From the ol’ Insta. Just got received the solar panel and batteries, the last couple of items I think I need for the LEDs. Now the sculpture can prepare to reach its FINAL FORM :) It will be interested to see where I am on the other side of this weekend. #sculpture #burningmanart
From the ol’ Insta. All right. :) With the great help of the team on Saturday, the plans we put together, and another full day of effort on Sunday, the final physical construction portion of the project is done. :-) And it disassembles into a space less than 10 in wide, 6 ft high and 6 ft long. It really is something when a plan works out. Next and final phase: adding the LEDs. Also have solar panels and batteries coming in this week. Thanks as always to @upside_sf for being a great space to create in.
From the ol’ Insta. Had a long day of getting the sculpture set up. Grateful as always for the fantastic help of Mark, Katie and Allison. The results are not quite ready to show complete yet, so I’m going to go and put more work in tomorrow. In the meantime, here at the fabulous Fox theater getting ready to see some #hiatuskaiyote WHAAAAATTTT
From the ol’ Insta. Friday afternoon / early evening in the park. Just the best. Take a break, wherever you are. #friday #summer #bliss
From the ol’ Insta. Another pretty fortunate weekend of moving forward. Put together the second insert for the sculpture, it was too wide for the CNC machine to be cut out of one piece. Then applied the super classy Rust-Oleum finish :-) It’s all about what works. The piece is still have to be assembled, but that by now should be the relatively easy part. The challenge for the next few weeks will be all LEDs. Thanks again to everyone @upside_sf for all the great things they make possible. :-) #sculpture #burningmanart #diy
From the ol’ Insta. Test assembly complete! And welded where needed for (hopefully) easy installation and deinstallation from the playa. Still need to paint the inserts, and carve one, but the physical parts are basically set to go. Next up: power, LEDs, and LED programming. #sculpture #weekendwarrior #burningmanart
From the ol’ Insta. 3/4ths of the way to having the inserts carved :-) so far so great :-) #sculpture #burningmanart
From the ol’ Insta. CNC carving for the next physical parts of the sculpture! So stoked! It’s literally physically coming together! Thanks to so helpful Ryan and everyone @upside_sf ! #sculpture #burningmanart
From the ol’ Insta. In brief non-sculpture news, I know I got my rabbit R1 in the mail. For those who don’t know about it, it’s a device intended to be an AI assistant. And at this point, it’s a toy. :-) they’re building it from the ground up, very limited access to other services as they roll it out. But it’s neat. And his future potential is pretty grand. An assistant that could, say, automatically upload to several different social media outlets could unscrew up a lot of screwed up interfaces and workflows. As only one example. Also it came with a free year’s subscription to Perplexity AI, that I’m actually using everyday. It’s shockingly better than using Google search, or even DuckDuckGo. And unlike Google search, I don’t immediately get drowned in a delusion products related to something I was searching for on a whim. #ai #future #robotoverlords
From the ol’ Insta. Victory :) Moving forward step by step through leaning to work with LEDs, as the next phase of the sculpture. So from large metal work of wings to small metalwork of soldering wires. :) Also estimating power usage to see what battery support will be needed for the playa and elsewhere. Still to do: CNC carving and painting the figures, and assembling the sculpture. Sometimes progress is asynchronous. Always it’s great to learn and do. Thanks to Sri @upside_sf for info and feedback. #sculpture #burningmanart #pixelblaze #ledlights #doit