Omega Recoil Performing with their Tesla Coil at Nimby

Omega Recoil Performing with their Tesla Coil at Nimby for the Do it for Haiti Benefit

Concept and The Show

A team of high-level rat scientists have gotten hold of a Tesla Coil and will be testing it on a living human test subject in a special metal suit designed to protect the human, or so the rat scientists hope. They will lure the human out under this suspended 1.3 million volt Tesla Coil with man’s favorite drink… Beer. The un-suspecting human will be surprised to find out that this particular can of beer has been grounded to the giant coil. When he approaches for refreshment, the giant coil will come to life and he will receive a massive bolt of lighting to the head. This, we call the reverse Pavlovian an experiment. The rat scientists will be training the human to operate all of the machinery involved in the show using the positive and negative re-enforcement of a lightning bolt.

We will have a Narrator/Barker explaining the science of the Tesla Coil and the principals of the suit and the experiments. The barker will narrate the performance as the rat scientists perform the experiments on the human.

We will also do experiments with massive power distribution and switching equipment like that used by the power utilities.

Our show is much more informative than our previous incarnations. We have a larger team of very innovative and ingenious members creating the experiments that no one has ever seen, including a suspended, upside down coil.

Instructable for a Fire Garden

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Science Badges

Science Badges for nerds

Steven Nelson sent me this today. I’ve done many of these things in my life, but I’d be lying if I could claim it was in the name of science. I should make a group of these for artists.

Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition & C. March 12-14th 2010

Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition & C.

Maker Guest of Honor

Jon Sarriugarte

Presents in the best of his knowledge the following items for your perusement at the afore mention exhibition.

Shock, delight, and heal your desires with the Hogan High Frequency Apparatus

Stand in awe of the Golden Mean’s Magical Wonderment’s

Shudder with fright & delight at the Giant Prehistoric creature Sarriugarteis (Odontochile) trilobite

Learn How to use your steampunk goggles, patented your ideas and make a buck in these trying times

Holdfast Borderless Frame

Jon will be available to you & at your convenience will converse with you at long lengths (3days) his knowledge to date. He will also make available a limited quantity of hand made items made by himself and the Boiler Bar performers for you to prove to your friends, back home, that these things do exist.

Do It For Haiti

Please Join the Giant Iron Snail Art Car the Golden Mean in a benefit for Haiti this Sat

“DO IT FOR HAITI” Artists and Performers:
From Haiti:
Rosemond Jolissaint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC4qqieq6EY
Seventeen year old Rosemond Jolissaint is one of Haiti’s youngest rising stars. In 2007 he was voted to victory in Haiti’s first annual Digicel Stars competition (the equivalent of American Idol). Since then Rosemond has been attending high school, writing music and performing his music in Haiti and the US to promote social change.
Kalbass Kreyol: http://kalbasskreyol.com/
Led by Haitian-born frontman Sophis, Kalbas Kreyol, is a high-energy Afro-Caribbean band that is best known in the Bay Area for its electrifying and uplifting live performances.

From the Bay Area:
Sila: http://www.victorsila.com/
The Bodice Rippers: http://www.myspace.com/thebodicerippers/
Joe Rutt and the Ironic Mustache: http://www.joerut.com/
Fat Chance Belly Dance with NeferTem: http://www.fcbd.com/
Funky Beulah: http://www.myspace.com/funkybeulah/
Diva Marisa: http://divamarisa.com/
Naima Shalhoub: http://www.myspace.com/naimashalhoub
The Society: http://www.thesocietyrocks.com/
Chicken John & Dr. Hal: http://www.chickenjohn.com/ and http://www.askdrhal.com/
Flaming Lotus Girls: http://www.flaminglotus.com/
Omega Recoil – Tesla Coil: http://www.omegarecoil.com/
The Museum of Unnatural Selection: http://www.themuseumofunnaturalselection.com/
Life Size Mouse Trap: http://www.lifesizemousetrap.org/
Therm / Exxotherm: http://www.therm.biz/
The Department of Spontaneous Combustion: http://www.spontaneousfire.com/
The Disgusting Spectacle” http://www.laughingsquid.com/the-disgusting-spectacle/
Sustainable Living Road Show: http://www.sustainablelivingroadshow.org/

Beerlesque Fest Feb 12th 2010

The Boiler Bar Performers Headline for the very first time, in the Historic Petaluma Hotel, in front of a live crowd,  in the tradition of those who work so hard, for the honor of drinking Lagunitas beer. Please join us for entertainment the likes we have never seen before!

Dress the part and make us Eastbainians feel at home!

Taps

205 Kentucky Street (beneath the historic Petaluma Hotel)
Petaluma, CA, 94952

Phone: (707) 763-6700

Jason Mclean art openning Feb 6th

Jason McLean and Madeline Fitzpatrick are teaming up for a show at Toby’s Gallery in Point Reyes Station, CA for the entire month of February. Come out on Saturday February 6th, 5:30-8:30pm for the show’s opening. Both Jason’s sculptures and Madeline’s paintings are raw, expressive, and mature. We’d love to see you!

Toby’s Gallery

The Incredible San Fancisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby, 1975

The Incredible San Fancisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby, 1975. from Mike Haeg on Vimeo.

I love the cop on horse at the begining of the race. SF arrest people at these events now. Need to find a suitable hill in Oakland!