It’s incredible to consider it was a week ago today that the 7th annual Maker Faire Bay Area opened its floodgates and thousands upon thousands of people became “hyper-inspired”. We all have our favorite moments and project. Mine came the afternoon after the faire, when the breakdown was in full-swing and the grounds were only populated with the core crew and heavy machinery. The Flux Foundation – not to be confused with other Flux-es – who made the BrollyFlock, a 35′ tall 30′ diameter sculpture populated with 55 umbrellas (20 made of steel of which 9 shoot fire; and 35 with an elaborate Arduino-controlled LED lighting system), gave me perhaps the best memorabilia ever: a postcard covered in kisses from each of their awesome crew!
Scroll down below to see the sculpture being installed, and finally for it in action at twilight. And here’s what it looked like during the day surrounded by peoples!
installing the Brolly Flock base
staging the brollies
ready for the first brolly
first few brollies up!
3 brollies
the more the merrier
art is heavy duty
staging more art, installing soft brollies
soft brollies installed
from fork to boom
brolly silhouette
let 'er burn!
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