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I just put up an installation of work at Eyebeam for Studio Visits. This is work I have been producing over the last 6 months.
The work is primarily old found books cut with the laser cutter, as well as some laser cut drawings.
This is "FDIC Insured" a collection of 130+ cast off investment books from the Strand dollar racks, engraved with the logos of all of the failed banks of the Great Recession.
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WASHINGTON (July 27, 2013) Dan Barlow, a programmer with the National Institute of Mental Health, uses a multi-meter to test the components in a power supply unit. The power supply unit will be used in the ventilation system for HacDC’s laser cutter. HacDC provides a space in Washington for tinkerers and makers to see their visions to completion. (U.S. Navy Photo by Seaman Patrick Enright/ Released)
The sun/shade work is a representation of the sunlight in Helsinki over a year, measured by a solar radiation sensor and re-represented though code and a lasercutter into Finnish wood. The work investigates our sense of nature, and the meaning and interplay between data, form and physicality.
( Many thanks to the Aalto University Media Factory for sponsoring this project, and to the Aalto University / ARTS / Wood workshop for helping me realise the project ).
A year in solar radiation
On the work's vertical axis, columns of dots recount the sun's activity from the beginning of the day ( i.e 00:00 ) at top, to the day's end (ie. 23:59 ) at the bottom. The columns, from left to right, show every other day from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. The size of the circles indicates the quantity of sunlight. A 2007 Helsinki's light is retold. Intensely light in summer - in the middle - with occasional rain and clouds darkening the day, and intensely dark in winter - surrounding the light summer period.
Resolution: 182 columns (every other day in the year ) by 144 rows ( one measurement every 10 minutes in the day )
Cutting: with light naturally, like this: vimeo.com/24000033
micro pattern 1
object: 11" x 22" poster
fabrication technique: lasercutter on blotter paper
total time: >5 minutes from beginning to milling | 130 minutes to lasercut
I just put up an installation of work at Eyebeam for Studio Visits. This is work I have been producing over the last 6 months. The work is primarily old found books cut with the laser cutter, as well as some laser cut drawings.
Along the right side of the wall are laser cut drawings of security patterns from the inside of security envelopes.
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:
Laser cut nori with the library's logo. How great is that ?!? Inspired by an article we saw about Design NORI - 海野海藻店 - we decided to try laser cutting the library's logo into a sheet of seaweed nori. Here is our first try:
Photos from our craft room. This is a dump of photos from my phone. Many may be duplicates or similar angles.
Laser Works 2010: “Build a sculpture, a piece of art, a model, machine or a piece of furniture which tests the potential for the use of new prototype technology.”
Each team had 5m2 of plywood, free use of our lasercutters and 24 hours over the course of two weeks.
Arranged by Republikken and KEPS, Copenhagen.
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WASHINGTON (July 27, 2013) Dan Barlow, a programmer with the National Institute of Mental Health, reaches for a screw as he assembles the ventilation system for a laser cutter. HacDC provides a space in Washington for tinkerers and makers to see their visions to completion. (U.S. Navy Photo by Seaman Patrick Enright/ Released)
object: 11" x 22" poster
fabrication technique: lasercutter on blotter paper
total time: >5 minutes from beginning to milling | 130 minutes to lasercut
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:
I've been a big fan of the Raygun Gothic Rocketship after a post by Dick Stafford on his blog.
It's a neat looking ship and since I can't go to the USA to see it and the chances of them bringing it around to my place for a visit are pretty remote, I did the next best thing and made one myself :)
A bit of a hunt around the web turned up a nice structural drawing that I could vectorise and drop into Corel Draw. A couple of evenings later and this is what popped out of my laser cutter.
Well... This is the 3rd go at making it - the first two just didn't go together quite right and a little tweaking was needed. I'm pretty happy with my first 3D model!
macro pattern 3
object: 11" x 22" poster
fabrication technique: lasercutter on blotter paper
total time: >5 minutes from beginning to milling | 130 minutes to lasercut
Those three hoses don't give enough extraction at the moment. The mesh is also too flimsy and the holes too loosely packed.
A couple of laptop stand designs prototyped by myself and Will Kemper. These all rely on finger joints cut with the laser cutter. The laser cutter takes out a small curf, so this has to be accounted for.
I have been using the laser cutter to cut words out for gifts. This one was schwag that was left over after one of the fashion shows. The font is Zapfino, with canals removed from the font to support the counters. That was done in illustrator. I am planning on actually making a proper font out of that technique: Stencilino.
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WASHINGTON (July 27, 2013) Dan Barlow, a programmer with the National Institute of Mental Health, cuts on a piece of wood he will use to form a bracket for a laser cutter ventilation system. HacDC provides a space in Washington for tinkerers and makers to see their visions to completion. (U.S. Navy Photo by Seaman Patrick Enright/ Released)