Not A Cornfield Short Videos Posted

The art project's filmmaking team has posted thirty short digital video vignettes on the Not A Cornfield website.

The videos were shot at, around, and from high above Not A Cornfield. Subject matter includes interviews with community and project team members, a ride in a helicopter, shots of glistening fields of corn, and much more.

The short videos are posted here.

Corn Progress Update Delivered by Farmer Steve Adler

Not A Cornfield farmer Steve Adler took a few moments away from his fieldwork yesterday to offer Not A Cornfield blog readers the following update:

“We’re at about Day 60,” Adler said, “and the corn’s still growing. Worms are being controlled by organic methods. We have 25% tasseling in the field. We’re starting to show silking on the South side [of the project site], which means we actually have corn cobs growing. Fertilizing is being added at this time, and we still look to begin the Harvest at the end of October.

“The weather’s good,” Adler continued. “The rain was a godsend. It helps wash accumulated salt out of the soil. Corn loves rain.”

Adler was then asked how the corn crop was progressing compared to his expectations back when the art project started, before the ground was furrowed and the first seeds were planted.

“The corn is much more advanced than what I’d guessed for sixty days down the road,” the farmer said. “The weather must have been just right. I didn’t expect it to [average] seven feet tall after sixty days. I’ve seen other field corn elsewhere at the same age that has not reached mature height.”

Thunderstorm, Heavy Rainfall Drenches City, Crop

The meteorological remnants of Hurricane Max arrived in Los Angeles last night and today, with the hard rain just now turning to drizzle* after a 12-hour downpour complete with thunder and lightning.

The rain was the city's first since July 20th.

Not A Cornfield gardener Jaime Lopez was out among the stalks before sunrise, checking for any possible water damage. Lopez reports limited soil erosion on the hand-planted mound near the art project's "eye."

On a more somber note, any talk of water and damage these days has to lead back to the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina.

This week's Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield program will serve as a benefit for the artists of New Orleans. Donations will be accepted at the gate. Entry to Not A Cornfield programs and grounds are, as always, free of charge.

*update -- It's more than drizzling again.

September 18, 2005 - Sundays @ Not A Cornfield

Drum Circle + Corn Tending + Story Series featuring poet Martha Ronk