Friday, September 11, 2009
My friends … my crew.
I come in at around 1:30 mins.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Check out this Cnet article on the RGR, featuring a very garbled explanation of the Uira Engines drive mechanism. I had no idea this guy was shooting video with his DSLR. This video starts pretty much right after I finally got it all working. There is also a shot of the Dihemispheric Chronaether [...]
Here is one of the videos that will be playing insider The Raygun Gotic Rocket. It was written and directed by Ben Carpenter, Edited by Wendy Rolon and preformed by Me and David Shulman.
Paul Doherty is one of the worlds best science teacher and communicator I know, and as one of the senior scientists here he is also my adviser at the Exploratorium. Here is Paul in his element, showing off one of his fun, cool physics toys and teaching about Newtons laws on public television:
QUEST on KQED [...]
Also be sure to check out Tom Sepe and his S.C.O.U.T. rover, which will be running critical missions for the Raygun Gothic Rocket!:
My friend Grant Diffendaffer has made some really cool rayguns for the rocket:
Almost Scientific collaborator Dr. Wade Enright has been in town for the past few days and we’ve been working on some new high-voltage effects with him.
These are continuations of out past experiments with dielectric barrier discharge
Hear are some photos from last nights experiments. Thanks to Nick for shooting these photos while we made sure [...]
Reuben Margolin is a fantastic, kinetic artist who makes stunning wave machine.
Take a few minutes out of your day and watch this Make video featuring him.
Reuben and I are fellow member of Applied Kinetic Arts. Speaking of AKA, we are doing another show at Maker Faire this year and Almost Scientific will be installing The [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Last week NBC news interviewed Me, Sean O, Tom Sepe and Oliver Lowe (of ReSearch, who is working on a book about Steampunk) about steam-stuff.
Tom give a nice interview about his steam-powered scooter.
While none of the interview of Me or Sean is shown (I think we might have been a bit too snarky at 7am) [...]
Romanian culture magazine EgoPhobia recently did a long interview with my shop-mate and Treehouse collaborator Sean Orlando about the Steampunk Treehouse and the ideas behind Steampunk.
Click this to read the interview, which features some photos by Almost Scientific!
Sean give an extended response to the hub-bub about the death of steampunk that went down in Design [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
While scrolling though Boing-Boing today I came across a post to a Steampunk article that mentioned our Steampunk Treehouse.
This time the article is in the latest edition of the IEEE. The IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
I get a kick when I see my art featured in the tehcnical journals that I [...]
For the past month my good friend Jamie Viada has lead a crack crew of fellow West Oakland artists, including Almost Scientific pals Ben Carpenter and Ryon Gesink, on the fist of his Art Across America projects.
Art Across America
is a nationwide art initiative that educates and creates awareness around environmental issues by bringing communities together [...]
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Over the past few months my good friends and collaborators in KSW have been restoring a beautiful, steam-powered paddle boat that they are going to piolt down the Hudson river in NY as part of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project:.
Swimming cities of Switchback Sea is a flotilla of seven intricately hand crafted vessels [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
God help us — even the weather channel has published an article about Stampunk. Overall the article is a rehash of the same old tropes and themes that everyone else has been printing. I’m stunned that there are people out there getting paid to rewrite the same (uninspired ) article that has been written ten [...]
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 make the point that steampunk is non-functional [...]
If you live in the bay area I seriously recommend you that you head down into the Mission district and check out the new super cool instillation by the Cardboard Institute of Technology called Cardburg.
They have built an incredible detailed, miniature city out of cardboard.
There is a cave you can climb in. Cardboard clothing you [...]
My buddy Ben has this great video on his blog, Backbone Metals.
The black and white film does not do this justice. Keep in
mind that the huge glowing thing they are working is around
2300 degrees F.
The best part of this film is towards the end as the crew
“team strikes” to rivet the shackle pin into [...]
