West Coast Art Car Fest
The West Coast’s largest gathering of Art Cars will be happening soon in the next few weeks around the Bay Area from September 14-16. Check out the schedule to see exact location on dates. Link.
Crafty Events
Post-It Art Show
Those mulit-colored squares aren’t just for quick notes anymore as you can see at the Post-Deux show that started this past weekend and will run through Sept 13th at Giant Robot (2062 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles). Pictured left is a photo of the event and right is a Post-It piece by Susie Ghahremani of boygirlparty. […]
PLAY.orchestra – sound installation from the Philharmonia Orchestra
If there are any Makers in the South Bank in London, you might want to check out this sound installation – ” PLAY.orchestra will be based outside the Royal Festival Hall for 7 weeks this summer starting this weekend! 56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each […]
Fallen Fruit’s Public Jam in LA
MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder went to Fallen Fruit’s Public Jam on Sunday in LA for the communal jam-making session. Participants brought their own home-grown or public fruit to contribute to the communal jam. See Mark’s flickr photos of the event. Link. More: Jam recipies – Link.
Elements of Interactive Art: A Creative, Mac-Based Introduction” class in NYC
MAKE pal Peter Kirn @ Create Digital Motion (who also wrote a great MIDI primer in MAKE 07) is teaching a class in NYC, he writes – “I’ll be teaching a class on using the free Mac developer tool Quartz Composer to build DIY projects and interactive visual art driven by music, sound, and video. […]
Rocketbelt convention 2006
The Rocketbelt convention 2006 is September 23 – 24 @ the Niagara Aerospace Museum, New York and looks to be an incredible event! I have a thing for rocket belts, it’s a Maker doing what we all dream about – flight. Most of the rocket belt efforts seem to be a labor of love and […]
Blooming of Amorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) at BBG
If you’re in the NY area, this might be something to check out at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden – as MAKE 07 ships, we’ll have a lot of “Backyard Biology” posts, articles and events – “The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) is one of the world’s most remarkable plants. Native to tropical forests in Sumatra, it […]