Thanks Sabrina Lindsey & Molly for bringing food, Dustin & Jane for documenting, Robby, Anna, Wade, Tuuli, Joel, Samantha, Dennis, & Scott for making the workshop awesome.
Today went great
Thank You Lippman Co.
Lippman Co. party supplies gave me a business discount and two free days of tank rental on helium, thanks!
Thank You Kite Studio
A huge thanks to Kite Studio, who just gave me a free shipping upgrade so we could have enough supplies for our workshop this Saturday!
Grassroots Mapping in the Gulf- Long Beach, Mississippi (and Portland, OR)
I threw up a quick link to Grassroots Mapping a few weeks ago, and in the mean time they’re on it! Check out their latest stitch of Long Beach,
Mississippi:
All this with party balloons!
Grassroots Mapping in Portland:
Build Balloons to Map the Gulf!
I’ve been in touch with Jeffrey Warren of Grassroots Mapping about inexpensive balloon designs. They’ve been playing with trash bags, but were intrigued by tetrahedron balloons and my folding guide. So here in Portland, OR, I’m going to lead a workshop to build out some tetrahedron balloons for helium and for solar hot air. We’ll fly the balloons to test them out and then send the equipment down to Grassroots Mapping in the Gulf.
I’ll be one of the speakers at Research Club this weekend, Saturday the 19th (11AM-2PM free brunch) about Grassroots Mapping. Come join me there, or on Saturday, June 26th to build balloons! (Location TBD).
a number of updates
this blog has been falling behind, I’m just going to summarize what I’ve been up to.
The Cloacina Project is going great. Our work is on display in LA right now, and I’ve been playing a lot with cell phones.
I’ve been writing. Back in December i said I wanted to write another chapter to my balloon-making guide. Well, it’s been raining. So I wrote about space dreams instead, Molly illustrated it. “Autonomy and a New High Tech” its in Hack this Zine #9
I’m showing some work (at Grand Detour) and working on some new art, and spending a lot of time at Grand Detour & Research Club. Both super excellent.