record release party, saturday!

That's right, two events this week!


Our friends Cubik and Origami just released an album, and they're celebrating at Langton. (And our own Laurel... er, L'Aural is part of the evening's musical bill.) This Saturday at 10PM.

Check out Cubik and Origami's site for all the details.

flavor tripping: wednesday at langton

lime sucker
Originally uploaded by glasser

Sometimes when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade.

And sometimes you try miracle fruit and then just eat the lemons.

Miracle fruit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit) is a berry containing a special chemical "miraculin", which when eaten changes your taste buds to temporarily make many things taste sweet that ordinarily wouldn't. Join us, take some miracle fruit tablets, and experience food in a strange new way... and if you have ideas for food which would be fun to try while altered, bring it! (This is all totally legal. We swear. Even if we did order the tablets online from eastern Europe.)

8:30, Wednesday 11/5, Langton Labs. (Part of our first-and-third-Wednesday-of-the-month Experiments series. Also: look at the photos we hung up for the party and then obscured with mood lighting!)

(Also, look over at the right sidebar for all our upcoming events.)

boo!

middle-school art teacher
Originally uploaded by eeetthaannn

thanks for coming to our halloween/triple-birthday/etc party! definitely my best birthday yet.

my friend ethan took some great pictures, as did Andrew. have any of your own? post a comment.

back to work

a stretch
Originally uploaded by glasser

well, we went to burning man and priceless. we put up our yurt and took it down and put it back up and took it down. but now the summer's over and it's time to celebrate at home.

so after several months of slow progress within the house, we're back in action. galit and mike painted all the walls in the kitchen, and we finally realized that our planned stove was just too big (oh, goldilocks!) for the space, so we got a smaller stove and installed it that day. so after 14 months living at langton, we finally can make cookies.

and the scaffolding went up in our attempt to fix our roof issues. and tiles are flying up on the walls in the new showers.
yeah, it's been a good week.

a polite notice from the management

Door at Langton labs
Originally uploaded by laura47

so some time back, we were informed of a new requirement for comfortable warehouse living.


we all have been taking it very seriously! in fact, the regulation apparently applies to cuttlefish as well.

(and apparently it is international cephalopod appreciation day! who'd have known.

(by the way, take a peek at the sidebar on the right: we've now got a calendar with our public events. if you're on the events list then you already know about the Halloween party and the Wednesday Experiments series...)

prophets at work

prophets at work
Originally uploaded by glasser

this blog seemed to be on a little bit of a hiatus, eh? well, that just reflected what late summer at langton labs was like: burning man season, where everything else is on hold! the entire population of langton headed out to that little party in the middle of the desert (excepting those in asia and one unfortunate housemate who sold his ticket at the last minute; he claims he got good work done at least).

langtonites and friends camped in many places on the playa; many of us camped with True Prophet (4:30 and A), and in fact langton became the unofficial TP SF HQ. in the final weeks and days before the burn, burners showed up from around the country and the globe and started sleeping on every available surface in the house. the main space filled with noise and sawdust as mike et al erected the camp's authentic Inner Mongolian yurt (TM). we made playa-tech furniture, packed boxes and bags, planned musical adventures, and eventually headed off to the playa.

(more of my true prophet prep pics)

"i got my red dress on"

"i got my red dress on"
Originally uploaded by glasser

Katrina stopped by the labs the other night with an idea for a song that she just couldn't get out of her head. Laurel's been meaning to set up a music studio in the former boiler room / guest room / etc downstiars; we haven't quite got there yet, but her bedroom is pimped out with the seeds of the future studio. Mike grabbed his guitar, Laurel her violin (and her ProTools), and Jane and Katrina started to sing; I just whipped out my camera.

... hopefully the next post will have a recording!