Well, we did it! Once again we changed the world for the better. Here are some of my choice photos, followed by some important articles and coverage, and then finally some videos. Will keep updating but enjoy this selection for now:
Definitely one of my favorite moments walking around outside was turning around and being visually stunned by the Rocket Park rockets, 1960s era rocket sculpture, and Tim Laursen’s MIDI controlled robot drummers in the foreground, with people interacting with his drumbots via a drum machine. Intense!
Wonderful projection arts and chiptune sounds by Datalore
This one made even me scratch my head! Homebrew biodiesel!
Greggy and his homemade cakes were a big success!
It was great seeing kids interact with exhibits, even if only momentarily. One of the few days of the year where they can be completely free.
Bamboo Bicycles brought their mobile bike truck workshop
Wonderfall spelled things using illuminescent liquid
Little Yellow Drumbot, would take input audio from surrounding environment and turn that into a drum beat!
MakerBot “brought the awesome”, and documented it in this episode of MakerBot TV:
ABC News, great interview with Mitch Altman which opens with Rude Mechanical Orchestra and features a nice segment with Joe Hudy and other Makers in my area:
BIG UPS to Tim Laursen who personally helped me make World Maker Faire a success:
The Last Nights of Constance Hockaday’s Boggsville Boatel and Boat-In Theater,
September 8-10
The New York Times gave it rave reviews, as did NPR and every other magazine and TV channel in America. (Photos) The Boatel has been SOLD OUT all summer long, but we’re auctioning off rooms here for ONE LAST WEEKEND! (All proceeds go to the Swimming Cities India raft project…we leave Sept 20!)
The Boggsville Boatel is a floating hotel and theater fashioned out of abandoned and re-claimed boats, all of which sleep 2-5 people. Six of the vessels are leisure fishing crafts from the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s, ranging from 28 to 40 feet long. Another is a 70’s drifter houseboat remodeled into a rustic penthouse. Rooms include dinner and access to our GOING AWAY PARTY Sept 10 right next door at Marina 59, from 8pm-late. Kick it on your poop deck four blocks from the beach with cold beer, all of your friends and swim trunks—plus Cocktail Cruises in Jamaica Bay, Jerk Burgers & Pineapple Hot Dogs by Carnival Queen Lamar Iposa and Sea Shanty Karaoke.
And yes you’ll see a sunrise like that; and yes you’re only 4 blocks from the beach/ocean; and yes there is a bar; and yes there are film screenings; and yes you can swim there.
What a great flyer made by Brian Yanish from ScrapKins, which is bringing their Recycled ARTs Program to World Maker Faire next month. And yes, he’ll come and pick up your bog rolls and cereal boxes!
He writes:
If you wouldn’t mind saving the following items and throwing them in a bag, I’ll come by and visit and take them off your hands.
Here’s what we need help collecting:
1) Toilet Paper Tubes & Paper Towel Tubes
2) Cereal Boxes and thin food packaging boxes
**Everyone uses an abundance of toilet paper tubes at home, please ask staff, friends and neighbors if they wouldn’t mind saving us a bag or two.**
I’m in Connecticut (and so can you!). I’m at I-Park with 14 other inter-disciplinary artists, engaging an experimental collaborative residency program. For driving directions from anywhere, click here; for train directions from NYC’s Grand Central, click here (real simple: Metro-North to New Haven, then Shore Line East (SLE) to Old Saybrook – call to I-Park ahead of time and they’ll pick you up from the train station!). Don’t forget to RSVP (so we know how much food and drinks to supply)!
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Inter-disciplinary Collaborative Projects
Experimental Residency Session
July 30, 2011
2:00 Open Studios
3:15 Formal Presentations, Refreshments
4:00 Site Walk
You should wear comfortable walking shoes for the site walk
RSVP by July 28, 2011 to ipark@ureach.com or 860.873.246
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The I-Park Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
What began with a 3D scan of Stephen Colbert’s head (who was subsequently turned into a terrifying teddy bear, Capitol Hill eagle-monster and tentacled Colbertopus – episode clip here) has turned into a 3D printing frenzy of NY Notables: “Hackers, bloggers, artists, musicians, comedians and anyone else we think is notable” as the MakerBot blog says.
MakerBot Industries marketing director Keith Ozar invited me round to their “creative space” and studio on Dean Street, covered my head and ‘stache with a blanket of corn starch (the 3D scanner is unable to render any hair that isn’t golden blonde), and I was then scanned by their current artist-in-residence Jonathan Monaghan, who has been digitally touching up the scans and then printing many dozen New Yorkers, miniaturized to approximate 4″ busts.
I intentionally went shirtless as I was going for a ‘caveman’ look, which I think was rendered quite well. Oh yeah and the best part about MakerBot is Thingiverse! You can totally download my likeness and print your own Nick Normal! Thanks Keith for the invite, Tom for the photos, Jonathan for the render and Bre for such a wonderful machine – this really is the future today!
An exhibition of around 40 New York Notables will take place at MakerBot HQ next Thursday, June 30th, from 7-10pm @ 314 Dean Street at 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. I’ll be there from around 8:30 on. See you there!
A MakerBot in action, printing another Notable head, using a honeycomb structure to build up the sculpture:
If you can’t figure this one out then you clearly don’t know me! Progress shots showing the current state of my box thingy for Figment Project this weekend – oh yeah I’m in that, so swing by if you can! It’s built entirely from scrap wood without the use of a table saw, which is pretty impressive given my constraints, lack of budget, and the temperature these days. I still have to embed all the soft switches, and solder all the wiring – so still about 5-6 hours of work there; plus I still have to figure out how to transport this thing to the island, either Thursday late afternoon or Friday day sometime. Friday day is looking like the best possibility – so if anyone out there has a car and is available, I’d rather pay you than a taxi driver I’ll never see again! Anyhow not bad for a one-day build-n-hack. And the name of this piece – for those in the know – is ‘Your Lack Of Stress Is Stressing Me Out’. I don’t know where I’m placed on Governor’s Island – but I shouldn’t be that hard to find, just listen for the really, really loud 8-bit noises.
