Busy day at work .. but managed to get out to generator in the late afternoon to meet wiht my freinds Chris and Lopo. We’re scheming about a simple AI based interactive demo that we can use for Chirs’s show next Feb.. and for a piece at Beta.. We’re experimenting with p5js which is a wonderful building block for interactive art.   While we were therrr, our freind Leif came by.. nice geek out ensued..

When I got home, our young neibor carley was there. its fun when she comes over.. she’s helping us get rid of dandelinons today.. the slow way 🙂

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Late that night I finnally got to take my firest try at the “Plan B” for the burning man bus. We had originally started using uindividual DMX comonents.. but that was goign to be hard to assemble. Plan B is using high ned christmas lights  (believe it or not). the stuff is all waterproof which is a huge help..

iIgot things blinnking.. but we still have alot to go.. wish us luck !

Nite all, nite sam

-me

I had a really nice meetup with my friend Elliot this morning before the Generator Safety meeting. Check out what he made for us  !.. These are stones he laser etched Sam’s name on.. pretty cool mix of nature and tech !

 Thanks Elliot !

nite all, nite sam

-me

I was taking a run this morning when I saw a guy about my age riding an ebike..  a few seconds later I heard this huge crash and looked aroudn to see  the cyclist on the ground bleeding. He had somehow miscalculated the turn and hed hit the  side of a small car waiting to turn off of wes white hill.

I ran back to help..   the guy was bleeding heavily from his nose.. but seemed otherwise uninjured despite the hard hit. The door of. The car was completly caved in. The driver was a young woman who was on her way to her first day of nursing school.. as soon as she  saw that the cyclist appeared to be ok (ish) she took off…   I decided to stay with the guy.. until he could get help.   He  introduced himself as Randy.. he called his girlfriend to come get him…  and we walked back to our house..   he was still bleeding.. but otherwise seemed uninjured.. amazingly

we had abotu 30 minutes to talk.. turns out he recently moved to Vt (warren ) after many years of living in dc. He is a musical producer and has helped stage shows all over the world. He was a really nice and interesting guy… I never got his last name. His gf came , we got his bike on the car.. and  the two of t hem left..

it wasnt till this evening that I saw the f ron pt porch forum post form our police cheif Kyle K asking iff anyone knew anything abotu the accident…  I sent him what I knew of randy.. but still didnt know his last name etc

pretty crazy way to start a day !

nite all, nite sam

We had another great work day at the Fluffy Burning  man bus.  Friend Rebar had invited a bunch of our friends from Beta to come and help. We got a great turn out..

The project is much more fun when there are lots of folks around

nite all, nite sam

-me