[sudoroom] Art Murmur

Fri Jun 22 22:12:07 CEST 2012

May want to check whether the landlord is OK with inviting the general
public inside during Art Murmur. Organizing a class for a dozen people is
one thing, but having a few hundred people file through is quite another...

Inviting people inside would also be a significantly larger commitment on
our part.

Patrik

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com>wrote:

> great ideas from everyone regarding the art murmur! sounds like there are
> some really exciting plans. i am sure that we can have multiple things
> going on as well in the box office space - something in the window and
> other items in the room itself. having walked past the space during the
> last art murmur, there are definitely large numbers of people who will walk
> past and enter anything that has open doors and "cool ass stuff" inside.
>
> was there a date/time set to meet for the folks who are interested in
> working on art murmur projects?
>
> best,
> marina
>
> ps - i wonder if we can go ahead and reserve the classroom space for the
> night of the art murmur if it's not already reserved? i am sure we can come
> up with a creative way (involving blinking lights i should hope) to lead
> people down the hallway into the classroom where we can display more stuff,
> or have people working on stuff, or or or...etc
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Any more ideas for the upcoming First Friday / Art Murmur?
>>
>> Did anyone contact them to put us officially on the list?
>>
>> One idea I had was to make a giant 3D version of our logo. Suspend a
>> large cube covered in almost transparent red cloth by one corner to the
>> ceiling. Then use EL wire or LED strips to trace the connections inside the
>> cube, maybe animating them to look like nerve impulses.
>>
>> This is something that could be made very large yet lightweight and
>> collapsible: mostly thin cloth with a few internal rods to give the cube
>> its shape. Not what we originally had in mind in terms of a window display,
>> but worth considering, if only because of its simplicity in construction.
>>
>> If we do go with the window installation, I put a pack of six suction
>> cups in our locker at Techliminal. Feel free to use any of the motors,
>> gears, and switches in the bag in the plastic bag in the locker too. We've
>> got at least 5 little DC motors, which I think run on 4V and could be used
>> to power some light-weight pieces.
>>
>> Did anyone attend the Make:SF meetup on building automata out of
>> paperclips at Techliminal or TechShop? Filling the entire window with
>> moving paperclip automata powered by a few hidden DC motors could be really
>> cool (and quite modular - everyone can build a little piece). I believe
>> they have another one coming up next week:
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/makesf/events/67790022/
>>
>> http://blog.dugnorth.com/2012/01/how-to-build-simple-machines-with-paper.html
>>
>> Last random thought: it would be great if we could do something with the
>> slot in the window as well - maybe an arm reaching out through the slot
>> towards the viewer?
>>
>> Patrik
>>
>> </procrastination>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Felicia Betancourt <
>> fmbetancourt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> my 2 cents...some interactivity would be great, either in the display
>>> window or inside.  Something as simple as a projected TwitterWall, maybe?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Erica Edmondson <kikilplus at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oops, jumped the gun on sending this email. Here's try #2.
>>>>
>>>> I'd be interested in a group hack for the wall robot, as well as
>>>> helping to organize further events for Art Murmur. Unfortunately, I missed
>>>> the meeting yesterday, so I might be a bit out of the loop.
>>>>
>>>> Has a logo for sudoroom been either drafted or finalized yet? If so, it
>>>> might be a good idea to incorporate it into the display. I've got some
>>>> sewing skills; I could piece together a wall banner or something of the
>>>> like.
>>>>
>>>> -Erica.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Erica Edmondson <kikilplus at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd be interested in a group hack for the wall robot, as well as
>>>>> helping to organize further events for Art Murmur. Unfortunately, I missed
>>>>> the meeting yesterday, so I might be a bit out of the loop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has a logo for sudoroom been either drafted or finalized yet? If so,
>>>>> it might be a good idea to incorporate it into the display. I've got some
>>>>> sewing skills; I could piece together a wall banner or something of the
>>>>> like.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Erica.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Daniel Finlay <somniac at me.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd be happy to help make a wall drawing robot, of this general
>>>>>> variety (dry erase?  chalk spray?). Have wanted to anyway:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK0rrWFQKlQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would anyone else want to meet up on occasion to hack this together
>>>>>> Arduino-style?  Or come up with some group project completion strategy?
>>>>>>  Probably make a wiki page for it if we try?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Dan Finlay
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could someone take some pictures and measurements of the box office
>>>>>> window? That way we could start sketching some ideas online. I think we
>>>>>> need motion, lights and color, to attract people's attention from the
>>>>>> street. The whole thing can be hanging from the wall above the window,
>>>>>> attached to the window itself with suction cups, and/or sitting on the
>>>>>> window sill. Need some pics of window sill, and someone to check if we can
>>>>>> safely suspend some weight from above the window.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If we have anyone with artistic skills, keep in mind that painting
>>>>>> part of the window (with water soluble paints) from inside or outside is an
>>>>>> option as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just having a cool art piece in the window would be much, much easier
>>>>>> than opening up the door an entertaining guests all evening...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Patrik
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Tracy Jacobs <kinetical at comcast.net>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I'm really excited about our space being centered in the First
>>>>>>> Friday Oakland Art Murmur main drag, and I wonder if we should form a
>>>>>>> committee to prepare and publicize an event for July 6th?  We have had some
>>>>>>> discussion about setting up a Bio lab and kinetic sculptures in the cool
>>>>>>> glass box downstairs.  Other things that could happen are performance of
>>>>>>> any kind, poetry reading or essay reading, really anything. And we should
>>>>>>> let people and media know that we'll be a part of the art walk.   I am
>>>>>>> terrible at promotion/marketing, so I am I hoping someone else might have
>>>>>>> skills at that.  I think it would be a nice opportunity to draw community
>>>>>>> attention to our evolving group.  I'd love to hear whatever ideas people
>>>>>>> might have.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tracy
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