This:
plus this:
equals fun.
Maybe throw in a bit of this too, as long as we’re hacking…
Category Archives: making things
Shipping Containers Redux
Tangentially via a tweet from @snarky_malarkey, a slide show of shipping container dwellings. My earlier musings on containers are here. The tree house slide show that led me to the containers got me thinking – my Goff/Bavingeresque cable and phone pole hack ought to include a nice big beech or oak at the center. Another thought: not sure how to integrate it, but a waste container based aquaponics rig should fit in somewhere (ground level, obv).
March NH Media Makers
The weather today leaves a lot to be desired – cold, windy, pouring rain – as a result, attendance this morning was a lighter than the SRO+ that has been the rule at recent HMM meet-ups. No matter – lots of cool projects…
Angela’s drawdio jellyfish puppet:
Update – Angela has posted more drawdiofish info.
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Dan Freund had a rig for his phone that he used to record his pitch which was then uploaded to/streamed from his site:
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I was not the only person taking pictures of someone videostreaming themselves (you can see Roger Goun’s lens on the right side of the shot), but I think I was the only one snapping away with my cell phone, thus completing the cell phone media takeover.
Our meeting spot – Crackskull’s in Newmarket – is both a coffee shop and a bookstore. I went browsing and found this bit of awesomeness – a wunderkammer cookbook!
Regretsy – Wing Flapper
The etsy hat – not my fave.
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This one, that illustrated the Regretsy post though – great!
NH Media Makers
I’ve been going to the NH Media Makers meetups for a while now (almost a year!) and wanted to give the Media Makers meetup idea and especially the New Hampshire instantiation of same a big appreciative shout out. Interesting, personable, creative people doing wicked awesome pissah stuff – what’s not to love? I’ve made great connections and been inspired; it’s a great way to spend a Sunday morning.
A polaroid print developing at my table:
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Bruce Sterling: The Hypersurface of this Decade
Simultaneously hilarious and mind-expanding (one of my favorite combinations).
Freedom is just another word for nothing! There is no dead weight in my urban spatiality. No clotted semiotics, cajoling me to behave in the stereotyped haute-bourgeois manner that Deirdre once used to stifle me.
Dematerialisation is defined by its interfaces. That which was product will become a service. That which was a service will accelerate at warp speed toward de-monetisation on the Path-to-Free. So this is not so much a post-divorce flat as a vibrant zone of interactive transaction.
Bruce Sterling: The Hypersurface of this Decade | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE.
Replacing the Cable Box – Idea Dump
Replacing the Cable Box – Idea Dump – Dave’s Desktop.
I’ve been thinking along the same lines; knew about but hadn’t been focusing on Boxee. Sounds like that needs to change.
Amy Stein at the HMNH
This looks like a date to mark on the calendar – Domesticated: Modern Dioramas of Our New Natural History – Photographs by Amy Stein opens at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on January 22. Bonus – a talk by the artist at 4 PM. The questions around human/wild categorization continue to fascinate me; I’m pretty firmly in the ‘there is no us and them’ camp, but exploring what happens when what most think of as two worlds confront each other looks to be good stuff. Then there’s the whole diorama thing (Akeley lives!). See you there.
‘Howl’ © Amy Stein
Thanks, Blue!
BibliOdyssey: The War Book
‘sproke: Augmented Reality Resources for Software and Hardware
‘sproke: Augmented Reality Resources for Software and Hardware.
Via Bruce S.
Hopefully our future dream isn’t this particular (shopping) scheme:
Great find – Domebook 2/Living Structures
I am a DFH at heart, so I was ecstatic to fall over scans of both Domebook 2 and How to Build Your Own Living Structures on the new-to-me and awesome Public Collectors site. Thanks, Greg Allen.
Atlatls and Flint-knapping
Boy, I wish I could scoot off to this:
September 19: Fourteenth Annual Northeastern Open Atlatl Championship & Chimney Point Knap-In and Festival of Nations
Participate in or watch this annual championship, part of the Festival of Nations with the Crown Point, NY, State Historic Site. The sport of atlatl throwing is based on the ancient hunting technique of using the atlatl or spear thrower. Flint knapping and other Native American life and craft demonstrations. Festival of Nations. Top Ten Vermont Fall Event. Co-sponsored by Vermont Archaeological Society. Vermont Archaeology Month program. Camping available at DAR State Park. 10:30 – 4:30 PM.
Where: Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison directions
Contact: ChimneyPoint@HistoricVermont.orgSeptember 20: ISAC Atlatl Championship
Second day of atlatl International Standard Accuracy Competition. The Knap-in and Festival of Nations continues. After ISAC, master class/coaching for boys and girls. 10:00 AM.
Where: Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison directions
Contact: ChimneyPoint@HistoricVermont.org
Info from here.