The Bragg’s Pie Factory in Phoenix currently has a show consisting of oodles of “mutant” piñatas, which range from elegant to just delightfully bizarre. It’ll be up until the 18th, and even if the gallery’s not open, their huge windows let you see in quite well. I have additional Flickr photos.
Just wanted to give you guys a sneak peek at the glittery CRAFT teeshirts I’ll be giving out at the Crafty Chica‘s Safe Sparkle rally in Burbank tomorrow! The "Craft:" letters are painted with a blend of red and pink glitter fabric paints, the white part of the bird has iridescent sparkles and I even […]
Today is our last day at New York City FIRST Robotics Competition, thousands of kids, parents, mentors and teachers were on site for the competition and the career fair. There are a few competitions, the FIRST LEGO league is designed for young people ages 9-14, it uses uses the LEGO MindStorms System to provide creative […]
MAKE was at the FIRST Robotics Competition over the weekend. One of the great things about going to these events is the people we meet. 16-year-old Matthew K. stopped by with his digital camera that he modified to shoot infrared pictures. Naturally, I asked if I could take a snapshot of Collin, one of our […]
MAKE was at the New York City FIRST Robotics Competition held at the Javitz center. I had no idea just how many people would be there (3,000 was one estimate) and how many amazing robots would be competing. Did I mention the team mascots? You can check out more pictures of the event in the […]
Last night I was fortunate enough to attend David Young’s MFA thesis exhibition at the Icehouse in Phoenix. He uses many interesting materials including pneumatics and surveillance cameras in his sphere-filled show titled “Unknown Object-ive.” From an interview with a local paper, he says: “They’re not meant to be looked at simply as beautiful objects,” […]
Today I attended the annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest finals at Purdue University. This year the task was to make a hamburger in no less than 20 steps, and the Purdue Armory was full of great, laboriously contrived burger-making machines. I had the opportunity to interview quite a few of the participants, so look […]
