If you ever get the chance to see an SRL show, you see it. A little more on the subject.

Enter:

SRL at the Extreme Futurist Festival 2012

SRL will be performing at this year’s Extreme Futurist Festival in LA December 22 2012. XFF is a 2 day arts and technology festival focusing on cutting edge science and technology along with transgressive performance art and music. Tickets are $35 for the SRL show only or $70 for the show and the festival.Purchase tickets through XFF here.

(A great new article about SRL)

I’m going to try to be there. Join me?

Justin Brown took my Flame Effects class at the Crucible earlier this year. He had a project in mind. A little something to take to Burning Man. Here is what he made. I am happy to tears to have been able to help!

Last week SWARM attended the Barbots event. It was a great success!

Jon proposed:

So here’s the plan: I will get some 3/16 plywood and some 2x4s (anyone have some scrap?) and if I can find it some thin astroturf carpet. I have a spare piano hinge. The idea is to make a runway edged with 2x4s, and a small hinged ramp at the end, also edged with 2x4s. Under the ramp is an foot pump like for inflating air mattresses (anyone have one to borrow?) Someplace on a table with a bottle with a cork that has two tubes through it. The output tube goes down to the liquid; the input tube doesn’t and is connected to the airpump. Rolling an orb up the ramp depresses the pump, which pumps air into the bottle, displacing liquid through the output tube into someone’s cup. It will be punk rock but it should work…

And darn if it didn’t work! We had orb mini-golf at BarBots!

Here’s a fantastic set of Barbots images from Marc

This is just awesome.

http://jamius.com/Robot/Robot.html Make sure to watch his youtube playlist with 68+ videos… he’s been building this giant robot for some 5 years… and it’s still a work in progress! Rock on!

For 1 million extra points, he is building all this in the Vermont woods. He built the mile-long road to his home built workshop!!!!

His documentation of the project is so wonderfully real, scrappy, resourceful and completely utterly awesome!

And he’s built a whole pile of “creations” too. :-)

This is incredibly beautiful.

My heart is full and my intention strong.

Log in to Youtube to watch it, the video is age restricted.

local version:

Damn onions!

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I need to say Thank you to the people that made this happen:

Dr Seuss
Teddy Saunders (www.tedshots.com)
Parker Howell (www.parkerhowell.com)
William Walsh (www.wbwalsh.com)
Produced and Edited by Teddy Saunders
Digital Effects and Color by Parker Howell
Original Score By Darius Holbert
Sound Mix by Tyler Payne
www.facebook.com/tedshots

Hi, I’m Lee Sonko, the Head of the Kinetics and Electronics Department at the Crucible in Oakland. Right now we have a wide range of classes ranging from Mechanical Sculpture to Arduino Microcontrollers to Flame Effects. In the past 6 months we have had students (literally) from age 8 to 80.

Take a peek at our current offerings as an example.

Would you like to teach some of your art and science? Do you have an idea for a class? It’s not a full-time job but it pays some and it’s rewarding. If you think this might be for you, I’d love to hear from you. Contact me at Lee at Lee dat org.

Lee Sonko
Crucible Kinetics & Electronics Department Head