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In this week’s art maker class with Natalina, we started with a bit of qi gong, then had a conversation in french about objects around us in our home and garden. We then switched to Arduino programming and learned how to make a servo motor move. She assembled the hardware, reviewed the servo code and updated it to try different speeds for the motor. She keeps getting more fluent in both French and Arduino — two languages she wasn’t very comfortable with before. I think these weekly lessons are helping, and I am really happy with her progress.
We also discussed our next steps for Violet’s Journey, the fairy tale video that we are creating with her art ducks — which we have turned into poetic robots. We reviewed our options for the backgrounds that the ducks will glide in front of, and decided to start by printing one of our photo backgrounds onto a large vinyl banner, then shooting some test scenes against that backdrop, to see if this type of physical compositing with printed scenes will work. We also talked about the need for ’skirts’ to cover the robot bases, and looked at different ways to give Violet rainbow-colored feathers, using illuminated fiber optic strands that just came in from China.
Here’s our Arduino Guide for these classes: bit.ly/arduino-workshop-guide
View more photos of Violet’s Journey and the Wonderbots experiment: bit.ly/wonderbot-photos
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We had a blast at the first meetup for Tam Makers, our new makerspace in Mill Valley. We hosted this free event at the wood shop at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley on June 8, 2016.
A diverse group of people came to the visit the shop, learn about our classes and discuss how to grow our maker community. Participants ranged from experienced artists, technologists, makers and woodworkers, to people interested in learning new skills, as well as high school and middle school students and their parents.
We opened the shop at 6pm and folks started to connect right away, checking out some of our demos, showing off recent projects and touring the space. At 7pm, we gave a presentation on Tam Makers, and talked about our first courses, meetups and tools for adults and youth. We then discussed these programs as a group and received some really helpful feedback.
Most people were very interested in participating in Tam Makers and using the makerspace regularly. They also liked the mix of classes, ranging from maker art to technology and woodworking. Some people signed up for classes on the spot and most wanted to join more meetups. Many offered to volunteer as well. One person said this event had a great community feeling, unlike more commercially motivated makerspaces.
We’re really happy that this first meetup went so well and that so many folks want to participate actively. We look forward to collaborating with our new maker friends very soon!
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Learn more about this Welcome Meetup:
Well, it's been a while since I've gone trolling for some nightography.
This here is a glass factory :-
one of the last remaining true industrial factories
within Toronto city limits.
Would've liked to spend more time here but security didn't like the idea of me shooting this place at 12:30 at night on their property and kindly escorted me back to the car.
Thankfully, i had some bracket settings from another shot and was able to bang off three quick exposures before the "excuse me sir, you need to leave!".
Despite the security, the evil lensflare and the cutoff smokestack, it's a pretty cool shot. I'll just have to make it back for another go soon.
Canon 20D, 10-22mm, 3 exposures merged/tonemapped in photomatix.
For 1955, the entire senior line of Packards received an extensive design update that freshened the last restyling that was done in 1951. Under designer Richard A. Teague, the Senior Packards received a more modern grille design, "Cathedral"-styled rear tail lights, hooded headlight housings and a new exterior trim layout that afforded Packard the ability to offer two- and three-tone paint combinations with the simplest of masking patterns. While Packard could not afford a whole new greenhouse for the passenger compartment, new trim at the base of the rear pillar made it look like it had a redesigned roofline. The cars were also outfitted with a wrap-around windshield, thus bringing it in line with American automobiles of the era. Inside, upholstery and bright work was also freshened and the cars received a new dashboard layout faced with a machined-look stainless steel facing.
For 1955, the Patrician was offered as a four-door sedan only and Packard produced 9,127 of the cars.
Changes for 1956 included a revised headlight housing that exaggerated the front peak further forward. The area around the headlight was painted black to give the effect of greater depth. The car also received a different grille texture. During the 1956 model year, 3375 Patricians rolled off Packard's production line before the model was dropped by the ailing carmaker.
[Text from Wikipedia]
James Nance knew his company was in trouble well before it introduced the 1956 Packard Executive. As early as October 1955, he had lamented the month's sales statistics, telling Roger Bremer, "everything possible is going to have to be done to get this thing turned around -- and fast...get the business operating in the black [and] get the operations in line to come closer to the targets that we gave to the financial institutions of a break-even point of 65,000 units and a $10 million profit at 80,000 units."
In February 1956, he advised Bob Laughna of Purchasing and Production Control to "retrieve all copies of [our sales] figures and take them out of circulation, for obvious reasons. Please send me instead a program predicated on moving a wholesale domestic minimum of 60,000 units for the calendar year of 1956...[Fifty thousand] is our required minimum to keep from incurring horrendous losses."
Packard-Clipper combined production hit nearly 70,000 for calendar 1955, mostly on the strength of the heavily facelifted line of cars and new V-8 engines; but for all of 1956, the figure would plummet to 13,432.
Packard-Clipper Division had planned an all-new body for 1957, with the Executive sharing fully the bodywork of the senior Packard Patrician, Four Hundred, and Caribbean. Clippers were slated to share a smaller body with Studebakers. But the new body program was going to cost $30 million, the greater part of a $50 million line of credit S-P needed. By spring 1956, inevitably influenced by the sales figures Nance couldn't hide, the insurance companies that backed the corporation refused to lend more.
Various doomsday plans were then considered, including moving the whole operation to Studebaker's South Bend plant, discontinuing Packard, discontinuing Clipper, discontinuing them both, or discontinuing the entire company by filing for bankruptcy. Nance desperately tried to develop bailouts: body sharing with Lincoln, a buyer to take Packard-Clipper off his hands -- but none of these worked out.
By late May 1956, S-P was faced with the only offer short of bankruptcy, a management agreement with Curtiss-Wright, the aircraft manufacturer. In exchange for needed operating funds, Studebaker-Packard -- "gasping like a wounded bass," in the words of auto writer Tom McCahill -- accepted Curtiss-Wright management, distribution of Daimler-Benz vehicles in the United States, and, by July, consolidation of all automotive operations at South Bend.
The last day of production at Packard's plant on Conner Avenue in Detroit, where assembly had shifted for 1955, was June 25, 1956. That day 24 Clippers and 18 Packards were driven off the line. Production for the model year was 18,482 Clippers and 10,353 Packards, including the 2,815 Packard Executives.
[Text taken from auto.howstuffworks.com/1956-packard-executive4.htm]
The final Packard built (that was a true Packard and not a badge-engineered Studebaker President) was a black Patrician sedan, and it rolled off the Packard assembly line on June 25, 1956.
This Lego miniland-scale Packard Patrician of 1956, being the last true luxury Packard, marks a sad epitaph to the once-supreme luxury car maker in the US. The model has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 84th Build Challenge, our 7th birthday, to the theme, - "LUGNuts Turns 7…or 49 in Dog Years", - where all the previous build challenges are available to build to. In this case Challenge 10, - "Sympathy for the Underdog". In so many ways, post WWII Packard could have made it through - it consistently outsold Cadillac between the wars - and yet, it all came to no avail.
This spring, our Maker Art students at the Lycée Français in Sausalito created a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
Their floating city is called Ghost Terraces. It is a luxury resort for rich old snobs who come there to get extra body parts, as well as mutant sharks, robot maids, human clones and alien visitors. It features futuristic wonderbox homes created by each student, as well as public spaces developed collaboratively, such as: an underwater cove, a sandy beach, an art gallery, a suspended bridge, skyscrapers and a moon hotel.
In our tenth and final class this school year, we hosted five ‘show and tells, first with other students, then with parents. Four different classes came to see the exhibit, and our students demoed for them like champs. And we had a great turnout from parents and family at 4:30pm as well. Everyone seemed to enjoy the presentations.
Through this course, students developed a range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering (STEAM). And they created their own interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful way that makes learning more fun.
It was a real pleasure to teach this after-school course with my partner Cynthia Gilbert. Our students accomplished a lot in a short amount of time and learned many new skills, which we hope will serve them well in the future, such as collaboration, creative expression and problem-solving. And they learned to create interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful and collaborative way that makes learning more fun.
To plan our next steps, we asked students to take a quick survey about this maker art course: overall, they found the class ‘very good’; about three quarters would like to take it again; and most would recommend it to a friend. One student summed it up pretty well: ‘I learned how fun technology is.’ They also gave us some good suggestions for planning future courses.
We are very happy to see our students so engaged in this hands-on, project-based, student-driven activity. This bodes well for this educational program, and we look forward to offering more maker art courses for youth in lower and middle-schools this fall.
View more photos of our Maker Art course at the Lycée:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157662999871980
Here are our slides for their City of the Future:
bit.ly/city-of-future-slides-lycee-2016
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
Image spiral maker - alleyway: The effect is achieved using an app, currently only available for PC, built by Dominic at: image-spiral-maker.herokuapp.com/
Mask maker David Tepo displays one of his creations -- an unpainted toro mask. Xico, Veracruz Mexico
My dear pal Cissie just got her button making company up and running again! If you need high quality buttons made at affordable prices-- she's your girl! Check it!
We were happily ensconced in the GeekDad booth again this year, but with bigger rockets from Tom & Dick's magic workshop... and more advanced composite materials baked into the RocketMavericks Reference Design. (I’ll add notes to the photo details)
Next to us were pre-release versions of a whole new Lego product line with metal structures (for better robots) and the WIRED Editor-in-Chief showing how to make cheap UAVs.
An event to celebrate crafts, engineering, science projects, etc. For and by all ages.All of these “makers” come to Maker Faire to show what they have made and to share what they have learned. Maker Faire is primarily designed to be forward-looking, showcasing makers who are exploring new forms and new technologies.
In this week’s art maker class with Natalina, we started with a bit of qi gong, then had a conversation in french about objects around us in our home and garden. We then switched to Arduino programming and learned how to make a servo motor move. She assembled the hardware, reviewed the servo code and updated it to try different speeds for the motor. She keeps getting more fluent in both French and Arduino — two languages she wasn’t very comfortable with before. I think these weekly lessons are helping, and I am really happy with her progress.
We also discussed our next steps for Violet’s Journey, the fairy tale video that we are creating with her art ducks — which we have turned into poetic robots. We reviewed our options for the backgrounds that the ducks will glide in front of, and decided to start by printing one of our photo backgrounds onto a large vinyl banner, then shooting some test scenes against that backdrop, to see if this type of physical compositing with printed scenes will work. We also talked about the need for ’skirts’ to cover the robot bases, and looked at different ways to give Violet rainbow-colored feathers, using illuminated fiber optic strands that just came in from China.
Here’s our Arduino Guide for these classes: bit.ly/arduino-workshop-guide
View more photos of Violet’s Journey and the Wonderbots experiment: bit.ly/wonderbot-photos
An event to celebrate crafts, engineering, science projects, etc. For and by all ages.All of these “makers” come to Maker Faire to show what they have made and to share what they have learned. Maker Faire is primarily designed to be forward-looking, showcasing makers who are exploring new forms and new technologies.
Brooklyn-based design studio Young Projects was selected as the winner of the 2014 Times Square Alliance Valentine Heart Design competition. “Match-Maker” cosmically connects people through zodiac signs at twelve viewing points around the heart shaped sculpture. Peering through the colorful intertwined periscopes provides glimpses of each viewer’s four most ideal astrological mates. The form of the sculpture is complex, symmetrical and changes as viewers experience it from different vantage points. From many angles, the installation looks like a perfect heart form, but from other perspectives, the sculpture is tangled and multifaceted. Kammetal oversaw the construction of the installation.
Since “Match-Maker’s” month long debut in Times Square, the sculpture has been relocated to the DUMBO Archway in Brooklyn for two months. Young Projects, the DUMBO Improvement District and the DOT Art Program are happy to “cosmically connect” New Yorkers and visitors in another part of the City.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
“Match-Maker” by Young Projects
Presented with DUMBO Improvement District and Times Square Alliance
Archway, Dumbo, Brooklyn
These are the final decals for the Maker Faire this weekend. Think the metallic cyan ink really set off the tile. Come out and learn how to apply the decals!
An event to celebrate crafts, engineering, science projects, etc. For and by all ages.All of these “makers” come to Maker Faire to show what they have made and to share what they have learned. Maker Faire is primarily designed to be forward-looking, showcasing makers who are exploring new forms and new technologies.
Today marks the final day of the Unknown Maker project. This project started in spring 2021 and it started all with a stack of tea towels that were around 100 years old. All the items in the book were found in thrift stores, on fleamarkets or gifted to me. There are examples of crochet, knitting, lace, tatting and embroidery.
All the items in the photographs are hidden in pockets. These trimmings are hidden in the pocket with the green embroidered blocks.
There is a video of the book but it is too long to put on Flickr. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEKf2Mfn0dk