Electrobite Instructable

I made a new Instructable for the Electrobite

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SFMOMA Artist Gallery {Wondrous Strange} Opening

A Wondrous Strange night at SFMOMA Gallery

What a great show! I love shows where art and craft meet and these artists are gifted in both. Wonderful use of real materials and humor. Look for Kathy Aoki  showing the “Tomb Room” and several other artifacts from the Gwen Stefani Archeological Dig ( 2468-2478 A.D.).

Show

Zolie trying to hide from the Grannies. I think someone didn’t understand what Steampunk was when they hired the band and forgot the steam. They were great until they got shut down for being too loud. Nice to see good old fashion punk is still alive and well!

Steampunk boys enjoying a smoke.

Zolie hugging here car the Golden Mean and watching the girls dance! What is that bad Grannie doing behind the snail?

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The Traveling Wonders of the Boiler Bar at EDC in LA, CA June 25th-26th

Electric Daisey Carnival

Presents

A Circus Side Show with the “Giant Iron Snail Car”  the Golden Mean and Electrobite as the freaks of nature from the gardens of Vulcan tamed only with Flame . Only the bravest of men will be asked to step forward and tame the beast themselves. This interactive attraction will warm the hearts of women and make men tremble inside. Step right up and lets see what you’re made of!

FIRE!

Exposition Park & The L.A. Coliseum

3939 S. Figueroa Street

Los Angeles, CA 90037

Downtown LA’s Exposition Park & The L.A. Coliseum will undergo a unique transformation as the Electric Daisy Carnival comes to town! adjacent to the LA Sports Arena, Insomniac will create a whimsical festival environment complete with five areas of music, carnival rides, vendor village, and an array of other festival amusements.

The LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park is central to everyone in Southern California and accessible for travelers. Only 15 minutes from LAX and just 30 minutes from Orange County & the San Fernando Valley. Electric Daisy Carnival is located just off the 110 freeway on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. The festivities are only 15 minutes from the beach, 10 minutes from Hollywood and 45 minutes from Disneyland!

Tar Pit Family Fun at LACMA

LACMA

We call ourselves Oilpunk so it only fitting that we visit the source, the Mecca, the La Brea Tar pits.

Both our creatures and the handlers enjoyed the humans we found here.

The Golden Mean looking for some oil at the tar pits

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Gary Baseman‘s “Giggle and Pop!”

ChouChous  and the Golden Mean

Giving rides on the Electrobite

HandCar Regatta Fun!

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.

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Unnecessary Umlaut

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These girls played dress up with the Electrobite!

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Steve and his gun

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Christopher and Tansy in the summer sun watching March 4th play on the bridge

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Electrobite at Burning Man

Sarriugarteis (Odontochile) trilobite

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Dust free just out of the truck.

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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.

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related links to the building of this creature

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Flickr set

Burning Man 2009

Burning Man

Pictures of our week

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Kyrsten on her new Electrobite car. This was a huge hit.

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What a rocket! the inside was just as nice and the fireworks we saw were over the top Zack!

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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.

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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

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Electrobite, Snail and the porch

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Kids-ville with fresh cookies from the porch

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Perez and Sarriugarte Family outing

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Houston we have a problem!

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DPW parade with a live band on top! We got 19 people in the snail at the end!

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Quite the show. I really liked the scale of the Man this year. I hope it keeps getting smaller.

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Camp Mates jump for Joy!

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Snail Crew stops to enjoy the moon.

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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.

Electrobite progress

Amy’s seat, Kyrsten’s lights, lots of sleeplittle nights and we are done! Off to BM to show it off tonight. I posted more picture to my flickr site. Looking forward to sitting in a chair and drinking beer for a week.

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Patina is done and boy does it look great! We always have to pray to the patina gods before , but the problem this time was me grabbing the wrong chemical bottle. Little too brown for Kyrsten’s taste, but beautiful none the less.

Mike came by to wire up the lights last night, and Amy brought by the finnished seat… wow! I’m looking forward to seeing all the parts: eyes, seat, and lights together on the car at once.

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Up till 6am and all the fabrication work is done! Now for the patina, paint and lights.

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Kyrsten’s rivets look great! All the forged textures and hand hammered sheet metal look great together. As I make something this complex it’s some times hard to see ahead to make sure it’s all going to work together. Today was one of those days that I felt it did. Might feel different once I turn it over and start on the tail but today the head worked for me. Kyrsten started on the lighting by building the battery box for the cutest little 12v 7amp hr gel cell. All it’s going to do is run LED so it should last the entire week for Burning Man. Had a minor time set back today when I had to visit the ER to have some metal removed from my eye. It was quiet there and we were back by lunch. Still a bit painful, but eyes heal fast.

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sheet metal wood and a hammer

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Can’t wait to see Tansy’s eyes in place and Amy’s leather seat!

More pictures here

Burning Man is Christmas

After years of doing Burning Man I’ve decided it’s the Christmas holiday for bay area artists. We all stress out the weeks before making the perfect artistic gifts, getting the right swag, buying new outfits, deciding who your going to spend it with, prepping the food and drinks, inviting your friends, then loading your car with way more crap then you need and driving way too far to sit, talk, eat and get drunk. You don’t even have to like the holiday, but yet out of tradition and despite your grumpy anti BM ramblings, you participate and go. Then there’s the people who say they are going and then get too busy or something comes up. I look at them and think this is Christmas, why would you work on a holiday? You see I am a burner and here is my art update and just some of the people I will be sharing my holidays with.

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Electrobite Horn and eyes

Updated photos here

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Tansy forming the eyes for casting

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Jon hammering out the panels for the head

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Lauren rewiring the Snail

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New dash with lots of switches and dials to make Jon happy

Electrobite vs sleep

Who needs sleep. Lots of late nights and things are starting to take shape. After looking though more pictures on flicker trilobite pool I’m going to have to make more of these! One for each one of our family minimum. So many shapes, spikes,.horns, wiggly things, leathery winged horns with multi pitted eyes.

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There are going to be lots of jokes about that controllers placement!

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The head sheet metal is cut and ready to install. Kyrsten’s patterning and cuts look great.

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Here’s the texture were thinking to add to the head.

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Kyrsten and Zolie test driving the new controller.

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