Sunday night – Makersfaire.. and the boat.. and Tuesday Colony watching party

Colony

fans… it’s official.. we’re going to have a small get together to

watch the Colony II season finale this Tuesday at Mexicali’s Mexican

Restaurant (my fave !) in Williston VT at 9PM .. We’ll be watching with

Artist/Inventor George and Motor lady Sally who will be up visiting. Please RSVP to me by

email or FB note if you plan to join us . Thanks

We’re just back from a wonderful family weekend in NY. we went down to see Max and go to the first East Coast Maerfaire. It was a really great time..

Diane and I camped both nights on the roof of the boat.. it was like The Colony all over again.. inventions, crazy conditions. even marauders.. .. and at the same time a peaceful and mysterious oasis in the middle of a busy city. Here we are in our rooftop camp early yesterday morning.

Here’s the view from the roof

I love that Max likes living here.. he’s a great, great person.. and he’s learning so much by this experience.. welding, plumbing. wiring , diplomacy

I found soem Sam graffiti in the head..

Shadow . of morning hair

We got up and out by 10.. and headed to Makerfaire with max’s gf Jack

It was at the NY hall of science..I’ve done shows here 4 times myself.. it’s a great old building.. part of the 1964 worlds fair..

Makersfaire was unbelievably and indescribably wonderful.. stuff for all ages and types. from geeky electronics to eclectic crafts.. stuff for geezers and kids .. really something for everyone creative.. a wonderful wonderful vibe. I come away fro these events knowing that something very good is happening in the world I have such admiration for my friend Dale and his cohorts who started this movement and are helping it spread to the corners of the earth.. !

First stop was swimming citites.. a movign art piece of 7 interlocking boats from some freinds of max’s

There we ran into our Vermont friend Cody.. (we kept running in to people we knew down there.. very small world in geeky circles)

They had guns that shot hotdogs.. cool.. no ?

THere were lots of mutant vehicles.. including this one that looked like something out of this year’s colony

Then we checked out the geekcraft.. like the shopbot exhibit (I have one of these.. just not set up)

and the 3d printer booth

one even printed in food.. including in cookie dough.. and in cheese !

I ran into my freind Ale’xs boss and colleagues from ENgland.. Alex and I were office mates in 1985 (!!!) .. these gys are doing cool snesor work for microsoft in Cambridge England.

tis guy had a cool ‘scratch’ music station that used a bike wheel and mag tape.

here’s a guy from the patent office.. a freind of a friend.. i stopped by to suopport patent reform in the US.

I ran into my good friends Bob and Peter (and their friend.)

yikes.. electric haircuts!

we spent a good portion of the day over in the craft section. they had several exhibits from this cool women’s mag called ‘BUST” .. very creative and funny stuff.. Jack is a big fan.

gabe found soem very cool shirts over there..

the craft stuff was as cool and creatve as the nerd stuff.

we took a break to watch the parade and the chariot races..

and checked out the utility kilts… almost thought about getting one out.. by skinny legs would look wierd in a kilt.. don’t you think ?

then we toured around the maker exhibits.. one of my favorites was this dutiful kelvin generator.. generates sparks from just falling water.. !

here’s maxs freind dr. adventure.. he’d stayed up 36 hours painting his armor..

one guy had all metal calabi-yao manifolds (some folks think this is the hape of our universe).

they had some cool resin casting folks there.. masks, bricks that weighed nothing.. cool stuff

a grass covered car

a robotic red bull vending machine

then we went into the hall of science .. there were some makerfaire stuff.. and some hall of science stuff. it’s a cool hands on place.. here is some dry ice simulating galaxies..

cool gizmos everywhere !

marshmallow firing squad

the mentos and coke guys (I have a movie which I’ll upload later)

then max and cody got a chane to ride the rocket pones.. a wild carousel with two propane powered pulsjets dressed as ponie.s.. very cool.. !.. and the burning man montra ‘safety third !’

Here’s a video of max’s ride !

I just gotta make one of those !

we fond our good frinds ruchir and rashi and their kids and rashi’s parents whom we now know well. It was a real treat seeing them all !

all day long I had people coming up to me and either recognizing us from the colony .. or staring at us and telling me they knew me from somewhere..sometimes I tell folks .. sometime I don’t/ this women figured out who we were..

around 6 we headed home.. it had been an awesome visit !

we walked back to the buses through the worlds fair site.. remember these from ‘men in black’ ?

we got back to the boat.. and max started dinner.. .. colored potatoes (I had to make a flag) , squid salad.. and vegie chicken wings.. yum !

After dinner, Marion took us out on the speed boat.. we cruised up the canal and out on the east river.. then up the west side of manhattan. this is NYC the way few folks get to see it ! It was magical !!!!

I loved what the waves did to my photography !

then back to the oat for more hanging out I did a little tesla coil show since I had my big coil with me..

diane and I slept out on the roof again.. the night before it had been hot an muggy.. last night it was cold and windy..

not too cold fro a little early morning swim.. kinda cool that even though we were in the middle of town I could swim without.. uh.. oh forget it..

one last task befor eleving. abe and I helped max get some underwater picctures of the boat for his thesis project. we used gabes underwater camera and a gimble mount that max made htis morning. Gage and I paddled the raft out into the canal so max could get the shots he needed.

diane and jack laughed and gave us encouragement from the mothership.

we left the boat and headed to bergen bagels.. where.. we ran into our frind Dan .. ex of vermont.. Max and I went to burning man with him.. At this point in my life.. I no longer get freaked out at weird coincidences like running into someone I know in an unlikely place. it was great seeing him !

then we said goodbye to lovely jack.. and headed out for one more visit.

last stop was liam, jj’s aaron and max d.s .. all max’s old roommates. They’re all graduated and living in an upscale place in greenpoint. .. Diane just had to see or granddog, reptar.