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Month: June 2024

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

June 29, 2024

Test assembly complete! And welded where needed for (hopefully) easy installation and deinstallation from the…
From the ol’ Insta. 3/4ths of the way to having the inserts carved 🙂 so far so great 🙂 #sculpture #burningmanart

June 28, 2024

3/4ths of the way to having the inserts carved 🙂 so far so great 🙂…
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

June 27, 2024

CNC carving for the next physical parts of the sculpture! So stoked! It’s literally physically…
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

June 27, 2024

In brief non-sculpture news, I know I got my rabbit R1 in the mail. For…
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

June 22, 2024

Victory 🙂 Moving forward step by step through leaning to work with LEDs, as the…
From the ol’ Insta. Solo work today. Final polishing and putting on clearcoat. I decided not to paint it any other color, it just looked so great in shiny steel. It’s definitely not thankless work. I’m thankful. It’s all looking so great, as a foundation for further stuff yet to come for the peace. I’m so grateful for all the people who are helping me along. #burningmanart #welding #sculpture

June 9, 2024

Solo work today. Final polishing and putting on clearcoat. I decided not to paint it…