990 --> 00:00:50.467 is, 00:00:50.500 --> 00:00:56.546 and Josephine Crawford. Yeah. Um, I'm working on a first, yeah, a little 00:00:56.579 --> 00:01:02.515 festival they're having next weekend, uh, for, uh, 10,000 people. Uh, oh, 00:01:02.548 --> 00:01:06.337 my 00:01:06.370 --> 00:01:12.706 uh, director. You can say that 00:01:12.739 --> 00:01:18.757 her mother, she's her mother. 00:01:18.790 --> 00:01:26.790 I thank you for that. You a member here for wood chopper or what? 00:01:27.198 --> 00:01:30.305 Ok. I'm Michelle and I'm a workshop, 00:01:30.338 --> 00:01:34.227 Jack and re 00:01:34.260 --> 00:01:37.406 I'm a resident too. My name's Jason Brown and that's my dad over there. 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:44.275 Tony. 00:01:44.308 --> 00:01:50.385 Well, uh folks, you, you, you showed us a little bit around uh another 00:01:50.418 --> 00:01:55.236 place and uh and perhaps that's what, what uh Randy could do and, and 00:01:55.269 --> 00:01:59.867 others just uh as we pan around the panorama here. Can you do that, Randy 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:05.236 ? Just sort of give people an idea of what's going on? Give it a try. Um 00:02:05.269 --> 00:02:10.177 This place is a Kani, it's been under construction as an experimental city 00:02:10.210 --> 00:02:13.517 since 1970. 00:02:13.550 --> 00:02:17.177 Um You're probably looking at the vaults right now. We have a north vault 00:02:17.210 --> 00:02:21.346 , a south vault. Uh This first vault was the first structure completed 00:02:21.379 --> 00:02:28.987 here at Arcosanti. Um Panning into the back, you'll see the lab building, 00:02:29.020 --> 00:02:32.827 which is under construction, a building 00:02:32.860 --> 00:02:39.896 basically for uh small uh well, perhaps woodworking, something like that, 00:02:39.929 --> 00:02:47.929 small crafts um located uh in the vaults are the metal shop, uh the tool 00:02:49.699 --> 00:02:53.547 shop, 00:02:53.580 --> 00:02:58.547 the uh well, first of all, you have to excuse me because I'm not used to 00:02:58.580 --> 00:03:04.987 all this. Let's see. Uh what's that big bird over there? Uh The big bird. 00:03:05.020 --> 00:03:09.677 Uh We as, as Peter said, we're having a uh a festival here next week, uh 00:03:09.710 --> 00:03:17.616 festival of health and healing. Um And we're constructing a number of uh 00:03:17.649 --> 00:03:25.649 OK, items and, and floats really for uh um yeah, for a, for a good time 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:33.005 and, and Bob over there has been uh coming out here, I believe he lives in 00:03:33.038 --> 00:03:36.207 Phoenix. He's been coming out for the last three weekends and just 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:40.987 donating his time putting that thing together doing a magnificent job. All 00:03:41.020 --> 00:03:44.916 the feathers are going, 00:03:44.949 --> 00:03:52.949 um, you also pass to my along very well. Ok. Ok. Uh, let's see the camera 00:03:54.258 --> 00:03:57.786 right now, I guess, is panning back from the vaults and the, uh, going 00:03:57.819 --> 00:04:00.866 over towards the west side of the building. And that's where the library 00:04:00.899 --> 00:04:05.446 is located where Randy, uh has the library with, uh, all the books that, 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:08.916 uh have been donated and sent to us. And the building in the background is 00:04:08.949 --> 00:04:13.457 the uh restaurant with a pyramid uh skylight. This again is one of Randy's 00:04:13.490 --> 00:04:19.036 projects uh to put the glass in the skylight. And we're planning to 00:04:19.069 --> 00:04:21.726 enclose this building by the festival because we're going to have a whole 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:26.676 series of health and healing seminars that happened inside that building 00:04:26.709 --> 00:04:30.645 uh during the festival because we have a theme for the festival, which is 00:04:30.678 --> 00:04:34.426 one of health and healing, which uh will happen in conjunction with the 00:04:34.459 --> 00:04:39.075 idea of the arts as a uh as a healing process for the community, as well 00:04:39.108 --> 00:04:46.296 as uh a process for uh celebration. Um I don't know if you can see, but 00:04:46.329 --> 00:04:51.197 back behind is a sort of a landscape. Uh We have a valley that's uh on the 00:04:51.230 --> 00:04:55.555 south side of the, the masa here. And we're in process of constructing a 00:04:55.588 --> 00:04:59.476 stage and uh amphitheater that will house part of the festival 00:04:59.509 --> 00:05:04.015 performances. We actually have, I think it's five stages for the festival 00:05:04.048 --> 00:05:08.007 , uh one that we're sitting on up here, the one that you're looking at 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:14.257 down in the valley there. Uh We have uh one over to the east side in a 00:05:14.290 --> 00:05:20.395 large area that will have uh crafts and food concession stands. And uh 00:05:20.428 --> 00:05:24.836 we'll have also a whole series of smaller stages that step down the mazer 00:05:24.869 --> 00:05:28.156 on the, the other side of the valley, which will be used for part of the 00:05:28.189 --> 00:05:32.116 performance during the, the evening light show. You can just see the tip 00:05:32.149 --> 00:05:35.817 of the, one of the cranes that we have here at a Kanti. That's uh the 00:05:35.850 --> 00:05:39.895 smaller one that we really started out with, which is a 20 ton browning 00:05:39.928 --> 00:05:43.656 and uh that's located by the swimming pool that we're in process of 00:05:43.689 --> 00:05:49.166 constructing, which is something we can't wait for. Uh It's a 25 m 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:52.406 swimming pool which uh sounds like a luxury. But in the middle of the 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:56.877 Arizona Desert, a swimming pool is a, is a real necessity. So we're 00:05:56.910 --> 00:06:00.937 looking forward to having that finish this year and probably swimming uh 00:06:00.970 --> 00:06:06.205 early next year. Uh Maybe I'll pass it on to somebody else who can give 00:06:06.238 --> 00:06:11.666 you a little bit more on, on what the camera is looking at now. Ok. Let's 00:06:11.699 --> 00:06:19.036 see. Are you looking, are you looking at me? You know? Oh, yes. Ok. I live 00:06:19.069 --> 00:06:24.836 um above a building which is called the Foundry and that's because we cast 00:06:24.869 --> 00:06:28.616 the bells down there. And the apartment that I have is next door to 00:06:28.649 --> 00:06:34.666 Pyramid. And, um, it's sort of, it's in the shell of the foundry. The 00:06:34.699 --> 00:06:39.467 foundry is an app which is a quarter sphere shape and apartments are sort 00:06:39.500 --> 00:06:44.387 of in the shell of the foundry. It's very hard to describe. Um, unless you 00:06:44.420 --> 00:06:47.447 could see it, we, there's no way we could take the camera over there is 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:52.015 there. But, ok, some of the time we do that because they're really 00:06:52.048 --> 00:06:56.156 wonderful spaces and they're very, they're very different. They don't have 00:06:56.189 --> 00:07:00.305 um very many 90 degree angles. They're all different shapes and, and 00:07:00.338 --> 00:07:06.336 they're really, quite interesting. Um I'd like to talk a little bit. 00:07:06.369 --> 00:07:11.817 Well, I've been here a year and um I was the cook for a while and then the 00:07:11.850 --> 00:07:15.546 festival came up as it does every year. We've done three. This is the 00:07:15.579 --> 00:07:19.895 third of, of um the festivals and it's the beginning of a series of 00:07:19.928 --> 00:07:23.877 festivals that we hope to be doing here, the sort of prototype thing. And 00:07:23.910 --> 00:07:26.645 uh uh when I heard about the festival, I was very excited because my 00:07:26.678 --> 00:07:31.967 background is in theater. And um so I jumped to that and so I'm working on 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:36.575 that now for a while until we get it on, which is next, next week. So 00:07:36.608 --> 00:07:41.395 we're all in full swing preparing for this festival. And um the drums you 00:07:41.428 --> 00:07:45.567 can hear back there, some kids playing on the thing we've been rehearsing 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.387 and actually, we are in the process of rehearsing and maybe later on in 00:07:48.420 --> 00:07:51.666 the tape, you're gonna catch some people doing some odd things. You're 00:07:51.699 --> 00:07:54.786 gonna have a light show as part of the festival. It's a two day thing and 00:07:54.819 --> 00:07:59.926 there's, oh, there's just a bunch of things going on. Um, one of them is a 00:07:59.959 --> 00:08:04.536 light show on Saturday night and in the light show we're trying to use as 00:08:04.569 --> 00:08:10.447 much. Um, let me see, how can I put it rather than theatrical lighting, 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:14.726 organic lighting. And also we're trying to integrate what a little bit 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:19.236 somehow of what we do here at our sane. Uh, we're having what is called 00:08:19.269 --> 00:08:23.736 work vignettes, which is sort of half dance and half showing like people 00:08:23.769 --> 00:08:27.627 carrying stuff and laboring and just carrying on. We're just trying to 00:08:27.660 --> 00:08:32.236 make the light show a little bit of what of what we do here in the way of 00:08:32.269 --> 00:08:36.657 building and play and whatnot and a little bit later on also, maybe, um, 00:08:36.690 --> 00:08:40.515 if you go up on the roof, for instance, I'm doing a hanging out my washing 00:08:40.548 --> 00:08:44.125 type dance because I do hang out my wash on the, on the roof. So I'm gonna 00:08:44.158 --> 00:08:47.446 do a dance. That's saying that and you know, there's gonna be a welder 00:08:47.479 --> 00:08:51.525 because that's a lot of, oh, and then Tony Brown's gonna do this, poor, 00:08:51.558 --> 00:08:58.787 this concrete pour that's gonna be all. Um Oh yeah. What? OK. I'm not sure 00:08:58.820 --> 00:09:02.616 myself yet, but uh, what we have is uh is part of the light show. We're 00:09:02.649 --> 00:09:06.677 doing a work sequence and uh we have a transit mixer and I'm sure you're 00:09:06.710 --> 00:09:10.505 familiar with what a transit mixer is. It's a, it's a truck mounted uh 00:09:10.538 --> 00:09:16.255 drum that rotates to mix the concrete. And so the plan is to, to put 00:09:16.288 --> 00:09:19.775 mirrors all over the uh drum of the concrete and shine lights on it during 00:09:19.808 --> 00:09:23.217 the light show and do it and rotate the drum. So it looks like a giant 00:09:23.250 --> 00:09:27.895 ballroom ball reflecting lights all over the mazer. So we don't know how 00:09:27.928 --> 00:09:30.467 it's gonna work out. We're gonna try it Monday night actually see how it 00:09:30.500 --> 00:09:34.566 works. But uh I think that the light show is gonna be really good because 00:09:34.599 --> 00:09:38.525 it's gonna have a lot of energy from the people here at Arca Santi. Um 00:09:38.558 --> 00:09:42.057 Both in terms of the, the, the sort of several parts to the sequence of 00:09:42.090 --> 00:09:45.287 the light show. The first is lighting the geology of the landscape and 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:49.025 then the exteriors of the building. And then as Josephine said, everybody 00:09:49.058 --> 00:09:52.265 waking up and going to work and doing all the things that they do during 00:09:52.298 --> 00:09:56.967 the day. Um And then there's a, there's a firework display as well, uh 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.525 which sort of culminates the, the play section of the, of the light show. 00:10:01.558 --> 00:10:04.746 And then we have uh a whole lantern procession that goes down to the 00:10:04.779 --> 00:10:08.236 stages and then ends up as a, in a big celebration down in the field at 00:10:08.269 --> 00:10:14.145 the bottom of the sw, um, this is probably the biggest, uh, festival that 00:10:14.178 --> 00:10:17.547 we've done so far of the three. And, uh, I think it's gonna be really 00:10:17.580 --> 00:10:22.066 exciting when it gets, uh, gets going. Let's see. May, maybe I should pass 00:10:22.099 --> 00:10:25.157 it on to somebody else. Heidi is in the process of dying right now because 00:10:25.190 --> 00:10:32.135 she has a terrible cold. But, uh, New York. 00:10:32.168 --> 00:10:36.066 Oh, 00:10:36.099 --> 00:10:42.936 that's good. Yeah, I do. Ok. Go ahead. If you wanna show it a ta, I gotta 00:10:42.969 --> 00:10:45.206 look at myself. 00:10:45.239 --> 00:10:50.356 Yeah, because I can't see that. Well, 00:10:50.389 --> 00:10:54.557 well, 00:10:54.590 --> 00:10:58.956 wait till he goes down there. You're looking at like camp right now where 00:10:58.989 --> 00:11:04.467 most of the people who come on a workshop here live and what it is is 00:11:04.500 --> 00:11:11.576 there's three main living areas. There's Cube City, there's Plywood City 00:11:11.609 --> 00:11:16.467 and I guess tent city. Yeah, the garden is located down there. We, we're 00:11:16.500 --> 00:11:21.125 eating out of our garden now. Um, there's, 00:11:21.158 --> 00:11:25.586 there's a big building with a, it's like an octagon shape. That's kind of 00:11:25.619 --> 00:11:29.125 a community space. We show movies in there. We filled up the center with 00:11:29.158 --> 00:11:35.586 water and just swam in it and gotten caught in a storm in there. And it's 00:11:35.619 --> 00:11:39.226 a nice space that's inside that everybody can share our kitchens down 00:11:39.259 --> 00:11:45.746 there, which is also a really warm place. Uh, and on the other side of the 00:11:45.779 --> 00:11:50.275 river, the Cottonwoods, that's where some people set up different kind of 00:11:50.308 --> 00:11:55.635 spaces like there's tee down there and tents. I know whatever anybody 00:11:55.668 --> 00:11:59.265 chooses, I suppose. But that's where most people live because most of the 00:11:59.298 --> 00:12:07.298 spaces up the hill now are not living spaces. They're working spaces. 00:12:09.029 --> 00:12:12.875 Well, I think something should be said to, uh, appreciate the 00:12:12.908 --> 00:12:17.096 communication attempt that's being, that's going on here because I think 00:12:17.129 --> 00:12:19.826 it's very valuable and I think everybody that's here thinks it's very 00:12:19.859 --> 00:12:24.456 valuable to try to establish some kind of communication because that's 00:12:24.489 --> 00:12:28.616 what a lot of us are in it for. That's a lot our Kani exists in a lot of 00:12:28.649 --> 00:12:32.287 ways as an attempt to provide people with information about another way 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.956 that they might be able to live rather than living in a city. Although I 00:12:35.989 --> 00:12:39.765 guess you guys are pretty lucky because you get to live out in the country. 00:12:39.798 --> 00:12:42.265 Uh 00:12:42.298 --> 00:12:46.255 So as far as communication goes, I think this is really good. I think what 00:12:46.288 --> 00:12:50.135 you're seeing like in the vault around you is it's kind of rare. Don't get 00:12:50.168 --> 00:12:53.427 the idea that there's always as much activity going on around here because 00:12:53.460 --> 00:12:57.125 a lot of times it's pretty desolate. But I think a lot of people here 00:12:57.158 --> 00:13:03.816 really enjoy that desolation too. Uh 00:13:03.849 --> 00:13:06.157 Give me a second. 00:13:06.190 --> 00:13:11.135 Ok. Um I'm at a workshop the second time I was here a year ago and it's 00:13:11.168 --> 00:13:14.606 kind of, I think I'm becoming one of the reoccurring people. Once you 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:18.456 start here, you kind of get you, you get used to this place and it's 00:13:18.489 --> 00:13:23.145 something special and it makes you come back and talking about this place 00:13:23.178 --> 00:13:28.307 is a different place to live. It's an incredibly peaceful place and that's 00:13:28.340 --> 00:13:32.557 why I keep coming back in terms of finding out that I don't like to live 00:13:32.590 --> 00:13:36.505 in a city and maybe this kind of city will be different and just 00:13:36.538 --> 00:13:41.645 evaluating it in terms of my life. And uh there's so much going on here 00:13:41.678 --> 00:13:46.066 and right now you're looking at the people who are, um, practicing for a 00:13:46.099 --> 00:13:50.186 dance and there's space here to do pretty much what you want. It's one of 00:13:50.219 --> 00:13:54.186 the places where a lot goes and if you want to do something you can create 00:13:54.219 --> 00:14:01.856 it and that's what these people are doing now. Um, let's talk to Jack. 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:04.157 Ok. 00:14:04.190 --> 00:14:06.537 What's next? 00:14:06.570 --> 00:14:09.936 I don't really have anything to add to that at all. I haven't seen the 00:14:09.969 --> 00:14:13.736 tape that uh was sent here. So maybe I'll get a chance to look at it later. 00:14:13.769 --> 00:14:18.076 Uh 00:14:18.109 --> 00:14:26.109 It's a good place. 00:14:26.629 --> 00:14:32.505 Ok. Hi there. I don't really know anything to say, but just living here is 00:14:32.538 --> 00:14:38.407 just great. It's just a good experience. I've lived lots of other places 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:44.956 but, um, living here is different because it's just such a great place and 00:14:44.989 --> 00:14:50.996 there's no arguments most of the time. 00:14:51.029 --> 00:14:58.427 Some of the time we'll see. No, no good joke. 00:14:58.460 --> 00:15:01.927 I just think it's a great place to be. 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:06.255 Sneak, 00:15:06.288 --> 00:15:12.775 make you live there. In your house because you're right out. Of course, I 00:15:12.808 --> 00:15:16.576 got to tell you what. 00:15:16.609 --> 00:15:22.316 No, 00:15:22.349 --> 00:15:27.557 I just, I just feel great about this place because it's, 00:15:27.590 --> 00:15:33.927 it's different and it's a new idea. 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:40.807 How about the other kids? Well, over there in the vault 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:48.346 three are the two are the kids. No. What? 00:15:48.379 --> 00:15:54.755 Get the work. I'm gonna be here for 00:15:54.788 --> 00:15:58.446 much more. Maybe 00:15:58.479 --> 00:16:01.667 boy named Jonas 00:16:01.700 --> 00:16:05.927 who is just so. 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:13.836 And, um, in East housing there's a young three year old named Ken who is 00:16:13.869 --> 00:16:17.375 um smaller. 00:16:17.408 --> 00:16:19.956 OK. 00:16:19.989 --> 00:16:27.989 Nice drink. You do a little, I get along with sometimes. Oh he's around 00:16:32.969 --> 00:16:39.657 be OK. Yeah. 00:16:39.690 --> 00:16:47.515 How, how much we have this, finish this table up here? 00:16:47.548 --> 00:16:50.657 How much time left wondering how much time we have left in this paper we 00:16:50.690 --> 00:16:58.690 could move over there. 00:17:00.469 --> 00:17:06.726 I think it would be helpful for, for, for and why you're here since I got 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:10.877 the microphone. What's your name? Peter just said that we should try to 00:17:10.910 --> 00:17:14.436 talk about why we're here. So I'll start since I got the microphone in my 00:17:14.469 --> 00:17:17.075 hand. Uh 00:17:17.108 --> 00:17:20.506 As soon as you say that you have to stop and think because there's a lot 00:17:20.539 --> 00:17:24.446 of reasons and a lot of them aren't very verbal, they're very intuitive. 00:17:24.479 --> 00:17:27.976 I'm here because I don't like to live in the intensity of urban society, 00:17:28.009 --> 00:17:32.847 but I enjoy interacting with people. I've been there and know things about 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.617 it. I know about the city because it's a very intense place, but it can be 00:17:36.650 --> 00:17:40.585 a very oppressive place too. I'm here because I wanna be able to build our 00:17:40.618 --> 00:17:44.956 designing and to be able to live in it. 00:17:44.989 --> 00:17:50.766 I'm also here to try to learn about Carlo's ideas, the philosophy that 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:55.325 goes behind Margo Sani, which is I've been doing that for two years and 00:17:55.358 --> 00:18:03.358 I'm beginning to get a feel for it and it's very deeply involved. 00:18:07.588 --> 00:18:12.446 I think it's too complex a question. Um, it's very much involved in just 00:18:12.479 --> 00:18:17.867 living as far as I'm concerned. Um, having said it's too complex a 00:18:17.900 --> 00:18:21.035 question, I'll now go ahead and answer. 00:18:21.068 --> 00:18:25.276 Try to anyway, there are many, many reasons why one's here and I'll just 00:18:25.309 --> 00:18:30.555 ramble on a little bit. Um, just before I came here, I was living 00:18:30.588 --> 00:18:36.295 in the suburbs, um, because of circumstances and I found that it was the 00:18:36.328 --> 00:18:40.956 most alienating thing that's ever happened to me. Um, I think it, it 00:18:40.989 --> 00:18:43.897 probably started with quite a good idea a long time ago. The idea of 00:18:43.930 --> 00:18:47.406 everybody with their little piece of garden and privacy and all that stuff. 00:18:47.439 --> 00:18:51.936 But I, it's some, something went wrong. Um, as far as I was concerned, it 00:18:51.969 --> 00:18:56.857 was very wrong for me. And so I'd known about this case for a long time 00:18:56.890 --> 00:19:01.526 and it seems to me a kind of radical move and I like radical things. So, 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:04.476 um I thought I'd give it a try. I have absolutely nothing to lose. Believe 00:19:04.509 --> 00:19:11.006 me. It's to me living in the suburbs. Just, just nothing. And, um, when I 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:14.526 say alienation, it just seemed like everybody's front windows were closed 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.676 and yes, they've got their little piece of garden and everything. But I 00:19:17.709 --> 00:19:20.647 wanted to talk to people sometimes I didn't want to get in my car and 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:24.506 drive for three hours and talk to them. So I'm, I'm, I'm looking for an 00:19:24.539 --> 00:19:32.539 alternative and as I say, Aa Sandy certainly offers one. Um, 00:19:33.689 --> 00:19:38.647 I'm getting hypnotized by the drums. Excuse me. 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:42.397 Uh It's, as I say, I think that like living, I've lived here for a year 00:19:42.430 --> 00:19:46.766 and, and the positive thing that I found about it and of course, like 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:48.976 everything, there is a great deal of positive and negative. But the 00:19:49.009 --> 00:19:55.176 positive thing I find is that it's life, I'm living it. It's not, um, it's 00:19:55.209 --> 00:20:01.847 not a six week course or an instant utopia or any of those things. I'm 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:07.726 just living here in this emerging thing and the way I feel about it is 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.835 that, that it's the future and the future is unspeakable because it's the 00:20:11.868 --> 00:20:15.426 future. How can you tell what it is? You can't analyze it or any of those 00:20:15.459 --> 00:20:18.686 things. So it starts getting awfully difficult to talk about it as a sort 00:20:18.719 --> 00:20:25.535 of formed thing because it, it's the future. Um I can go on rambling on 00:20:25.568 --> 00:20:29.085 and I do ramble on an awful lot. So I'm gonna pass it a little bit to 00:20:29.118 --> 00:20:32.377 David. I don't think David spoke out saying David, oh, you want to do 00:20:32.410 --> 00:20:35.416 yours in the ceramic, right? 00:20:35.449 --> 00:20:41.565 Um Yeah. Yeah. I like giving tours. 00:20:41.598 --> 00:20:47.526 Um, it's just such an immense project. I, I'm sure I do like the people 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:50.387 that we're all talking to know what we talk, what, what it is that we're 00:20:50.420 --> 00:20:55.357 trying to do here because, um, do do that. Does everybody know that what 00:20:55.390 --> 00:20:58.717 we're doing here? Do you think that we're talking to, do? Most people 00:20:58.750 --> 00:21:01.877 understand that we're trying to build a, a three dimensional one 00:21:01.910 --> 00:21:08.397 structured city? That's an urban experiment though. 00:21:08.430 --> 00:21:16.430 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're trying to build a new, a new and it's an 00:21:18.009 --> 00:21:23.055 urban experiment and it's a one structured um city and it's a very small 00:21:23.088 --> 00:21:30.627 experiment um of our colleges. And 00:21:30.660 --> 00:21:37.847 in essence, the building is going to be as I see it, a solar, a solar 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.726 machine pretty much the building itself. It's not just a bunch of 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.176 buildings with a bunch of little solar things stuck on them, that it's 00:21:45.209 --> 00:21:48.217 going to be one great big structure. That is many things and one of the 00:21:48.250 --> 00:21:53.506 things is a solar collector. Um It's also an urban center, it's going to 00:21:53.539 --> 00:21:58.976 be a concentrated urban center with agriculture growing all the way around 00:21:59.009 --> 00:22:03.456 it. And then, and then nature just being nature all the way around it, 00:22:03.489 --> 00:22:10.285 you'll be able to get out into that very quickly. Um 00:22:10.318 --> 00:22:13.516 I really can't go on talking. I I am getting terrible tour by the drums. I 00:22:13.549 --> 00:22:18.006 really would like to come. 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:21.357 Ok. Well, I guess the question was why are we here? And I guess the reason 00:22:21.390 --> 00:22:25.766 I'm here is really because I, I love cities and it sounds kind of crazy 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:28.597 sitting here out in the middle of the boonies, uh, with nothing going on 00:22:28.630 --> 00:22:34.456 around us. Um, but the problems of the city are really, uh, I think 00:22:34.489 --> 00:22:37.196 immense and they're getting worse. The city is really showing signs of 00:22:37.229 --> 00:22:43.857 breakdown in all facets and the city to me is the real solution to modern 00:22:43.890 --> 00:22:48.516 life. Um I am very much opposed to the idea of taking a cabin and moving 00:22:48.549 --> 00:22:53.217 off into the countryside and living a rural life because I think that that 00:22:53.250 --> 00:22:58.305 might suffice for a few people. But uh 90% of the world's population does 00:22:58.338 --> 00:23:01.387 live in cities. And unless we address the problems of the cities, we're 00:23:01.420 --> 00:23:08.035 really not uh solving any of the real dilemmas of modern life. So I'm uh 00:23:08.068 --> 00:23:12.996 I'm here because uh I wanna build a new form of city. And I think the the 00:23:13.029 --> 00:23:18.676 design that pa has proposed is a, is a very rational form that will uh not 00:23:18.709 --> 00:23:23.156 only house the people within a city structure but will promote the 00:23:23.189 --> 00:23:27.416 interaction between people in that structure. So besides serving as a 00:23:27.449 --> 00:23:32.637 shelter, it also serves as an intensifier of, of urban life. And I think 00:23:32.670 --> 00:23:37.156 uh the intensity that uh exists in an urban atmosphere is very important 00:23:37.189 --> 00:23:43.706 to the ongoing evolution of the human race. And Palo is a very um intense 00:23:43.739 --> 00:23:48.726 evolutionary thinker and the city is a very important part of his thought 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:54.555 processes. Um So, basically, I'm here to build a structure that will house 00:23:54.588 --> 00:24:00.847 a function that will maybe um enhance the future uh living situation of 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:08.335 people that live in urban environments. Brandy. 00:24:08.368 --> 00:24:14.717 Well, Tony is uh very eloquent in his uh in his description. Uh I, I could 00:24:14.750 --> 00:24:22.075 say I'm here for just about exactly the same reason. Um Having lived in uh 00:24:22.108 --> 00:24:30.108 city situations and country situations, uh I know that uh I, I need to 00:24:31.390 --> 00:24:37.887 have open spaces uh on occasion to, to be able to wander out into and, and 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:44.877 sort of be by myself. Uh But having lived in a uh total rural area for 00:24:44.910 --> 00:24:49.756 about three years, I noticed that I, I'd go crazy just several times a 00:24:49.789 --> 00:24:56.746 week not having enough people around to, to, to generate, 00:24:56.779 --> 00:25:04.736 oh, in urban excitement. So, Arcos. So he seems like a uh 00:25:04.769 --> 00:25:12.769 a very real and viable alternative uh for me. Uh That's why I'm here. 00:25:15.868 --> 00:25:22.006 Um As for this video, uh I think it's a really interesting experiment, 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:27.637 what we're doing here. Uh Video has got uh tremendous 00:25:27.670 --> 00:25:35.670 potentials uh apart from commercialized television, um 00:25:35.670 --> 00:25:42.795 I felt a little bit funny watching you on television. Um 00:25:42.828 --> 00:25:49.936 and, and slightly uncomfortable for being behind it video, youtube here. 00:25:49.969 --> 00:25:54.107 And 00:25:54.140 --> 00:26:00.217 I think it's, it's important that uh situations 00:26:00.250 --> 00:26:05.967 that are developing in, in the world today like Arco, 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:08.617 OK. 00:26:08.650 --> 00:26:16.650 And what you're doing at another place in, in networking, uh A Fin Horn 00:26:17.459 --> 00:26:25.075 Laville or any number of other places which I may not be aware of is uh an 00:26:25.108 --> 00:26:33.108 initial step in uh in a, in a tremendously long line of, of 00:26:34.500 --> 00:26:40.815 uh well, a long sequence of things which will bring about a uh community, 00:26:40.848 --> 00:26:45.406 uh a world community. 00:26:45.439 --> 00:26:53.439 Of course, it's coming to the point where we can't do otherwise. 00:26:53.709 --> 00:26:59.676 So, an interesting experiment and hello. And uh I enjoyed seeing all of 00:26:59.709 --> 00:27:02.045 you. 00:27:02.078 --> 00:27:05.045 Um 00:27:05.078 --> 00:27:13.078 Does anyone else have anything you want to say? 00:27:15.469 --> 00:27:19.516 OK, my name is Susan and I'm a works hopper. That means I'm here for six 00:27:19.549 --> 00:27:23.387 weeks. I first heard about solar last year. And the thing that interested 00:27:23.420 --> 00:27:27.156 me primarily was the fact that very radical concept is actually being 00:27:27.189 --> 00:27:31.026 built. Basically, what I've been doing is construction, which has been 00:27:31.059 --> 00:27:36.117 everything from helping to pour cement through the pool, to pounding the 00:27:36.150 --> 00:27:42.637 stakes for flagpole holders in the field. For the festival. 00:27:42.670 --> 00:27:46.226 Being here has been very important to me because it's been much more than 00:27:46.259 --> 00:27:50.226 a construction experience or learning about ecologies. It's been being 00:27:50.259 --> 00:27:53.736 able to combine both living with the same people that I work with and 00:27:53.769 --> 00:27:59.397 playing with the same people. And I think that's a very important thing. 00:27:59.430 --> 00:28:07.430 Um I, I hope to come back. That's all I have to say. 00:28:07.939 --> 00:28:13.387 Pen 00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:18.325 Oh, hello. This is, this is Tam 00:28:18.358 --> 00:28:24.266 Jack. Uh, why, why are you here? But everybody knew. Well, I know, but not 00:28:24.299 --> 00:28:28.887 , not everybody know because I'm crazy. Well, everybody knows that. But 00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:32.436 why are you? 00:28:32.469 --> 00:28:37.746 Well, let's see. I thought of two reasons, uh, that people there might 00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:42.016 identify with. 00:28:42.049 --> 00:28:47.226 It's the optimum environment for personal growth for people who like to do 00:28:47.259 --> 00:28:51.055 things that are fairly physical in nature 00:28:51.088 --> 00:28:56.946 because it, it forces one to think about hows and think about why's 00:28:56.979 --> 00:29:03.338 together at the same time. And that's what we're about here at a Kani. 00:29:05.650 --> 00:29:07.650 Ultimately, I'm here because this is the uh the most profound affirmation 00:29:10.229 --> 00:29:16.627 of existence that I know of. And that's not what's here now, particularly 00:29:16.660 --> 00:29:24.127 , although it has, it has a great deal to offer. But what we stand for 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:27.847 ultimately and eventually, 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:35.880 I don't find it appearing anywhere else in, in quite the same terms, 00:29:37.068 --> 00:29:39.795 challenges 00:29:39.828 --> 00:29:43.785 is great and therefore the the response called for is great and that, 00:29:43.818 --> 00:29:51.097 that's what makes for growth and transformation of individuals. 00:29:51.130 --> 00:29:55.107 And it also forces us to collect here. 00:29:55.140 --> 00:30:00.406 The whole synopsis of, of the uh the positive energies are available at 00:30:00.439 --> 00:30:03.597 this point in history. 00:30:03.630 --> 00:30:07.956 I hope the uh the media 00:30:07.989 --> 00:30:15.989 experience, the experiment so contributory to that. So thanks for doing it. 00:30:21.838 --> 00:30:23.838 You. 00:30:25.108 --> 00:30:32.867 Oh OK. My name names Benji Cohen. And uh reason I came here is because I 00:30:32.900 --> 00:30:37.717 wanted to get the scenery. It's my first time out in the West wanted to 00:30:37.750 --> 00:30:42.137 see what it really looked like. So I came here can see all across the 00:30:42.170 --> 00:30:48.176 canyons and see the mountains. It's beautiful scenery and you almost never 00:30:48.209 --> 00:30:51.529 have a.