Shimmering Glitters

I went to the No Coast craft fair tonight and one of the coolest things I saw were shadow puppets for sale. I took a flier and visited the Owly Shadow Puppets website and found out they are made using a laser cutter.  What a great application for a laser cutter!
Here is an image of the Toothfairy Landscape with Yeti, off of her Etsy store page.

Vicki DaSilva does these amazing light paintings with fluorescent tube lights. Some of her images are made using pulleys to guide her tubes precisely. It looks fantastic.

I think we should explore some new light source for our light paintings as well; tube lights, rope lights, etc.

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....

Tonight we hosted our second Scratch Support evening at the Science House and it was "super fun" and a successs."The most people in the Science House" is a direct quote from a PD staffer!

Tyco Electronics (due Dec 15, March 15, etc.)

I just signed up for the feed. Very interesting article on the "new" area of participatory art exhibit - http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/11/lessons-in-participatory-design-from.html

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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.