Mad Labber Scientist Tinkers With Time: Almost Scientific in Wired!
Wow. I just got back from Maker Faire and had a fantastic time. So many cool projects and brilliant people walking around. A glorious geek fest! Check out the write up of Almost Scientific and the Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator in Wired: Mad Labber Scientist Tinkers With Time Stanford grad […]
The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator To Appear At Maker Faire This Weekend
It’s true, my most recently complete work, The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator, will be showing all this weekend at the Maker Faire in San Mateo. I just spent the evening in the shop shining it up and tweaking the gears. I don’t think I’ll run it on steam power but I’ll […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update — Copper Patina Samples
It’s difficult to see in most of the photos of the tree house but the inside of the Triparator windows (on the house wall … yes I’ll get a photo soon) is lined with copper. It always struck me as odd (though no one else ever noticed) that everything on […]
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 […]
“Bloom” Sketch 1
I’ve started doing some design work on two new sculptures. Here is a CAD sketch of the first one which, for now, I’m calling “Bloom”. It’s a kinetic piece ~20″ high and ~12″ wide that is inspired by a blooming bud. The core idea is for there to be a […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Etching for the Burning Man office
Last night I also got a good photo of the etching I made for the gift the Steampunk Treehouse crew is giving the Burning Man office to thank them for all their support last year. I did the etching and Martin did the frame. Kate and Sean lent a hand […]
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 […]
Nature Steampunk Feature: Crafters tinker with technology
I’m honored to be somewhat featured in this recent Nature article about Steampunk. Nature is a very high profile science journal that I largely only encounter in my life as a scientist. I think my thesis advisor will find it … let’s say … amusing that I’ve gotten a mention […]
The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator
The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator is a kinetic, “steampunk” sculpture of a “time machine” that is powered by a real steam boiler and steam engine. It was built in collaboration with my good friends at Kinetic Steam Works. It was original displayed at the Edwardian Ball in 2008 and will be […]
Video of The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator
On Thursday Dick and I fired up Little Baby Steamy Pants, on of KSWs small boilers and hooked up the DCA. I shot some video and quickly threw this little movie together. It as my first time shooting video and it’s something I need some more work at;) But I […]