Solal Chasques

1. Profile

   Identity, physical profile, media, specialties and availability. A reel filmed on a phone is enough to start.

2. Mandate

   The contract an artist signs with an agent. It is free, governed by French law, and can be ended at any time.

3. Casting watch

   The system monitors casting calls continuously, in France and abroad, and compares each one with the profile.

4. Self-tape

   The studio guides framing, lighting and sound in real time, and a vocal coach helps with accents. The performer records several versions and sends the best.

5. Role and contract

   Agental negotiates the fee and terms, and a person checks the contract before signing. The performer is paid within seven days of the production paying.

1. The selected block

   Around Carlson Park, Culver City: 259 acres and 1,419 homes, with a typical home value of $1.5M.

2. Map layers

   Streets, creeks, trails and rail, parks, schools, open tree sites and vacant lots can each be switched on or off.

3. Block shading

   Blocks are colored by their best value per public dollar, from $2.1 to $31, in seven equal-count groups. Gray means no data.

4. Block data

   34% canopy over streets, 1.3°F cooler than the Westside average, and 21.8 acres of parks within half a mile.

5. Recommendation

   The model suggests 129 street trees on vacant sites for about $175k with 10 years of upkeep, adding about $1.7M across 686 homes, or $9.83 per public dollar. All values are modeled.

1. Substation

   Where grid power enters. When it fails, the switches let each part of the line carry on without it.

2. Line switch

   A 12 to 34 kV recloser covering about 300 homes, estimated at $50k to $120k, mostly hardware utilities already buy.

3. Transformer switch

   Lets about 15 homes run as one island, estimated at $4k to $9k.

4. Home switch

   A 200 A meter-collar switch with a manual handle and padlock hasp, about $143 in parts by our estimate.

5. Base

   A base or hospital at the end of the line powers itself first, then lends its surplus to the neighborhood.

Simplified drawing. The simulator models 90 homes, and neither has been tested on hardware.

1. City main

   During the Palisades Fire, burned homes left their lines open while firefighters needed every gallon. Sealing each line keeps that water in the system.

2. Valve

   Water pressure holds a spring-loaded gate up, out of the service line. When pressure falls, the spring drives it down, with no power or electronics in the shutoff path.

3. Fragile loop

   A thin dead-end pipe around the house. Fire bursts it or a collapse crushes it, and pressure falls. Hosing the house does not trip it, because the loop has no outlet.

4. Reset handle

   Cap or repair the loop, then pull the handle. Pressure rebuilds, re-cocks the spring and holds the gate open again.

Illustrative numbers from the team's mechanism demo. Design concept, not yet built or heat-tested.

1. Collect

   Plastic waste is collected from oceans and shorelines with coastal communities and organizations such as Plastic Odyssey.

2. Clean and grind

   The material is cut to fit the grinder, ground to a uniform particle size, and dried with humidity under control.

3. Press

   Hot pressing takes one to two hours in an oven, then the piece cools. Cold pressing is the alternative, depending on the material.

4. Mold

   Extrusion fills a generic mold, with injection molding as an alternative. Marine sediments give a mineral-based material option.

5. Install

   Furniture goes into public spaces, with a label planned to explain its materials and origins.