From jeremy at lowly.org Fri Jun 1 20:12:47 2007 From: jeremy at lowly.org (jeremy) Date: Fri Jun 1 20:13:17 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Power Tool Race Build Day Saturday! In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20070530160630.0200aa70@gibbs.chem.washington.edu> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20070530160630.0200aa70@gibbs.chem.washington.edu> Message-ID: <137214A9-AAC7-44DA-90C8-47284A350461@lowly.org> Hey did y'all check out my little instructable on building a power tool racer? http://www.instructables.com/id/EHXD774F23Z35HC/ --Come Join Us At Hazard Factory-- ---Power Tool Race & Build Day--- Starting at Noon! Email me or rusty (hazardfactor "at" hazardfactory.org) to get directions and let us know your PBR temperature preference. From shellyhivemind at gmail.com Tue Jun 5 00:03:36 2007 From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com) Date: Tue Jun 5 00:05:20 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] June Dorkbot: Short Movie & Social Message-ID: <37bd773c0706042103s542d6712g48d629db040d1b0a@mail.gmail.com> Hello Dorks! This Wednesday, June 4th we'll be hosting a short movie and social Dorkbot! We will show about an hour or so of short movies, and then socialize and drink beers. What more could you ask for on a summer Wednesday evening? *********************************************************************************************************** WHAT: June 2007 Dorkbot : Urban Art WHEN: Wedneday, June 4th 7:30 PM WHERE: 911 Media, 402 9th Ave N. http://www.911media.org/ ADMISSION: FREE, ALL AGES but bring a couple of bucks to buy a beer and support 911 Media! ********************************************************************************************************* Our short videos include: --->""Evidence," a videotape that chronicles the confiscation of numerous things from artist Steven Kurtz's house and the garbage (pizza boxes, soft drink containers, etc.) that the FBI agents left behind. His art group created projects about such things as genetic engineering, in an effort to demystify and critique corporate culture. http://www.critical-art.net/, presented by Christopher Prosser. --->Seattle Power Tool Race and Derby: People Doing Strange Things with Belt Sanders: http://hazardfactory.org/toolrace.html, presented by Divide ---->Experimental movie of images and sound, and also the much-discussed copyright-bending movie from Stanford using microclips of Disney movies to discuss copyright and fair use, presented by Carl J. ----> And more! A few of you sent me your favorite YouTube shorts, if we have time we'll show them. Doors will be open at 7:00 if you want to show up early and chat. If you want to talk about your latest creation or announce an upcoming event during our "open dork" session, let me know! If you'd like to speak or perform at, or curate, a future dorkbot, talk to me or email me at shellyhivemind@gmail.com. Looking forward to seeing you all on the 4th. Special thanks as ever go to 911 Media, our fabulous hosts. *************************************************************************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070604/7b6e289d/attachment.html From shellyhivemind at gmail.com Tue Jun 5 13:07:20 2007 From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com) Date: Tue Jun 5 13:13:06 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Re: June Dorkbot: Short Movie & Social In-Reply-To: <37bd773c0706042103s542d6712g48d629db040d1b0a@mail.gmail.com> References: <37bd773c0706042103s542d6712g48d629db040d1b0a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <37bd773c0706051007o6ba3caei577db26f1d6ea702@mail.gmail.com> oops, I got the date wrong! It's this Wednesday, June 6th (not June 4th) > > > *********************************************************************************************************** > > WHAT: June 2007 Dorkbot : Urban Art > WHEN: Wedneday, June 6th 7:30 PM > > WHERE: 911 Media, 402 9th Ave N. > http://www.911media.org/ > > ADMISSION: FREE, ALL AGES > but bring a couple of bucks to buy a beer > and support 911 Media! > > > ********************************************************************************************************* > Our short videos include: > > --->""Evidence," a videotape that chronicles the confiscation of numerous > things from artist Steven Kurtz's house and the garbage (pizza boxes, soft > drink containers, etc.) that the FBI agents left behind. His art group > created projects about such things as genetic engineering, in an effort to > demystify and critique corporate culture. http://www.critical-art.net/, > presented by Christopher Prosser. > > --->Seattle Power Tool Race and Derby: People Doing Strange Things with > Belt Sanders: http://hazardfactory.org/toolrace.html , presented by > Divide > > ---->Experimental movie of images and sound, and also the much-discussed > copyright-bending movie from Stanford > using microclips of Disney movies to discuss copyright and fair use, > presented by Carl J. > > ----> And more! A few of you sent me your favorite YouTube shorts, if we > have time we'll show them. > > Doors will be open at 7:00 if you want to show up early and chat. > > If you want to talk about your latest creation or announce an upcoming > event during our "open dork" session, let me know! If you'd like to speak > or perform at, or curate, a future dorkbot, talk to me or email me at > shellyhivemind@gmail.com. > > Looking forward to seeing you all on the 4th. Special thanks as ever go > to 911 Media, our fabulous hosts. > > *************************************************************************************************************************** > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070605/d1bbc7ba/attachment.html From cfharr at erols.com Thu Jun 7 12:05:41 2007 From: cfharr at erols.com (Chuck Harrison) Date: Thu Jun 7 12:07:10 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Way cool image linking References: <37bd773c0706042103s542d6712g48d629db040d1b0a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46682CD5.3221E288@erols.com> major imaging technology advancement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0 Cheers, Chuck From jeremy at lowly.org Fri Jun 8 15:54:44 2007 From: jeremy at lowly.org (jeremy) Date: Fri Jun 8 15:55:18 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Build Day Saturday for Power Tool Races In-Reply-To: <46682CD5.3221E288@erols.com> References: <37bd773c0706042103s542d6712g48d629db040d1b0a@mail.gmail.com> <46682CD5.3221E288@erols.com> Message-ID: <2F5F7F4D-06E1-4DAA-8CAF-6027A5059EC7@lowly.org> Hey all thanks for your enthusiasm and support at D.B. wednesday! I'm getting really excited to see more racers for this year's kludgineering love fest! Holy shit... that's just a few weeks away. Two more pleasant weekends ahead to tool up in lazy afternoons before it's race weekend. --- BUILD DAY --- Hazard Factory in Georgetown This Saturday 'round Noonish. --- BUILD DAY --- Come on down this Saturday and we'll help you build up your racer... or just come down and see if your stuff is going to fit in our track! Send me an email and I'll send you a map. Send me a snail mail and I'll take a nap. See you soon! -jeremy From laura at maccary.com Fri Jun 15 00:55:43 2007 From: laura at maccary.com (Laura MacCary) Date: Fri Jun 15 00:57:57 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Third Tuesday: Tacoma dorkbot #4 at Club SOTA Message-ID: <000301c7af09$7bb0a890$6501a8c0@fawkes> !!!! PLEASE FORWARD !!!! Third Tuesday: Tacoma dorkbot #4 at Club SOTA LOCATION: 1117 Broadway, Tacoma (be sure to look for the door at this address marked "Club SOTA") TIME: 7:00 PM DATE: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 ADMISSION: Free and open to all dorkbot "people doing strange things with electricity" If you haven't seen it yet, check out Niki Sullivan's lovely article Dorkbot weds art and science in the May 28th (Memorial Day) issue of the Tacoma News Tribune! You'll miss out on Russ Carmack's great photos but we'll bring some copies of the issue to the meeting. http://www.thenewstribune.com/soundlife/story/72774.html The fourth Tacoma dorkbot meeting will be on Tuesday, June 19th at Tacoma School of the Arts' Club SOTA The presenters for June are: William J. Beaty: Weird Science Salon Founder and mad professor emeritus William J. Beaty has been goading Seattle's science hobbyists into action - and leading them from the front - since 1984: that's twenty years of bangs and whimpers! Bill returns to demonstrate his Cooke's cathode ray tube, and knowing Bill, other possible surprises as well. http://amasci.com/me.html http://amasci.com/wsci/ SolarRichard calls himself Tacoma's Solar Abecedarian, but we think he's Tacoma's foremost solar expert. He will bring a working model of the LEDs he proposes to put on the Tacoma Narrows bridge, and will explain how the solar "Ecotricity" will power them. www.solarRichard.com http://www.solarwashington.org/articles/Issues/solartree.html http://www.narrowsbridgelights.org/ There will also be an open dork after the presentations where anyone can take the floor for about 10 minutes to show us what you're working on, make announcements, look for collaborators, etc. --- Special thanks to SOTA for making Club SOTA available to dorkbot --- For more information please visit http://dorkbot.org and http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottac We look forward to seeing you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070614/2752bebd/attachment-0001.html From jeremy at lowly.org Fri Jun 15 18:21:44 2007 From: jeremy at lowly.org (jeremy) Date: Fri Jun 15 18:22:19 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Power Tool Build Day Saturday! In-Reply-To: <000301c7af09$7bb0a890$6501a8c0@fawkes> References: <000301c7af09$7bb0a890$6501a8c0@fawkes> Message-ID: <1C3396B0-94CA-4E57-A554-A4C2E859207D@lowly.org> This saturday is your last chance to test you racer in our full track. We'll be setting up a full length of test track... so you can see how stable your shit is once it hits maximum velocity. We're also there to help work out the kinks and finish your projects... come on down with parts and walk away with a racer. We'll be starting build day officially at noon. And as an added bonus we'll be offering __FREE BEER__ and/or stickers for participants that come down (while supplies last): http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1229/553664300_80da16b77e_o_d.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacematters/553664300/ Beer in picture is representational of beer available at hazard factory. Build Day: Saturday at Noon hazard factory (georgetown) Hey, send me a note and I'll send you the map to get you to the hazardfactory build day. jeremy at lowly.org -J ___________________________________ Send Power Tool Races to Rotterdam http://pledgie.com/campaign/show/96 ___________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20070615/0c14da7d/attachment.html From laura at maccary.com Tue Jun 19 01:19:57 2007 From: laura at maccary.com (Laura MacCary) Date: Tue Jun 19 02:24:31 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Tomorrow: Tacoma dorkbot #4 at Club SOTA Message-ID: <005101c7b231$7a47dca0$6501a8c0@fawkes> !!!! PLEASE FORWARD !!!! Tomorrow: Tacoma dorkbot #4 at Club SOTA LOCATION: 1117 Broadway, Tacoma (be sure to look for the door at this address marked "Club SOTA") TIME: 7:00 PM DATE: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 ADMISSION: Free and open to all dorkbot "people doing strange things with electricity" If you haven't seen it yet, check out Niki Sullivan's lovely article Dorkbot weds art and science in the May 28th (Memorial Day) issue of the Tacoma News Tribune! You'll miss out on Russ Carmack's great photos but we'll bring some copies of the issue to the meeting. http://www.thenewstribune.com/soundlife/story/72774.html The fourth Tacoma dorkbot meeting will be on Tuesday, June 19th at Tacoma School of the Arts' Club SOTA The presenters for June are: William J. Beaty: Weird Science Salon Founder and mad professor emeritus William J. Beaty has been goading Seattle's science hobbyists into action - and leading them from the front - since 1984: that's twenty years of bangs and whimpers! Bill returns to demonstrate his Crooke's cathode ray tube, and knowing Bill, other possible surprises as well. http://amasci.com/me.html http://amasci.com/wsci/ SolarRichard calls himself Tacoma's Solar Abecedarian, but we think he's Tacoma's foremost solar expert. He will bring a working model of the LEDs he proposes to put on the Tacoma Narrows bridge, and will explain how the solar "Ecotricity" will power them. www.solarRichard.com http://www.solarwashington.org/articles/Issues/solartree.html http://www.narrowsbridgelights.org/ There will also be an open dork after the presentations where anyone can take the floor for about 10 minutes to show us what you're working on, make announcements, look for collaborators, etc. --- Special thanks to SOTA for making Club SOTA available to dorkbot --- For more information please visit http://dorkbot.org and http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottac We look forward to seeing you there! From dreeder at panix.com Tue Jun 19 04:40:56 2007 From: dreeder at panix.com (David Reeder) Date: Tue Jun 19 04:41:19 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] (fwd) SCA Presents - SCA Laptop Composing Event Message-ID: <200706190840.l5J8eu720782@panix3.panix.com> ------- Forwarded Message Laptop Composing Event ====================== Join LaptopBattle.org founder Kris Moon, Dave Peck and Justin Almquist for an evening exploring the art and craft of live performance on laptop compu ters. They'll do a live laptop battle, and then delve into the software an d hardware involved. They'll discuss the approach to music creation using these tools, including using Ableton Live as a tool for spontaneous compos ition. What does improvisation mean in this world? Join us to find out. When: Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 7:30pm Where: Microsoft Studios at Microsoft Campus 4420 148th Ave NE Redmond, WA 98052 Cost: Full Members - no cost Assoc. Members - $5.00 General Public - $12.00 Driving Direction To MSStudios From Anywhere-- 4420 148th Ave NE Redmond, Wa. 98052 >From SeaTac Airport-- Follow signs to Freeways. This will put you on East 518. Take North I-405 -Renton Exit (center lane). Continue North on I-405 past Renton and Bellevue, approx. 14 miles. Take East Highway 520-Redmond exit until you come to 148th Ave NE exit, (t here are 2 exits for 148th -it will be the second exit under the overpass). Follow 148th Ave NE-North until you come to 40th Street (using 40th street as a landmark only) continue north on 148th about one block. You will see a Fire Station on your left and a VFW Hall on your right, MSS tudios is next to the VFW Hall. >From Seattle -- Take I-5 to Highway 520 (Bellevue/Kirkland). Go East on Highway 520 over the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. Stay on the Highway 520 as it begins to curve North through the Bellevue ar ea. You will pass the 124th street exit and the pass the first 148th street exi t (going south). You will take the second 148th street exit (going north). Turn right at the top of the exit (going north). This will put you on 148th Ave NE. Go North on 148th Ave for about 1-1/2 miles. MS Studios (Bldg. 127) will be on your right hand side across the street fr om the Fire. Station and next door to the VFW building. >From Bellevue And Cities South Of Bellevue-- Take Highway 405 North to Highway 520 East (Redmond). You will get off at the 2nd 148th street exit (going north). Turn right at the top of the exit (going north). This will put you on 148th Ave NE. Go North on 148th Ave for about 1-1/2 miles. MS Studios (Bldg. 127) will be on your right hand side across the street fr om the Fire. Station and next door to the VFW building. >From Everett, Lynwood, Bothell, Woodinville And Cities North Of Bellevue: Take Highway 405 South to the NE 70th Place Exit, Turn right at the light. This will take you up and back over the freeway. Stay on NE 70th (which is also called Old Redmond Road) to 148th Ave NE. Turn right on 148th Ave NE (going south). Go to NE 51st St. and Turn left. Get in the right lane and turn right on 150th Ave NE. You will pass Nintendo, about =BD mile down MS Studios (Bldg. 127) will be on your right hand side. The building is slightly green in color. Turn right into the parking lot and park near the south side of the buildin g (Lobby side). The SCA thanks our sponsors: Ableton Apple Bad Animals Drumcore Experience Music Project / Science Fiction Museum Garritan Personal Orchestra Geoff Ogle Guitar Center iK Multimedia K Creek Winery, Steve Allen MakeMusic, Inc Notion Music Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program Petosa Music Doug Zangar Wenda Zonnefeld From beaty at chem.washington.edu Mon Jun 25 12:47:52 2007 From: beaty at chem.washington.edu (Bill Beaty) Date: Mon Jun 25 12:47:56 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Fwd: UW Surplus 6/30 Auction Information & Catalog Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20070625094723.025e0bb0@gibbs.chem.washington.edu> >Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:56:10 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) >From: Aaron Rowe >To: UW Surplus Email Distribution List: ; >Subject: UW Surplus 6/30 Auction Information & Catalog > >Dear Surplus Buyers: > >The next UW Surplus Public Auction is >Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 10:00 AM. > >The Auction catalog is now online and can be found at: >http://www.washington.edu/admin/surplus/june2007catalog.html > >Inspect the Auction items during preview on: >Friday, June 29, from Noon - 7:00pm >Saturday, June 30, from 8:00am - 10:00am > >To register to bid online choose the Proxibid link on our catalog page and follow the instructions to register as specified on the Proxibid site. > >Please let us know if you have any questions. >Hope to see you Saturday, June 30th either online or in person. > >Thank you. >----------------------------- >University of Washington >Surplus Property Staff >Property & Transport Services >Box 355210 >PH: 206-685-1573 >FX: 206-616-5280 >surplus@u.washington.edu >http://www.uwsurplus.com >----------------------------- > >Parking Enforcement will be monitoring the W34 lot, please adhere to the >following parking information: > >**Parking Information** >Free (2 hour parking) can be found west of 1007 NE Boat Street. >Metered parking is available on NE Boat Street. >Pay parking is available in the lot located on the SW corner of NE Pacific >Street and NE Boat Street. > >**The University of Washington does NOT provide free parking to customers >visiting the Surplus Property warehouse. Please DO NOT park in parking >lot W-34 or any other UW parking lot unless you have purchased a UW >parking permit. Parking in the garage is limited to LOADING ONLY in the >designated load zones and for the posted time limit ONLY. >Violators will be ticketed. ** > >The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, >education, and employment for individuals with >disabilities. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at:206/543-6450 (voice); >206/543-6452 (TTY); 206/685-7264 (FAX); or dso@u.washington.edu > >----------------------------- >Thank you for signing up for the UW Surplus Email distribution list. >If you would like to be removed from this list, please reply to this email >and request to be removed. ((((((((((((((((((((((( ( ( (o) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ Research Engineer UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74 beaty@chem.washington.edu Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700 ph:206-543-6195 fax:206-685-8665 From josephgray at grauwald.com Tue Jun 26 14:17:07 2007 From: josephgray at grauwald.com (Joseph Gray) Date: Tue Jun 26 14:17:11 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] [Fwd: busting a serious kegger to raise funds] Message-ID: <12137.205.242.113.10.1182881827.squirrel@grauwald.com> Hello, There will be a kegger featuring experimental music this Saturday at the Fandrich Piano Studio on 14th betwixt Pike & Pine, next door to that clock shop called Tiempo. It is a fund-raiser for this series: http://soundsoutside.com more details below: ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: busting a serious kegger to raise funds -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wow! We're hosting the first ever Monktail Kegger and Duet-a-torium this Saturday! We need you to come and play music and drink beer and raise funds for Sounds Outside! You may have wondered to yourself "When can I play music over at Fandrich's house, have a good time, and drink a bunch of wicked good beer?" Well, the answer is... SATURDAY JUNE 30 sometime around 8 probably or whenever until you go home or Fandrich says so $5 a cup for good beer TBA or get an econo-cup and ALL YOU CAN GLUG for $20! What a bargain! So, spread the word. We'll have music performances by anyone who brings an instrument or voice, but only two players at a time. Maybe we'll use the gong. Maybe you will win! FUNDS RAISED GO TOWARD SOUNDS OUTSIDE 2007!! www.soundsoutside.com Seriously, please come and make it a night to remember, or at least talk about later... http://monktail.com