Head Full of Air » Uncategorized http://www.headfullofair.com Mathew Lippincott's blog on design and DIY aerospace Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:18:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My summer, generalizations only. http://www.headfullofair.com/2011/09/19/long-time-since-an-update/ http://www.headfullofair.com/2011/09/19/long-time-since-an-update/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:35:13 +0000 Mathew http://www.headfullofair.com/?p=459 Its been so long since an update.  I Spent my summer between Switzerland, studying sanitation with Cewas and Butte, Montana working on community mapping in Centerville through Public Laboratory and the Scoria Residency Program.  Now Molly and I are mentoring a studio at PNCA’s MFA program in Collaborative Design, and I’m teaching a class on an intermedia undergraduate course in Art and Science.  First critique is tomorrow…
Northwestern Centerville, Butte, MT. rectified

In the mean time, I’m making a cheap kite kit from bamboo and tyvek.

Fled in the air

 

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]]> http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/10/21/why-arent-we-friends/feed/ 1 Today went great http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/06/27/today-went-great/ http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/06/27/today-went-great/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:00:39 +0000 Mathew http://www.headfullofair.com/?p=294 Thanks Sabrina Lindsey & Molly for bringing food, Dustin & Jane for documenting, Robby, Anna, Wade, Tuuli, Joel, Samantha, Dennis, & Scott for making the workshop awesome.

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]]> http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/06/22/thank-you-kite-studio/feed/ 0 Grassroots Mapping in the Gulf- Long Beach, Mississippi (and Portland, OR) http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/06/17/grassroots-mapping-in-the-gulf-long-beach-mississippi-and-portland-or/ http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/06/17/grassroots-mapping-in-the-gulf-long-beach-mississippi-and-portland-or/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:58:18 +0000 Mathew http://www.headfullofair.com/?p=249 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).

]]> http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/06/17/grassroots-mapping-in-the-gulf-long-beach-mississippi-and-portland-or/feed/ 2 a number of updates http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/05/28/a-number-of-updates/ http://www.headfullofair.com/2010/05/28/a-number-of-updates/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 20:35:16 +0000 Mathew http://www.headfullofair.com/?p=243 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.

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http://www.arcaspace.ro/

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it will be carrying a KA2QPG HF beacon.

http://arhab.blogspot.com/

UPDATE:

postponed due to weather concerns and potential icing on it’s trans atlantic journey.

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