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“It’s small, its elusive, but its very friendly!” says Tom Sepe of the Higgs-Boson particle he photographed in his garage on Monday.
Scientists have been looking for the Higgs-Boson or “God Particle” for decades but “They’ve been going about it all wrong!” says Sepe, who was able to coax the quantum particle out of hiding [...]

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 [...]

Hey Friends,
Just a quick update to tell you where I’m at
After moving back to the Bay Area for six months… I’m about to mix it up again… where to? I’m not exactly sure!
We had some great success and challenges with the documentary film project – Andrea and I met up in Northern India last year [...]

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 [...]

I was interviewed this week for the local NBC News station! Here’s the link to the video segment:

I brought out a few of my friends to the secret warehouse that stores the Steampunk Treehouse -  Sean Orlando was there to talk about the Treehouse, along with Alan Rorie, Oliver W. Lowe and Emily Beighley.
Oliver is [...]

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Originally uploaded by tomsepe
We’ve been making some great progress on the Lumbering Contraption. We’ve only got a few more days to finish before bringing her out to Santa Rosa for the Handcar Regatta.
You can see Pictures of her in progress on my Flickr page,
http://flickr.com/photos/tomsepe/sets/72157607076970947/
\as well as some wonderfull photos and a bit of video by [...]

Railwheel Hijinks 2
Video Originally uploaded by nck wntrhltr
Yes we’re building a railcar – hand powered rail car. Actually ts more of a rail wheel – You can see pictures of in progress here

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I just finished editing this 2 min promo video for The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival – July 11th – 14th, 2007. My studiomate Kevin Paez did the music. There is a one minute and 30 sec version as well.
2 minute:

Ok, a few more adjustements and Michael Sturtz and the Crucible DIEsel Moto Crew are ready to take the bike out on the freeway! The clock is ticking as they are planing to bring the bike down to the El Mirage races in Southern California OCt 21-22nd. to see the video..