We’re having another get together tomorrow evening (Monday, 25th August) at 8pm - upstairs in McGinty’s opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich.
I know there’s new stuff to see on the Watch Pot and Many Hands proverbs and there are rumours of others - excellent!
Also come along with anything you’d like to chat about - proverbial or not. I can report on my adventures at NYC Resistor.
Cheers, hope to see you there,
Dave
We had another get together the other Monday evening (11th August) - upstairs in McGinty’s.
A bunch of new things were shown including Tom‘s cold steamer for the Proverbial Watch Pot; an arrangement of an ultrasonic mister, pc fan and plastic bottles:
(thanks for the photo Alex)
The next meeting will be Monday 25th August, hope to see you there,
Dave
I heard about this today, Rob Higgs’ The Plant Processor is a thirty-foot-high interactive Heath Robinson device, at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
It’s the world’s largest nutcracker - as Higgs says, “It’s a real sledgehammer to crack a nut”. I think this is strictly speaking an idiom rather than a Proverb...
Cheers,
Dave
Last Monday evening we had another get together in McGinty’s. Proverb-wise we saw Cefn‘s impressive grass is always greener prototype and we had a lot of fun with Jon‘s one-armed bandit for a fool and his money.
I showed the Baird Televisor kit I’ve recently built, which I’m sure we can put to some unusual use:
The next meeting will be Monday 11th August.
Hope to see you there,
Dave
We’re hoping that Mondays will be our new day, with get togethers every two weeks. So we met a week ago at Mark Dixon‘s studio.
We talked about a whole bunch of things and started to work out the collectively built proverb pieces. Our two favourites are currently, “a watch pot never boils” and “many hands make light work”. Over the next few weeks we going to be starting to get these together - watch the mailing-list for details.
Matthew and Tom told us all about the Shoot the Scene film festival at the Exposure Gallery, Ipswich. Matthew ran a very successful workshop on circuit-bending and music making. Tom’s “Fragment of Reality“ installation with video kaleidoscopes was really good. This was all part of Ip-art.
Cheers,
Dave
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Last Wednesday (2nd July) we had another get-together in McGinty’s. We saw a bunch great stuff, Matthew and his Game Boy Arduino controller, Cefn‘s Wii controlled kaleidoscope, Alex‘s cool RGB lamp (Arduino powered of course!) and John‘s brilliant Perverberator.
We’re now all systems GO with the Proverbial Show! We decided to build two big pieces collectively, plus the pieces individuals and smaller groups submit. The key date we’re working to is 17th September when we’ll first show these off in a member’s show, after which we will tour!
Cheers,
Dave
PS Don’t forget it’s dorkbot London on Thursday - think a few of us will be going down - really good line-up.
The collective will be exhibiting an interactive video wall to compliment the “Shoot the Scene” film festival this Friday-Saturday at Exposure gallery.
On Saturday PixelH8 will also be conducting a workshop into the basics of chip-tune music; learn how to modify a cheap keyboard to produce new sounds. For booking information see Ip-Art or call 01473 433100.
A few weeks ago a bunch of us went along to HAC, “…an evening concert of contemporary audio-visual computer performances“ as part of the Ipswich Pulse Festival. It was all organised by our friend of curiosity, Ryan Jordan.
The line-up was: Phil Archer (who also had a nice interactive plant piece), John Bowers (our new friend), Ed Kelly, Ryan Jordan, our own Matthew Applegate - aka Pixelh8 and From Honey to Ashes (Mick Grierson, Matt Lewis, Jeremy Keenan and Edgar Curtis). Many accompanied by curiosity’s Martin Russ and his amazing visualisers.
In the foyer Tom and I created an illuminated inflatable sculpture, using PC fans and an Arduino (inevitably). This was inspired by Paul and Cefn‘s original Flate.
A thoroughly noisy evening was had by all! : )
Cheers,
Dave.
PS - Anyone got any good pictures?
I love the mechanical simplicity of this and how difficult it must have been to get it to work with such apparent ease. All this is happening with a single motor and cam arrangement.
(via MAKE)
Having seen the wonderful things Tim Hunkin has made, it’d be great to try out some automata for the Proverbs Show. I got a copy of Cabaret Mechanical Movement which looks like a good place to start. Very happy to lend that to anyone who’s interested. I also bought one of the Timberkits kits - lots of fun!
Cheers,
Dave.
Related: Kinetica - Museum of Kinetic Art