{"id":8356,"date":"2012-05-26T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=8356"},"modified":"2015-11-01T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T12:55:11","slug":"my-favorite-maker-faire-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/my-favorite-maker-faire-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"my favorite Maker Faire moment!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a> – not to be confused with other Flux-es<\/em> – who made the BrollyFlock<\/a>, 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!<\/p>\n

Scroll down below to see the sculpture being installed, and finally for it in action at twilight. And here’s what it looked like<\/a> during the day surrounded by peoples!<\/p>\n

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installing the Brolly Flock base<\/p><\/div>
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staging the brollies<\/p><\/div>
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ready for the first brolly<\/p><\/div>
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first few brollies up!<\/p><\/div>
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3 brollies<\/p><\/div>
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the more the merrier<\/p><\/div>
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art is heavy duty<\/p><\/div>
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staging more art, installing soft brollies<\/p><\/div>
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soft brollies installed<\/p><\/div>
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from fork to boom<\/p><\/div>
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brolly silhouette<\/p><\/div>
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let 'er burn!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

all photos on my Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

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