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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 [...]

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Originally uploaded by jon sarriugarte

A Big hit hit with kids of all ages, the Raygun Rover rolled around the tarmac at Nasa Ames Research center April 10th, along with the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, Les Claypool, The Black Keys, Glitch Mob, Beats Antique and many more talented and amazing people!
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

Wow I just got back from a fantastic weekend in Tahoe with the West Oakland Rocketry Club (WORC)
here’s a little video tease shot with a Casio EX-FS10 at 400 frames per second of my X-Patriot missile:
4 “D” motors. cardboard tube, foam-core fins, whiffle-ball nosecone, perfect paint job. no recovery method. Tahoe WORC trip 2010. Shot [...]

The winter storms. Warehouses open their doors and close them again. The treehouse must move. Out of Treasure Island and into the badlands of East Oakland… NIMBY takes us in for a while as we make a list of that which needs fixing; Wiring, windows, holes in walls, a new roof.
In June the Treehouse moves [...]

[Tippin' my hat to Martin Luther]

“I’m countin’ down to the day deservin’
Fittin’ for a King.
I’m waitin’ for the time when I can
Get to Arizona’
Cause my money’s spent on
The goddamn rent
Neither party is mine not the
Jackass or the elephant “

YouTube - Public Enemy – By The Time I Get To Arizona.

Last week I helped Michael Christian pick up the “Egg” from the Reliance powder coating in San Leandro:
Unfortunately they couldn’t fit the sculpture into the powder coating oven and had to paint it by hand. This was less than ideal for a number of reasons – mostly, Michael said, because he could have bondo-ed the [...]