Thursday, June 3, 2010

HURRAY!!! All 12 of the red boxes had a host and the project had began!!!

Today I ran around East Town a bit and catch up with few more restaurant and coffee shop and found a host for the last 4 "Red Boxes"!!! I am so excited!!! And I know that couple of them already had people's writings in them. I am so grateful. Thank you everyone!!!

Here is the list of the location of all twelve "Red Boxes"!!!




1.  
Bitter End Coffee House 


 On top of a book case next to the cashier counter.








The signs on top of all the boxes




2. 
Grand Central Market LLC













A man picked up the book and start reading, but he did not write anything down, which was a bummer. 




3. 
Schuler Bookstore







Right inside the front door! 




4. 
Local Mocha







When you walk in the door, right on your right side. 



5. 
Go Java Coffee












6.
The Sparrows Coffee House







Facing the front door.





7. 
Marie Catribs's 













8.
Common Ground Coffee

 
In the reading room.




9.
Gaia Cafe
209 Diamond Avenue Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI‎


Image from: http://lifeisfare.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/img_6720_gaia.jpg





10.
Kava House













11.
76 Coffee, (aka. Morning Star Coffee)
 What a spot for it!




12.
Wealthy Street Bakery Inc.
608 Wealthy Street Southeast Grand Rapids, MI 49503-5432 






 


There they are, all 12 of them. Please go and check it out. 

And here is a link to a google map that I made with all 12 location on the map already:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113454072977582005556.0004882597878c40a59b5&ll=42.963583,-85.660057&spn=0.029772,0.077419&z=14



I hope you will enjoy being a part of this great experiment!!! 

Thank you
have a great day

p.s. I copied this blog entry to a page which you can find at all time on right hand side column of my blog.

Patrick




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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

9 of them found a home and 3 are still orpans...

What a busy, busy, busy day and it is still not over yet, but I enjoy every bit of it.
 I woke up earlier than I should accorrding to the time I got to bed last night. One and a half toasted left over pancake and a cup of coffee; I was ready to go again.

I copied over the instruction page to all twelve books, researched on all the coffee shops in the area and took off to my studio to pick up my "Red Boxes". I placed a book and a pen in each of the "Red Boxes" and I was ready to find a home for each of them.



All two of them










A pen and a book inside each of the "Red Box"




The instruction page. 





I went around with all those "Red Boxes"to all the places that I had scouted out as their home. As I said, 9 found a home. 



1.  
Bitter End Coffee House 


 On top of a book case next to the cashier counter.








The signs on top of all the boxes




2. 
Grand Central Market LLC













A man picked up the book and start reading, but he did not write anything down, which was a bummer. 




3. 
Schuler Bookstore







Right inside the front door! 




4. 
Local Mocha







When you walk in the door, right on your right side. 



5. 
Go Java Coffee












6.
The Sparrows Coffee House







Facing the front door.





7. 
Marie Catribs's 













8.
Common Ground Coffee

 
In the reading room.


The # 9 is at Wealthy Bakery now, but they had not promise to host it for me yet since they need the permission of their boss. 

I still have 3 more "Red Boxes" and I still am waiting for couple more place to responses back and couple more people that I still need to talk to. Hopefully by tomorrow at noon, I will find a home for all those Red Boxes.

All the address that was posted is a link to google map. If you click it, it will take you to the google map page of that address so that you can easily find out where all these "Red Boxes" are. I hope you will follow one or more of these boxes and enjoy what inside all of them. 

I am so excited about them all, and when all twelve boxes have a host then I will post a complete map with all their location. Can't wait to see what inside those books!!! 

Thanks again for tuning in and supporting me. I am so thrill to able to share this with you all. 


have a good night. 
Patrick
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They are finally retouched and the signs are made.

Today, I also finished retouching all the "red boxes" and made signs for them in the studio. Tomorrow I will be distributing them all over down town, When I have all the location, I will put the map on this blog and my other blog, http://thetruelibraryproject.blogspot.com/



Touching up the "red boxes" and making the signs for it.




My working station




My studio



I am so excited to see them out in city and be the new way of communicates knowledge. 
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The red boxes are ready...

I finally finished painting all the boxes. They are ready to be put out in to the world and be a part of the experimenting the new way of learning and teaching. I am so excited for them. I still had to find venues for them to be hosted for the project. I probably will not do this tomorrow since tomorrow is the Memorial Day and most of the shops will be close. So I am planning to do this on Tuesday.


Putting the primer up









All 12 of them lining up to dry!




My studio with all these white boxes.




Start to put the red paint on them in the afternoon.
































When I was making and painting the boxes, I felt so in peace. It was like time was going so smoothly. I felt so purposeful. There must be something about creating things that makes us human feel satisfy. To see something being form, being shape, and be a part of that process is truly a beautiful thing.May be when human is creating, the action of creating made us realize our own origin, the time when we were created. It is always comforting no matter what to have a sense of how we came about. Also, maybe when we create, we are able to better connect with our creator and better understand him be this mutual activities. Through our own creation we can see from our love to our creation and transfer to knowing our creator's love for us and it is such a comforting thing to know that we are loved.

On my way back home, I got pulled over by a police women. I was worry and nervous as I have no idea what I had done wrong as I thought I was following all the rules. I thought maybe the fact that I was not wearing my a shirt that is the reason, but the true reason is that I had a broken right head light...... 


My rear mirror when the police car was behind.



Thanks for reading. 
Wish you all a great Memorial Day! 
Keep in touch. 


Patrick

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

New addition to the project!!!

The boxes that I was building is done now. There are 12 of them and they are looking great.
Now I just have to have them painted and they will be ready to be use.

The 12 boxes that I made is for this same project. I am planning to situate all these boxes in different places throughout downtown. Inside the box I will situate a book and a pen. It will be the same concept as the book that I carry around where people can write down a piece of knowledge that they have and at the same time to read what other write. This 12 boxes will be like a little knowledge station, a place where people can read and learn at the same time. Hopefully through this new addition to the project, it will generate more interest and more accessibility for people to learn and to teach. 

here they are: 


Here they are!!





I still don't know what color it is going to be... any suggestion!!!



I am very excited about the project!!! Now I need to spend time and figure out what kind of places I should place all these boxes. Any suggestion???


Keep in touch
peace
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Francisco Figueroa, Grand St. and Grandville Ave.

People in Mexico in some places in which I am from called Guanajuato, Mexico have no water available or bathrooms. The roads are all dirt roads and the hospitals and police at least 30 minutes away.
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Calvin Hau, Burton St. SE

  • China actually has more than one ethnic group, there are 56 of them. The majority, who are Han Chinese
  • Do what you love, be passionate, don't every give up on your dreams. 
  • Chinese have emigrated all over the world. Besides the big countries such as the uS, Canada, etc. They have even gone to the remote corners of the world such as Fiji and started communreres there. 
  • MC Yan was one of Hong Kong's first rappers, but now he is a social revolutionary through his music, art, campaign.
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