Friday, December 30th, 2011
And so the headlines read again and again in this week’s Nonsense NYC list – so many good choices for one evening, from Cheryl to Occupy to the Pratt Steam Whistles, and then, recovery, while the boroughs clearly take a break from partying, as indicated by the disparity of events for Mon/Tues/Wed. Also, Nonsense are currently asking for donations – give a buck, if you can.
See you in 2012!
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
See! You can totally spot me in the crowd!
Thanks to Max Cohn for this absolutely stunning time lapse video showing some setup and crowd-lapse shots during World Maker Faire. A must-watch-in-HD, with beautiful tunes by Collin Cunningham. Great stuff, good to see someone else taking the reins on a project like this! While it’s nice to spot myself in the vid, I think my favorite segment is outdoors, at the thoroughfare across from Gerard’s Paella, where all the cars and carts and Dogzilla and other projects cross the picture plane – it shows just how nuts and full of activity the setup and preparation for World Maker Faire is (in a good GREAT way!).
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Some additional press coverage, blog write-ups and Flickr accounts with good snappy-snaps:
press:
Motherboard.tv | Animated GIFs of the Coolest 3D Printers at the World Maker Faire (scroll down)
TOR | Conductive Paint, Makerbots, Knitwear & More: EtsyBrook Goes To Maker Faire NYC
mother nature network | Go ahead, Maker Faire my day
PC World | UAVs, Modding, and a New Chumby at Maker Faire NY 2011
blogs:
Bath-On-Hudson (Rensselaer, NY) (roadtrip!)
flickr:
2011 Arduino WMF OSHW set on Flickr
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
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!
Huffington Post | What Barack Obama Could Learn From Maker Faire
Scientific American | A Robot in Every Home? We’re getting close.
BBC News | Tech heads display DIY projects at New York Maker Faire
Scientific America | Making, Education, and Innovation: Inspiring Makers in Underrepresented Communities
ABC News | New York Maker Faire Showcases a New Generation of Innovators (video below)
spectrum ieee | The Coolest Things at World Maker Faire 2011
Engadget | Arduino brings the (new) goods to Maker Faire New York, welcomes ARM into the fold
photosets:
World Maker Faire 2011 set on my Flickr
some great photos by ka1kjz on Flickr
the NYSCI’s Maker Faire set on Flickr
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:
plenty more videos on Maker Faire’s YouTube Channel
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
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.
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