Mathew Lippincott’s blog on design and DIY aerospace
February 28th, 2011

Reed Arts Week, RAW: Geographies

I’m proud to be participating in Reed’s Art Week. I’ll be giving a lecture and demonstration of aerospace in the arts and Grassroots Mapping tools on Saturday, March 5 @ Noon. Location is still TBA. At the Gray Campus Center room C. There will be complementary supplies and instructions for building your own solar hot air balloon.

Essentially this kit, minus the expensive stuff (wind speed meter, infrared thermometer).
solar balloon building and flying kit

 

Come for balloons, stay for Francis Alÿs

At 4pm Saturday there will be a showing of Francis Alÿs’s When Faith Moves Mountains, and other works.  Of course, you could watch his work on your computer, but get out and enjoy the cinema!
Francis Alÿs, “When Faith Moves Mountains” (2002). from Daily Serving on Vimeo.

February 27th, 2011

Kite Balloon Development @ PLOTS

Follow the kite balloon working page over at the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science.  There’s a lot of research in there that I’ve only now gotten on the web.

 

test kite balloon with molly, 2008

October 20th, 2010

kite balloon futures and histories

To follow on my love of kite balloons, and the kite balloon action at the grassroots mapping list.  here are a few awesome kite balloon histories.

No-tech magazine, Airships Past and Present, 1908.  Look especially for details on Parseval and Sigsfeld, drachenballoon developers. There is an inflatable airship designed for logging.  then in Belgium, horse-borne air war.  In america, an early aircraft carrier with a balloon dome. Glamor shots reveal a counterweight in the rigging. The priapism of war.

airshipspastpres00hildrich-107

October 1st, 2010

October 25, Natalie Jeremijenko in Portland, OR

IT’S FREE

http://www.pdx.edu/art/mfa-lecture-series

September 30th, 2010

Speaking at Cyborg Camp Portland 10/2

I’m going to be at Portland’s Cyborg Camp talking about waste management and human senses.  There’ll be some good French sanitation history too! I’m back to back with Max Ogden- I’m practicing right now.

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