Art's Birthday 2011 a few pics

My hat for the Hat making contest! I was an organizer so couldn't officially win but as an instigator of the idea I had to make a hat. The skull is animated by a couple servos and a microcontroller. The head moves around and bobbles on a spring. The jaw moves up and down and there is one LED eye.





Every birthday party should have cake! Our lovely host Miss Lizzy Lala serves it up!





DJ Rob Volar provided awesome tunes all evening!



Jaymez provided awesome visuals all night too.



Every birthday needs presents! Kunstradio.at in Vienna Austria organizes a pool of presents for Art every year. AB2011

Mine is here. Birthday Song

wheels, poppies and getting airborne

The new studio space is working out really well. Lots of room. Depicted is a prototype for a remote control workbench I'm building for the Shadow Machine project in Vancouver.



New Wheels! I found a nice 2000 GMC Safari van to haul my art stuff around. Including runs to the floodway to work on my kite project.







Our garden is surprising us everyday. We don't need no stinkin nature channel. (said in may best Treasure of the Sierra Madre bandito voice) It's all going on in our backyard. Squirrels, cats, raccoons, and insects. An adventure and drama daily under the soil, on top and in the air. Along with the lettuce we've been eating beet greens, peas, beans, various herbs and other things. Soon we will have tomatoes! We have some plants flowering including our previously mentioned mystery plant. Now identified as an orange day lily. There's still most of the summer for growing so as a rookie gardner I'm feeling pretty good about our efforts.