Falling off the Robot Wagon
I said I wouldn’t do it. But I couldn’t stay away. The hours, the expense, the stress of watching level-0 prototypes in high-profile performances, holding my breath waiting for them to embarrassingly...
View ArticleCircus, Circus (for the Robin Amer community diaspora)
Some time ago, we hosted a best-birthday-ever for the lovely and awesome Robin Amer. This featured two, count ‘em two, marching bands: The Stick and Rag Village Orchestra and the What Cheer? Brigade....
View ArticleMoving the Busycle
This was fun. One day Matthew Mazzotta asked me to help move the Busycle from an ancient warehouse in the Navy Yards to Cave Dave’s workshop/home in South Boston. What is the Busycle? You’ll just have...
View ArticleTallbike Rodeo
The Boston/Cambridge area has a preponderance of artists, engineers, and just plain freaks who build things. What happens if you put ‘em all in a pot and stir ‘em up? I wanted to find out. And a...
View ArticleThe Red Chair
Anne Loyer and I stomped all over London, Boston, and New York City carrying armloads of of video equipment and dragging The Red Chair. Like detectives, we were following a web of stories from one...
View ArticleZap!
Zap! was a musical event for live musicians, robots, and high voltage arcs. I had an inspiration to use Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaff’s original 5 million volt generator as a musical instrument and...
View ArticleHoney I Shrunk Red Hook
There are some invisible walls between the varied populations of Red Hook. Would those walls disappear if we shrunk everyone down? In the summer of 2009, Laura Arena of Lucky Gallery asked Luis...
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