Here are the video from last month Athanasius Kircher Society event -
…the Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society was held on January 16, 2007 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Four hundred friends and members of the Kircher Society were in attendance. For the public’s edification, a summary reel of the meeting has been made available online.
Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Highlights from the Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society - [via] Link.
Complete videos of each presentation are also available:
The Meeting is Called to Order
Anthony Grafton’s Invocation
“Stump the Real Rain Man,” with Kim and Fran Peek
Nate True’s Time Fountain
Kircher Society Mementos
Rosamond Purcell: “Snakestones and Flying Cats: Collecting for Kircher’s Ark”
Romeo and Juliet: The First Ever Dramatic Performance in Solresol, Introduced by Paul Collins, Directed by Dylan Thuras
The Man who Fell from Space: Col. Joe Kittinger, Jr., USAF Ret.
Jesse Ferguson’s Polyreactory Assemblage of Contemplation, […]
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Lee writes -
I regularly attend, and just completed writing a guide for three monthly public electronics swap meets in SoCal. Everything a maker desires can be found here for next to nothing: vintage radios, laptops, gauges, connectors, cables, leads, meters, scopes, tubes, you
name it.
The largest of the three swaps I track is this Saturday (Feb 24) in Manhattan Beach, CA in the parking lot of Northrop Grumman. I would absolutely LOVE to have a maker crowd there.
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MAKE is a media sponsor for this event, check it out if you’re in Chicago!
Pass It On: Connecting Contemporary Do-It-Yourself Culture is an exhibition exploring the many ways in which the rich and diverse influence of DIY culture cross-pollinates to extend boundaries over a range of spheres: social/political/economic/and cultural. Curated by AnneDorothee Boehme, Lindsay Bosch and Kevin Henry.
March 1 - April 14, 2007
Opening Reception: March 1st, 5-8 pm
A+D Gallery
Columbia College Chicago
619 S. Wabash
Chicago, IL 60605
312.344.8687
A + D gallery - Link.
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Like bleepity bloopity music and in the NY area? Check out tranzducer.002, February 23, 2007 - 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm Brooklyn, NYC–
…friend-of-LEMURplex Bob Huott’s band FRYLAB will be playing a mixture of acoustic and electronic: tenor sax, bass, extended baritone guitar, and the bean, a new electronic instrument.
Jane Rigler, flutist and electronic musician, will be performing improvised and composed work for augmented flute.
and… Mike Lowenstern’s Faded Music: bass clarinet, body percussion and translucent technology. This set will feature music from Lowenstern’s fourth CD, “Fade,” with a pretty heavy dose of nostalgia, jazz, funk and electronics.
tranzducer - Link.
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Here are some details about the Maker Faire auditions this Saturday from Nat… -
We are holding Maker Faire auditions this Saturday, Feb 24th at TechShop (120 Independence Dr.) in Menlo Park, CA from 10am to 2pm. I’ll be there with MAKE/CRAFT Publisher and Editor Dale Dougherty, Maker Faire Director Sherry Huss, and MAKE Editor David Pescovitz.
We are calling these “auditions” but it’s really a chance for you to just come by to meet the MAKE/CRAFT team and show us anything you are interested in teaching or showing at the Maker Faire. I’m hoping that all you Bay Area crafters will come by to show us your cool tunisian crochet, your innovative recycle crafts projects, your refashioning tips, needle arts, sewing, etc. — anything you’d love to share and teach other Crafters at the Maker Faire.
The Maker Faire is May 19 & 20 at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds in […]
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Help spread the word. Getcher bends out and share ‘em! This book will be distributed free on line and for a few bucks at the bent festival. [via] - All procedes go to the Bent Festival which will be in LA and NYC in April. - Link
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Nat @ CRAFT posted up the winners from the CRAFT Valentine’s Day Card contest -
Happy Valentine’s Day Crafters! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our “Recycle Your Heart” CRAFT Valentine’s Day Card contest. We got such creative and amazing entries in that it was hard to pick just 3 winners. Thanks also to our guest judges Megan Reardon of Not Martha, Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, and Tiffany Threadgould of RePlayGround (formerly Tiffany Tomato Designs).
Each of these winners will receive CRAFT: 02, a CRAFT T-Shirt, and a one month free subscription to The Sampler! Woo!
Winner: Postbird by Ciana Bodini
Flickr Photo - Link.
Description: A beautiful bird is drawn on recycled paper carrying an “I love you” note slyly in his beak. The card folds out so that it can be displayed nicely and lives inside a recycled map envelope.
Megan says, “I like how the recycled materials work […]
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Here are some great photos from the one year anniversary of Make:Philly held at the DarkHorse Pub -
makephilly Feb 07 - a photoset on Flickr - Link.
Thanks Cyenobite!
More:
Make:Philly - Link.
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John Cook from the Seattle PI has a great write up of our Ignite Seattle event! Congrats to Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis for doing an amazing event!
“There are not enough geek nights in Seattle.”
With those words, Make Magazine’s Bre Pettis kicked off Ignite Seattle’s inaugural “egg slam” competition at the Capitol Hill Arts Center.
The idea: Get a bunch of engineers, developers, artists and other techies in a room and see if they can use their talents to protect an egg from splattering against a wall.
The creative juices were flowing last night. One team inserted their egg in a rubber chicken. Another group suspended their egg by rubber bands and placed it in a protective covering. Balloons, carpet foam, Popsicle sticks and bubble wrap were just a few of the materials used.
A wooden catapult, with a milk crate for a launch device, shot the egg contraptions at a plastic sheet […]
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Tomorrow night, February 12, Make: and Radar join forces for Ignite Seattle! Get your supplies ready and come on down and test your egg shielding contraption. Can you devise a way to protect an egg from breaking after it’s shot out of a giant slingshot against a wall? Pictured above is the slingshot being made by Divide and Rusty.
There isn’t a tall enough spot in the space to drop eggs from so now your egg contraption will get shot out of the egg canon and get slammed against a wall! Any contraption up to 18″x18″x18″, will fit into the canon, but if you keep it under 1 foot squared it will fit in the basket better. If everyone’s survive, another challenge will be presented until it’s narrowed down to the sturdiest contraptions. Winners will get a Make: or Craft: tshirt!
After the Egg Slam, there is […]
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Want to win a trip to Maker Faire? IEEE Spectrum has a fantastic contest -
Do you have a terrific electronics project you’ve built at home? If so, we want to hear from you.
IEEE Spectrum and Make magazines are joining forces to call attention to the coolest and cleverest do-it-yourself projects. If you’ve conceived and built something that you’d like to share with the combined readerships of Spectrum and Make–more than a million people–let us know about it.
To enter, send a brief description of your project and include an estimate of how much it cost. Throw in a photo, a parts list, and a schematic. Mail them to: Spectrum/Make DIY Contest, 3 Park Ave., 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997, U.S.A. The entry deadline is 15 March 2007.
If you win, you’ll receive full coverage of your project in the print and/or online editions of both Spectrum and Make, as well as […]
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On February 13th, Brady and I will be hosting Ignite Seattle, a Maker/Geek event here in Seattle. We’re going to be having an egg drop. You make an egg-safety device that is smaller than an 18″ x 18″ x 18″ cube and less than 3 pounds. You bring it to the event at 6:30 PM at the CHAC upper level on February 13th and we’ll put it in a giant slingshot and smash it against the wall. If you’ve done an egg drop event and have any advice for me, drop me a note in the comments!
You can make your own egg safety container on your own time or you can come and work on your design as early as 4:30 if you want. I’ll have popsicle sticks, hot glue, and newspaper there for you to make your own. If you have any other ideas […]
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Alright, so we only received one Superbowl 41 related project, so it’s our duty to post Paul’s article about building a stadium seating setup just in time for the Superbowl.. complete with a time lapse video, Paul writes -
Over the last month my roommates and I have been planning on building some means for having stadium seating in our living room. The living room isn’t too spacious and only had enough room for two futons. So, just in time for Superbowl Sunday, Chris and I have created a cheap deck for stadium seating. All it required was plywood, 4×4 & 2×4 wood, a box of wood screws and basic tools.
In hindsight, we probably should have measured things more than once. I showed this video to my architect sister and she said it lacked structure.
Stadium seating for Superbowl Sunday - - Link.
If you did something for today’s big event, send it […]
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The Belt Sander races today in Boston! Bring your sander to the world-renowned SanderDome (and stranded SnoCat shelter) on Saturday, February 3. Try your mettle against the world’s finest racing teams. [via] - Link
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