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Category Archives: In The Media

Video Documentary of the Raygun Gothic Rocket — from West Oakland to Black Rock City

Sunday, November 22, 2009

This is a documentary of the making of the Raygun Gothic Rocket and its installation at Burningman.
One day when I was working on the rocket, this kid showed up with all this camera gear and lights. He started setting up and taking shots in the middle of the shop while people were working. Not just [...]

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Almost Scientific and The Neuron Chamber in Wired Video

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

When we did our last show at the Exploratorium I did a video interview with Wired about what The Neuron Chamber was and how it worked.  I loved that they wanted me to explain in detail how it worked and not just give a 5 second sound bite.  Well the video just went live and [...]

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The Raygun Gothic Rocket in Time

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Our man David Shulman delivers the straight dope on the RGR in this interview for Time — that “dielectric barrier discharge” he’s talking about is our Uira Engine.  This was a really nice short piece and David does a great job :

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Oakland artists launch rocket at Burning Man

Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Raygun Gothic Rocket was again featured in the Oakland Tribune.  This is a follow up article to the one published a few weeks ago.
Oakland artists launch rocket at Burning Man
By Sean Donnelly
For the Oakland Tribune
Black Rock City, Nev. — The rumor at this year’s Burning Man Festival was spreading. Was that 40-foot-tall rocket ship [...]

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Oakland Tribune video featuring the crew of the RGR

Friday, September 11, 2009

My friends … my crew.

I come in at around 1:30 mins.

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The Raygun Gothic Rocket, Uira Engine and Almost Scientific on Cnet!

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 [...]

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Raygun Gothic Rocket on Make blog!

Friday, June 26, 2009

Check out the post on the Make blog about the Raygun Gothic Rocket featuring video by Almost Scientific!:

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It Doesn’t Cook Alien Brains, But Yes, It Is a Neuron Chamber — Almost Scientific featured in Solid Smack

Monday, June 22, 2009

My pal Corbett over at Instinct Engineering just let me know that Almost Scientific and The Neuron Chamber were featured on the Solid Works design blog Solid Smack.  You can find the original post here, but here is the text of the post:
It’s not so much that everything in the future will be built around [...]

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The Neuron Chamber on Laughing Squid

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Laughing Squid is always one of the first blogs I check out to see what is going on in the Bay Area and beyond, so it was supper cool to load it up this morning and see The Neuron Chamber right there at the top of the page.
Thanks Laughing Squid!
Burstein! wrote:

The Neuron Chamber by Alan [...]

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The Neuron Chamber in Gizmodo

Monday, June 1, 2009

Tom Sepe just passed me a link to a Gizmodo post featuring The Neuron Chamber.
Here is my posted reply to the orginal post and the comments:
Hello all –
I’m the artist responsible for The Neuron Chamber.
First, thanks to Gizmodo for the post and thanks to ya’all for the comments.
Second, The Neuron Chamber is a collaborative work [...]

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Reuben Margolin Video

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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 [...]

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Almost Scientific on NBC news

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) [...]

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EgoPHobia interview with Sean O about the Steampunk Treehouse

Friday, November 7, 2008

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 [...]

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Treehouse Sighted On The Worlds Web Nets

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 [...]

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The Internet Tells Lies

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

My last post on the Lumbering Contraption was featured on the Make blog where they noted that our Railcar was much like The Disgusting Spectacle ( a gloriously absurd work of art built by friends at NIMBY ).  While it is true that they are both human powered and both involve a large metal wheel [...]

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13 of the coolest art installations in the history of Burning Man

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Wow, it’s hard to imagine that a year ago we first installed the Steampunk Treehouse. I just got this link listing the Treehouse as one of the 13 coolest installations in the whole huge dusty, blinky, naked, history of Burning Man.

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KSW and Swimming Cities in the New York Times

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Yo! Did ya’all see the New York Times piece on the “Swimming Cities” project that my steamy KSW crew is participating in?
No? Well check it out here -> A Floating City With Junkyard Roots
And that fantastic photo leading the article (also shown below) features our steam-powered paddle boat with my man Zach at [...]

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