Katherine and I are both invited faculty for the GOSH Summit next month at the Banff Centre in Canada. GOSH = Grounding Open Source Hardware - and it should be an interesting place to meet people involved in this growing field as well as work on some potential projects during the week. If you are going, we look forward to meeting up! More about this event as we get closer to the date.
I uploaded some old band posters that I designed from my high school band “CryBaby” (I sang in this band). You can see them here. I also uploaded some pictures from my college band “Howard North”, those pictures are here. Thanks to Safari 4.0 for fixing the problems I was having in posting to my blog, so now it’s a bit easier and will try to update it more soon…
Also, RIP to Michael Jackson! We’ll miss the moonwalk, but most of all were waiting for the moon-dance, which never came.
I just got a copy of Edward Shanken’s new book, “Art and Electronic Media”. Really excellent and comprehensive book about digital culture and the arts. The book features my PoliceState project in a section about the Carnivore project by RSG. Check out the blog associated with the book for more info. Shanken will be in NYC next week on June 18th signing copies of his book and giving a talk at the Bitforms Gallery. More info at this link.
Below is a picture of the page my project is mentioned on… nice!
“Wikipedia” by artist Rob Matthews is a brilliant way to materialize the Internet back into old media. The “book” features prints of 5,000 pages of Wikipedia’s “Featured Articles”. If Rob were to have the entire Wikipedia printed out, he might have to cut down a few forests just to make the paper. According to his description: “[The project reproduces] Wikipedia in a dysfunctional physical form that helps to question its use as an internet resource.” Excellent project that definitely makes me happy that the web is a immaterial format. Next up, I would like to see the physical version of Amazon.com. Very cool indeed.
This error message is a true indicator of how connected and lonely people can simultaneously be. I just hope that it’s not becoming a reality yet. (via)
After a pretty busy day at Maker Faire, people made some fun instruments during our Scrapyard Challenge Workshop! Above are pictures of an instrument made with Diving Flippers and one of the workshop table! Lots of cool projects were made and this is only the beginning! See you at Day 2!
We’re at Maker Faire, and spotted this home built R2D2 that worked and sounded just like the original from the movies. Pretty cool! Lots more to come, the Faire starts tomorrow so I’ll post some more soon and please stop by our “Scrapyard Challenge” booth at the Faire and make something! We are located in Redwood 419 - see you there!
Katherine and I are heading to San Mateo, California next week to participate in “Maker Faire! The World’s Largest DIY Festival!” We will be showcasing our “Scrapyard Challenge” workshops at the faire this year, and it’s our first time attending this great event. If you make it to the Faire, please stop by our booth and build something! Should be fun!
The report I wrote for Rhizome about FutureSonic 2009 is up on their site! Check it out at this link. Above is a picture I took of Drew Hemment introducing the festival.
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