For the third straight year, Minneapolis makers' collective Studio Bricolage will hold a Rube Goldberg building event. (The video above shows last year's machine.) But there's a twist -- the machine's transitions will involve wireless, rather than mechanical technology!
The Studio Bricolage 3rd Annual causation machine build will focus upon wireless connections and mechanical devices. Start planning your piece of the machine today and bring it to the event.
Wireless, in our minds, means a remote controlling a VCR which pulls the tape which... or a cell phone which is called and vibrates down a slide which... or a motion detector which detects the bowling ball that rolled by which turns on a ... or a Clapper (R) which hears a clap and turns on a ... or a garage door clicker that makes the garage door opener start turning which ...You get it. Use of sound and light get bonus points!
We will have some of these devices on hand but please scrounge some and make them run before hand. Honestly we don't think there will be enough time to to put together a somewhat complicated machine like that.
The event will be held at Leonardo's Basement on February 5th from 7-10pm. The fee is $10 per participant.
You've heard of art cars... but what about art shanties? These are ice fishing huts converted into habitable works of art. Now in its third year, the Twin Cities' Art Shanty Projects returns to frozen Medicine Lake for another round of awesome huts.
Art Shanty Projects is an artist driven temporary community exploring the ways in which the relatively unregulated public space of the frozen lake can be used as a new and challenging artistic environment to expand notions of what art can be.
The project provides a unique opportunity for artists to interact with their audience, and vice versa, in an un-intimidating, non-gallery like environment. Artists can choose to work in a way that directly engages the audience i.e. knitting or singing Karaoke or in a more passive way.
All sorts of activities will take place on the lake, such as theater, concerts, a bike race, a circuit-bending demonstration, and a workshop where visitors can make wind-powered toys.
The exhibit opens January 16th and lasts four weeks.
I love this touching New Year's Eve message delivered by author Neil Gaiman at Symphony Hall in Boston (during a gig with his girlfriend, Amanda Palmer, playing with the Boston Pops).
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
...I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.
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