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Site maintenance

We are doing some minor rearranging of the site over the next few weeks so if things look incomplete or missing, that’s the reason.

Thanks.

August 21st, 2010 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

Photos from the Steampunk Treehouse Install at Dogfish Head Brewery

Here are some  video highlights from the first three days!

June 18th, 2010 | Category: Sculpture, Showings, Steampunk Treehouse, Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

Lecture on the relationship between Art and Science

Last week I had the great pleasure of of speaking to the National Cancer Institute about the relationship between art and science.

Below I’ve posted the visual part of the presentation, but sadly there is not audio or video recording to go along.

Here is a brief summary of my 30-minute presentation to help you make sense [...]

March 23rd, 2010 | Category: Knowledge - Information - Scholarship, Showings, Stimulations & Inspirations, Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

The Inverse Graphing Calculator

Inverse Graphing Calculator

The Inverse Graphing Calculator (version beta-1) is like a backwards graphing calculator. Normally, you enter an equation into your calculator and then get a graph of the curve. The way the IGC works is, you type something you’d like as your curve, like ‘Hello World’ or ‘I love you’. The IGC produces an [...]

March 12th, 2010 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

Limited Edition Raygun Gothic Rocketship Papercraft Models For Sale

My limited edition papercraft models of The Raygun Gothic Rocketship are for sale on Makers Market.

I’m not going to say exactly how we got these.

But I will say there are several Tublians on Neblous-9 who risked a lot to get these to me. I hope none of them lost any gills.

There are Top Secret Rocket [...]

March 10th, 2010 | Category: Raygun Gothic Rocketship, Submitted For Consideration | 4 comments

Aperture Lamp

I’ve had this small Aperture that I made as a prototype for the Triaparator that has been kicking around my studio for a while.

Well, I’ve decided to turn it into a lamp.

Fitting huh?

It’s still has that raw, being-worked on look to it but it’s close enough to the final idea that I’m okay posting it.

The [...]

March 1st, 2010 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

Norgren Lamp in progress

I’ve started working on a new lamp.  The idea for this came from two components that have been kicking around on my work bench for a while that I realized would work well together.  The first is one of those pneumatic things that prevents your trunk from slamming down on you which is now broken [...]

February 23rd, 2010 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

Rocket Sam Build from the SF Panorama

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 [...]

February 4th, 2010 | Category: Photography, Stimulations & Inspirations, Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

Almost Scientific Strikes Back

I could not resist.  Go get your own. You know you want one.  (via NerdCore)

January 20th, 2010 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | 2 comments

Deep Aperture Sketch

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.

December 19th, 2009 | Category: Sculpture, Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

Experiments with conductive glass

I just got done running some cool experiments with some conductive glass. I’ve got some decent video that I’ll post once it’s processed. Here is a photo of the beautiful failure point to entice you. This is also a test blog post from my nifty Droid phone.

November 17th, 2009 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | One comment

The Uira at The Exploratorium

IMG_0148, originally uploaded by Spaceman Spiffy.

Here is a great shot I found on Flickr of The Uria Engine at the Exploratorium show last week.

November 9th, 2009 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | One comment

Science, Art and Bay Area culture

I had a really great time today talking to a seminar on scientific visualization and art, at the University of Colorado,  Boulder, hosted by Dr. Stephanie V. Chasteen.  Stephanie previously held my current position as a post doctoral fellow at the Exploratorium.

The talk focused [...]

October 8th, 2009 | Category: Exploratorium, Submitted For Consideration | 3 comments

Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking Autotuned

September 24th, 2009 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | 2 comments

The Raygun Gothic Rocket — Tilt-Shift

The Raygun Gothic Rocket, originally uploaded by ghansenpc.

September 22nd, 2009 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | One comment

The Raygun Gothic — Kites Eye View

The Rocket – edited, originally uploaded by cookinghamus.

This shot of the Rocket was taken by Flickr user cookinghamus using a KAP (kite areal photography) rig.

Awwwww, ain’t it cute? It looks like a toy.

September 21st, 2009 | Category: Submitted For Consideration | Leave a comment

Stingray Sam is my new hero who’s not a hero — a review

Last night I, and about 15 Raygun Gothic Rocket crew, went to the SF premiere of Cory McAbees awesome new space western musical move — Stingray Sam.

Of course, it was no real shock that it was such an amazingly original film.  McAbee is responsible for creating The American Astronaut, a much loved, black and white, [...]

September 18th, 2009 | Category: Stimulations & Inspirations, Submitted For Consideration, You know ... for your ears | Leave a comment
 
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