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14 Jul 21:06
Will my grandchildren learn to drive? I expect not
by zephoria
I rarely drive these days, and when I do, it’s bloody terrifying. Even though I grew up driving and drove every day for fifteen years, my lack of practice is palpable as I grip the steering wheel. Every time I get behind the wheel, in order to silence my own fears about all of the ways in which I might crash, I ruminate over the anxieties that people have about teenagers and driving. I try not to get distracted in my own driving by looking to see if other drivers are texting while driving, but I can’t help but muse about these things. And while I was driving down the 101 in California last week, it hit me: driving is about to become obsolete.
The history of cars in America is tied up with what it means to be American in the first place. American history —with its ups and downs — can be understood through the automobile industry. In fact, it can be summed up with one word: Detroit. Once a booming metropolis, this one-industry town iconically highlights the issues that surround globalization, class inequality, and labor identities. But entwined with the very real economic factors surrounding the automobile industry is an American obsession with freedom.
It used to be that getting access to a car was the ultimate marker of freedom. As a teenager in the nineties, I longed for my sixteenth birthday and all that was represented by a driver’s license. Today, this sentiment is not echoed by the teens that I meet. Some still desperately want a car, but it doesn’t have the same symbolic feeling that it once did. When I ask teens about driving, what they share with me reveals the burdens imposed by this supposed tool of freedom. They talk about the costs — especially the cost of gas. They talk about the rules — especially the rules that limit them from driving with other teens in the car. And they talk about the risks — regurgitating back countless PSAs on drinking or texting while driving. While plenty of teens still drive, the very notion of driving doesn’t prompt the twinkle in their eyes that I knew from my classmates.
Driving used to be hard work. Before there was power steering and automatic transmission, maneuvering a car took effort. Driving used to be a gateway for learning. Before there were computers in every part of a car, curious youth could easily tear apart their cars and tinker with their innards. Learning to drive and manipulate a car used to be admired. Driving also used to be fun. Although speed limits and safety belts have saved many lives, I still remember the ways in which we would experiment with the boundaries of a car by testing its limits in parking lots on winter days. And I will never forget my first cross-country road trip, when I embraced the openness of the road and pushed my car to the limits and felt the wind on my face. Freedom, I felt freedom.
Today, what I feel is boredom, if not misery. The actual mechanisms of driving are easy, fooling me into a lull when I get into a car. Even with stimuli all around me, all I get to do is pump the gas, hit the brakes, and steer the wheel no more than ten degrees. My body is bored and my brain turns off. By contrast, I totally get the allure of the phone—or anything that would be more interesting than trying to navigate the road while changing the radio station to avoid the incessant chatter from not-very-entertaining DJs.
It’s rare that I hear many adults talk about driving with much joy. Some still get giddy about their cars; I hear this most often from my privileged friends when they get access to a car that changes their relationship to driving, such as an electric car or a hybrid or a Tesla. But even in those cases, I hear enthusiasm for a month before people go back to moaning about traffic and parking and surveillance. Outside of my friends, I hear people lament gas prices and tolls and this, that, or the other regulation. And when I listen to parents, they’re always complaining about having to drive their kids here, there, and everywhere. Not surprisingly, the teens that I meet rarely hear people talk joyously about cars. They hear it as a hassle.
So where does this end up? Data from both the CDC and AAA suggests that fewer and fewer American teens are bothering to even get their driver’s license. There’s so much handwringing about driving dangers, so much effort towards passing new laws and restrictions targeting teens in particular, and so much anxiety about distracted driving. Not surprisingly, more and more teens are throwing their hands in the air and giving up, demanding their parents drive them because there’s no other way. This, in turn, means that parents hate driving even more. And since our government is incapable of working together to invest in infrastructural investments, thereby undermining any hopes of public transit in huge parts of the country, what we’re effectively doing is laying the groundwork for autonomous vehicles. 
It’s been 75 years since General Motors exhibited an autonomous car at the 1939 World’s Fair, but we’ve now created the cultural conditions for this innovation to fit into American society.
We’re going to see a decade of people flipping out over fear that autonomous vehicles are dangerous, even though I expect them to be a lot less dangerous that sleepy drivers, drunken drivers, distracted drivers, and inexperienced drivers. Older populations that still associate driving with freedom are going to be resistant to the very idea of autonomous vehicles, but both parents and teenagers will start to see them as more freeing than driving. We’re still a long way from autonomous vehicles being meaningfully accessible to the general population. But we’re going to get there. We’ve spent the last thirty years ratcheting up fears and safety measures around cars, and we’ve successfully undermined the cultural appeal of driving. This is what will open the doors to a new form of transportation. And the opportunities for innovation here are only just beginning.
(This entry was first posted on May 5, 2014 at Medium under the title “Will my grandchildren learn to drive? I expect not” as part of The Message.)
24 Jun 20:44
Finally: Automatic Sliding Doors Get Star Trek Intelligence
by Evan Ackerman
The automatic sliding doors that we're familiar with from Star Trek are way smarter than the automatic sliding doors that we're familiar with from real life. In Star Trek, doors seem to know when characters want to go through them, and they never open by accident when someone is just walking by. Also, they manage to never be in the way when a character is running towards them at full speed (you try this at the mall and see what happens). Is it really too much to expect for automatic doors to have this sort of intelligence? It's not like we're asking for a Transporter. Now robotics researchers have (finally) made it happen.
There are two major improvements taking place here. First, the door is opened only for people who intend to use it. And second, the speed, width, and timing of the door opening is determined based on observations of the positions, speed, and number of people who are walking. The door estimates when you'll arrive at it, and times its opening such that it will have just finished opening itself as you get there. If you're in a hurry, the door cranks up its opening speed to make sure it gets out of your way in time. It also opens wider to admit more people at once when it has to. The door won't be able to tell whether to keep itself closed if you pause directly before it for dramatic effect, but otherwise, it's about as smart as a Star Trek door is.
The secret to this intelligence is no secret: the door has a fancy custom sensor (a 3D time-of-flight laser scanner) coupled with algorithms that can detect people, track their motion, and make educated guesses about whether or not they're aiming for the door. Somewhat unusually for a research paper like this, there is some serious consideration of practicalities, too. The sensor is designed to function in places with ambient light ranging from direct sunlight to total darkness (between 0 and 200,000 lx), and software can compensate for snow, rain, water on the sensor itself, and interference from other nearby sensors.
This fancier sensor comes at an additional cost than a conventional automatic door sensor. The researchers say that the custom sensor that they developed might add about $1,000 to the cost of a door, which sounds like a lot. However, the cost of hardware like this is something that tends to reduce itself dramatically year over year, so we'd like to think that we'd be able to experience smart doors like this without having to live long enough to see the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise.
"Development of Intelligent Automatic Door System," by Daiki Nishida, Kumiko Tsuzura, Shunsuke Kudoh, Kazuo Takai, Tatsuhiro Momodori, Norihiro Asada, Toshihiro Mori, Takashi Suehiro, and Tetsuo Tomizawa from The University of Electro-Communications, and Hokuyo Automatic Co., was presented last week at ICRA 2014 in Hong Kong.
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22 Jun 20:55
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11 Jun 23:07
Mary Huang’s Actually Wearable 3D Printed Shoes. No, Really!
by Site Admin
We’ve all seen images of fantastic 3D printed shoes over the past couple of years, but if you were to look close and handle them, you’d find they weren’t particularly wearable. Now that’s set to change.
Designer Mary Huang has developed a new line of shoes, “Myth”, that, according to her are wearable. She says:
Each design is 90-100% made from components manufactured on small desktop machines, optimized for scalable 3d printing production. Hand finishing on the shoes is kept to a minimum, in keeping with the goal of making finished consumer products from 3D printers, so that designs manifest directly from digital to physical.
Even better, Huang intends on developing new pairs for the Myth line:
New designs will be released every month or so, and will expand to flats and boots down the line.
We believe this to be significant. Here we have a fashion designer who is now regularly producing totally wearable 3D printed items. Aside from “hard” pieces like jewelry, we’re not sure any other 3D printed fashion has these properties.
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10 Jun 19:32
hipsterloli: Architectural photography of Michael Wolf,...
Architectural photography of Michael Wolf, showcasing the cramped and densely populated lifestyle of Hong Kong’s megacities
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10 Jun 19:31
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09 Jun 01:03
"A Hong Kong VC fund has just appointed an algorithm to its board. Deep Knowledge Ventures, a firm..."
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- VITAL Named To Board - Business Insider
A Hong Kong VC fund has just appointed an algorithm to its board.
Deep Knowledge Ventures, a firm that focuses on age-related disease drugs and regenerative medicine projects, says the program, called VITAL, can make investment recommendations about life sciences firms by poring over large amounts of data.
Just like other members of the board, the algorithm gets to vote on whether the firm makes an investment in a specific company or not. The program will be the sixth member of DKV’s board.
”- VITAL Named To Board - Business Insider
09 Jun 01:01
Introducing: Bombsheller & the NEW Uptown Art Walk (Queen Anne)
by noreply@blogger.com (Braden Duncan)
For Immediate Release:
(cross-posted from WEAVE Seattle)
Few & Far Women celebrate 3rd Annual West Coast Tour with double-your-trouble simultaneous free art events on Wednesday June 18, 2014!
Make the trek out to Lower Queen Anne during the new Uptown Artwalk for PIECE OF THE SKY Live Mural + Artwalk (5pm-7:30pm) with friends Jonathan Wakuda Fischer and John Osgood, and HI-TECHNIQUE: Beyond the Glass Wall Art Show (5pm-7pm).
About PIECE OF THE SKY Live Mural:
Local graffiti artists fewandfarwomen.com, wakudastudio.com, and johnosgood.com have teamed up to create a collaborative mural live at the new Mud Bay Uptown + youth/teen art activities by theveraproject.org + skateboard demo by skatelikeagirl.com + gallery show at bombshellerartlabs.com. Bring your skate deck 2 deck it out + your pet 2 check out the new Mud Bay!
@ 522 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
About HI-TECHNIQUE:
Beyond the Glass Wall + Few And Far Women
Bombsheller Art Labs‘ inaugural exhibition showcases Few and Far Women’s avant garde creativity, texture-rich typography, urban iconography, and explosive color stories. Dedicated contributors to the global project of women in art, Few and Far Women celebrate their individual expressions, and collaborate with other dedicated and talented women from around the world. The F&F team consists of artists elevating their craft, inspiring their communities, and challenging the world to go beyond the hurdles set before all of us…….
beyond the glass wall of the gallery “art world”…..
beyond the glass wall of a male dominated graffiti community……
and beyond the glass wall of the retail fashion industry between
artists who desire to create, define, and build their unique brands.
@ Bombsheller 424 Queen Anne Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98109
About Bombsheller:
Bombsheller is a new on-demand personalized fashion manufacturer right here in Seattle, empowering artists to transform their art into fashion while earning a royalty on garments sold, leggings to start. We manufacture our shells (leggings) on-demand in-house, and encourage artists, fashion and graphic designers and you to design your own garments! Bombsheller Art Labs is a new kind of maker gallery - a “collaborative” gallery - where designer/artists and patrons are empowered to create, innovate, and exchange skills and ideas. Generating both art community and art commerce, Bombsheller Arts Labs exhibits an eclectic selection of works, installations and performances, with an emphasis on tech and fashion influenced works created primarily by local Northwest artists bent on furthering artistic expression and collaboration fueled by technological innovations re-imagining the fashion industry.
Support your local art scene!
05 Jun 16:06
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Introducing Castable Wax: Our Newest Maker Only Material
by blog@shapeways.com (Natalia)
We know you've been asking for it for a long time and we're beyond thrilled to announce our next Maker Material: Wax!
From the moment we introduced metals, you asked if we could just ship the castable wax. As of today, you can order the wax of your model, ready for you to cast into any number of metals, either in your studio or at a casting house. Our wax can be cast just like normal investment casting wax, for which there's a large variety of methods.
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05 Jun 16:02
JUNE Art Fix: Upcoming Events
by noreply@blogger.com (Braden Duncan)
If you need your art fix for the month of June (and I know I do!), here are some shows that you won't want to miss! It's also the summer solstice and Pride month, so celebrate the changing of the seasons and everything that makes you special, and join the Seattle community as we stand behind equal rights for all! You can also give these days a celebratory try: Hug Your Cat Day (4th), National Doughnut Day (6th), Name Your Poison Day (8th), Fathers' Day (15th), International Panic Day (18th), Camera Day (29th), and more! So enjoy the sun, enjoy the art, and enjoy yourself!
LAST CHANCE:
"Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane" at the Henry Art Gallery, performance art. Show runs thru 8 June!
"Constellation: An Overture to the Zodiac" (encore) at Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma. "The Enlightenment Cabinet" is a wandering art exhibition curated by artist Yvette Endrijautzki. Featuring over forty local, national and international artists will introduce their own interpretation of the 12 Zodiac signs, this exhibit approaches the subject in many different media. From sculpture to illustration, from painting to mixed media, a diversity of the zodiacal. Show runs thru 14 June!
"Whoa Gnarly! A 90's Art Show" at Ltd Gallery. Do you even remember the size of Zach Morris' phone? AS IF! It was a decade of new beginnings and flashy shirts. Keanues ruled the oceans and Fresh Princes ruled the land. The Truth was Out There to be discovered by plaid ridden youth. Girl you know it’s true. This collection of over 30 artists want to believe. Join us to celebrate favorite pop culture moments from the 90's! Show runs thru 15 June!
COMING UP:
The Pioneer Square Art Walk ~ Thursday, 5 Junefrom 5-8pm. Selected shows:
SOIL - "Mistiko: A Performance Installation by Candied Calamari." Candied Calamari is a collaboration between artists Rachel Debuque and Danielle Peters. Debuque and Peters met at the University of Georgia and formed by their collaboration over an interest in pattern, performance, and color.
Trabant Coffee - "Don't Lick the Fine Print" by the Collagemonauts. The Collagemonauts are taking over Trabant with a delectable series of collage works! We invite you to look as closely as you like, just don't lick the fine print...
Also check out new work at 4Culture, 57 Biscayne, Angle Gallery, Art Xchange, Core Gallery, Davidson Galleries, Delicatus, Foster/White Gallery, Gallery 110, goCstudio, Heart, Gallery IMA, Linda Hodges Gallery, Method Gallery, Nord Alley & the Alley Network Project, Occidental Square Park, OK Gallery, Pioneer Square Saloon, Platform Gallery, Room 104 Gallery, SAM, SAM Gallery, Shift, Stonington Gallery, TK Artist Lofts, and more! Pioneer Square is the oldest art walk in the United States, and features over 50 galleries, studios, and other art spaces!
The Burien (B-Town Beat) ~ Thursday, 5 June from 6-9pm. Each business participating with visual art will host an artist that incorporates craft in their artwork. This could include needlework, quilting, mixed media, ceramics, glass, weaving, knitting, crochet, macrame, and much more! Selected shows:
Burien Press - "Face Me" by Tom DesLongchamp
Check out new work at Burien Arts Gallery, Burien Books, Elliott Bay Brewery, Glass Expressions, Maven Mercantile, Phoenix Tea, Skinperfect Aesthetics, Vino Bello, and more!
The Fremont Art Walk ~ Friday, 6 June from 6-9pm. Selected shows:
Fremont Jewelry Design - "A Study in Clockwork" by Braden Duncan. There's a mechanised thread of clockwork running through the organic skein of life... New works in watercolour by Braden Duncan.
Northwest Vision Studio - "Open Studio Party" featuring new work by Laura Cameron. Northwest Visions Studio + other participating artists in the Gasworks Gallery building welcome everyone to come hang out with us to enjoy wine, tunes, and lots of cool art!
My walls are going to look much different this time--a lot of my older work is showing elsewhere, so there's more room for newer pieces!
Pel'Meni Dumpling Tzar - The HappyTime Apocalypse art collective takes over Pel'Meni!
Space - "Tensegrity Deviations" by Amber Anderson. A new series of encaustic paintings & graphite drawings displayed at the Space building in the Fremont neighborhood. Where anatomical correctness & symmetry typically exist, tensegrity- tension & integrity- is explored when deviations occur within the body's structural system.
Tiny Ninja Cafe - "Digital vs Canvas" featuring Alex Pascual. Forged in traditional art, encoded with the binary sensations of a digital world. Trading paint for pixels and brushes for buttons. Creating in both digital and traditional; animated portraits side-by-side with their canvas cousins. A visual escapade of neon and nostalgia, brought forth from dark dimensions to ethereal bliss. I am paint, I am pixel.
LAST CHANCE:
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| "Parallels" @ Henry |
"Constellation: An Overture to the Zodiac" (encore) at Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma. "The Enlightenment Cabinet" is a wandering art exhibition curated by artist Yvette Endrijautzki. Featuring over forty local, national and international artists will introduce their own interpretation of the 12 Zodiac signs, this exhibit approaches the subject in many different media. From sculpture to illustration, from painting to mixed media, a diversity of the zodiacal. Show runs thru 14 June!
"Whoa Gnarly! A 90's Art Show" at Ltd Gallery. Do you even remember the size of Zach Morris' phone? AS IF! It was a decade of new beginnings and flashy shirts. Keanues ruled the oceans and Fresh Princes ruled the land. The Truth was Out There to be discovered by plaid ridden youth. Girl you know it’s true. This collection of over 30 artists want to believe. Join us to celebrate favorite pop culture moments from the 90's! Show runs thru 15 June!
COMING UP:
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| Calvin Ma @ Abmeyer + Wood |
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| Howard Marlow @ Punch |
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| Andy Kehoe & Red Walitzki @ Roq la Rue |
The Pioneer Square Art Walk ~ Thursday, 5 Junefrom 5-8pm. Selected shows:
Abmeyer + Wood - "Homebodies: In My Shell" by Calvin Ma
AXIS Pioneer Square - "In Danger" by Justin Kane Elder. This series of work is intended to give voice to the disturbing amount of endangered species across the planet. In our short life span we have witnessed multiple species being eradicated from the planet at an alarming rate. Every subject presented in this body of work is vanishing. Soon there will only be photographic evidence left of their existence.
The Belfry Oddities - "Rabid Hands Tattoo Group Art Show"
Flatcolor Gallery - Baso Fibonacci. Baso is a painter and muralist who currently lives in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. His paintings use subject matter such as animals and flora as a way to play with the aesthetics of color and composition. His current show is a series of paintings of colorful and elaborately detailed floral arrangements painted on plexiglass mounted on steel backgrounds.
Greg Kucera Gallery - "Receiver" by Marie Watt, silkscreen & textile
Occidental Park - "ARTSparks" launch featuring Dylan Neuworth & Tariqua Waters
and more!
Punch - "Bite" by Howard Barlow. In his current body of work Howard Barlow blends disembodied dog jaws, ambiguous skeletal structures with slumping fleshy bases, glow-in-the-dark powder-coated steel forms with shotgun appendages, and tacky fake dog fur to create a series of armed but peculiarly flaccid sculptures. This work is a continuation of his exploration of the symbiotic relationships of protection, vulnerability, violence, and threat.
Roq la Rue - "When We Break" by Redd Walitzki and "Inner Mystic" by Andy Kehoe The Belfry Oddities - "Rabid Hands Tattoo Group Art Show"
Flatcolor Gallery - Baso Fibonacci. Baso is a painter and muralist who currently lives in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. His paintings use subject matter such as animals and flora as a way to play with the aesthetics of color and composition. His current show is a series of paintings of colorful and elaborately detailed floral arrangements painted on plexiglass mounted on steel backgrounds.
Greg Kucera Gallery - "Receiver" by Marie Watt, silkscreen & textile
Occidental Park - "ARTSparks" launch featuring Dylan Neuworth & Tariqua Waters
and more!
Punch - "Bite" by Howard Barlow. In his current body of work Howard Barlow blends disembodied dog jaws, ambiguous skeletal structures with slumping fleshy bases, glow-in-the-dark powder-coated steel forms with shotgun appendages, and tacky fake dog fur to create a series of armed but peculiarly flaccid sculptures. This work is a continuation of his exploration of the symbiotic relationships of protection, vulnerability, violence, and threat.
SOIL - "Mistiko: A Performance Installation by Candied Calamari." Candied Calamari is a collaboration between artists Rachel Debuque and Danielle Peters. Debuque and Peters met at the University of Georgia and formed by their collaboration over an interest in pattern, performance, and color.
Trabant Coffee - "Don't Lick the Fine Print" by the Collagemonauts. The Collagemonauts are taking over Trabant with a delectable series of collage works! We invite you to look as closely as you like, just don't lick the fine print...
Also check out new work at 4Culture, 57 Biscayne, Angle Gallery, Art Xchange, Core Gallery, Davidson Galleries, Delicatus, Foster/White Gallery, Gallery 110, goCstudio, Heart, Gallery IMA, Linda Hodges Gallery, Method Gallery, Nord Alley & the Alley Network Project, Occidental Square Park, OK Gallery, Pioneer Square Saloon, Platform Gallery, Room 104 Gallery, SAM, SAM Gallery, Shift, Stonington Gallery, TK Artist Lofts, and more! Pioneer Square is the oldest art walk in the United States, and features over 50 galleries, studios, and other art spaces!
The Burien (B-Town Beat) ~ Thursday, 5 June from 6-9pm. Each business participating with visual art will host an artist that incorporates craft in their artwork. This could include needlework, quilting, mixed media, ceramics, glass, weaving, knitting, crochet, macrame, and much more! Selected shows:
Burien Press - "Face Me" by Tom DesLongchamp
Check out new work at Burien Arts Gallery, Burien Books, Elliott Bay Brewery, Glass Expressions, Maven Mercantile, Phoenix Tea, Skinperfect Aesthetics, Vino Bello, and more!
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| Amber Anderson @ Space |
Fremont Jewelry Design - "A Study in Clockwork" by Braden Duncan. There's a mechanised thread of clockwork running through the organic skein of life... New works in watercolour by Braden Duncan.
Northwest Vision Studio - "Open Studio Party" featuring new work by Laura Cameron. Northwest Visions Studio + other participating artists in the Gasworks Gallery building welcome everyone to come hang out with us to enjoy wine, tunes, and lots of cool art!
My walls are going to look much different this time--a lot of my older work is showing elsewhere, so there's more room for newer pieces!
Pel'Meni Dumpling Tzar - The HappyTime Apocalypse art collective takes over Pel'Meni!
Space - "Tensegrity Deviations" by Amber Anderson. A new series of encaustic paintings & graphite drawings displayed at the Space building in the Fremont neighborhood. Where anatomical correctness & symmetry typically exist, tensegrity- tension & integrity- is explored when deviations occur within the body's structural system.
Tiny Ninja Cafe - "Digital vs Canvas" featuring Alex Pascual. Forged in traditional art, encoded with the binary sensations of a digital world. Trading paint for pixels and brushes for buttons. Creating in both digital and traditional; animated portraits side-by-side with their canvas cousins. A visual escapade of neon and nostalgia, brought forth from dark dimensions to ethereal bliss. I am paint, I am pixel.
Also check out new work at ArtFX Gallery, Asgard Tavern, Atlas Clothing, Bellefleur Lingerie, evo Timesinfinity Gallery, Frame Up Studios, Fremont Health Club, Gasworks Gallery, GiGi Retro Inspired Clothing, Hub and Bespoke, Johnson Architects, Makerhaus, Portgage Bay Goods, Sanachi Massage, Saturn, Starbucks Coffee, The Sweet Spot, and more!
"SAM Remix" at SAM, Friday, 6 June from 8pm-late. Details and tickets: http://bit.ly/1lcHoYq Dueling bands. A silent dance party at the top of the escalators. A lone trumpet wailing in the contemporary galleries. Arts and crafts in every corner. Spoken word throwdowns in front of oil paintings. Tap and burlesque and contemporary dance. The only guarantee: no two Remixes are the same. This creative late-night is packed with performances, talks, art making, dancing, and more—all connected to SAM's collection.
"Bedtime Stories" by Andrew Miller (MantisArt) at Essentia Matress Store, Friday, 6 June 2014 from 6-9pm. Andrew will be creating live art with the musical accompaniment of Max Perry. Essentia will be holding a drawing for on of our Comfort pillows. Stop in to enjoy the art, music and enter to win.
The Madison Park Art Walk ~ Friday, 6 June from 6-9pm. Featuring art from over 30 local artists! Check out new work at Cactus, Madison Kitchen, Madison Park Bakery, Park Bench Gifts, Red Wagon Toys, Starbucks,and more!
The Bainbridge Island Art Walk ~ Friday, 6 June from 6-8pm. Selected shows:
Roby King Gallery - Chris Witkowski and Mike Kowalski
See new and exciting work at Bainbridge Arts &Crafts, Blackbird Bakery, the BPA, Danger, Fork & Spoon, Ginger, Harbour Public House, IslandGallery, Pegasus Coffee, Pauli Dennis Gallery, PrettyStick, Sally Robinson Gallery, and more!
"Brass Screw Confederacy" in Port Townsend, Friday-Sunday, 6-8 June. The Brass Screw Crew convenes every year in the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend, Washington. Join us for our 3rd year as we Octopi Port Townsend! This year's festivities are to be bigger and better than ever. The website is still being updated with 2014 event information, but the welcome page has just a taste to wet your whistle. Please keep checking back and watch this years extravaganza unfold!
"Punk Rock Fleamarket" at the Underground Events Centre, Saturday, 7 June from noon-3am. As you may recall, the PRFM is a full on flea market with everything from music and clothing, to furniture, computers, stereo equipment, handmade apparel, shoes, vegan treats, porn, info from nonprofit groups, books, art, bikes, skateboards and whatever else we can fit into the space. Our “Punk Rock” name refers as much to the DIY spirit of the event as it does to any particular music or lifestyle.
The Port Orchard Art Walk ~ Saturday, 7 June from 2-5pm. We will be hosting the Kitsap Humane Society with adoptable cats and kittens located at the Pavilion Event Center on Bay Street, Pony Up Rescue for Equines with horse and pony adoptions on Harrison and Bay Street and Stillpointe Llama Sanctuary with adoptable llamas and alpacas! We'll have Face Painting for adults and kids as well as the antics of a Professional Clown, Critter Crafting at the Library, food specials and lots of MUSIC & ART!
The Port Townsend Art Walk ~ Saturday, 7 May from 5-8pm. Selected shows:
Red Raven Gallery - "Decomposition of the Heart" by Scott Kirschner
Also check out new work at Earthenworks Gallery, Forest Gems Gallery, Gallery 9, Max Grover Gallery, Northwind ArtsAlliance, Port Townsend Gallery, Simon Mace Gallery, Williams Gallery, and more! If you get hungry along the way, stop into Elevated Ice Cream, Nifty Fifty'sDiner, Water Street Creperie, or Cellar Door (the delicious brainchild of local food afficionados Dominic Svornich and Stephanie Hoch).
"Crow/Raven: Magic & Mystery" (encore) at ArtEast, Sunday, 8 June from 4-6pm. “To know the crow is to know ourselves,” writes John Marzluff, award-winning author of In the Company of Crows and Ravens. The strange familiarity of crows and ravens has intrigued humans for centuries, inspiring mythic interpretation, artistic expression, and scientific inquiry. “Crow/Raven: Magic and Mystery” brings together these human responses to crows through two art exhibitions, artist talks, and public lectures. The series runs May 30 through July 12 at the artEAST Art Center and Blakely Hall in the Issaquah Highlands. Don't miss public lectures throughout the month by blackbird experts Chris Maynard, John Marzluff, Jessica Damsky, and Judy Lane!
The Wallingford Art Walktakes place July-September from 4-7pm.
Until then, you can always find art at the Assistance League Thrift Shop, Blue Star Cafe, Cafe Appasionato, Chocolati, Cutz Meridian, Frame Central, Fuel Coffee, Kerf Gallery, Lucky 7 Salon, Seamonster Lounge, Seattle Mosaic Arts and more! Don't forget to stop into Archie McPhee's as well! It doesn't exactly showcase 'art,' but it's fantastic and ridiculous, and you won't be disappointed...
"Art Talk: Juliette Aristides: In Her Own Words" at Gage Academy of Art, Thursday, 12 June from Gage Atelier from noon30-1.30pm. instructor Juliette Aristides is “a painter who seeks to understand and convey the human spirit through art.” What does that mean in terms of the way she approaches her work, and the decisions she makes as to what to paint, and how? Juliette discusses how her art has evolved over time, and how she feels about being a “traditional” realist in an era when such art is often ignored or marginalized in the mainstream art world. Included is a discussion of the core values she thinks are most important to convey to her students.
"Urban Explorers: Kate Protage & Dan Hawkins" at SAM Gallery, Thursday, 12 June from 6-8pm. Kate Protage creates her moody urban landscapes by photographing the city at night and transforming the image into an oil painting. She says of her work: "There are two worlds that exist in the same physical space: streets that appear gritty and depressing by day turn into an environment infused with a strange kind of lush, dark beauty and romance at night." See new photographs from Dan Hawkins who is well known for his photography of our urban, decaying city centers. Dan's photos often deal with memory and decay depicting empty houses, discarded water towers, chemical factories, crumbling hotels, and a number of derelict mental hospitals and jails.
The Capitol Hill Art Walk ~ Thursday, 12 June from 5-9pm. The Capitol Hill Art Walk is celebrating its 6th Anniversary this month! Pick up a Passport to Art postcard at any venue on the Art Walk, collect 4 stickers from 4 art walk venues, and then trade your Passport for raffle tickets at the After Party at Vermillion. You could win fabulous prizes from businesses around the Hill! Selected shows:
Blindfold Gallery - "Fanfare for the Area Man" by Rachid Bouhamidi. Los Angeles artist Rachid Bouhamidi's paintings celebrate life - they are wildly inventive, colorful, and carry an air of musicality and playfulness.
Cloud Gallery - Adream De Valdivia, Aubry Andersen & Nate Gowdy.
Ghost Gallery - "Catastrophe Museum" by Cait Willis. Cait continues to examine the Glitch and "how smart media affects our lives, work and relationships, and the inherent Ghost in the Machine that could be considered the inherently human imperfection that these glitches are. I use what is called Safari Data Mosh, where I hunt and gather images as they occur in various gadgets. These have grown into white noise paintings based off lo-fi TV snow, QR code portraits...as well as pieces that explore human branding. Drawing with the glitchy images as they flit by in nanoseconds, these are paintings as well as giclee editions... machine-made, yes, human."
Joe Bar - "Gendered Objects" by Siolo Thompson. In this collection of oil paintings Seattle based artist Siolo Thompson explores the everyday movements of domesticity - the preparation of food, the washing and mending of garments, dressing and undressing. Close up views of women's hands serve as vignettes that are simultaneously figurative and abstract, narrative and conceptual. The works are primarily executed in baby blue and baby pink, the colors that western society uses as the very first salvo in the battle to rigidly define gender. At a time when gender roles are shifting and our collective relationship to the domestic is in flux, these paintings ask the viewer to pause and consider who does 'women's work' belong to now?
Ltd Gallery - "Whoa Gnarly... A 90's Art Show" (encore!)
Poco Wine + Spirits - "Baggage Claim" by Levi Hastings. Levi Hastings explores the art of travel in a new solo show of vibrant watercolors and limited edition prints. Between the wonders of foreign cities and ancient monuments, this show explores the more common, often surreal experiences of lost luggage, extended layovers, crowded trains and airline food.
True Love Gallery - "Super Kaiju Monster Invitational" Come join us this month for art inspired by classic Japanese monsters from television, anime, and manga.
Vermillion - The After Party!
Also check out new work at Americana, Apocalypse Tattoo, Boom Noodle, Cafe PettiRosso, Caffe Vita, Capitol Cider, Cupcake Royale, Front Seat Gallery, High 5 Pie, In-Arts Collective, Laughing Buddha, Online Cafe, Paris Eastside, PCNW, Retrofit Home, SAAM, Saints Gallery, STart Wall Project, SugarPill, and more!
"Transmission" at the Mercury, Thursday, 12 June from 9.30pm til late. Featuring Portland artist Davey Cadaver, and vendors Stoneburner Designs, Second Law Fabrications, and Tethy's Tarot and Teas! Every month we bring you the best in Shoegaze, post-punk, post-rock and psych music with your hosts DJs ECHO and Kantrip with guest DJ, Brenan from Jetman Jet Team. You do not have to be a member for this night, and you do not need a member to sign you in. It is open to the public. No dress code. Free for members before 9.30pm, $5 for non-members. Starts at 9pm and goes til 2am. The performer will go on around 10.30 and again at 11.30, and the artist will be there all night. Come buy art, drinks, hear music and watch a sexy lady dance. "Transmission" happens the 2nd Thursday of every month.
The West Seattle Art Walk ~ Thursday, 12 June from 6-9pm. Selected shows:
Twilight Gallery - "Summer Moon: A Small Works Exhibit" with work by local and national artists, priced $200 and under. Tracy from Twilight and Laurie from Ghost are teaming up to present a summertime collection of Miniature Art!Featuring a Trunk Show by Tiny Fat Bird Studio and music by Willow & the Embers!
Also check out new work at Arts West, Click! Design That Fits, The Heartland Cafe, Hotwire Coffee, Shadowland, Skylark Cafe, Shoofly Pie, West 5, Wild Rose's, Windermere, and more!
The Art Up Phinneywood Art Walk ~ Friday, 13 June from 6-9pm. Selected shows:
Bherd Studios - "Indigenous" encore, featuring John Osgood & Solace. The Northwest, more specifically Seattle, is a very interesting place to be an artist. There’s a magic and mysticism in the air and inspiration around every corner. From our folklore to our pop culture, there is a style and grace that is unmistakably us, the indigenous. This area breeds an ultimate respect for its surroundings. It’s a place where nature isn’t afraid to reclaim its territory amongst the urban sprawl. It’s with this spirit that we present a new collection of work that unearths some of what makes this area so electric. From the tiniest of creature to the beasts we’re so well known for, prepare to be immersed in our corner of the world visualized through the collaboration of two indigenous artists; Solace and John Osgood.
Echo Echo - "It's Personal" featuring new works by the Echo Echo crew!
Naked City Brewery - Casey Brookbush
Push/Pull - "Party On!" Seth and Maxx are at it again with June art walk at Push/Pull bringing you new work. Seth promises something dead, something gross, famous people you probably never head of and fresh zines. Maxx promises new bright paintings that look sweet and/or nice at first but are weird and disturbing when you look closer. So come drink our booze and eat our food and keep supporting our odd little gallery.
Quadrapus - Soul Batteries, drawings in glass and perspective oil color paintings
Also check out new and exciting work at Chocolatti, Gainsbourg, Home Suite Home, School of Rock, The Space is Ours, Two Bird Tattoo, Urban Light Studios, Warlock Labs, and more!
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| Andrew Miller @ Essentia |
"Bedtime Stories" by Andrew Miller (MantisArt) at Essentia Matress Store, Friday, 6 June 2014 from 6-9pm. Andrew will be creating live art with the musical accompaniment of Max Perry. Essentia will be holding a drawing for on of our Comfort pillows. Stop in to enjoy the art, music and enter to win.
The Madison Park Art Walk ~ Friday, 6 June from 6-9pm. Featuring art from over 30 local artists! Check out new work at Cactus, Madison Kitchen, Madison Park Bakery, Park Bench Gifts, Red Wagon Toys, Starbucks,and more!
The Bainbridge Island Art Walk ~ Friday, 6 June from 6-8pm. Selected shows:
Roby King Gallery - Chris Witkowski and Mike Kowalski
See new and exciting work at Bainbridge Arts &Crafts, Blackbird Bakery, the BPA, Danger, Fork & Spoon, Ginger, Harbour Public House, IslandGallery, Pegasus Coffee, Pauli Dennis Gallery, PrettyStick, Sally Robinson Gallery, and more!
The Port Orchard Art Walk ~ Saturday, 7 June from 2-5pm. We will be hosting the Kitsap Humane Society with adoptable cats and kittens located at the Pavilion Event Center on Bay Street, Pony Up Rescue for Equines with horse and pony adoptions on Harrison and Bay Street and Stillpointe Llama Sanctuary with adoptable llamas and alpacas! We'll have Face Painting for adults and kids as well as the antics of a Professional Clown, Critter Crafting at the Library, food specials and lots of MUSIC & ART!
The Port Townsend Art Walk ~ Saturday, 7 May from 5-8pm. Selected shows:
Red Raven Gallery - "Decomposition of the Heart" by Scott Kirschner
Also check out new work at Earthenworks Gallery, Forest Gems Gallery, Gallery 9, Max Grover Gallery, Northwind ArtsAlliance, Port Townsend Gallery, Simon Mace Gallery, Williams Gallery, and more! If you get hungry along the way, stop into Elevated Ice Cream, Nifty Fifty'sDiner, Water Street Creperie, or Cellar Door (the delicious brainchild of local food afficionados Dominic Svornich and Stephanie Hoch).
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| "Crow/Raven" @ ArtEast |
The Wallingford Art Walktakes place July-September from 4-7pm.
Until then, you can always find art at the Assistance League Thrift Shop, Blue Star Cafe, Cafe Appasionato, Chocolati, Cutz Meridian, Frame Central, Fuel Coffee, Kerf Gallery, Lucky 7 Salon, Seamonster Lounge, Seattle Mosaic Arts and more! Don't forget to stop into Archie McPhee's as well! It doesn't exactly showcase 'art,' but it's fantastic and ridiculous, and you won't be disappointed...
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| Juliette Aristides @ Gage |
"Art Talk: Juliette Aristides: In Her Own Words" at Gage Academy of Art, Thursday, 12 June from Gage Atelier from noon30-1.30pm. instructor Juliette Aristides is “a painter who seeks to understand and convey the human spirit through art.” What does that mean in terms of the way she approaches her work, and the decisions she makes as to what to paint, and how? Juliette discusses how her art has evolved over time, and how she feels about being a “traditional” realist in an era when such art is often ignored or marginalized in the mainstream art world. Included is a discussion of the core values she thinks are most important to convey to her students.
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| Kate Protage & Dan Hawkins @ SAM Gallery |
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| Cait Willis @ Ghost Gallery |
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| Siolo Thompson @ Joe Bar |
Blindfold Gallery - "Fanfare for the Area Man" by Rachid Bouhamidi. Los Angeles artist Rachid Bouhamidi's paintings celebrate life - they are wildly inventive, colorful, and carry an air of musicality and playfulness.
Cloud Gallery - Adream De Valdivia, Aubry Andersen & Nate Gowdy.
Ghost Gallery - "Catastrophe Museum" by Cait Willis. Cait continues to examine the Glitch and "how smart media affects our lives, work and relationships, and the inherent Ghost in the Machine that could be considered the inherently human imperfection that these glitches are. I use what is called Safari Data Mosh, where I hunt and gather images as they occur in various gadgets. These have grown into white noise paintings based off lo-fi TV snow, QR code portraits...as well as pieces that explore human branding. Drawing with the glitchy images as they flit by in nanoseconds, these are paintings as well as giclee editions... machine-made, yes, human."
Joe Bar - "Gendered Objects" by Siolo Thompson. In this collection of oil paintings Seattle based artist Siolo Thompson explores the everyday movements of domesticity - the preparation of food, the washing and mending of garments, dressing and undressing. Close up views of women's hands serve as vignettes that are simultaneously figurative and abstract, narrative and conceptual. The works are primarily executed in baby blue and baby pink, the colors that western society uses as the very first salvo in the battle to rigidly define gender. At a time when gender roles are shifting and our collective relationship to the domestic is in flux, these paintings ask the viewer to pause and consider who does 'women's work' belong to now?
Ltd Gallery - "Whoa Gnarly... A 90's Art Show" (encore!)
Poco Wine + Spirits - "Baggage Claim" by Levi Hastings. Levi Hastings explores the art of travel in a new solo show of vibrant watercolors and limited edition prints. Between the wonders of foreign cities and ancient monuments, this show explores the more common, often surreal experiences of lost luggage, extended layovers, crowded trains and airline food.
True Love Gallery - "Super Kaiju Monster Invitational" Come join us this month for art inspired by classic Japanese monsters from television, anime, and manga.
Vermillion - The After Party!
Also check out new work at Americana, Apocalypse Tattoo, Boom Noodle, Cafe PettiRosso, Caffe Vita, Capitol Cider, Cupcake Royale, Front Seat Gallery, High 5 Pie, In-Arts Collective, Laughing Buddha, Online Cafe, Paris Eastside, PCNW, Retrofit Home, SAAM, Saints Gallery, STart Wall Project, SugarPill, and more!
"Transmission" at the Mercury, Thursday, 12 June from 9.30pm til late. Featuring Portland artist Davey Cadaver, and vendors Stoneburner Designs, Second Law Fabrications, and Tethy's Tarot and Teas! Every month we bring you the best in Shoegaze, post-punk, post-rock and psych music with your hosts DJs ECHO and Kantrip with guest DJ, Brenan from Jetman Jet Team. You do not have to be a member for this night, and you do not need a member to sign you in. It is open to the public. No dress code. Free for members before 9.30pm, $5 for non-members. Starts at 9pm and goes til 2am. The performer will go on around 10.30 and again at 11.30, and the artist will be there all night. Come buy art, drinks, hear music and watch a sexy lady dance. "Transmission" happens the 2nd Thursday of every month.
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| "Summer Moon" @ Twilight Gallery |
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| Paper Plate Studios @ Twilight Gallery |
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| Tiny Fat Bird @ Twilight Gallery |
Twilight Gallery - "Summer Moon: A Small Works Exhibit" with work by local and national artists, priced $200 and under. Tracy from Twilight and Laurie from Ghost are teaming up to present a summertime collection of Miniature Art!Featuring a Trunk Show by Tiny Fat Bird Studio and music by Willow & the Embers!
Also check out new work at Arts West, Click! Design That Fits, The Heartland Cafe, Hotwire Coffee, Shadowland, Skylark Cafe, Shoofly Pie, West 5, Wild Rose's, Windermere, and more!
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| "Indigenous" @ Bherd Studios |
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| "Party On" @ Push/Pull |
Bherd Studios - "Indigenous" encore, featuring John Osgood & Solace. The Northwest, more specifically Seattle, is a very interesting place to be an artist. There’s a magic and mysticism in the air and inspiration around every corner. From our folklore to our pop culture, there is a style and grace that is unmistakably us, the indigenous. This area breeds an ultimate respect for its surroundings. It’s a place where nature isn’t afraid to reclaim its territory amongst the urban sprawl. It’s with this spirit that we present a new collection of work that unearths some of what makes this area so electric. From the tiniest of creature to the beasts we’re so well known for, prepare to be immersed in our corner of the world visualized through the collaboration of two indigenous artists; Solace and John Osgood.
Echo Echo - "It's Personal" featuring new works by the Echo Echo crew!
Naked City Brewery - Casey Brookbush
Push/Pull - "Party On!" Seth and Maxx are at it again with June art walk at Push/Pull bringing you new work. Seth promises something dead, something gross, famous people you probably never head of and fresh zines. Maxx promises new bright paintings that look sweet and/or nice at first but are weird and disturbing when you look closer. So come drink our booze and eat our food and keep supporting our odd little gallery.
Quadrapus - Soul Batteries, drawings in glass and perspective oil color paintings
05 Jun 15:59
*Those Lockheed F-35 fighter helmets really seem a bit much.
*Those Lockheed F-35 fighter helmets really seem a bit much.
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04 Jun 18:18
SpaceX Takes a Huge Step with 3D Printing
by Site Admin
If you are like us, you would have been watching SpaceX unveil their astonishing new spacecraft, the Dragon V2.
It’s SpaceX’s first human-rated ship, which they intend to use for ground-to-low-orbit transfers. Seating seven, the ship’s interior is, beyond any doubt, suitable for any science fiction setting. Except it’s a real spaceship.
One of the Dragon V2’s features is the ability to land the capsule using an array of embedded rocket engines, as well as for a quick exit in case of emergency during launch. The SuperDraco thruster engine will be used in pairs for redundancy.
But here’s the thing: the thrusters are 3D printed in metal. SpaceX says:
The SuperDraco engine chamber is manufactured using state-of-the-art direct metal laser sintering (DMLS), otherwise known as 3D printing. The chamber is regeneratively cooled and printed in Inconel, a high-performance superalloy that offers both high strength and toughness for increased reliability.
There’s one thing they didn’t say: They believe so strongly in the reliability of 3D printing that they’d bet their lives on it.
Via SpaceX
04 Jun 17:05
Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy | Technology | The Guardian
Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy | Technology | The Guardian:
"What if every book for the past 500 years had been reporting its readers at headquarters?"
04 Jun 09:19
"Concepts like normcore help convey the plausibility of a panoptic society, even as the institutions..."
“Concepts like normcore help convey the plausibility of a panoptic society, even as the institutions ostensibly operating it are getting overwhelmed by data they can’t process. The concept does the disciplinary work that the hermeneutically challenged agencies can’t”
- “Surveillant anxiety” and exceptional conformity – The New Inquiry (via nathanjurgenson)
- “Surveillant anxiety” and exceptional conformity – The New Inquiry (via nathanjurgenson)
![[Astronomer peers into telescope] [Jaws theme begins playing]](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fish.png "[Astronomer peers into telescope] [Jaws theme begins playing]")
03 Jun 17:40
designculturemind: What does the future of fashion look...
What does the future of fashion look like?
Watch: Patagonia And Adidas Toil Away On The Next Big Breakthrough In Clothing
03 Jun 16:07
Mathieu Cesar, “Vers l’infini et au-delà”
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31 May 17:35
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Tags: Batteries, Fiber, Lithium-ion, Nanotubes, Wearable, wearable electronics
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New Matter partners with Frog Design and Launches Desktop 3D Printer for Under Two-Hundred Dollars
by blog@shapeways.com (Savannah)
Today, New Matter, launched their new and elegant desktop 3D Printer, MOD-t, on Indiegogo. There are a lot of Desktop 3D Printers on the market, and many companies and creatives have one for home iteration and leverage our million-dollar machines for the high-resolution, premium quality we ensure with our designs. New Matter's entrance into the space with MOD-t caught my eye for a few reasons...
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28 May 00:33
Evolution made the male ruff bird after watching one too many...
Evolution made the male ruff bird after watching one too many British period dramas. Don’t ever say its taste isn’t refined.