Lee.org

Archive for the ‘Art’ Category.

Installed Flexible Upload Plugin

3/2/2007, 12:33 pm, Art, Wordpress

WordPress 2.0 and 2.1 are peachy kean but one annoyance is the odd hard-coded thumbnail size. Thumbnails are fixed at 100 x 100 pixels or something like that.

The Flexible Upload plugin lets you get past that silly limitation in the WP interface. So now I can specify silly tiny thumnails or gigantic, sumptuous thumbnails, as I see fit. It also has some other nice bells and whistles. :-)

Category: Art, Wordpress | Comment

FLG Hands on Fire

2/26/2007, 10:36 am, Art, General

I posted this recently to the FLG Lipstick List and FLG blog.

Girl we’re busy! Here’s a lot of the work we’ve sunk our teeth into. A lot of what’s below is still tentative but you still deserve to know about it!

A Spring Fundraiser – We’re working on having a party sometime soon.

Calendar: at the Fundraiser, you’ll finally get to see the FLG Calendar. Here’s a little taste… http://lee.org/temp/calendar-sample.jpg

Stanford Class – Some time in April we’ll be speaking to a group from a class at Stanford.. (http://stanford.edu/~rcarr/bayart)

Yuri’s Night – We might have some flaming art at Yuri’s Night (http://www.yurisnight.net/2007/) on April 13th (not confirmed yet)

Arts on Fire – We’ll likely have some more flaming art at Arts on Fire in Pacifica at the end of April

Coachella – More with the flaming art (do you sense a pattern?) at Coachella on April 27th (http://www.coachella.com/) also not totally confirmed but whew!

Maker Faire – We’ll probably have a booth at the Maker Faire in San Mateo May 19-20 showing people how to make…. … … what’s the opposite of non-flaming art?

———-
Then of course there’s the Serpent Mother which should be making an amazing return to the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man 2007! We’ve got such plans for her and her egg!
———-

More with the unconfirmed dates is a trip to Amsterdam and Robodock at the end of September!!

And lastly, a proposal of ours has made it past the first cut for a grant from the Creative Work Fund (http://www.creativeworkfund.org/)

And the summer hasn’t even started yet.

Category: Art, General | Comment

Serpent Mother

2/22/2007, 3:06 pm, Art, General

The Flaming Lotus Girls submitted our proposal to Burning Man for this year’s project! We are refining the Serpent Mother. She is going to be totally sweet.

To see more, view the Serpent Mother 2007 Proposal

The proposal itself has a lot of sexy art. Here are the Serpent Mother Proposal Credits

Category: Art, General | Comment

Looking for interferometer for location detection

1/31/2007, 3:35 pm, Art, Geekery, General

I’m still working on this a project where I want to find and continue to know the location of 10 robots moving up to 10kph in a field about 100 yards square with 0.2-1.0 meter accuracy. RFID-Radar is -almost- a solution in a box except that it takes many seconds for it to do range-finding.

GPS isn’t accurate enough.

I’m now envisioning 2 sets of antennas using angle of arrival interferometry. I’ve been googling (and the library) my head off and not coming up with too much thus far. Do you know of an interferometry system that might detect 0.1 degree difference or so? I figure that with 2 sets, one on the X plane, one on the Y, we can get an accurate location. I’ll ping the RFID-Radar guy on this but I think he’s focused elsewhere.

Category: Art, Geekery, General | Comment

Robot Reckoning Question

1/19/2007, 10:50 am, Art, Geekery, General

Dear Lazyweb,
I’m working on an project where we will have 5-10 robots moving around a large field… 100-1,000 yards. Right now we’re planning on using a mix of differential GPS, accelerometers and and a kalman filter so the robots can determine their position to within 1 meter or less. This may or may not be the best way to go about this.

Do you have some ideas as to some other solutions we might go with?
Take a peek at our main webpage…. http://www.orbswarm.com/

Category: Art, Geekery, General | 1 Comment

FLG Fundraiser on Friday night

10/16/2006, 12:53 pm, Art, General

I’ve posted this flyer around the interweb…
——————
You may have heard of us. We’re the Flaming Lotus Girls. We rocked the playa.
and we’re having a little shindig to celebrate!
(It’s also a bit of a fundraiser since we went just a teensy weensy bit
over-budget!)

Here’s a link to the FLG supperclub party flyer.
http://tinyurl.com/rnr4e

————————————————–
supperclub, Flaming Lotus Girls and Get YER Freak on!
Present
“Return of the Serpent Mother”

Friday Oct 20th, 11pm-3am

at supperclub – 657 Harrison St @ 3rd

in an evening of celebration for the Serpent Mother There will be a photo exhibit of FLG work with silent auction, FLG gear and if you’re lucky, the infamous Flaming Lotus “Kissing Booth”
Part of the Serpent Mother will be there to accompany us throughout the night.

La Salle Neige
M3- Green Gorilla Lounge
Majitope – Flaming Lotus Girls
Laird – LUSH/Get YER Freak on!
Goldilox – Brass Tax/LUSH

Ladies room
Hosted by Sister SF
Amber, Seraphim Delush
Forest Green, Samira
Audio Angel (live vox)

$10-20 donation http://www.flaminglotus.com

for dinner reservations, please call 415-348-0900 or visit http://www.supperclub.com
————————————————–

————–
images & video!
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Serpent+Mother&search=Search
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22Serpent+Mother%22
http://lee.org/blog/2006/10/03/serpent-links/
http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film
————–

Category: Art, General | Comment

Serpent Panorama Images

10/10/2006, 1:19 am, Art, General

http://lee.org/pix/serpent-mother-2006/page1.html

Wuddya think?

Category: Art, General | 5 Comments

Serpent Mother Links

10/3/2006, 8:31 am, Art, General

Here are a few links to photos of the Serpent Mother. If I missed your link, please leave a comment.

http://flaminglotus.wordpress.com our blog

http://lee.org/pix/serpent-mother-2006/page1.html My own panorama images

http://www.jesshobbs.com/brc2006/ FLG Jess Hobb’s Burning Man 2006 photos
http://www.jesshobbs.com/brc2006/flg/ Jess’ FLG photos

http://homepage.mac.com/red0x/bm06/ photos by Ryan Du Bois

http://waves-of-change.org/Gallery/BM2006 photos by Angela Knowles

http://www.orangecone.com/archives/selfindulgence/ Burning Man 2006 Art Review by Mike Kuniavsky

http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film Videos by FLG Mad Nomad

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/230767953/ the fondest wish of one burner

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Serpent+Mother&search=Search Several Videos on YouTube

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22Serpent+Mother%22 500+ photos of the Serpent Mother on Flickr!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mills42/sets/72157594294145867/ ‘Mills’ Caroline Miller – Chicago installation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60927639@N00/sets/72157594297908023/ by Lynn – Chicago installation

————————————————–
==More Text than Images==
http://blog.wired.com/burningman2006/index.album?i=28 WIRED – if you look there are more photos of our snakey than the man burning

http://tinyurl.com/jyxdm 9,000+ Google links to the Serpent Mother

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/20/PKGP6KEOAM1.DTL&type=art The Serpent Mother was featured prominently in this article: GOING FOR THE BURN by Bill Picture, Sunday, August 20, 2006

http://bm.tribe.net/thread/c04a2214-c577-4f24-a21b-ce9c91375f6b – comments about the Serpent Mother

http://nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?s=c202fd8971e31e7daee4e7ecbd24aa29&postid=1664954 Copy of Mozes pre-art preview

————————————————–
More
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60055.htm
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60061.htm
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60053.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60927639@N00/sets/72157594322514892/ from Lynn

http://burningcam.com/2006/photos/large-15.html BurningCam shots (look at this one and the next couple)

http://www.figureonalandscape.com/mystikalmysfits/vidz/98-06/99carnaarmada/carnaarmada.html

Category: Art, General | 10 Comments