Smartflix is a fantastic resource for people that want to know how to build things. I just got this newsletter. There’s mention of me in the middle there :-)
Check out Smartflix right now (and when you do, use this referral link. They’ll give me free rentals when you sign up)((It’s really weird calling my good friend Travis, owner of the business, “them”!)
Here’s one design suggestion by Charlie for the SWARM base camp. Click on the image to enlarge it.
This from Ben, an Admiral in Low Key Peep Flambe Camp.
Bring in the peeps! Bring in the funk!
As a founding member of Low Key Peep Flambe Camp, it is my solemn responsibility to bring in the peeps (someone else handles bringing in the funk). While procuring our comestibles, I came across a most curious product. It is what appears to be a mammoth 2 lb box of Pop Rocks!
How could I pass up such an irresponsibly sold product?
I have ecstatic visions of consuming vast quantities of pop rocks, reminiscent of that Newcomer drug-lord in Alien Nation who drank so much of the drug that he devolved into a totally awesome monster!
To the right I present to you my official provisions for the 2007 Burning Man instantiation of Low Key Peep Flambe Camp.
Last night we had an FLG fundraising party. (invites at various spots: 1, 2 , 3). It was a great success! I was out til 4am helping and partying :-)
SWARM is coming along. There’s a LOT of work to be done yet. I’ve got to weld orbs together (I’m getting to be a good aluminum TIG welder!), put battery systems together, buy some stuff (shopping for electronics can take an unhappily long amount of time), and help do choreography for the art. So far, we’ve been focusing on the HOW it works, not the WHAT it does; the orbs have sound, lights and motion. We’ve got to get some choreography action going!
On Saturday Richard Hart interviewed Michael, Jon and myself at the BoxShop, presumably for a new version of the Discovery Channel’s TV show “The Next Step”. He said that the episode might be out in a month or so. It’s kind of funny… I’m sure I’ll appear as the “brawn” in the piece. They got video of me grinding and welding. Jon is the geek and Michael the fearless leader and visionary. We’ll see. :-)
Charlotte made it on an internet television show before I made it to TV… There’s an internet television show (yes, real “internet television”… groovy) that did a piece about the Fire Arts Festival. Among other things, they talk about all the art at the show. And at the end of the show, they do an interview with Charlotte about the Serpent Mother and show her off!
Penny & Page’s Perpetual Party: Fiery Fun with Your Favorite Freaks (July 16th, 2007)
What are you going to bring? I’m bringing a fleet of semi-autonomous spherical robots keyed off GPS, on-board sensors and a Kalman filter; using sound, light and motion they mimic.. and even create their own flocking behaviors.
There are no spectators at Burning Man.
This is a part of the Ocean Beach Fire Pit Project
Hi there all my nearest and dearesteses…
For the past two and a half months many of you have not heard from me or seen me much. During this time Rebecca, the Fire Bloom crew and I have been bustin’ our butts to get Bloom #2 ready and onto the beach. We accomplished this with many, many hours of cutting, welding, patterning and grinding!
Now it’s time to play!
This Sunday, July 22nd 2007 (my little sister Amna’s birthday) around sunset, we will be celebrating not only Fire Bloom 2, but also Charlie’s beautiful Starfish! The location is Ocean Beach, between Lincoln and Fulton, across the street from the Beach Chalet. Please join us in the festivities. Bring something to drink or eat, wood to burn and your friends. It will be a lovely time burning, watching the sun set and making merry after a grueling two months of hard work! It has definitely paid off.
Thank you to everyone who supported us and helped make this happen. We look forward to seeing you out there!!
Yasi xoxoxooxo
Though I’m not camping with Illumination Village at Burning Man this year, I am good friends with many people in the camp. Reading this internal announcement, I thought “Wow, that’s pretty cool.”
It’s official (!). Burning Man’s zip code is 89412.
Interesting.
(local copy for posterity) (more…)
That’s it. That’s the whole story… Just “Bioethicists Concerned”. They’re always concerned about something, aren’t they? Man, I want to be a bioethicist. That must be some easy money. What do they do besides be concerned?
Yay!
Come dance !
I am giving a workshop this Saturday….
Come to a Middle Eastern Dance Workshop in the Mission. See several dances performed, hear about a bit of the background, and learn a few basic moves!
This event is free so……Come watch and come dance!
Sharlotta de la Playa – Saturday, July 21, 2007 10am-noon in the theatre
http://www.missionculturalcenter.org/calendar.htm
2868 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110
In addition to the workshop, that I am giving this Saturday, I am starting a dance group in the Mission—join us, just bring your desire to dance! No experience necessary! Want more info?
email me (write dance in the subject line)“Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.” - Maya Angelou
“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”
“We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” Kisa
“There are two ways to live — one as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein
We just finished running the Serpent at the Fire Arts Festival. It was a blast!
A terrific (47mb) video by Olivier Bonin of the Serpent at the Crucible’s 2007 Fire Arts Festival The thing to watch!!
SF Chronicle coverage here and here (article title: “Hot-and-heavy sculpture gets artists warmed up Enormous flame-breathing creations at Fire Arts Festival are prelude to Burning Man. Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer. Friday, July 13, 2007″)
WED: Jess THURS: Rebecca FRI: Jess SAT: Cherl
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WED JULY 11 |
THURS JULY 12 |
FRI JULY 13 |
SAT JULY 14 |
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1. Jess 2. Caroline Miller (plumbing) 3. Michael Prados (head) 4. David Ellsworth (elec) 5. Cheryl Fralick (FSM) 6. John Devenezia (EGG) 7. B’anna Federico 8.Karen Tarapata 9. Indira Allfree 10.Olivier Bonin 11.Rosa Anna di Fellipis 12.Yasi Maus Khan 13.Michelle Palmer 14.Stella Rubenstein 15. Cathy Lynch |
1. Rbca Anders (plumbing and in charge) 2. TBD 3. Michael Prados (head) 4. Tad (electronics) 5. John Devenezia(Egg) 6.Jordana Joseph FSM 7.Oona Squire(plumbing) 8.Paul Walker 9.Chris Gerbik 10.Aerin 11.Louis B 12.Judy Castro 13.Wendy 14.James Stauffer 15.Mark Farrier |
1. Jess (elec and in Charge) 2. Rbca Anders (PLUMBING) 3. Lee Sonko (head) 4. Tasha Berg (FSM) 5. Oona Squire (egg) 6. Yasi Maus Khan 7.James Stauffer 8.Will Bartlett 9.Sara Peyrot 10. Brent 11.Laura Barron 12. TBD 13. Tristan Savatier 14.Amy Tse 15. |
1. Cheryl Fralick (In charge) 2. Caroline Miller(plumbing) 3. Michelle Palmer(FSM) 4. David Ellsworth (ELECTRONICS) 5. Ray Sykes (head) 6. Marlies Tallman(egg) 7.Steve Nelson 8. Kezia 9.Josh Hunter 10.Lynn Bryant (FSM) 11. Dave X 12.Judy Castro 13.Jill (plumbing) 14.Jeff Henise 15. Karl Seifert |
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Neato
A friend is on this project to use a regular digital camera, a tilting base, and stitching software to make gigapixel cameras.
I had a little discussion with someone at my new job a few days ago. We were talking about how “obviously successful” the Got Milk ads have been. I recalled mention that they generated a lot of recognition but not so much in the get-people-to-drink-milk category. I did some homework and was amazed to find out how true that is.
It would appear that the $20 million+ per year Got Milk ad campaign has pretty solidly failed. It is called the “Milkpep” program and it started in 1995. Take a look at the chart to the right to see how effective the program has been. There was a blip the year after the program started but per-capita and total sales of fluid milk have continued to fall pretty much continuously since it’s inception. Notably, the rate of change of per-capita consumption hasn’t changed. In other words, it’s very hard for them to say “Well, people would have been drinking even less milk if it weren’t for the ads.”
I found this information in the Dairy Facts Book 2006, put out by the International Dairy Foods Association. (local copy)
Trav pointed out DM of the Rings. It’s right-on.
This scene had me laugh so unexpectedly, I sputtered out a laugh and spit all over my monitor. I suppose it isn’t really the funniest of them, but it hit a chord.
We started getting spam on a Mediawiki based project I belong to, SWARM. I installed the ConfirmEdit extension and haven’t had another spam yet.
Update 4-4-08: eventually, I started getting spam through this. So I had to lock down the wiki. I disabled registration and made it so only logged-in users can edit. No more problems.
