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While installing the Steampunk Treehouse at Dogfish Head Brewery we stayed at the beach “resort” town of Rehboth. On one of our last nights, when most of the work was over, I went out with my lovely 50mm/1.4 and tried to capture the unique boardwalk vibe that I had been living in for [...] About a month or so ago I picked up a copy of the SF Panorama which was almost too great for words. One of the best things in it was a Rocket Sam comic by Chris Ware that, on the back, had a paper-craft model of rocket. Well, the other night I totally geeked out [...] The West Oakland Rocketry Club is an Art Rocketry club, based out of West Oakland CA, that Almost Scientific has been part of since the first launch. Every once in a while (usually at the prompting of Radio Robot) we gather up our hot glue guns, cardboard tubes, Estes motors, wires, pie, our custom designed Launch [...] While we were building the Raygun Gothic Rocketship I was so busy working that I never had any time to take photos. I never felt bad about it because there were so many great photographers taking shots of it. Well today we had to display the Rocket for some very exciting secrete guests and I [...] WORC saw fit to assemble recently, and, as is our custom, rockets were rapidly made and deployed. Some even went up. See the full gallery of photos by clicking your pointer right here.
The race was fantastic. So much fun. We were not the fastest there (shocking), in fact, I don’t even remember any of our times. We did win a lovely trophy for Best Engineering. Number of “official” runs = 2 Number of injures = 1 Severity of injury = “minor”
Ummmmmm — why are we building a 10′ tall 10′ wide hamster wheel call the Lumbering Contraption? (Not to pick noses, as the Internets would have you believe.) Well, this Sunday, September 28th, 2008, is the great Handcar Regatta — a race of human-powered rail-track creations. We have been hard [...] It’s been pointed out to me that Goth Magazines recent post on the Steampunk Treehouse featured an Almost Scientific photo! I believe that photo came from the Coachella install set which can be found here. I know it’s a bit late but I finally got around to going through my photos from our recent instillation of the Steampunk Treehouse at Coachella. I tried to document all the various stages that goes into setting it. You can also see the spreader bar I designed and fabricated in action. There were too many photos to [...] Max Weld Cog Big Green Press Brown Lines In Green The new patina on the roof of Steampuk Treehose is starting to take shape. Our goal is to give the roof some really aged blue-green color by applying a fresh layer of paint on the rusted metal, and then systematically (and artfully) destroying that layer of paint. Last weekend we laid down the first even layer [...] Well Coachella is coming up really soon and the Steampunk Treehouse crew has been hard at work getting our little treehouse ready. We’ve gotten a bulk of the basic upkeep and repair work done and can now take some time to do some cosmetic work. One of the first things we want to do [...] The West Oakland Rocketry Club meet this past weekend in Tahoe. While Ice Rockets and Rocket Sleds were the rockets de jour, in true WORC style we also saw the launch of a vinyl record, a xmass trees, two vibrators, and an ape plane. Some of them even went straight up. Below are a [...] My good pal Ben Carpenter, the man behind Backbone Metals asked me to do a shoot of his latest and greatest piece. Here are some of the images.
A bulk of day was spent making bands. Each hemisphere has a circular band around it and the body is two perpendicular bands, one horizontal and concentric with the bowls and another vertical one for the tray. To make these bands as accurate as possible I first rolled out the flat-bar into [...] Here are some of my choice photos from the first WORC meeting a few months ago:
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