We had coffee at Octane this afternoon and were very impressed with Michael Thrush’s “Post-modern appropriation art,” on display through September 30. There is an opening/reception Friday September 12th.
Category Archives: secondary
Waffle House Wedding
September 3, 2008 – 12:54 pm
This series of photographs from the now internet-famous “Waffle House Wedding” actually gave me a serious case of the warm fuzzies.
DragonCon 2008
August 31, 2008 – 9:30 am
I didn’t go to DragonCon this year, but I have had fun looking at other folks’ photos from the events.
Erick Friedman Vitali Chaconne
August 29, 2008 – 3:18 pm
It’s been a good week for violin fanatics! First, the Seidel videos I wrote about last night, and now a kind person has updated this page with Friedman’s stellar recording of the Vitali Chaconne.
OpenStomp
August 26, 2008 – 7:31 pm
OpenStomp has released an open source guitar effects pedal, the Coyote-1. The device allows users to create patches which can be saved and shared with others via software (Windows) interface. IDK if the software is open, but there are currently no Linux or Mac versions planned.
Intel Demonstrates Wireless Power
August 22, 2008 – 3:47 pm
Intel demonstrates wireless power technology that was developed by MIT.
Building off work unveiled last year by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, Intel Corp. on Thursday demonstrated how to make a 60-watt light bulb glow from an energy source 3 feet away. The Intel team did it with relatively high efficiency, losing only a quarter of […]
Wrestlers of Bolivia
August 19, 2008 – 9:40 pm
Alma Guillermoprieto covers Bolivia’s wrestlers for National Geographic.
About seven years ago, when he was fretting about the diminishing audience for the weekly lucha libre spectacle at the El Alto gym, Mamani had the inspired idea to teach women to wrestle and put them in the ring in cholita clothes.