Find a parking spot in the Mission with your iPhone
I know I am tottaly behind the curve when it comes to these things but it was only the other day that I got to drive around SF with a G3 iphone. Using the GPS was very cool and handy (I get lost in my own apartment). We used the […]
My Man Beaker Singing “Ode To Joy”
BONUS!!!:
I want to belive ….
Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up I can’t decided if this would be a better story if it was a different moon-walker.
Tom Sepes reply
Tom Sepe, who’s work was shown but not credited in the recent Design Observer post has this reply to the article: My name is Tom Sepe and I’m the creator of the Whirlygig Emoto – (the “steampunk motorbike” that you failed to credit.) http://tomsepe.com/fabrication.html Firstly, if you are going to […]
Steampunk in Design Observer
Okay. Yesterday, I went to one of my daily link fishing holes and found a link to an interview with me. Today, I went to one of my faviorate design blogs — Design Observer — and found a post about Steampunk quoting none other then my pal Sean Orland and […]
Shadow Sign
When I was an undergraduate at NYU I once saw this fantastic sculpture in a window of one of the many down town buildings that the university owns. The sculpture was compsed of a massive tangel of thick, stiff wire that was mounted on a blank wall and well lit […]
The Neuron Chmamber — Fabracation Photos 2: The Giggles
{ Set 1 Set 2 Set 3} When The Neuron Chamber showed last week at The Crucibles Fire Arts Festivle one aspect of the piece that generated some of the strongest reactions (both positive and negative) was the shade of purple what we painted the whole piece. Bellow I’ve posted […]
House No.1 after 2.66 seconds
Wired has a great sideshow of stunning images of nuclear blasts. Operation Upshot-Knothole, conducted at the Nevada Proving Ground between March 17 and June 4, 1953, consisted of 11 atmospheric tests: three airdrops, seven tower tests and one airburst. Upshot-Knothole involved the testing of new theories, using both fission and […]
un besoin naturel
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has wondered these things about the Tour de France: The riders temper their competitiveness with an elaborate but unwritten code of conduct and superstition. When possible, a rider is allowed to lead through his village or on his birthday. It is considered […]
Elemental Video
God bless these unintentionally goofy British chemists for creating a short video for every element on the periodic table. Check these out:
The Neuron Chamber — The Update You’ve Been Waiting For
I have momentarily emerged from the shop with dirty, shredded hands and am shocked at how much time has past. Haven’t been able/willing/ready/interested in documenting too much on this one. I promise I’ll have some photos of my own soon. The show is in a week or so. Here are […]
Snarky McFuckButtons
MY pal CTP, who runs the smashing Kineticworld blog and is the organizer of the Applied Kinetic Arts group is world famous for making fantastic buttons. If you hang out in West Oakland long enough you are sure to run into someone wearing one of his buttons. In the past […]
I’m still trying to process this …
Yes, it’s the MONKEY PHONE CALL!! Someone claims I’m not worthy of receiving one.
The Neuron Chamber — Axon Samples
Well, in addition to this chamber there is also the sculpture of the Neurons inside it. Here are some images of some of the concepts we are working on for the axon of the neurons. The copper tubes will carry the ball chain for the of the electrical effect and […]
Make a Mad, Mad, Mad Neuron
So here I am making this sculpture of neurons in an observation chamber and I keep spitting out these technical terms: axon, dendrites, cell body … to describe different components of the sculpture and no one who is working with me has any idea what I am saying. So for […]
Oh, Aleister Crowley, You’re Still A Naughty Boy Even When You Get Back From Hell
Oh, Aleister Crowley — there you go again. Back from the dead, summoned by some Trinity Collage scientists doing some experiment every likely told him not to do, roaming around in fine purple suits and getting naughty with the ladies …. will you ever quit you old beast you? Oh, […]
This Happend In My Neighberhood
God I love my city …. From Laughing Squid: These guys made a giant boulder made of LEGO blocks and had it chase their friend dressed as Indiana Jones down 19th Street on Potrero Hill in San Francisco. Just a block away form the San Francisco headquarters of Almost Scientific