{"id":3327,"date":"2010-01-12T13:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2010-02-28T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:54:04","slug":"cool-art-from-exploratorium-after-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/cool-art-from-exploratorium-after-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Art from Exploratorium After Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at The Exploratorium After Dark (which was loads of fun), I saw &#8220;Animanemone&#8221;. Fittingly, it looks quite a bit like an anemone in motion. Alan, one of the creators gave me the whole skinny, starting with &#8220;Well, my friend bought 2,000 stepper motors for like $0.23 apiece on eBay. So we needed to find something cool to do with them&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nAh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taomc.com\/art\/kinetic_sculptures\/animanemone.html\">here&#8217;s more about Animanemone<\/a> from the artists!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/animanemone-anemone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3408\" title=\"animanemone anemone\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/animanemone-anemone-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"animanemone anemone\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/animanemone-anemone-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/animanemone-anemone-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/animanemone-anemone.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s a really nice piece! I&#8217;m pretty psyched to say that I took the photo to the right with my iPhone. It came out awesome. Use the power of the Google on &#8220;Animanemone&#8221; and watch it! They&#8217;re from Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to mull on&#8230;. it&#8217;s like watching grass in the wind. Totally fun to put your hand on it and feel the buzzing of the motors. And it&#8217;s just so many fun tiny pieces. It&#8217;s zen and not zen. :-)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>And Ken Murphy&#8217;s awesome &#8220;History of the Sky&#8221; was there as promised. I zoned on that for a while. Tototolly groovy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I only got to look at Cubatron from afar :-( &#8230; not enough time in a night :-(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at The Exploratorium After Dark (which was loads of fun), I saw &#8220;Animanemone&#8221;. Fittingly, it looks quite a bit like an anemone in motion. Alan, one of the creators gave me the whole skinny, starting with &#8220;Well, my friend bought 2,000 stepper motors for like $0.23 apiece on eBay. So we needed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}