Back from the grand of the user required show at the Burlington firehouse Gallery. It was a great turnout. Despite the bad weather, 440 people showed up to play with all the interactive toys. I really was proud of the pieces that we had done. Not just ours but all of them. What was even better was the behind-the-scenes collaboration, all of the Burlington makers were there until three or four in the morning helping each other out. It was awesome. The best thing about it is that it's a great touchstone for what's going to happen here in the future .I'm proud to be part of it.
After the show a bunch of us went over to the bluebird Café and hung out a little more… I ended up with that kind of post build funk where it was hard to separate from the People and projects. I don't know what I'm going to fret about tomorrow morning, I'm sure I'll think of something.
Anyway… It was a great experience. I was proud for all of us and I was very pleased everyone had a good time. Now time to get a real night sleep for the first time in several weeks. More tomorrow,
Night all, night sam
– Me
Folks.. just back from a great opening night at the ‘User required show at the firehouse gallery.. I just spent about 30 minutes typing in my impressions of the show.. then accidentally hit the ‘back’ button and lost my entire post…
I’m having trouble staying awake to type.. so I’m just going to post the pictures tonight.. ten fill in details tomorrow. Hope thats ok…
nite all, nite sam
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It was SO great working with this team of folks. john Colin, Katie, Ken, eric.. and MAX.. who was so helpful to have up here.
diane and gabe came down to see it too.. i’m so glad they were able to come !
i also helped homer and karen in these water paings. I’m so reatful to karen for all the work she did in the electronics and code.. she was amazing !
here’s al’s vide mirror project.. look at the folks on the street looking at their own distorted images.
Jen, Ken, al and I each had to say a few words to the audience about our pieces and our teams.
there was so much to see.. heres rebeccah’s ameba thing.. it lights up as you approach it.
I loved this musical piece.. an homage to terry reilly .. and all in javascript !
freind chris made this cool piece complete with squishable virtuAL BUGS !
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ok.. thats it.. gotta sleep..
more tomorrow from the publci opening.. come check it out !
It's only 11:30 and im home and I'm already ready for bed. That's quite a new thing for me these last couple of weeks. Tonight we finished our install for the exhibit at the firehouse Gallery. The opening is tomorrow night .. i guess not a moment too soon. It's been a lot of work..l Just like most of these big build projects, you just Don't know what you don't know until you try. I think there's an interesting lesson there for life and for work. Sometimes you must try rather than plan……
Tonight we got the last major glitch (we hope ) out of our device. We had a terrible memory leak Which it turns out my code Had caused. No surprise there 🙂
it was a big relief we all side when we discovered the root of the problem and squashed it. We quickly went across the street and had a celebratory beer before anything else could go wrong.
(Note photo courtesy of Max's friend willa )
Walk to my car one last look around the gallery at the two pieces I had helped build . The floorish exhibit at Homer and Karen's really cool water paintings. I'm really proud to be a part of both and I really enjoyed working with both teams.
Now Time for a few hours sleep.
Night all,night sam
Another very late night working on our floorish For the BCA show on Thursday. It is been absolutely wonderful working with the team John Colin ken Katie Eric… And Max. Max has been kind enough to come up from New York to help us with this piece. He has been so helpful. I cannot tell you how nice it is to be working with my son on such a cool project. Everybody on this team is incredibly hard-working and competent. It's fun seeing. How much max has learned over the last few years about making stuff, about computers, about design and about installations. I've learned quite a bit from him working together just this last week
. I am feeling pretty worn out because I'm both busy at work and busy with this project. I was telling a work friend about it today and he said very wisely… That years later I will forget why I was tired and what I was working on at work but I will never forget working with Max late into the night on This project.
Speaking of Max… I have to go meet him right now so more tomorrow
Night all, night Sam
– Me
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