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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Photographer Michael Rauner took some cool photos of some of my work (The Triaparator, The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator and The Neuron Chamber) at the Fire Arts show. He also as some great shots of the Steampunk Treehouse and KSW.
You can see his whole gallery from the show here.
Below are some of the photos [...]
I’m honored to have been featured in this interview by the fantastic Meredith Scheff for The Steampunk Workshop.
I’m still recovering from finishing and showing The Neuron Chamber and will have the final round of photos form it up soon!
Portrait of a mad scientist: Alan Rorie of Almostscientific.com
Meredith Scheff — Mon, 07/14/2008 - 15:05
(image: Alan [...]
This is really cool. Here is a full on virtual view of the inside of the Steampunk Treehouse when it was installed at Coachella.
Use the mouse to pan left, right, up and down.
You can see the other virtual tours from Coachella 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 [...]
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
When we took the Steampunk Treehouse to Coachella last week we knew we were not going to be allowed to let the ~45 000 attendees up into the house and we would want to be able to lock up the house when we were off playing.
So we picked up this nice old lock for the [...]
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Hey all’ya all — I’m back from an amazing showing of the Steampunk Treehouse at Coachella.
Last year at this time, when we were first starting the project, I would have never gussed that I’d be able to watch Roger Waters and Prince preform while swinging my feet from the main balcony on the treehouse.
We had [...]
LA Weakly blog (pronounced Hell-A Weakly, according the great show Californication) has put together some nifty excel graphs to addres the question:
Who are these 128 bands [at Coachella], collectively? As one big amalgam, what are they?
I couldn’t resist a data heavy write up about Coachella given that we start packing up the truck to take [...]
Benna is always snapping photos of everyone while we are working and ever once in a while she post some of them. If you are curious to see another persons perspective on what goes on around the work site check out these photos.
I promise there are some goofy pictures of me in there.
The other item that has been taking up some of my time is the design of the spreader bar for the Coachella instillation.
What is a spreader bar
Well, we are going to need to pick up the house with a crane and place it on the trunk. To do this we are going to attach straps [...]
The other night while preping the Treehosue for Coachella we realized that we never signed it. So we’ve decided to create a “signature plate” that would have the name of the piece and the names of everyone who worked on it.
Here is the design I whipped up quickly (so we can have it done in [...]
I’ve designed this kick-ass flyer to promote the Treehouse project at Coachella. These wil be printed up 8.5″ x 11.5″ and distributed backstage, in the VIP areas and inside the Treehouse (which will be closed to to public but open to VIPs)
This is more or less done though there may be some small last [...]
It’s difficult to see in most of the photos of the tree house but the inside of the Triparator windows (on the house wall … yes I’ll get a photo soon) is lined with copper.
It always struck me as odd (though no one else ever noticed) that everything on the Treehouse looked old but that [...]
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 [...]
Last night I also got a good photo of the etching I made for the gift the Steampunk Treehouse crew is giving the Burning Man office to thank them for all their support last year.
I did the etching and Martin did the frame. Kate and Sean lent a hand in finishing it.
Here is the original [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Hey everyone!
Over the past few weeks Cyrus Farivar, an NPR reporter, has been putting together a story on Steampunk, including the Steampunk Treehouse and KSW for NPRs All Things Considered. He stopped by the Edwardian Ball and interviewed me while I was (exhausted) and setting up the Dihemispehric Chronaether Agiatator.
Well, the story will be [...]
Aether Emporium, a steampunk website, has just posted a great interview with Sean Orlando about the Steampunk Treehouse project and KSW. Sean is one of the founders of KSW and the director of the Treehouse project.
The article features some great photos including one of the best I’ve see of the Triaparator.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
More proof that I excel at making noise.
Watch and believe.
The next episode I believe will be all about KSW.
They also used some of my photos as still in the video.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
I can across this on youtube which has some video of the Treehouse and the Triaparator in action.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Well, the other day when I did the etching for the DCA I also did and etching I’d been trying to get done for several months. This etching is going to be given to the Burning Man office as a gift for all of their help and support in getting the Steampunk Treehouse built.
I don’t [...]
BC of the Treehouse crew has unearthed some lost photos from the good old days of the Treehouse construction.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Burningcam has some fantastic photos of the Steampunk Treehouse at Burning Man this year, including these great ones of my Triaparator:
