it’s 4am and can’t sleep so i’m catching up on missing blogs .

wednesday was an interesting mix of stuff. I had a fun meeting with my friends dave and sally at uvm about two projects we’re working on. sally is helping us build a tribute demonstration for my good friend scott who died last august. it’s going to be an interactive plasma sculpture. sally is a long time glass blower who makes that kind of stuff. it was fun visiting her lab.

on the way to talk to her I ran into my friend travis who’s the chemistry demo guy. he showed me this cool demo of melting a styrofoam head with acetone

https://youtube.com/shorts/MJu92yrMaYE?feature=share

i then made it up to see my friend dave who’s helping me with some demos for my work at Beta. he’s helping us build a replica of the worlds first electric motor that was designed by thomas davenport in brandon Vermont in the 1830s !!! i’m eager to help tell davenports story since it is very aligned with the inventive spirit of vermont . it also ties in so nicely to my work at beta !

I love working with dave on stuff like this !!!

later on that day o met up with my friends jon, bruce and brian at bruce’s studio . jon had brought his friend john fro. australia who had sone some amazing paintings based on the maori dreamtimes. we ended up playeg around with some of the new color magnetic viewing material I found

http://johncohn.org/base/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/img_0361.mov

busy and fun day

I guess this is what retirement is like 🙂

nite all, nite sam

-me