If you could design a building to capture little wind with a slanted roof area and force it into the space it would: increase the air pressure in the building,….
If you angled the roof to deflect air, then it would lower the pressure right?

How much? Big effect on air pressure or a little? And what effect would that have on the humans in the space? What is the optimal air pressure to live at? What effect would frequenty altering air pressures have on humans. Such as rapid changes in the weather..

Should I want to reduce air pressure or increase it?
I live at a high altitude… 7500 feet above sea level.
Maybe I should want to increase air pressure to make it more like conditions humans evolved under… but I may just be creating flucuating pressures…
Seems like deflecting the wind would reduce pressure but also keep it more stable… which is usually preferable in a living space…
yah… pressures will equalize anyway.. .I should seek stability.. though I will also have lower tunnels with air which can be adjusted to cause airflow caught by wind scoops to go though the building.

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF13/1308.html

The hardest thing for me about cooking is remembering I am doing it.
If I was hungry when I started, I often find something else to eat and then wander off.

I be no holiday pirate!
I do ye one better than yur seely arging! Today I buy me a new cutlass… it be short and sharp but it be still slitting yah wide if yah no be sharing thee rum!
If you nah to be true, it be inscibed with a message fur yer blood!

Happy earth day!

I will go play with plants now.

The permaculture people liked my plant setup. She said I have a green thumb and liked some of the ideas I am using.
Yay!

I got my FM3 today so I can stay here legally. Yay! I have a little passport-like book they stamp each time I go in and out of Mexico.

-Got hinges for dog gate.
-Bought a jig saw which I need for the secret art project.
-Copied $50 USD of keys… to finish the key orgnaizing my mom started. I need keys for guests.
-Bought some ginger to sprout and raise.
-Realized I can conver the big cabana bathroom to a sauna…. easier than building the big one though I will do that after.
-Went to ajuno in search of big rocks to make a stone circle. Got a name of a guy… but little progress…
-forgot to drop of my life animal trap to a friend in morelia. Whoops… I called and apologized for being a flake. I hate flakes. It was even on my list.. but as I left morelia… I was on autopilot to home and spaced it totally. Bad Brian…
-Drove off to find a big solar oven dish I saw from the highway. Found it and some gates and cows… they guys there said another guy owned it. I took a close look. Interesting. One the way out aggressive cows got through the gate I wa sdriving through… of about 15 cows only to made it though… I had to throw my daypack at them to scare them… but they kinda scared me… they have horns and I can’t tell what they are thinking.
-Took digital cameras to shop. One has a defect… was a piece of dust inside… clean now… left the other for repair of the light meter or something.
-Met new metal working guy in Eronga and will use him in the future… he is less busy than the other guy. (Who made a thing to hold my tire which them broke.)
-One of the generators I got tuned up the other day ran for a couple hours. Now has konked out. Arg!
Stuff breaks all the time here.
Just keeping anything working at all seems to take lots of time.
-Of the three suppliers of materials for the secret art project… I decided not to use the cheapest one who is farthest away because they gave me inferior product… the other two I will keep using and made another order with one today. The other good one… annoys me cause a month after I made my request they still haven’t started on my stuff! I might go cut my order in half and say that anothr place will provide the rest. I am being very flexible… but I do expect work to be getting done on my stuff.
Maybe I should develop a third source too… Oh! I forgot! I am already doing that.. though my faith in the other source is low.
-Got a housesitter arranged now for the Mexico City trip.

Last night was strange… a storm moved in just as I was leaving the internet cabana…. hard rain falling…
I shut off the generator and covered it wiith a tarp… my LED headlamp almost dead… hard to see the trail at all as the hail began to fall… hard. And the lightening and thunder intensified.
When the rain falls here is falls hard..
The hail falls hard too. This photo Xan took during a freak hail storm. See the piles of hail on the side of the road?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey/72124268/in/set-1547125/
Walking back, lost the trail one… stumbling and soaked.

Back at the house I find my two puppies on the porch
The dogs are agitated…. hey! Where is the other puppy? Who is missing? Patzari!
I put the puppies in the house and get my mag light.
I search and call here and there around the house… the art studio… No puppy. I am concerned she couuld be out there wet lost and cold… and could die… Unfortunately puppies can die.
I widen the search… very wet… up to the big cabana… no puppy…
Half hour later… there she is on the porch. Wet and just fine.

The lighting and thunder continued all night long. My huge skylights are like big drugs for the sound of the hail and rain and thunder… couldn’t sleep so I read till 3 am then konked out.

Busy day today…
So much to do….

All is well. I went out for pasta with the assistent director. He is a cool guy. I believe we will become friends.

The space is looking great. (My character re-designed it. Actually it was the art director and a bunch of guys who did it.)
I am getting to use a bunch of my paintings in the movie. And one of the trippy cut ins will have me with my sword in one hand and the cowskull I painted in the other.

The director and I went over the scenes I wrote. He liked some stuff and we crossed out the rest.

The scene will go like this:
-Brian laying on floor. Preparing for exorcism. power from god etc.
-Jorge enters and wants to know where his prehispanic figures are.
-Brian rises almost levetates to feet. Takes the prehispanic figure in hand.
-Brian intensely exorcises demon and then smashes the figure to the fireplace.
-Jorges eyes see Brian invoking the demon.
-Jorge moves towards Brian to… ?
-Brian uses force feild from hand to repel him.
-Jorges eyes dream that Brian is Padre Ubu (Brian is fat in camo gear and military helmet.
-Brian is seated eating hamburger and has coke bottle surrounding him.
-Jorge aproaches again this time repelled by Brian spitting hamburger at him.
-Jorge becomes the demon god and attacks Brian with a knife. Brian is no longer padre ubu.
-There is brief combat. Brian flips Jorge over and removes knife. Imperialism wins.

This is a complex scene and there are some other things to shoot too. This will be a long long day.
But I am ready. Yay!

I ended up walking over to Coyacan and founf places to setup meetings with folks later.
The film team seems quite good.
We read most of the script today. Then ran though some scenes where I flirt with a cutie… it was easy because she is a cutie… and I was really flirting. Cute dimples.

I have keys to the house now. And found an internet cafe nearby. Yay! I will likely try to hookup internet there too.

Avoid the taxi driver quoting $70 pesos for a trip that I found a taxi to do for 22 pesos. Do they really benefit from this gringo tax overall…? I won’t be using thqat company because of that.

In the movie…. I understand the script much better now and like it even more.
I am the “bad guy” but I don’t know it. I represent imperialism on some levels… but it is a complex little film. I am the good guy and it it the apparent good guy who ends up in the wacked house.
the director was helping me to not overact. I think in the theatre the audience is farther so your expressions need to be bigger. Film can pick up small things… so I am learning to act in a more natural way. Director is helpful and good.

I think I will take a nap… maybe paint the cowskull… then hit a music thing in Centro which I heard about.
Will take no valuables.

Need to find a mixto large taxi to transport my paintings tommorrow.
All is quite fine….
Yay!

I will be in a movie.

Make it to Mexico City ok. No cops this time. I think traveling in the daytime is best for me.

Mexico City traffic is insane.

Got to the house/set.
It is a very messy place. This guys dead grandmothers place. Stack of books and furniture and knicknacks. I wondered briefly what I got myself into… The place for me to park was very small… we cut back some plants.
I backed in off the busy street, scraping the chainlink barrier on the top of my van, breaking a few tiles. I am squished in with about 1 inch to spare on the front and none on the back.

Met the director of photography and the assistent director. They seem pretty sharp.

I re-read the script and noticed that in a dream sequence I get sacrificed by the snake god. My heart is cut out of me. I hope there are some special effects for that part.

They need a symbols for the cult thing in the movie and it looks like I am designing it and painting it on the wall. I played around with some concepts and got the directors feedback. He likes one so far so I will play more with that.

I mentioned I was hungry… I figure I would just stroll down the stree a bit to get some food… but once again I got into the car as invited… only to find there was no good plan… just a vague plan too drive to Coyoacan for tacos… we stopped at a quickimart for a bit… driver couldn’t find what he wanted… then we looked for a 7-eleven, none found. Drove around for a while trying to find this great cheap taco place. Passing many…
We did find it, and they were good… but 2 hours to drive around and get a few tacos! Jeez! I gotta remember to control my time here.

The room I am staying in is actually pretty nice. Bed, desk… I got everything all setup this morning. No internet in the house.
I am walking this morning and found a place kinda far from the house. Will search closer.

Now I am going to walk a couple miles over to Coyoacan to look for good places to hang out and meet folks.

Today at 1 pm we start the project and I will meet the other actors. Art director will decide what to do with my hair and beard.
And we will choose from among the props and costume options.

Many loud beeping cars… people zooming. Biggest city in the world says hi to Brian.
So far I like this place… but I am very very happy I live in the forest instead of here!

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Time to go wander town and try to….

How can I feel carefree and in tune with all things? Do I really have to give away everything I own? Just change my mind? Change to not be “me”¿

Maybe a fruit cup is all I need!

I have some rooting hormone I need to deliver to a friend. I think he has a book about cats to lend to me as well. I want to teach a free plant propogation class sometime.

The sun is so strong today. I go wander.
Happy wandering to you!

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