How To Make a Key to the Steampunk Treehouse
When we took the Steampunk Treehouse to Coachella last week we knew we were not going to be allowed to let the ~45 000 attendees up into the house and we would want to be able to lock up the house when we were off playing. So we picked up […]
Coachella Media Wrap-up
Hey all’ya all — I’m back from an amazing showing of the Steampunk Treehouse at Coachella. Last year at this time, when we were first starting the project, I would have never gussed that I’d be able to watch Roger Waters and Prince preform while swinging my feet from the […]
Coachella By The Numbers
LA Weakly blog (pronounced Hell-A Weakly, according the great show Californication) has put together some nifty excel graphs to addres the question: Who are these 128 bands [at Coachella], collectively? As one big amalgam, what are they? I couldn’t resist a data heavy write up about Coachella given that we […]
Eyeball Feed
Max Weld Cog Big Green Press Brown Lines In Green
Feast Your Neardly Eyes
Feast Your Neardly Eyes Upon These Retrotastic Sciencefictional Illustrated Novel Covers And Know You Are Not Alone In Your Dreams Of Battling The Nine Tentacled Moshmogular Beast Of Neblous 9 With Your Quadphasic Ray Emiiter!!
A Dog Has Her Day — A momument to Laika
Russia Opens Monument to Space Dog Laika Russian officials on Friday unveiled a monument to Laika, a dog whose flight to space more than 50 years ago paved the way for human space missions. … All dogs used in the Soviet space program were stray mongrel dogs — doctors believed […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update — Bennas Photos
Benna is always snapping photos of everyone while we are working and ever once in a while she post some of them. If you are curious to see another persons perspective on what goes on around the work site check out these photos. I promise there are some goofy pictures […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update — Spreader Bar Fabracation
Here are some photos documenting the fabrication of the spreader bar. Since this needed to be fabricated as accurately as possible I first used a CNC router to cut out an Aluminum template that we could then use to guide the tip of the plasma cutter. The template has a […]
Iron vs Steel Rivets — Why the Titanic Sank
Can you imagine my pleasure today in finding a front page New York Times article that has two of my great loves: science and metal fabrication. The article In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Tianic’s Doom, lays out the accumulating evidence that it was the use of cheaper, weaker, […]
Cardboard Institute of Technology
If you live in the bay area I seriously recommend you that you head down into the Mission district and check out the new super cool instillation by the Cardboard Institute of Technology called Cardburg. They have built an incredible detailed, miniature city out of cardboard. There is a cave […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update — Spreader Bar
The other item that has been taking up some of my time is the design of the spreader bar for the Coachella instillation. What is a spreader bar Well, we are going to need to pick up the house with a crane and place it on the trunk. To do […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update — Signature Plate
The other night while preping the Treehosue for Coachella we realized that we never signed it. So we’ve decided to create a “signature plate” that would have the name of the piece and the names of everyone who worked on it. Here is the design I whipped up quickly (so […]
Project Vulcan
Project Vulcan is NASA and DOE coloration with Perdue University to quantify and visualize North America carbon dioxide emissions on an 10 km scale. Here is a recently release video of their efforts. I remember when I posted a video that visualized a day of air traffic in US I […]
Very old school forging.
My buddy Ben has this great video on his blog, Backbone Metals. The black and white film does not do this justice. Keep in mind that the huge glowing thing they are working is around 2300 degrees F. The best part of this film is towards the end as the […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update — Flyer Desig
I’ve designed this kick-ass flyer to promote the Treehouse project at Coachella. These wil be printed up 8.5″ x 11.5″ and distributed backstage, in the VIP areas and inside the Treehouse (which will be closed to to public but open to VIPs) This is more or less done though there […]
Hamers 101
This quirky hammer is just one of the many strange hammer you can find at Hammers 101. Can you name the hammers and the uses? I’m talking to you Bender!
Even monkeys know when she’s faking
From New Scientist: “Monkeys eavesdrop on neighbours’ orgasmic cries” Female Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) cry out during sex. When they are fertile, the call stimulates ejaculation in the male. When the females are infertile, they slightly modify the structure of the call, making the male less likely to ejaculate. Fertile […]