Simone Davalos
Robot Film Festival In New York City
The tentacular Heather Knight of Marilyn Monrobot, JPL, Carnegie-Mellon, RoboGames, etc, etc, etc, has hatched another brilliant scheme for Robot World Domination – what we…
Competitive Swinging by Paolo Salvagione
photo by Andria Lo A delicate dance between spectator and athlete, a mediation on the properties of the pendulum, and unabashed grin-making installation art piece,…
Lipstick & Kisses 2010: A Flaming Lotus Girls Extravaganza
The Flaming Lotus Girls, makers of fine pyrotechnic arts and entertainments to tickle the ganglia and satisfy the limbic hind-brain, are presenting their brand new…
“Ace In The Hole” Documentary Being Made About Ace Junkyard
photo by Scott Beale Many of you may be familiar with Ace Junkyard from the pages of this blog. Or perhaps, you know of Ace…
Save Defenestration, Iconic Community-Grown Art
(To donate to the Save Defenestration fund, go here. S’ cool, we’ll wait for you to come back.) Perched on the corner of Sixth and…
Paper Animated Parkour
Here’s a neat parkour video, except it’s not actually real Parkour, but a paper animated version. This video created by Serene Teh and Noel Lee.…
Ace Junkyard Is Dead, Long Live Ace Junkyard
I have started and stopped this article two or three times over this last year, but the sad moment, like most other sad moments, has…
Bay Bridge Closure, Featuring Live Web Cams
photo via Caltrans As pretty much everyone who has encountered any Bay Area media in the last month or so knows, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay…
Vintage Circus Photos From The Wisconsin Historical Society Archives
The Wisconsin Historical Society has a great archive of vintage circus photos, a visit from the ghosts of circus past: Trapeze artist Erma Ward by…
Army Medical Museum Photos on Flickr
The National Museum of Health and Medicine (otherwise known as the Army Medical Museum) has a gorgeous Flickr stream filled with enough medical curiosities, technologies,…