Let me tell you about my love/hate relationship with the Valencia Street Swing. I love how elegant it is, and hate that I didn’t think of it first. A few weeks ago, some folks hung this swing from a tree branch across the street from Summit Cafe and it somehow managed to survive until late [...]
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Occupy Lego
After posting pics of my Occupy News Bins project, I got this email from a reader about a similar art project done by her 7 year old son: My son is amazing. He built this in five minutes after Thanksgiving dinner. Didn’t get the picture of the semi he built and filled it with Lego [...]
Occupy News Bin
Though I often disagree with the sentiments I hear by folks at Occupy Wall Street encampments, I strongly support their rights to say them peacefully. So when I see so much footage of police using heavy handed tactics on non-violent protestors it not only makes me more sympathetic to OWS… it makes me feel sick. [...]
Peter S. Conrad’s lottery comic
My chats with Peter S. Conrad are becoming the highlights of my yearly visit to the SF ZineFest. Each year Peter has a new comic book that plays around with the comic book format. Last year I blogged about his wonderfully detailed cassette-tape comic, and this year I had a chance to talk with him [...]
Get Lampbot
For this years Maker Faire, my good friend Jon Foote built these 5 awesome Luxo Jr inspired set of robotic desk lamps. The lamps have several articulated points that can either be controlled by a joystick or from pre-programmed patterns. Jon calls this piece C.A.R.D.L.E, which I believe stands for Completely Awesome Robotic Desk Lamp [...]
