Appendix: Project Documents

Audio/Visual:

Hi-8 tapes – Documentation of project development, 1½ hours each (Qty: 7)

Research Project Number 33 video – Documentary created by Frank Pietronigro, VHS (NTSC or PAL), 20 minutes

Audio tapes – Documentation of key points in project development and conversations with NASA staff, administrators and other people contributing to the project (Qty: 10)

Digital video – Created by Frank Pietronigro using other documentation to tell the story behind the project, 1–2 minutes each (Qty: 15)

Digital images – Project reconstructions and simulations (Qty: 5)

35mm slides and photographs

Drift Painting Artifacts:

Creativity Chamber – Vinyl enclosure, 75"h × 52"l × 48"d. Created to protect the interior of the jet from floating acrylic paint. Available with attachments for freestanding installation. (Qty: 1)

Number 34 – Acrylic on canvas, 54" × 150". Research document that recorded the location of the paint and artist’s body as they moved in and out of weightlessness. (Qty: 1)

Sketches and schematics of Creativity Chamber design

Painter suit (Qty: 1)

Worker boots (Qty: 1 pair)

Goggles, face mask, anti-motion sickness wrist band, head cap (Qty: 1 each)

Motion sickness bags (Qty: 3)

Magnetic lodestone wands – Used to influence motion of floating paint (Qty: 2)

Paint canisters – Used to distribute thin paint (Qty: 5)

Pastry bags – Used to distribute thick paint, with identification markings

Glass containers – Containing either metal filings, stainless steel powder or diamond dust (Qty: 1 each)

Vertical Inversion Drawings:

Vertical Inversion Drawing I – 26" × 40", black Conte crayon. Line drawing of train engine hobo symbol completed in normal gravity with artist blindfolded. (Qty: 1)

Vertical Inversion Drawing II – 26" × 40", black Conte crayon. Line drawing of train engine hobo symbol completed in microgravity with artist blindfolded. (Qty: 1)

Documentation:

Project notebooks – written by Frank Pietronigro (Qty: 6)

Research Project Number 33 Proposal – written by Frank Pietronigro (Qty: 1)

Project e-mail – Documents which trace the development of project

NASA KC135 Turbojet User's Manual (Qty: 1)

NASA Research Report: Artistic Uses of the Space Station Program (Qty: 1)

NASA correspondence: (Qty: 1 each)
   Acceptance letter
   Rejection letter
   San Francisco Art Institute President’s letter to NASA Chief Counsel
   Re-acceptance letter

Aerospace Physiological Training Outline (Qty: 1)

Hypobaric Pressure Chamber Test Results (Qty: 1)

NASA Hazards Badge – Required to be worn by Frank Pietronigro after high altitude flight training (Qty: 1)

NASA Flight Certification – awarded to Frank Pietronigro (Qty: 1)

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