West Oakland Rocketry Club: Santa Launch 2008: Photos
WORC saw fit to assemble recently, and, as is our custom, rockets were rapidly made and deployed. Some even went up. See the full gallery of photos by clicking your pointer right here.
The Lumbering Contraption — Video
Nick Winterhalter got this great video by attaching a camera to one of the spokes of The Lumbering Contraption at the race. I love the water bottle.
The Lumbering Contraption — photos from the race
The race was fantastic. So much fun. We were not the fastest there (shocking), in fact, I don’t even remember any of our times. We did win a lovely trophy for Best Engineering. Number of “official” runs = 2 Number of injures = 1 Severity of injury = “minor” Below […]
The Lumbering Contraption
Ummmmmm — why are we building a 10′ tall 10′ wide hamster wheel call the Lumbering Contraption? (Not to pick noses, as the Internets would have you believe.) Well, this Sunday, September 28th, 2008, is the great Handcar Regatta — a race of human-powered rail-track creations. We have been hard […]
KSW and Swimming Cities in the New York Times
Yo! Did ya’all see the New York Times piece on the “Swimming Cities” project that my steamy KSW crew is participating in? No? Well check it out here -> A Floating City With Junkyard Roots And that fantastic photo leading the article (also shown below) features our steam-powered paddle boat […]
Almost Scientific Photo Sighted In The Wild
It’s been pointed out to me that Goth Magazines recent post on the Steampunk Treehouse featured an Almost Scientific photo! I believe that photo came from the Coachella install set which can be found here.
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella Install Photos
I know it’s a bit late but I finally got around to going through my photos from our recent instillation of the Steampunk Treehouse at Coachella. I tried to document all the various stages that goes into setting it. You can also see the spreader bar I designed and fabricated […]
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Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update
The new patina on the roof of Steampuk Treehose is starting to take shape. Our goal is to give the roof some really aged blue-green color by applying a fresh layer of paint on the rusted metal, and then systematically (and artfully) destroying that layer of paint. Last weekend we […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update
Well Coachella is coming up really soon and the Steampunk Treehouse crew has been hard at work getting our little treehouse ready. We’ve gotten a bulk of the basic upkeep and repair work done and can now take some time to do some cosmetic work. One of the first things […]
WORC Photoshoot: Tahoe
The West Oakland Rocketry Club meet this past weekend in Tahoe. While Ice Rockets and Rocket Sleds were the rockets de jour, in true WORC style we also saw the launch of a vinyl record, a xmass trees, two vibrators, and an ape plane. Some of them even went straight […]
West Oakland Rocketry Club: Tahoe
 The West Oakland Rocketry Club (WORC) will be meeting this weekend in Tahoe. While last time our rocket designs revolved around Thanksgiving, including the famous Turkey Rocket (photos of previous events here and here), and the obvious theme this time is Ice Rockets. Photos to come. This event is not […]
Photo shoot for Backbone Metals
My good pal Ben Carpenter, the man behind Backbone Metals asked me to do a shoot of his latest and greatest piece. Here are some of the images.
DCA: Fabrication 1
A bulk of day was spent making bands. Each hemisphere has a circular band around it and the body is two perpendicular bands, one horizontal and concentric with the bowls and another vertical one for the tray. To make these bands as accurate as possible I first rolled out the […]
WORC Photoshoot: Kung Pow!
Here are some of my choice photos from the first WORC meeting a few months ago: To see the complete gallery go here.
Remember when I used to ball up ittsy cotton candy bits and flick them into your hair — you know — because I thought it was funny?
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