First stop today was Echo to see the results of the national civic day of hacking.. The project this year was data visualization studignes of the Google grant that echo has received for an interactive light up sculpture. There were about 10 folks there in three teams.. they’d made some cool progress !

 

I wish I had more time to be more active in that project.. it’s coming along nicely !

 

From there we headed back to the Generator with a bunch of equipment . There was quite a lot gong on there today despite the beautiful weather .. I love going here.. here’s Leif.. planning a big art peice

 

My good friend Scott is hanging out at generator more and really enjoying it.. I knew that the folks at generator ore really enjoying Scott as well. He’s one of the smarts guys I know and an awesome maker

 

here’s the rebuild of the solid state tesla col I used to have. Scott has made quite a few cool toys for me to use in my shows

 

look at this beautiful primary. Scott made most of it on our laser cutter

there were several other clusters of folks there today

 

On the way home I stopped off to say Hi to Chris.. he’s getting ready for his Zenith Solstice burn which is in just two weeks . Tix are on sale now at this website

Heres some of the burnables !

 

CHris’s freind Delfina was up from boston.. so we played with a little fire .

got home and did a couple of hours work in the sun

 

then went up to meet Diane and Gabe at Debs for Thain night part 2. Diane and Gabe were in a cooking class with Stu.. they made a feast. I headed up around 6:30

It was another wonderful gathering there were about 9 cooks including diane and gabe

 

makings of Pad Thai

 

pad thai 

 

porkish stuff

 

delicious shrimp dumplings 

 

a surprise happy birthday for Stu and for Gabe !

 

After dinner, Stu told us more about his mission at Stu and the kids . his charity helps get thai maintain tribe kids prepared for university work or trade school What an inspiring man..  !!!

 

it was a grwet meal, great conversation.. and inspiring message.. what a great way to spend a Sunday night !

 

OK, now its late and I need to sleep. More tomorrow

 

nite all, nite  sam

-me