What a wonderful day we had in the hot summer sun playing with our favorite friends on the Front Porch. Plenty of Maple syrup and home made ginger beer with cookies right from the oven…Yum! And All the while great bands were keeping our toes tapping.
These girls played dress up with the Electrobite!
Steve and his gun
Christopher and Tansy in the summer sun watching March 4th play on the bridge
Kyrsten (Denzel) works her magic dancing on Glass
Zolie and I spotted the Oscar Mayer Weenr car from the freeway after work last night and circled back to take some pictures.
Great details all over the car and one of my favorites was the windshield wipers. Probably because I don’t have a windshield on the snail.
Weinermobile!
I spent the weekend setting this up for the coming weekend and I think it will be a blast. If your interested in smithing or metal work this is a great place to hone your skills and meet some new people.
Set up crew at the spot Jimmy passed away last year.
| October 2 – 4, 2009 at the Hagist Ranch, Cazadero CA Pre-registration is required. There is a $30 per person penalty for all registrations received after September 28th.
You may pre register by printing the registration form and mailing it or you may register online using a credit card. Simply enter the name of each of your party and click the “add to cart” button. Do this for each person you wish to register. Your payment will be processed through Pay Pal. You do not need a PayPal account to register, just any major credit card. You will be prompted to enter the names for your conference badges on the final payment page. Please indicate which names are full registrants and which are non-participants.
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If you are joining the CBA for the first time please print out and mail in the membership form to make sure we have all of your information. In the payment section write “paid on website”. The Pre-registration rate is for registrations received on or before Monday, September 28th. Registration after September 28th and on-site registration: $115 Members |
OKTOBERFEST 2009
LEAD DEMONSTRATOR: ANDREW DOHNER Cochranton PA Andrew Dohner has 10 years experience as an industrial welder and fabricator as well as extensive background as a journeyman blacksmith. His journey has included opportunities to work in several shops and given him a diverse education culminating in a unique approach to forging steel. He has taught classes and conducted several demonstrations. His more recent work has been exhibited in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. He produces functional architectural pieces including furniture, lighting and hardware.
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| CBA’s Oktoberfest takes place the first weekend of October every year at Frtiz Hagist’s Ranch in the beautiful coastal hills north of Cazadero. The weekend is filled with great food and friends, the occasional pyromania and of course some of the best blacksmithing around. |  |
Fellow builder Greg Barron from Rideable Bicycle Replicas is getting ready to build a half scale size Frigate or Brigantine, a fully functional square rigged sailing vessel for next year and needs to clear out his present creation to make room and raise some money. Greg wanted to see if he could make an art car sail since the La Contessa didn’t, nice concept but no functionality as a sailing vessel. It irritated him. The canoe concept was pretty basic and easy and it does sail under wind power alone, quite well in fact. The Can-you hit 16 mph this year up at the BR Yacht Club in a stiff breeze. New speed record and 9 people on deck too. Go sail a reach in silence and then bring it about, fire up the engine and motor back upwind. Repeat. Plus it’s nice to take on a sunset sail. Can’t wait to see his new vessel and take a ride.
Contact Greg for more information if your interesting in buying the Royal Can-you
gbarron@hiwheel.com
People I know doing strange things with electricity!
The next Dorkbot SF takes place this Wednesday, September 23rd at TCHO in San Francisco
Presentations by:Mark Pauline (Survival Research Labs)
Mark will talk about what ever comes to mind in his life filled with grime, fuel and art.
Timothy Childs (Technology and Chocolate)
Maker& supporter of life and the arts
Light, Attraction and Emotion: Projects with Photons, Biology and Electrons
See the Dorkbot SF #47 event listing for more info.
Sunday Sept 27th will be the 2nd annual Hand car Regatta. Along with hand car racing on Railroad track you will also get a chance to hear live music and see the wonders of the Bay area’s DIY steam-punk creations. We will be there with the Giant Iron Snail car the Golden Mean and our new trilobite! This is a free event and kid friendly!
Dust free just out of the truck.
People would walk up and ask if it was remote controlled. When I pointed out the leather seat and the joy stick they couldn’t believe you could drive it. Lots of smiling faces when we let them try it out.
related links to the building of this creature
Kyrsten on her new Electrobite car. This was a huge hit.
What a rocket! the inside was just as nice and the fireworks we saw were over the top Zack!
Day before opening and they are still putting on the finishing touches. Zolie noticed the Monkey’s head didn’t work and impressed most people who didn’t even notice the monkey in the mans tummy.
The porch! We rolled with them most of the week and put on the 1st Steam punk rave Friday night after the rocket.
Pictures of the Steampunk Rave
Electrobite, Snail and the porch
Kids-ville with fresh cookies from the porch
Perez and Sarriugarte Family outing
Houston we have a problem!
DPW parade with a live band on top! We got 19 people in the snail at the end!
Quite the show. I really liked the scale of the Man this year. I hope it keeps getting smaller.
Camp Mates jump for Joy!
Snail Crew stops to enjoy the moon.
Oilpunk Rave with the Hobo Goblins, the Porch and us. John hooked us up with a wireless mic and the snail became the PA for the porch most the week. Thats our spot light as well.
