Mark Allen of Machine Project, a wonderful LA art/tech gallery/workshop space that has hosted many Make events, says the offices were ruined from a leaky hot water heater in an apartment above the space.
So, last weekend while we were out in the desert our neighbor Paolo from the Film Center called and said there was some flooding at Machine. It turns out that our (perhaps negligent) landlord let another hot water heater fail in the apartment above us (yes, this has happened before), which flooded our office and destroyed a bunch of stuff.
At first we thought this was really terrible, but shortly realized that this was a great opportunity to fix a major problem, which is the gallery is really too small to hold all the people who come to events, and the back office is much larger than it needs to be. And since the office is trashed anyway, what better time to move the partition wall back 10 feet to make the gallery a whole bunch bigger. Yay!
In another lucky coincidence, our friend Mark Daggett just made a new website for fund raising campaigns called Pledgie, so we went ahead and made a campaign to fund our repair and renovation project. Please visit the link below to read more about the plan and see some photos of the carnage.
Should this all seem terribly uninteresting we can also offer you this video sent in by Ryan of a rabbit repeatedly attacking a snake.
