San Precario, Patron Saint of Precarious Workers and Lives
Last night my dear friend Mona Caron handed me a small card with an image of a modern-looking man with his hands together in prayer, San Precario, with some words printed on the back. The words were in Spanish, but it didn’t take a translation to understand that what I was holding in my hand […]
Our friend Ryan is in legal trouble
In the Bay Area, we are fortunate to live in a bubble where marijuana is quickly becoming normalized and increasingly legal. But outside the Bay Area, the world is very different. She was pulled over for going four miles over the posted speed limit on a road in South Dakota where people routinely drive fifteen […]
Steampunk: The new Goth – CSMonitor.com
I was recently interviewed by Ethan Gilsdorf for an online article about Steampunk in the Christian Science Monitor: Tom Sepe, an artist exhibiting in one of them, the “Steampunk Form & Function” show at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, Mass., shipped his “Whirlygig,” a “steam-electric-hybrid motorcycle,” from his workshop in […]
Artist Voices Frustration
And in Today’s NEWS: Artist Tom Sepe experiences frustration and disappointment as the week draws to a close. “I barely got half of what I wanted to get done this week, the weather is affecting my mood, numerous people who owe me money are flaking, I smoke too much and I live in a country […]
Slot Car Races at the SF Night Market
NJW_8252 | NJW_8213 Originally uploaded by Nick Winterhalter I had a lot of fun being a track marshal last night for the first SF night Market. Five Ton Crane put together a fantastic 4-lane slot car racetrack in the back of a rented Box truck, and parked it at 24th St & Illinois in San […]
Tom Sepe: Portfolio
Here’s a preview of the print-on-demand book I just made of my art. It’s meant to be like a portfolio, but right now its really more like a coffee-table style retrospective of the last ten years. I’ll probably trim it down and go with a smaller format for use as an actual portfolio. I designed […]
My Raygun Rover on German TV
The Raygun Rover as well as the Raygun Gothic Rocketship and a bunch of other Bay Area art appears in this German TV Show: YouTube – Portrait: Robotic Kunst Werkstatt Nimby – arte Tracks vom 24.06.2010.
FLOCK Timelapse Video of Install at ArtOutside 2010
Here’s a quick timelapse video edit I just completed of the installation of this epic sculpture, FLOCK, by Michael Christian originally created in 2001 for the Burning Man Festival. We’ve been here 4 days installing FLOCK by Michael Christian and the Art Outside Festival in Texas. Film and edit by Tom Sepe Music by Beats […]
Get the Whirlygig to the Museum
Help me get the Whirlygig to the Museum! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1455561131/get-the-whirlygig-to-the-museum
The Infinitarium – In Progress Timelapse
Here’s my latest: A timelapse video I just edited of The Infinitarium we are building at Big Art Studios in West Oakland. I’m one of six artists leads building 18 giant over-sized plants out of scrap metal. I’m in charge of building five giant willow trees – each tree will have over 1,200 feet of […]