KineticWorld

.:: Friday, July 11, 2008

Fire Arts Festival 2008

Holy Moly!!!! I've been so busy getting ready for the annual Fire Arts Festival that I forgot to tell you all about it. Two more nights left - tonight and tomorrow. 7th Street, West Oakland, Near BART. Loads of pix online already.

More info at The Crucible's website.

Posted at 1:57 AM by CTP | |

.:: Thursday, July 03, 2008

Mechanicrawl, San Francisco, July 12th

July 12th, 3PM until 8PM.
You can purchase tickets for Mechanicrawl, or join one of the participating organizations and get in free! Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for children (under 6 are free) and $11 for students and seniors.

A great way to support these mechanical marvels of San Francisco is through their membership programs; links can be found under Main Attractions at the Mechanicrawl site.

"Mechanicrawl is a progressive tour through the mechanical wonders of San Francisco's North Shore showcasing several amazing machines that are usually not available to the public.

You'll be able to map your own route to see the giant running steam engine aboard the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, one of the most complex mechanical computers ever built, The Torpedo Data Computer aboard the USS Pampanito Submarine, turn of the century automata, over 200 coin operated machines and video games at the Musee Mecanique, the Orrey, Solar Synchronizer and new Walking Bearing at The Long Now Museum and Store, special films and exhibits at the Exploratorium and more!"

More info at Make's site.

Posted at 11:41 AM by CTP | |

Nemo Gould, Solo Show, 7-12 in Santa Monica

Nemo Gould has a solo show, "Second Hand Made", coming up at the Lois Lambert Gallery in Santa Monica. It opens on July 12th.

Nemo has been creating a whole new body of work in preparation for the show, and he will be showing some old favorites as well. We wish him the best on his first show in SoCal. If KineticWorld can scrape up some gas money we'll try to make it down there to cover this show and the Device Gallery show as well.

Of Nemo's new works, I have to say that "Fat Brasstard" is one of my favorites - it can be seen here.

Posted at 11:20 AM by CTP | |

.:: Thursday, June 19, 2008

Fantastic Contraption, July 19th, Device Gallery

Device Gallery
Amazing group show coming soon:
Fantastic Contraption: Featuring 18 innovative artists from around the world whose work explores the mechanical nature of man. This is Device Gallery's inaugural show.
Opening reception: July 19th
Location: La Jolla, CA

The show includes KineticWorld favorites Wayne Martin Belger, Christopher Conte, Nemo Gould, Stephane Halleux, and Mike Libby, as well as: Ashley Wood, D.Hwang, Eduard Anikonov, Eric Joyner, Greg Brotherton, H.R. Giger, John U. Abrahamson, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Theo Kamecke, Viktor Koen, William B. Hand, and Zoran Milvojevic.

Posted at 1:40 PM by CTP | |

.:: Friday, June 13, 2008

Robogames 2008 Opens Today

Robogames (formerly ROBOlympics) is the world's largest robotic competition, and it happens in San Francisco every year. This year's event opens today at Fort Mason, and runs through Sunday.

From their site:
"RoboGames is the world's largest open robot competition (even the Guinness Book of World Records says so!) We invite the best minds from around the world to compete in over 70 different events. Combat robots, walking humanoids, soccer bots, sumo bots, and even androids that do kung-fu. Some robots are autonomous, some are remote controlled - but they're all cool!"

Location: Fort Mason Festival Pavillion - Directions and more info here
Hours: Friday, 12-7; Saturday, 12-10; and Sunday 12-7
Adults: $25/day or $55/all 3 days
Kids 17-7: $20/day or $40/all 3 days
6 and under: Free

Posted at 1:10 PM by CTP | |

.:: Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Robotica - Opens June 6th in Alameda

Hello everyone...I know, I know...I am WAYYY behind on my posts. Sigh. So much to do, and so little me to go around. Anyway, before this comes and goes you need to know that there is a new gallery show called Robotica, and the opening party is Friday the 6th of June (yep, most likely that is TODAY for most of you reading this) in Alameda at Rhythmix, 2513 Blanding Ave in Alameda, CA.

Artists will include Al Honig, Simone Davalos, Kal Spelletich, Michael and Christian Schiess, Amy Jenkins, and Mark Pauline.

I'll be there, so come say hi, and stay tuned here for a report on the show.

http://rhythmix.org/robotica.html

Posted at 9:40 AM by CTP | |

.:: Thursday, May 15, 2008

Tech Connect: Robots

Posted at 9:51 AM by CTP | |

.:: Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Salusa Glass Works

Glass artist, Bandhu Dunham creates kinetic sculpture from lampworked glass. These works even include working steam engines. The one pictured above even includes a condenser - that's a part that takes the used steam and turns some of it back into water to reuse in the engine. Dunham also creates rolling marble works. All of it is very very impressive, and even more so when we consider that they are made entirely from glass.

Check out this very cool video of several of his pieces in action.

Many thanks to KineticWorld regular, Jonathan Foote, for sending us the heads up on this one!

Posted at 8:57 PM by CTP | |

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