Camp Hastur continued

A bit of a break with blogging here, totally swamped with work again. The past weeks we have been coding various things to help the next playtest. Bring out yer admin panels! Bring out your Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithms! Bring out yer dead! And the like.

Due to popular demand we decided to find a way to continue having our Camp Hastur here in Tornio. The kulttuurivoimala project to build a collaborative space for creative people got stuck in the wheels of a giant machine and it looked like us creative folks were left with meetings at random coffee shops and dusty school attics like last year. Also Hastur needs an office space for uninterrupted daytime coding.

So last monday I went to talk to Mr. Wille the local photographer about our space conundrum. Wille has this small shop space next to his own and we came up with an Arrangement. The space was previously used by some dude who presented himself as a temp-staff company office businessman. The dude had left the town with a stack of unpaid bills and the space full of recycle-shop junk (we even found a stove there). Rolling tobacco leftovers everywhere, the occasional hypothermic needles behind the sofa.. Must have been a speedy exit for Mr Gonzales.

The place had big holes in the walls that needed to be filled up. Before Mr Speedy, the space was used for a hairdressers and there was all kinds of pipework that had been dismantled leaving big holes. After one day at the office I talked with Wille again to secure the arrangement+ that we will refer to as the New Arrangement. According to the New Arrangement, Wille supplies for paints and things and we renovate. And so we got a-renovating.

the Official Office slash Gallery logo!

The past four days have been a blur of painting and messing around with fillers and things. And coding while waiting for something to dry. Late last night we finished with the walls and that means today is for stripping all the tape and cleaning up. Too bad it started raining heavily, i'd really like to get rid of all the junk furniture inside the space but it's not going to happen today.

The usual cast of characters came over to help out in one way or another, people offering furniture and light fixtures and 70's audio equipment, I feel many really want to participate in building and running the space. One of our friends is building his exhibition at camp hastur next week and we're getting ready for the Grand Opening thats going to be, well, grand =)

No pictures yet but I'll post some next week. It's all about the creativity and the spaces in between!

sami
hastur