My friends put on a BYO-powerpoint-presentation evening where they each discussed something interesting and/or off-the-wall. It's like a mini-TED talks but minus the gravitas. I'd like to do this one evening; we used to stick around after work and "mess around."
Let's tell some stories!
We need to extend our ultra-successful Halloween class offerings into a DIY costume making class. This could come much earlier than the Haunted House madness that happens the days before.
Case in point:
This is beautiful and terrifying. Apparently the meteor was only the size of a softball when it landed....
Julia, who works in the shop, suggested we look into this:
The Spark Festival of Electronics at UMN is seeking submissions. A new category is "Wearables" and they're looking for people to give 15 minute presentations on work they have done.
Who's in? The deadline was Oct 31st, but chances are the "wearables" category won't be flooded with submissions, yet.
So there seems to be an explosion of interest in wearable electronics and technological clothing.
But certainly there is nothing a museum could do to display, promote, and advance this field: right?
Hmm
The Exploratorium is conducting an, umm, exploratory survey on what events their Science After Dark program should include. The events are meant for 18-34 year olds in the evening.
Awesome! We need to follow suit.
Here's a new kid's show that incorporates DIY craft projects. There are some big names behind it -- including one of the production designers for Pee Wee's Playhouse -- so it should have legs.
It's great to see their philosophy really keys into the greater usefulness of teaching arts and crafts.
The Official Magpie Time sizzle reel from Magpie Time on Vimeo.
This is great. It's kind of like a series of light-painting pics I took in college with rope lights. It makes a spectacular, curvy grid.
I was wrong about Spore, at least so far. It isn't quite revolutionary and it isn't the video game that most closely aligns with the LTC's mission.
The soon-to-be-released PS3 game Little Big Planet places the player in a world with user-created content. This "content" can look like anything; a game, a piece of art, a tool, etc. Beta users have already created an 8-bit computer with strings and pulley!
We have used the Crickets to record and reinterpret measurements of ambient light overnight.
Here's a similar project on the Make: Blog: How was your day darling
