Another big announcement!
The Neuron Chamber has been invited to Dublin, Ireland, this winter to participate in Lightwave 2009.
Lightwave is a event at the Science Gallery, which is a science and art space, associated with Trinity College.
Check out some of the fantastic work that was featured at Lightwave last year.
You can see a portion of the [...]
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.
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 [...]
Here is a photo of The Neuron Chamber at it’s first showing at The Crucibles Fire Arts Festival.
More to come!
Be sure to check out the Fabrication Photos: Set 1 Set 2 Set 3
As I mentioned in the original post describing The Neuron Chamber one of the core elements is a completely original, technically challenging, electric/kinetic effect that we are developing specifically for this project.
The goal is to pull an electric arc though an complex, horizontal curve.
Think of it as horizontal Jacobs Ladder.
I bet you’re asking why [...]
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 [...]
Hey all –
I just got back from taking apart the Steampunk Treehouse in LA and found a note in my inbox from some good friends directing me to this cool photo and blurb in Wired.
The blurb is similar to the other write up they did of the the The Dihemishperic Chronaether Agitator.
Wow. I just got back from Maker Faire and had a fantastic time. So many cool projects and brilliant people walking around. A glorious geek fest!
Check out the write up of Almost Scientific and the Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator in Wired:
Mad Labber Scientist Tinkers With Time
Stanford grad student Alan Rorie shows off [...]
It’s true, my most recently complete work, The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator, will be showing all this weekend at the Maker Faire in San Mateo.
I just spent the evening in the shop shining it up and tweaking the gears.
I don’t think I’ll run it on steam power but I’ll have the steamengine there for show and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m honored to be somewhat featured in this recent Nature article about Steampunk. Nature is a very high profile science journal that I largely only encounter in my life as a scientist. I think my thesis advisor will find it … let’s say … amusing that I’ve gotten a mention in Nature for [...]
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Here are some photos of the DCA at the Edwardian Ball taken by the event photographers:
www.pixievisionproductions.com and www.theblight.net.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Well, it’s been almost a week since the show and I think I’ve finally physically recovered.
The 48 hours leading up to the show were exhausting.
On Thursday night, with my friend Davids help, I was able to get some LED lights installed under the tray. Because the steam engine vibrated I needed some way to [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008
The show was last night. I’m still too tired for a full write up. The piece was a smash success and it will be at the the next two nights of the show as well.
Here’s a photo Dick took while I was setting up:
More to come!
UPDATES: Read about the show here. See the [...]
