Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wow. I found this when I was cleaning out my laptop hard drive. This is one of the first concept drawings Ben (of Backbone Metals fame) did when he and I were first planning The Neuron Chamber. It’s amazing how close we got to these original drawings while still creating something entirely different.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Almost Scientific will be showing The Triaparator and some new odds and ends on Friday, March 5th.
The show is at 416 26th Street, Oakland, (Betw.Telegraph and Broadway)
This is the first show of the nascent Five Ton Crane.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
A few weeks ago I posted about a few new sculptures I’ve started, none of which have any designs or plans, but are “make them up as you go along” projects. One of them I’ve been calling Spinny or sometimes Spinny Thing and it’s going to, well spin. The spinning is going to activate the [...]
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So one of the ideas I had while building the Rocket Sam papercraft model was to build some scale models of the Raygun Gothic Rocket that everyone would be able to build.
I’m doing the first in wood, and I just got done putting together a prototype. This was laser cut out of 1/16″ plywood, it’s [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
I love the things you discover when you slowly incorporate the things you already have into a loose design. This project really began when I was designing the Triaparator for the Steampunk Treehouse. While designing the blades I imagined it would bee really beautiful to bend the blades upward as they opened and closed. When [...]
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
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 [...]
Finally got a set of gears to build a prototype of the Deep Aperture
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Because I’ve not been working on a heavily-engineered kinetic or high-voltage stuff lately I’ve returned to an earlier style of working. I’m spending more time improvising and letting the sculpture tell me what it wants to be. I’m also spending time working on several pieces throughout the day letting my attention wander between them.
I’ve been [...]
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Here is a sketch of a concept that I’m thinking of developing into a new kinetic sculpture. In this animation the camera is rotating changing the view, however, the twists translation is controlled by simply rotating the upper black ring.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
I’m pleased to anounce that The Steampunk Treehouse will be permanently installed at Dogfish Head brewery in Delaware!
There will be allot more info soon but the word is we’ll be installing sometime in May or June of 2010!
This is going to be allot of fun!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thank you all for coming to the show last night at The Exploratorium. I had a great and exhausting time. It was fantastic to see so many friends out in the crowd, and I’m sorry I did not get to talk to any of you for as long as I would have liked.
I’d like to [...]
On Friday the Almost Scientific team documented a series of experiments conducted on the Plasma Tubes of the Uira Engine.
These experiments were largely in preparation for November 5th, 2009, when we will be doing a controlled testing firing of The Uira Engine at The Exploratorium in San Francisco.
The goal of these experiments was to qualitatively [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Wow. This HD video is short, but really captures a bit of the Uira Engine’s high voltage effect. This was shot by Sean Donnelly, the photo/video journalist who followed our work on the Raygun Gothic Rocket. This is just a snippet of a large piece that Sean is working on. He passed it on to [...]
Tonight I went to the opening of “Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps 1472-1700,” at the Sonoma County Museum, which featured The Triaparator and The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator.
The show was really great. The maps are really stunning in their history and beauty. It was a real honor to have my work shown beside such [...]
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 :
